Cultivation Capital

Cultivation Capital is a venture capital firm based in St. Louis, founded in 2012, that focuses on early-stage investments in the United States. The firm manages multiple funds, primarily investing during the Seed and Series A stages, with initial investment amounts typically ranging from $100,000 to $3.5 million. Cultivation Capital specializes in various sectors, including life sciences, healthcare, agriculture technology, software, and information technology. Its Life Sciences Fund II primarily targets early-stage companies in healthcare, therapeutics, diagnostics, and medical devices, while its Tech Fund II focuses on IT and related technologies. The firm aims to support innovative startups and foster growth in these critical industries.

Matthew Badler

General Partner

Kristina Barrett

Principal

Connie Bowen

Associate

Andy Cloyd

Principal

Christopher B. Danforth

General Partner

Andrew Dearing

General Partner

Peter Esparrago

General Partner

Marc Hirshman

General Partner

Elise Hoffman

General Partner

Cliff Holekamp

Cofounder, Managing Director, & General Partner

Clifford Holekamp

Co-Founder, General Partner & Member of Scientific Advisory Board

Kyle Kerns

Chief Financial Officer and Operations Lead

Paul Meier

Partner

David Moon

Principal

Matt Phimphavong

Venture Associate

Rick Ryan

General Partner

Bobby Sandage Jr.

General Partner

Barry Sandweiss

General Partner

William Schmidt

General Partner

Tim Stern

General Partner

John True

General Partner

Chisom Uche

Associate

Paul F. Weber

Venture Partner

Kyle Welborn

Co-Founder & General Partner

Heather Wood

General Partner

194 past transactions

Clever Real Estate

Venture Round in 2023
Clever Real Estate company that specializes in the fields of commercial real estate and online marketplace. It offers a software platform that guides its users through the process of interviewing real estate agents to find the right one for them. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in St Louis, Missouri.

SimpleRose

Venture Round in 2023
SimpleRose Inc. develops and operates optimal decision-making platform. The company's product enables optimal decision-making in complex world where the proliferation of data and growing scope of organizations. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri.

CuriMeta

Seed Round in 2022
CuriMeta is a advanced real-world health data firm with a focus on life sciences. Driven by the belief that real-world health data maintained within systems of care have unique attributes not found elsewhere, CuriMeta augments, curates, and transforms data from our collaborating data contributors into secure, de-identified, aggregated datasets with high-explanatory power that can be compliantly exchanged with researchers to advance the science of medicine and develop lifesaving cures. With a commitment to full transparency, integrity, and accountability, CuriMeta utilizes a joint governance committee to review all data exchange requests from researchers, and adheres to highly stringent data security, patient privacy, and compliance standards as set forth by our collaborating data contributors, as well as regulatory authorities. By enabling and accelerating the exchange of real-world health data with the research community, our penultimate goal is to provide researchers the indispensable insights and evidence required to solve urgent scientific and clinical challenges and improve healthcare for all.

ReturnLogic

Series A in 2022
ReturnLogic is a developer of an automation platform intended to make better marketing decisions and prevent costly product returns. Its platform helps brands give their clients an easy returns process while automating workflows for their customer service and warehouse teams, thereby enabling businesses to optimize their product returns strategy.

Kangarootime

Series B in 2022
Kangarootime, Inc. develops a cloud-based childcare management solution that connects parents with childcare professionals. Its solutions include revenue cycle management, mobile and laptop accessibility, enrollment, sign-in and sign-out, messaging and picture sharing, employee management, support, reports, and accounting. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Buffalo, New York.

Circle

Convertible Note in 2022
Circle is a developer of insurance sales and member retention products tailored for health insurance carriers and their sales channels. The company's platform enables brokers to efficiently quote and enroll clients in various Medicare Advantage, supplemental, and prescription drug plans across the country. Utilizing advanced customer relationship management features, Circle's tools include commission tracking, contracting, licensing, lead generation, and digital Statements of Understanding, all designed to streamline the insurance sales process. By enhancing benefit management capabilities, Circle aims to reduce the financial burden of out-of-pocket medical costs for beneficiaries and improve overall sales efficiency for insurance companies. In addition, the company is working on a platform to facilitate telemedicine access for older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, further supporting healthcare needs in the community.

