Vantora embeds founders, product specialists and AI engineers inside large industrial companies to turn costly operating problems into standalone software businesses or capabilities the partner can own. The company, formerly known as UP.Labs, announced more than $100 million in growth investment from Silversmith Capital Partners, its first outside capital.
An engagement starts by identifying what an operating bottleneck costs or prevents, then mapping the data, knowledge, relationships, infrastructure and intellectual property around it. Vantora combines those assets with a founding team and product and engineering staff, and the output can be a standalone company, commercialized intellectual property or an internal capability. For a new company, the enterprise invests, becomes the first customer and holds equity from formation; it can later bring the venture into the core business.
Silversmith is providing the announced growth investment, which Vantora described only as more than $100 million. Vantora said it will use the money to add corporate partnerships, continue developing its COSMOS product and hire in AI and commercial roles. Silversmith’s Todd MacLean, Danielle Waldman and Annie Cory will join the board.
COSMOS is Vantora’s technical layer for connecting fragmented systems, structuring a company’s proprietary knowledge and coordinating software agents across operations. The portfolio shows how that translates into work: SpecSync handles configuration, pricing and quotes for industrial manufacturers, Tailsight combines airline fleet data, constraints and work orders for maintenance planning, and Overroute automates freight coordination.
Vantora began as UP.Labs in 2022 with Porsche as its launch partner, then added partnerships with Alaska Airlines, J.B. Hunt, Wabash and TDG, the parent of Ashley Furniture. The company says it has launched 17 ventures and is targeting 20 by the end of 2026. It also reports that revenue grew 79% year over year and describes the business as profitable.
The capital backs Vantora’s effort to add more corporate partners and shared infrastructure. The key operational test is whether an embedded process designed around one enterprise’s data and workflows can repeatedly produce products that sell beyond the anchor customer. COSMOS and Vantora’s shared operating support will matter if each new venture is to scale without rebuilding the same foundation.