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Cultivian Sandbox Ventures

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Total investments 47
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$16M
Portfolio companies 24
Rounds per year 3.13
Lead investments 13
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.49
Exits 1
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Agriculture
  • Farming
  • Software
  • AgTech
Summary

Cultivian Sandbox Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2008. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Chicago. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Cultivian Sandbox Ventures, startups are often financed by Pangaea Ventures, Open Prairie, Northgate Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Middleland Capital, Open Prairie, Pangaea Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Open Prairie, Middleland Capital, Pangaea Ventures.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Agriculture, Sustainability. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Descartes Labs, Nuritas, Agrivida.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2014. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 36 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Debut Biotech

Biotechnology
Manufacturing
Therapeutics
$40M02 Jun 2023 San Diego, California, United States

Debut Biotech

Biotechnology
Manufacturing
Therapeutics
$34M01 Jun 2023 San Diego, California, United States

Leaf Agriculture

Agriculture
AgTech
Analytics
Developer APIs
Farming
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$5M29 Mar 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

Full Harvest

Agriculture
B2B
E-Commerce
Farming
Food and Beverage
Marketplace
Retail
Sustainability
$23M17 Dec 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Nuritas

Artificial Intelligence
Bioinformatics
Biotechnology
Data Mining
$46M11 Nov 2021 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Culture Biosciences

Biotechnology
Industrial Automation
Robotics
$80M14 Oct 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Yard Stick PBC

Environmental Engineering
Renewable Energy
$5M17 Sep 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Debut Biotech

Biotechnology
Manufacturing
Therapeutics
$22M12 Aug 2021 San Diego, California, United States

Copper Cow Coffee

Agriculture
Coffee
Food and Beverage
$8M04 May 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States
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Debut Biotech Raises $22.6M in Series A Funding

– Debut Biotech is a San Diego, CA-based developer of a biomanufacturing platform harnessing cell-free enzymes.
– The company raised $22.6m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Material Impact with participation from Cultivian Sandbox Ventures, Fine Structure Ventures, ACVC Ventures, Humboldt Fund, Cantos Ventures, as well as existing investors including KdT Ventures.
– The new capital will be used to commercialize ingredients developed from its proprietary cell-free biomanufacturing platform.

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Total investments 47
Average round size 16M
Rounds per year 3.13
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 13
Follow on index 0.49
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.98

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Debut Biotech

Biotechnology
Manufacturing
Therapeutics
$40M02 Jun 2023 San Diego, California, United States

Debut Biotech

Biotechnology
Manufacturing
Therapeutics
$34M01 Jun 2023 San Diego, California, United States

Leaf Agriculture

Agriculture
AgTech
Analytics
Developer APIs
Farming
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$5M29 Mar 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

Full Harvest

Agriculture
B2B
E-Commerce
Farming
Food and Beverage
Marketplace
Retail
Sustainability
$23M17 Dec 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Nuritas

Artificial Intelligence
Bioinformatics
Biotechnology
Data Mining
$46M11 Nov 2021 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Culture Biosciences

Biotechnology
Industrial Automation
Robotics
$80M14 Oct 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Yard Stick PBC

Environmental Engineering
Renewable Energy
$5M17 Sep 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Debut Biotech

Biotechnology
Manufacturing
Therapeutics
$22M12 Aug 2021 San Diego, California, United States

Copper Cow Coffee

Agriculture
Coffee
Food and Beverage
$8M04 May 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States
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