# Cultivation Capital

> Cultivation Capital is a VC fund backing Software and Health Care. See 275 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: St Louis, United States
- Total investments: 275
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 61%
- Fund size: $13M
- Last fund: Dec 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/cultivation-capital
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/cultivationcap
- Website: http://www.cultivationcapital.com

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, andgeospatial tech.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $480k–$4.9M |
| Series A | $1.4M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 51 | 19% |
| Health Care | 25 | 9% |
| SaaS | 24 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 19 | 7% |
| Biotechnology | 15 | 5% |

186 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 67 | 24% |
| Series A | 59 | 21% |
| Series B | 23 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 23 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 3% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 120 | 44% |
| Australia | 2 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 0% |
| Israel | 1 | 0% |
| Poland | 1 | 0% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alana Mann | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alana-mann |
| Andy Dearing | General Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-dearing |
| Brian Matthews | Co-Founder & General Partner | 60 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-matthews |
| David Smoller | General Partner - Life Sciences Fund | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-smoller |
| Dean VandeKamp | General Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dean-vandekamp |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Shelfmark | 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 |  |
| Shelfmark | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Detect Auto | 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 | 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 | Aegis Digital Health delivers solutions in virtual care and remote patient monitoring to healthcare providers. | $1M | Seed | Sep 11, 2025 |  |
| OpsCompanion | Your team is shipping with AI. Agents are writing code, changing your infrastructure, pushing to production. Nobody tracks what those agents did last week, or why a similar change broke production three months ago. OpsCompanion does. It maps how your systems behave over time, so when an AI coding tool is about to repeat a mistake or cross aboundary your team set, it catches the problem before your customers do. Every agent action, every incident, every fix builds operational memory specific to your environment. That memory feeds back into agent sessions, giving your AI tools the guardrails and context they need to make better decisions automatically.We built OpsCompanion for mid-market engineering teams that need AI agent governance, monitoring, and audit trails without hiring a dedicated SRE or building internal tooling from scratch. Connect your tools and go live in under two weeks.You started building because you had something worth making. OpsCompanion makes sure it stays that way. |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 05, 2025 |  |

10 of 275 investments shown.

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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 275 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Cultivation Capital's check size?

Cultivation Capital typically joins rounds of $480k–$4.9M at Seed and $1.4M–$15M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Cultivation Capital participates 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 28 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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