Arch Grants
VC Fund
St Louis, United States
Arch Grants is a nonprofit organization that accelerates economic development and community revitalization by providing $50,000 equity-free grants and pro bono support services to entrepreneurs who locate their early-stage businesses in St. Louis. Through its rigorously competitive Global Startup Competition, Arch Grants retains and attracts themost innovative entrepreneurs to the St. Louis region. This program is an aggressive effort to inspire the next generation of employers, civic leaders, and philanthropists for St. Louis. The industry-agnostic Global Startup Competition is year-round, with grants awarded once in the spring and again in the fall. Arch Grants funds innovative technologies, products, and services wrapped within scalable business models that have the potential to make a national or international impact.
- Total investments:
- 179
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 79%
Last updated:
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Industries Arch Grants invests in
Stages Arch Grants invests in
Countries Arch Grants invests in
Contacts
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Ben Burke
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Jay Steinback
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Jerome J. Schlichter
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Jerry Schlichter
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J. Joseph Schlafly III
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 33 (18%)
- Health Care 19 (11%)
- Manufacturing 15 (8%)
- E-Commerce 13 (7%)
- Food and Beverage 13 (7%)
Stage
- Grant 151 (84%)
- Seed 10 (6%)
- Pre-Seed 6 (3%)
- Funding Round 1 (1%)
- Convertible Note 1 (1%)
Country
- United States 154 (86%)
- Argentina 2 (1%)
- India 1 (1%)
- Israel 1 (1%)
- Nigeria 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Ben Burke
Director of Operations
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Director of Operations | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Jay Steinback
Director
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Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Jerome J. Schlichter
Director
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Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Jerry Schlichter
Founder and President
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Founder and President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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J. Joseph Schlafly III
Director
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Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 14 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Orgacuity
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OrgAcuity provides an employee listening and people analytics platform that focuses on how work happens through relationships, collaboration, and networks. The company offers AI-powered listening tools, advanced text analysis, narrative insights, and predictive modeling to understand sentiment, themes, and attrition risk. Its Relational ExperiencePlatform combines continuous listening, network science, and analytics to reveal the dynamics shaping performance, experience, and culture. OrgAcuity delivers role-based insights for HR executives, talent leaders, analytics teams, and culture leaders to connect employee feedback with business outcomes. The platform emphasizes intuitive user experiences, structured dashboards, and prescriptive recommendations that make insights usable for decision-makers. OrgAcuity also supports manager enablement and behavior change through nudges, surveys, and integrated communications tools. In addition, it publishes educational resources such as a people analytics book to help organizations build internal analytics capability. | $100K / Grant / Jul 09, 2026 | |
Counselmeds
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CounselMed operates in the healthcare sector, likely focusing on pharmaceutical counseling and patient support services. | $100K / Grant / Jan 09, 2026 | |
Archetype
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Archetype is a platform that transforms space planning and procurement for designers and developers. | $75K / Grant / Oct 17, 2025 | |
Jet.Build
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Powering project management operations with practical solutions for stakeholder accountability & consolidated workflows. | $75K / Grant / Oct 17, 2025 | |
Sustain-a-Plate
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Grocery store shoppers do not buy close-to-expiration-date food items. In response, Sustain-a-Plate utilizes an advanced machine-learning algorithm to dynamically adjust the pricing of food items nearing their expiration dates, thereby assisting grocery stores in efficiently selling these products. This software automatically updates the price frommany inputs that inform the optimal price displayed on an electronic shelf label for customers to see. This electronic shelf label splits the product's price by expiration dates with a discount associated with items close to their expiration date and an original price associated with products with a longer shelf life. This incentivizes consumers to choose the short-dated items, alleviating waste and generating a sale from an item that would otherwise be thrown out. | Grant / Oct 17, 2025 | |
Ctrl Shift
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Ctrl Shift is building a one-of-a-kind video game where players are humanitarians on and off the screen. | $75K / Grant / Oct 17, 2025 | |
Petabolix
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Petabolix is an intelligent nutrition platform designed to address the importance of individualized diets for pets. Its technology evaluates pets' nutritional needs based on breed, age, activity level, and many other unique conditions. Upon assessment, the pet’s nutritional profile is mapped to almost 10,000 available diets for the best match. | $75K / Grant / Oct 17, 2025 | |
NanoJump Bio
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NanoJump Bio promotes the use of genomic technology to improve human and animal health and increase agricultural-livestock productivity. | $75K / Grant / Oct 17, 2025 | |
Remvia
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Remvia is a revolutionary approach to aiding those who suffer from bruxism: nighttime teeth clenching and grinding. | $75K / Grant / Oct 17, 2025 | |
EVERYWHERE
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EVERYWHERE is a manufacturer and innovator in 100% recycled textiles and apparel. | $75K / Grant / Oct 17, 2025 | |
| See all 179 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
Capital Innovators
2 deals together
Missouri Technology Corporation
2 deals together
Techstars
2 deals together
Villhard Growth Partners
2 deals together
500 Global
1 deal together
9Mile Labs
1 deal together
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FAQ
What does Arch Grants invest in?
Arch Grants invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Manufacturing startups, most often at Grant and Seed stage. Most of the 179 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at Arch Grants includes Ben Burke (Director of Operations), Jay Steinback (Director) and Jerome J. Schlichter (Director), among 14 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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