# Lewis & Clark Ventures

> Lewis & Clark Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Agriculture. See 41 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: St Louis, United States
- Total investments: 41
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 51%
- Last fund: Feb 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lewis-&-clark-ventures-llc
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/lacventures
- Website: http://lewisandclarkventures.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LACVentures

Lewis & Clark Ventures is a VC fund in St Louis focused on Software and Agriculture. Lewis & Clark Ventures was founded by former operators with the conviction that innovation and entrepreneurial talent are plentiful in geographies often overlooked. They invest in the highest potential B2B software, fintech, and digital health companies. Their vision is to become a trusted partner to every entrepreneur that they back and assistin their journey towards scale and significance.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 20% |
| Agriculture | 7 | 17% |
| Health Care | 6 | 15% |
| Analytics | 5 | 12% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 12% |

71 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 15 | 37% |
| Series B | 9 | 22% |
| Series C | 3 | 7% |
| Series D | 2 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 5% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 25 | 61% |
| Canada | 3 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| David Poldoian | Operating Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-poldoian |
| Brian Hopcraft | Managing Director & Founder | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-hopcraft |
| Meg Lane | Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/meg-lane |
| Michael Rockhold | Principal | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-rockhold |
| Rohan Verma | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rohan-verma |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Occuspace | Occuspace is bringing new intelligence to the physical world. By capturing how many people are in a space, Occuspace is helping businesses more accurately understand, control, and improve the way their spaces are being used to enhance the visitor experience and increase efficiencies and cost savings. | $6M | Series A | Mar 17, 2025 |  |
| ArborXR | ArborXR puts you in command of XR device management. Confidently manage VR & AR devices at scale, remotely deploy content, and control what users can see and do. ArborXR is built with enterprise-level security and through working closely with dozens of Fortune 500 companies. Our mission is to help people live more meaningful lives through thepower of XR. Join companies in 60 countries already using ArborXR to manage their AR and VR fleets and learn more at ArborXR.com. | $18.1M | Series A | Aug 13, 2024 |  |
| Sailes | Saile uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help sales leaders spend less time searching and more time selling. Through Digital Labor, its patent-pending Sailebots reduce manual prospecting by millions of tasks each year, while increasing revenue opportunities. Sailebots are currently deployed in 29 countries and multiple languages, allowing salesleaders to automate their entire prospecting lifecycle, including finding contacts, setting meetings, cleansing data, and reading and summarizing prospective company reports and documents.Saile is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, and has employees all over the world. | $5.1M | Series A | Sep 14, 2023 |  |
| Dalia | Dalia is a candidate engagement platform helping employers to hire passive talents. This platform helps to connect with a career site or applicant tracking system to uncover lost candidates and match them to the right job at the right time. | $5M | Series A | Jan 31, 2023 |  |
| PayGround | PayGround provides healthcare businesses of all sizes a modernized payment solution in which they can easily upload their A/R and trigger digital-first requests for payment (via a mix of email/text/U.S. Mail). Patients can make payments in just a matter of a few seconds. | $5.5M | Convertible Note | Apr 01, 2022 |  |
| Amper Technologies | Amper enables manufacturers to always meet production targets and level-up operations using real-time visibility. With our powerful machine monitoring and analytics tools, teams can easily identify the root causes of issues and systematically unlock hidden capacity and production losses. Born on the shop floor, Amper is simple to use and takes onlyminutes to deploy on any kind of machine. We empower entire manufacturing teams - from operators to plant managers - with actionable data and intuitive software. Amper's vision is to create a FactoryOS to unleash the potential of every manufacturer and create world-class operations. Amper is headquartered in Chicago IL and was founded in 2016 by Akshat Thirani and Philip House. | $11M | Series A | Mar 25, 2022 |  |
| Amper Technologies | Amper enables manufacturers to always meet production targets and level-up operations using real-time visibility. With our powerful machine monitoring and analytics tools, teams can easily identify the root causes of issues and systematically unlock hidden capacity and production losses. Born on the shop floor, Amper is simple to use and takes onlyminutes to deploy on any kind of machine. We empower entire manufacturing teams - from operators to plant managers - with actionable data and intuitive software. Amper's vision is to create a FactoryOS to unleash the potential of every manufacturer and create world-class operations. Amper is headquartered in Chicago IL and was founded in 2016 by Akshat Thirani and Philip House. | $11M | Series A | Mar 25, 2022 |  |
| ChatLingual | ChatLingual enables companies to radically simplify their support teams. Our multichannel service platform empowers each Advisor to be your Best Advisor by removing barriers around language, technical skill set and tribal knowledge. With ChatLingual, Global Fortune 500’s are simplifying staffing models, increasing NPS scores, accelerating entryinto new markets and driving efficiency across their customer care, sales, IT and HR support teams. | $7M | Series A | Jan 18, 2022 |  |
| TomoCredit | TomoCredit is building the next generation credit card designed for Millennials with no credit history or credit score by analyzing alternative data sources through its proprietary algorithm. founding team is made up of immigrant founders who all felt the challenge of getting a credit card as foreign nationals. The team is comprised of alum fromCoinbase, The Kenetic Hedge Fund and Google and have attended schools including MIT and UC Berkeley. | $10M | Series A | Sep 15, 2021 |  |
| Territory Foods | Territory Foods is a chef-prepared meal delivery service that creates nutritionist-approved menus tailored to support various dietary preferences and regional market tastes. Its fresh, healthy, ready-to-eat meals are designed by in-house culinary professionals and nutrition experts, prepared by a dedicated team of chefs, and powered by aproprietary algorithm that informs personalized menu variety at scale. Its boredom-proof rotating menus feature a wide variety of freshly-made artisan meals per week that are responsibly sourced, always free of refined sugars, and made without ingredients that contain gluten and dairy. Menus can be customized to meet dietary templates such as Vegan, Vegetarian, Whole30, and Keto, taking the guesswork out of navigating and committing to healthy eating.Territory Foods launched in 2011 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA. | $22M | Series B | Apr 13, 2021 |  |

10 of 41 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Lewis & Clark Ventures invest in?

Lewis & Clark Ventures invests primarily in Software, Agriculture and Health Care startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 41 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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### Who are the partners at Lewis & Clark Ventures?

The team at Lewis & Clark Ventures includes David Poldoian (Operating Partner), Brian Hopcraft (Managing Director & Founder) and Meg Lane (Chief Financial Officer), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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