Cultivation Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

St. Louis, United States

Total investments

232

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

115

Rounds per year

19.33

Lead investments

42

Follow on index

0.50

Exits

21

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareFinTechAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareSaaSEnterprise Software

Summary

In 2012 was created Cultivation Capital, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the St Louis. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are SaaS, Financial Services. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Gainsight, Host Analytics, Tioma Therapeutics

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Cultivation Capital, startups are often financed by St. Louis Arch Angels, SixThirty, Cliff Holekamp. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are iSELECT FUND, SixThirty, Serra Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by iSELECT FUND, Cliff Holekamp, St. Louis Arch Angels.

The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 32 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Cultivation Capital works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. When the investment is from Cultivation Capital the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars.

The current fund was established by Brian Matthews, Cliff Holekamp, Jim McKelvey, Kyle Welborn, Peter Esparrago, Rick Holton, Jr.. Besides them, we counted 22 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Biotech/Life SciencesHealthcareAgriculture
Stage focus
Series APre-SeedSeed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
100K — 4M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
232
Lead investments
42
Exits
21
Rounds per year
19.33
Follow on index
0.50
Investments by industry
  • Software (97)
  • SaaS (49)
  • Biotechnology (40)
  • Health Care (39)
  • Analytics (32)
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Investments by region
  • United States (220)
  • Australia (5)
  • Switzerland (1)
  • Poland (2)
  • Israel (1)
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Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
24M
Group Appearance index
0.72
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
2.54
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Hydrosat 25 Apr 2023 Analytics, Information Services, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data, Aerospace, AgTech, Geospatial Early Stage Venture 15M United States, District of Columbia, Washington
The Labz 11 Mar 2022 Software, SaaS, Collaboration, Social Media, Blockchain, Intellectual Property Seed 1M United States, Atlanta, Georgia
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