Crossbar

Seed Round in 2022
Crossbar is a developer of a sports club management platform tailored specifically for youth hockey organizations. The company has established partnerships with nearly 40 clubs across ten states, serving teams that range from 40 to 800 players. Crossbar’s platform features an efficient player registration system and a secure checkout process, along with a syncable calendar that automatically updates each season. This technology allows team owners to streamline their operations, saving time and enhancing management capabilities. Crossbar has registered tens of thousands of players and processed significant transaction volumes, but its primary focus remains on fostering strong relationships within the hockey community, collaborating closely with clubs to address their challenges and improve overall club management.

SATIM

Pre Seed Round in 2022
SATIM provides insights based on satellite radar data acquired regardless of weather and day/night time. Using developed software and algorithms SATIM can solve the problem of optimal information extraction from complex SAR imagery.

leadPops

Series A in 2022
leadPops is the easiest way for mortgage pros, real estate agents, insurance agents, and attorneys to generate more quality leads, no setup required.

The Labz

Venture Round in 2022
The Labz, Inc. is a company based in Mableton, Georgia, that specializes in a cloud-based blockchain platform designed for music creation and real-time collaboration. Founded in 2012, The Labz provides a comprehensive workspace equipped with modular tools, including a lyric module and audio uploading capabilities. The platform streamlines the process of intellectual property protection, attribution, and ownership rights for creators, automating the tracking of contributions and ownership percentage calculations. Additionally, it facilitates the automatic generation of essential documentation, such as copyrights, ensuring a seamless and efficient transition from content creation to ownership documentation. By leveraging blockchain technology, The Labz enhances the security and reliability of the entire process, making it easier for music creators to collaborate and manage their intellectual property rights.

Battle Bank

Venture Round in 2022
Battle Bank is a financial platform that aims to provide convenient banking services to its users. Founded in 2021 and based in Vail, Colorado, the company offers a range of banking products and intuitive online banking solutions designed to enhance client control and reduce fees. Its services are geared towards enabling users to make informed banking decisions with access to simple digital banking and expert financial advice. However, as of now, Battle Bank is not open or approved for operations.

Chatdesk

Series A in 2022
Chatdesk Inc. develops software solutions to enhance customer interactions for businesses. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, the company focuses on improving customer satisfaction by facilitating a shift from traditional voice calls to messaging channels such as Facebook, SMS, and WhatsApp. By leveraging analytics and messaging capabilities, Chatdesk enables companies to provide better customer service tailored to the preferences of their clients, allowing for seamless communication across various platforms.

Ecobot

Seed Round in 2022
Ecobot, Inc. designs and develops software that digitalizes the process of collection of scientific data for regulatory environmental monitoring, reporting, and forecasting. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Asheville, North Carolina.

Cinch

Seed Round in 2022
Cinch is an innovative online platform based in Salt Lake City, Utah, designed to assist local businesses in implementing effective loyalty programs for their customers. By utilizing user-friendly marketing automation software, Cinch integrates data sources to enhance customer relationships through predictive models that automate, monitor, and analyze customer engagement based on behavior. The platform enables customers to easily sign up for loyalty programs using their mobile numbers, allowing them to provide feedback and manage their rewards and points seamlessly. Cinch aims to bridge the data gap for businesses of all sizes, offering actionable insights that enhance marketing efficiency and help businesses maximize their marketing investments.

Cognitive Space

Seed Round in 2021
Cognitive Space is a technology firm specializing in the automation of command and control for satellite operations through its proprietary CNTIENT-SC3 platform. The company leverages artificial intelligence to streamline mission planning and management for constellations of Earth-observing and telecommunications satellites. By providing a software-as-a-service solution, Cognitive Space addresses the evolving demands of the space market, enabling commercial satellite operators to optimize their assets in response to dynamic conditions. The leadership team, boasting over 50 years of experience in space systems and software development, is committed to enhancing the efficiency of satellite operations. This innovation facilitates improved monitoring of Earth for various applications, including economic, environmental, and national security purposes.

