Vantora, a Santa Monica, California-based company that provides enterprise venture-building and Sovereign AI platforms, has received more than $100 million in growth investment.

The investment was made by Silversmith Capital Partners.

Vantora will use the funding to expand its operations and accelerate the development of its platforms and solutions.

Founder and CEO John Kuolt told media that Vantora is moving toward a “proprietary M&A pipeline.” This means Vantora will still build startups for its corporate partners, which invest in the ventures and serve as their first customers. But those corporate partners now have the option to fold the startups into their core businesses — and essentially keep them to themselves.

“We were missing on the biggest value problems, which had the biggest upside because of that,” Kuolt said in a recent interview. “Imagine you’re a Fortune 100 industrial company and you need to retrofit all of your hardware and machines for autonomy. You need to own that, it needs to be sovereign, and you can’t rely on a third party to go do that for you. You need to own that intelligence layer. They’re never going to let us go sell that to their competitors.”

Founded by CEO John Kuolt, Vantora works with large industrial companies in industries such as energy, aviation, logistics, manufacturing, and automotive. The company helps these businesses identify important challenges and build AI-powered ventures, tools, and other solutions to address them.

Vantora’s platform is powered by COSMOS, its proprietary technology for organizing and improving business data. It uses AI-powered processes and autonomous agents to help companies make better use of their operational data and solve complex business problems.