Cultivation Capital
VC Fund
St Louis, United States
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 $500k – $3.5M. Our industries of focus include life sciences and health tech, software and IT, agriculture tech, and geospatial tech.
- Total investments:
- 333
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 62%
- Fund size:
- $6.5M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Cultivation Capital invests in
Stages Cultivation Capital invests in
Countries Cultivation Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 29 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $500k–$5M
- Series A
- $1.4M–$15M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $366k–$10M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 54 (16%)
- Health Care 28 (8%)
- SaaS 26 (8%)
- Biotechnology 21 (6%)
- Information Technology 19 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 71 (21%)
- Series A 63 (19%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 26 (8%)
- Series B 25 (8%)
- Funding Round 10 (3%)
Country
- United States 132 (40%)
- Australia 2 (1%)
- Canada 1 (0%)
- Israel 1 (0%)
- Poland 1 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alana Mann
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Andy Dearing
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Brian Matthews
Co-Founder & General Partner
|
Co-Founder & General Partner | Total investments: 65 | Find email | |
David Smoller
General Partner - Life Sciences Fund
|
General Partner - Life Sciences Fund | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Dean VandeKamp
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
| See all 29 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Noise is a marketplace platform that develops and distributes branded content via social media, allowing brands to reach new audiences. | $7.2M / Seed / Sep 17, 2026 | ||
| Shelfmark is an intelligence platform that brings the innovation to DSD to provide inventory insights for suppliers, and eCommerce partner. | $4.9M / Seed / Jul 14, 2026 | ||
| RouteSense is a payments data infrastructure company building the first standardized approach to MID health. Our platform aggregates transaction data across the full stack, calculates real-time health scores for every merchant account, and enables intelligent routing to maximize approvals and prevent compliance violations. We serve merchants, ISOs,PSPs, and acquiring banks who need visibility and control over their payment portfolios. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Jan 15, 2026 | ||
| FinOpsly is on a mission to redefine cloud cost management through the power of artificial intelligence. As your AI Copilot for implementing FinOps, the platform delivers a comprehensive, single-view solution for multi-cloud environments. It delivers complete visibility and transparency into unit cost economics, equips you with intelligentrecommendations and anomaly detection, and offers virtual tagging and governance capabilities, all through a user-friendly interface designed to drive collaboration and accountability across finance, product and engineering teams. FinOpsly isn't just about cost savings – it’s about enhancing the quality and velocity of your cloud investments. | $6.4M / Seed / Jan 14, 2026 | ||
| Array Labs designs and operates space-based radar systems and delivers 3D Earth imagery and geospatial data services. The company develops modular radar payloads and distributed radar satellite clusters that capture multi-angle data to generate detailed three-dimensional models of terrestrial surfaces and objects. It provides standalone radarinstruments for integration on satellite platforms, fully integrated satellite systems for customers that require dedicated sensing assets, and processed 3D data products via APIs or delivery channels. Array Labs also works with partners to support simulation and modeling of distributed radar constellations and to co-develop enriched datasets that combine radar and other sensing modalities. Its offerings support applications such as geospatial intelligence, infrastructure monitoring, and analytical workflows reliant on volumetric surface data. | $20M / Series A / Jan 05, 2026 | ||
| Detect Auto is a computer vision system that uses Wi-Fi cameras to provide actionable insights to improve auto repair service centers. | $2.9M / Seed / Dec 08, 2025 | ||
| Ascribe Bioscience develops products that enable farmers to combat crop pathogens without negative impacts on the environment. The company is currently developing a seed treatment product that acts by boosting crops’ natural defenses. Ascribe Bioscience was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Ithaca, New York. | $12M / Series A / Oct 14, 2025 | ||
| Aegis Digital Health delivers solutions in virtual care and remote patient monitoring to healthcare providers. | $1M / Seed / Sep 11, 2025 | ||
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| Avol Aerospace is a startup that develops autonomous electric aircraft specifically for time-critical cargo delivery. The company’s service focuses on delivering medical-logistics shipments—such as blood, stem cells, tissues, or lab specimens—between healthcare centers, enabling pickup in 30 minutes or less and costs comparable to or below groundtransport. Avol’s proprietary aircraft use a blended-wing design to maximize cargo volume and reduce cost per flight, aiming to provide zero-emissions, high-efficiency alternatives for critical logistics. | $3.8M / Seed / Aug 28, 2025 | ||
| See all 333 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Cultivation Capital invest in?
Cultivation Capital invests primarily in Software, Health Care and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 333 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Cultivation Capital invest in?
Cultivation Capital typically joins rounds of $500k–$5M at Seed, $1.4M–$15M at Series A and $366k–$10M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Cultivation Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Cultivation Capital took part in.
How do I contact Cultivation Capital?
Public channels for Cultivation Capital include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.
Who are the partners at Cultivation Capital?
The team at Cultivation Capital includes Alana Mann (Principal), Andy Dearing (General Partner) and Brian Matthews (Co-Founder & General Partner), among 29 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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