Geneoscopy

Series B in 2021
Geneoscopy, LLC is a diagnostic company based in Saint Louis, Missouri, focused on developing non-invasive solutions for gastrointestinal diseases, particularly colorectal cancer. Founded in 2015, Geneoscopy utilizes stool-derived eukaryotic RNA (seRNA) to create a multi-target RNA biomarker panel aimed at identifying colorectal cancer by detecting the effects of cancer-related DNA mutations. The company is committed to improving colorectal cancer screening compliance and facilitating early detection, thereby reducing the associated morbidity and mortality. By employing a novel methodology to extract human RNA transcripts from stool samples, Geneoscopy aims to provide a reliable alternative to traditional colonoscopies, which are often viewed as unpleasant and invasive. In addition to its colorectal cancer diagnostic test, Geneoscopy is also exploring other potential applications of its RNA technology for additional gastrointestinal conditions.

Hydrosat

Seed Round in 2021
Hydrosat turns space imagery into vital products for agriculture and related industries. Our data analytics will drive better insights, more efficient operations, and higher profits to customers everywhere

Fixposition

Seed Round in 2021
Fixposition AG, founded in 2014 and based in Zurich, Switzerland, specializes in high-accuracy navigation solutions for autonomous vehicles. The company offers NAV-RTK, designed for industrial and commercial drones, and VISION RTK, tailored for autonomous robots and cars. By integrating computer vision with centimeter-accurate GNSS/GPS technology, Fixposition ensures reliable navigation across various environments, enhancing the safety and efficiency of automated operations. Focused primarily on the industrial drone sector, Fixposition has secured partnerships with notable customers, including Yuneec, Huawei, and Robsense. The company's innovative solutions aim to address the growing demand for precision in the rapidly expanding autonomous vehicles market.

Kangarootime

Series B in 2021
Kangarootime, Inc. develops a cloud-based childcare management solution that connects parents with childcare professionals. Its solutions include revenue cycle management, mobile and laptop accessibility, enrollment, sign-in and sign-out, messaging and picture sharing, employee management, support, reports, and accounting. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Buffalo, New York.

Pass It Down

Seed Round in 2021
Pass It Down is a web and mobile app that allows users to record, share, and preserve family stories in video, audio, text, and photos. It is a digital storytelling platform that allows users to capture their life stories and share those with friends, family, and the world. Using their phone, tablet, or computer, the user can ask and answer questions provided by oral historians to capture family stories. Stories can be captured in video, audio, text, and photos and then shared publicly, with friends and family, or kept privately like a journal.

Clever Real Estate

Venture Round in 2021
Clever Real Estate company that specializes in the fields of commercial real estate and online marketplace. It offers a software platform that guides its users through the process of interviewing real estate agents to find the right one for them. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in St Louis, Missouri.

Balto

Series B in 2021
Balto Software Inc. is a company that specializes in developing sales software utilizing artificial intelligence and real-time conversation analytics to enhance the performance of sales representatives during phone calls. Founded in 2017 and based in Saint Louis, Missouri, Balto's platform provides live guidance by listening to both sides of a conversation and offering prompts to agents, enabling them to address objections, recognize buyer signals, and maintain an effective dialogue. The software alerts representatives to errors in real-time, allowing for immediate self-correction and ensuring compliance with industry standards. Additionally, it automatically populates dashboards with detailed conversation data for managerial review, helping to identify areas for improvement. Balto's solutions cater to various sectors, including sales leadership, customer service, and compliance, ultimately aiming to improve conversion rates and enhance customer experiences.

Atlas Digital Group

Seed Round in 2021
Atlas Digital Group brings real-world expertise in the design, development and management of industry leading eCommerce solutions, enabling fiber and cable businesses to accelerate growth in the near term and sustain growth over the long-term.

Mobilion Systems

Series C in 2021
Mobilion Systems, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, that specializes in advanced ion mobility separation technology known as structures for lossless ion manipulation (SLIM). Founded in 2015, the company focuses on identifying and analyzing difficult-to-detect molecules, particularly those relevant to biologic therapeutics and disease diagnostics. Mobilion's innovative SLIM technology allows for the separation and detection of clinically significant biomolecules that conventional instruments struggle to identify. By providing enhanced sensitivity, resolution, and throughput, Mobilion's analytical instruments support the development of improved therapeutics and enable earlier disease detection, ultimately aiming to address diseases at their core rather than merely treating symptoms.

