We know how hard it is to scale a startup. The difference between success and failure is being able to bring together all the necessary pieces at the right times. We combine our capital resources with our large network of partners and investors to help your company succeed.
Powering Your Business
We invest from the Series Seed through the Series B to help companies navigate the many challenges of managing hyper growth.
- 60+ Follow-On Investments
- $100k – $3.5M Check Size Range
Strategies
We invest across a variety of industries and stages.
- Life Sciences & Health Tech: Therapeutics, diagnostics, research tools and reagents, medical devices, and healthcare information technology verticals.
- Software & IT: Early stage technology companies that have achieved measurable milestones, and have product, revenue, and traction.
- Agriculture & Food Tech: Companies with innovations in crops, animal health, precision agriculture, sustainability, logistics, and food ingredients.
- Midwest Seed Stage: Financial technology (FinTech), healthcare, and agriculture technology (AgTech) that are active in St. Louis or in the greater Midwest.
- Geospatial Tech: Early-stage tech companies that utilize location intelligence to delight customers and solve big problems.
Vision: Thriving Enterprises, Vibrant Communities
Cultivation Capital is a venture capital firm that manages a family of funds focused on early-stage investing. Most of our initial investments are during a startup’s Seed or Series A phase, and our initial checks range from $100k – $3.5M. Our industries of focus include life sciences and health tech, software and IT, agriculture tech, and geospatial tech.
Founded in 2012, Cultivation Capital recognizes that promising companies are located all over the globe and that outstanding founders have a diversity of backgrounds. We are committed to building an inclusive portfolio and have invested in startups based in over 25 states or countries. Crunchbase News recently identified us as one of the 18 most active early-stage venture firms in North America. They have also ranked us one of the top five recently founded lead investors in the U.S. We lead about half of the investment rounds in which we participate.
We are committed to actively helping our portfolio companies with our operating experience and networks, usually taking on board responsibilities to do so.
Mission
- Advance entrepreneurs with capital, counsel, and admiration.
- Create opportunities for our team through career advancement, community impact, and camaraderie.
- Exceed investors’ expectations.
Values
- We believe in putting entrepreneurs first.
- We work to form deep collaborations with our stakeholders.
- We partner with conscientious people.