VantaFive is a privately held 📝Venture Studio based in 📝San Diego, CA, co-founded in 2024 by 📝John Ghiorso and Garret Caudle. The studio specializes in launching and scaling marketing-services agencies across diverse verticals, with the stated aim of standing up a new agency each quarter through standardized processes and AI-powered tools.
VantaFive's operating model compresses the traditional multi-year agency-building cycle into a matter of months by providing operational infrastructure, leadership placement, and go-to-market strategy to each new portfolio entity. Active projects include Influent Social (a LinkedIn-focused agency), AI-driven outbound email and social-commerce services on 📝Tiktok Shop, and most recently 📝RECHO — a full-service Reddit agency. Ghiorso, formerly founder and CEO of 📝Orca Pacific, leads as CEO alongside Caudle, whose prior work includes Influent. The studio's stated ambition is to launch five agencies within its first two years of operation.