Reconstruct

Series B in 2021
Reconstruct, Inc. specializes in predictive computer vision data analytics software tailored for construction projects. The company's visual production management platform facilitates data collection using drones, fixed cameras, or mobile devices for comprehensive progress analysis and documentation. It visualizes images and 3D points aligned with Building Information Modeling (BIM) through a web interface, enhancing coordination and transparency among project stakeholders. The platform identifies locations at risk of delays, supporting proactive weekly work planning, and integrates schedules with BIM animations to illustrate changes. Established in 2015, Reconstruct is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with an additional office in Champaign, Illinois.

Curate

Seed Round in 2021
Curate is a software as a service (SaaS) company that specializes in event management solutions for professionals in the industry. The company offers a platform that streamlines the planning and execution of events by managing various components such as documents, catering, and rental services. This comprehensive approach allows event professionals to significantly reduce the time spent on generating proposals and facilitates the creation of digital proposals during client consultations. By providing end-to-end event services, Curate enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of event planning and coordination.

Hydrosat

Seed Round in 2021
Hydrosat turns space imagery into vital products for agriculture and related industries. Our data analytics will drive better insights, more efficient operations, and higher profits to customers everywhere

SharpenCX

Venture Round in 2021
SharpenCX develops software and voice solutions aimed at enhancing communication between businesses and their customers. Its core offering, the Sharpen platform, is a cloud-native Communications Platform-as-a-Service designed to function as a contact center solution. This platform provides leadership, operations, and IT teams with essential tools and data to support frontline customer service staff. SharpenCX allows clients to manage voice systems through customizable web portals and offers real-time analytics for monitoring call center performance. The company serves a diverse range of professionals, including agents, supervisors, and IT directors, across various sectors such as education, marketing, retail, and insurance. Established in 2011 and based in Indianapolis, Indiana, SharpenCX emphasizes the development of solutions that improve the working conditions of contact center agents, ultimately leading to a better customer experience.

Element451

Series A in 2021
Element451 Inc. specializes in developing a cloud-based admissions marketing and enrollment customer relationship management (CRM) platform tailored for educational institutions. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, with additional offices in New York, the company offers a suite of products designed to streamline the admissions process and enhance engagement with prospective students. Its offerings include App451 for mobile admissions, Campaigns451 for automated communications, Conversations451 for real-time inquiries, and Decision451 to facilitate applicant review processes. Additional tools like Event45 for managing visit programs, Prospect451 for centralized prospect data, and Sites451 for personalized student microsites further support enrollment teams. With a focus on automation and analytics, Element451 provides customizable solutions that cater to schools of various sizes and budgets, aiming to optimize recruitment efforts and improve overall efficiency in enrollment activities.

SentiAR

Series A in 2021
SentiAR, Inc. is a digital health company based in St. Louis, Missouri, focused on enhancing clinical practice through innovative software solutions. Founded in 2017 as a spin-off from Washington University, SentiAR is developing a 3D visualization platform that utilizes real-time holography to display a patient's anatomy and catheter location during interventional procedures. This technology aims to improve the speed and safety of care delivery by enabling clinicians to visualize critical information "floating" above the patient, allowing for hands-free control. The platform is particularly designed for the treatment and analysis of cardiac arrhythmias in catheter lab environments. SentiAR is working towards obtaining FDA approval for its software, which has the potential to transform the experience for both clinicians and patients in medical settings.

Swell

Series A in 2021
Helping local businesses capture and retain customers. Swell is an automated growth platform that helps businesses find new customers and turn their feedback into reviews, referrals, and a booming bottom line. It helps businesses get discovered in local searches, learn from customer feedback, and enhance their reputation through true customer sentiment. www.swellcx.com Swell serves multiple industries including healthcare, retail, service, hospitality and tourism. We believe software should be easy-to-use, simple to integrate, and effective. Learn more at www.swellcx.com

Ethix360

Series A in 2021
ETHIX360 provides next-generation Compliance as a Service (CaaS) solutions that can be configured to seamlessly facilitate identifying, managing, investigating and resolving issues within any business. Our enterprise class solution, CaseTrac™, helps minimize the negative impact on an organization’s reputation, and the creation of financial liabilities or other harmful consequences. Reporting of concerns and workplace investigations are enabled via a variety of technologies that can be deployed to support the multi-lingual input of a globally diverse constituent base. CaseTrac™’s unique resolution management solution can be configured to promote adherence to a company’s policies and procedures for any program such as Employee Code of Conduct, Supply Chain Code of Conduct, Safety, Asset Protection, HR employee relations, FCPA compliance and more. This can include everything from workplace sexual harassment and bullying at work to Medicare fraud waste and abuse. Powerful workflow engines and a notification matrix couple with system-wide security and data privacy rules to automate the resolution of concern in accordance with the company’s standards. Through real-time dashboards and data analysis, ETHIX360 provides users and executive management with enterprise-wide visibility of issues enabling effective responses and proactive, continuous improvement. ETHIX360’s innovative solution has been designed and developed by experts in the fields of ethics, law, mediation, arbitration, human resources, labor, government services and web based applications. ETHIX360’s best practices for mitigating and managing risk can be configured to accommodate each client’s preferred organizational processes and procedures. ETHIX360 clients include global leaders in insurance, global package delivery, retail, technology, healthcare mining, energy, schools and many other industries. These clients have deployed a variety of programs targeted to just a few employees or over 500,000 employees and contractors. Collectively, these clients support operations in virtually every country in the world. Our mission is to continue to develop and deploy innovative technologies that help companies of all types understand their corporate risks through communications with their constituents, manage to resolution those reported concerns in a consistent manner that is compliant with the corporation’s policies and procedures and provide the related reporting and information analysis that addresses both the tactical and strategic needs of the business.

AirDeck

Seed Round in 2020
AirDeck, Inc. operates an online platform that enables users to create narrated presentations and documents for on-demand viewing. Founded in 2019 and based in Madison, Wisconsin, the platform allows for personalization and sharing of content, making it suitable for various applications such as sales demonstrations, educational materials, webinars, and employee onboarding. Users can record individual slides, upload audio and video, and access viewer analytics to enhance engagement. Additionally, the platform supports secure document sharing and real-time chat features, facilitating effective communication and follow-up in professional settings.

Fluent Forever

Seed Round in 2020
Fluent Forever Inc. is a language learning application designed to help users master foreign languages and retain their knowledge long-term. The app offers courses in several languages, including Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, German, Portuguese, Korean, and Japanese. The company's methodology is based on principles outlined in the best-selling book "Fluent Forever" by founder Gabriel Wyner. Established in 2013 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Fluent Forever aims to transform language acquisition by employing techniques that enhance memory and recall.

Textel

Series A in 2020
Textel provides a cloud-based texting platform for contact centers and businesses specifically designed to dramatically improve the customer experience, increase customer engagement, and improve contact center performance and efficiency. With nearly 800 customers across North America, Textel enables inbound/outbound SMS and MMS texts for organizations who need to connect with customers faster and more efficiently than traditional channels (email, voice, chat). Best of all, Textel users can enable their pre-existing numbers and integrate with industry-leading systems of record (Genesys, Nice inContact, and more).

FinLocker

Series A in 2020
FinLocker is a financial services technology innovator, founded by a team of veterans and executives across the financial services and technology industries. It provides a personal financial assistant tool that enables loans and financial transactions. With consumer consent, FinLocker captures key borrower data and applies intelligent analytics such as loan product recommendations based on a consumer’s financial profile, asset and income verification, and more. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in St Louis, Missouri.

Paytient

Venture Round in 2020
Paytient Technologies, Inc. is an innovative company that provides a financial platform designed to alleviate the burden of out-of-pocket healthcare expenses for employees. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Columbia, Missouri, Paytient offers an employer-sponsored payment solution that allows employees to address medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, and veterinary bills. By utilizing the Paytient card, employees can pay these expenses upfront and then repay the amount through interest-free, payroll-deducted payment plans over a set number of pay periods. This approach helps to reduce financial anxiety associated with high-deductible health plans, enabling employees to access necessary care without the stress of immediate out-of-pocket costs.

Balto

Series A in 2020
Balto Software Inc. is a company that specializes in developing sales software utilizing artificial intelligence and real-time conversation analytics to enhance the performance of sales representatives during phone calls. Founded in 2017 and based in Saint Louis, Missouri, Balto's platform provides live guidance by listening to both sides of a conversation and offering prompts to agents, enabling them to address objections, recognize buyer signals, and maintain an effective dialogue. The software alerts representatives to errors in real-time, allowing for immediate self-correction and ensuring compliance with industry standards. Additionally, it automatically populates dashboards with detailed conversation data for managerial review, helping to identify areas for improvement. Balto's solutions cater to various sectors, including sales leadership, customer service, and compliance, ultimately aiming to improve conversion rates and enhance customer experiences.

Matic Insurance

Series B in 2020
Matic Insurance Services, Inc. operates as a digital insurance agency that offers solutions for consumers, originators, and insurance servicers. The company was formerly known as Matic Insurance and changed its name to Matic Insurance Services, Inc. in May 2014. Matic Insurance Services, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Columbus, Ohio with additional offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California; and Lviv, Ukraine.

SharpenCX

Venture Round in 2020
SharpenCX develops software and voice solutions aimed at enhancing communication between businesses and their customers. Its core offering, the Sharpen platform, is a cloud-native Communications Platform-as-a-Service designed to function as a contact center solution. This platform provides leadership, operations, and IT teams with essential tools and data to support frontline customer service staff. SharpenCX allows clients to manage voice systems through customizable web portals and offers real-time analytics for monitoring call center performance. The company serves a diverse range of professionals, including agents, supervisors, and IT directors, across various sectors such as education, marketing, retail, and insurance. Established in 2011 and based in Indianapolis, Indiana, SharpenCX emphasizes the development of solutions that improve the working conditions of contact center agents, ultimately leading to a better customer experience.

Mobilion Systems

Series B in 2020
Mobilion Systems, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, that specializes in advanced ion mobility separation technology known as structures for lossless ion manipulation (SLIM). Founded in 2015, the company focuses on identifying and analyzing difficult-to-detect molecules, particularly those relevant to biologic therapeutics and disease diagnostics. Mobilion's innovative SLIM technology allows for the separation and detection of clinically significant biomolecules that conventional instruments struggle to identify. By providing enhanced sensitivity, resolution, and throughput, Mobilion's analytical instruments support the development of improved therapeutics and enable earlier disease detection, ultimately aiming to address diseases at their core rather than merely treating symptoms.

ReturnLogic

Seed Round in 2020
ReturnLogic is a developer of an automation platform intended to make better marketing decisions and prevent costly product returns. Its platform helps brands give their clients an easy returns process while automating workflows for their customer service and warehouse teams, thereby enabling businesses to optimize their product returns strategy.

Avail

Series A in 2020
Avail is an online platform that facilitates the rental and leasing process for independent landlords and property managers. Founded in 2012 and based in Chicago, the company provides essential tools for managing rental properties, including rental listings, tenant screening, electronic leases, online rent payments, maintenance tracking, and customized lease agreements. Avail specifically caters to landlords with fewer than ten units, a segment that has historically lacked access to comprehensive online management tools. With its user-friendly interface, Avail allows users to efficiently advertise vacant properties, collect rental applications and credit reports, and manage various aspects of property management, all from a single platform. As a subsidiary of Move, Inc., Avail has attracted around 70,000 landlords who utilize its end-to-end services to simplify and enhance their rental operations.

Mission Control

Seed Round in 2020
Mission Control GG, Inc. is a company that designs and develops mobile applications for recreational esports, allowing gamers to join leagues similar to traditional sports leagues. The platform offers a comprehensive League Management solution that enables users to create and manage leagues for popular video games across various platforms. It provides features such as league scheduling, score validation, and champion determination, while also facilitating communication among league members. Organizations, including community groups and colleges, can leverage Mission Control to host leagues, engage participants, and streamline their esports operations. Founded in 2018 and based in Saint Louis, Missouri, Mission Control aims to foster a community-driven environment for gamers to enjoy competitive play with friends and local organizations.

Orbita

Series A in 2020
Orbita, Inc. operates a cloud-based platform that specializes in voice and chatbot capabilities tailored for the healthcare sector. The company's offerings include a range of solutions such as OrbitaENGAGE, which facilitates patient engagement through digital channels, and OrbitaASSIST, a voice-enabled virtual bedside assistant designed for patients and nurses. Additionally, OrbitaCONNECT empowers patients to manage their health from home with personalized support. The platform also caters to life sciences industries, enhancing access and engagement for patients and providers, and features the Orbita Employee Health Manager to promote workplace wellness. Orbita's products are designed to be HIPAA-compliant, ensuring data security while improving patient engagement and reducing healthcare costs. Founded in 2015 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, Orbita serves various stakeholders, including healthcare providers, pharmaceutical companies, payers, and application developers. The company was previously known as Bebaio, Inc. before rebranding in February 2016.

Resilia

Series A in 2020
Resilia simplifies the formation of new nonprofits and provides existing organizations with on-demand tools that optimize operations and increase effectiveness. It helps accelerate the formation process for new organizations, and ensure existing organizations execute their mission and drive results. Its Enterprise platform offers intuitive, data-driven software to corporations, foundations, and government entities that leverage technology to accelerate impact and increase connectivity.

Ethix360

Debt Financing in 2020
ETHIX360 provides next-generation Compliance as a Service (CaaS) solutions that can be configured to seamlessly facilitate identifying, managing, investigating and resolving issues within any business. Our enterprise class solution, CaseTrac™, helps minimize the negative impact on an organization’s reputation, and the creation of financial liabilities or other harmful consequences. Reporting of concerns and workplace investigations are enabled via a variety of technologies that can be deployed to support the multi-lingual input of a globally diverse constituent base. CaseTrac™’s unique resolution management solution can be configured to promote adherence to a company’s policies and procedures for any program such as Employee Code of Conduct, Supply Chain Code of Conduct, Safety, Asset Protection, HR employee relations, FCPA compliance and more. This can include everything from workplace sexual harassment and bullying at work to Medicare fraud waste and abuse. Powerful workflow engines and a notification matrix couple with system-wide security and data privacy rules to automate the resolution of concern in accordance with the company’s standards. Through real-time dashboards and data analysis, ETHIX360 provides users and executive management with enterprise-wide visibility of issues enabling effective responses and proactive, continuous improvement. ETHIX360’s innovative solution has been designed and developed by experts in the fields of ethics, law, mediation, arbitration, human resources, labor, government services and web based applications. ETHIX360’s best practices for mitigating and managing risk can be configured to accommodate each client’s preferred organizational processes and procedures. ETHIX360 clients include global leaders in insurance, global package delivery, retail, technology, healthcare mining, energy, schools and many other industries. These clients have deployed a variety of programs targeted to just a few employees or over 500,000 employees and contractors. Collectively, these clients support operations in virtually every country in the world. Our mission is to continue to develop and deploy innovative technologies that help companies of all types understand their corporate risks through communications with their constituents, manage to resolution those reported concerns in a consistent manner that is compliant with the corporation’s policies and procedures and provide the related reporting and information analysis that addresses both the tactical and strategic needs of the business.

Cloudbeds

Series C in 2020
Cloudbeds is a vertical SaaS business that creates cloud-based hospitality management software that simplifies the working lives of professional property owners, operators, and employees. It helps with OTAs, payments, reservations, and reporting so its clients can spend time on their most important job, taking care of their guests. Cloudbeds was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Be My Eyes

Series A in 2020
Be My Eyes is a free mobile application aimed at enhancing the independence of blind and visually impaired individuals by connecting them with sighted volunteers for visual assistance. Through a simple button press, users initiate a live video call that allows volunteers to assist with various tasks and challenges. The platform has garnered a community of over 1.9 million users across 150 countries, making it the largest online support network for the blind and visually impaired. By leveraging technology and human connection, Be My Eyes facilitates a unique avenue for generosity, helping to improve the everyday lives of those with visual impairments.

SentiAR

Venture Round in 2020
SentiAR, Inc. is a digital health company based in St. Louis, Missouri, focused on enhancing clinical practice through innovative software solutions. Founded in 2017 as a spin-off from Washington University, SentiAR is developing a 3D visualization platform that utilizes real-time holography to display a patient's anatomy and catheter location during interventional procedures. This technology aims to improve the speed and safety of care delivery by enabling clinicians to visualize critical information "floating" above the patient, allowing for hands-free control. The platform is particularly designed for the treatment and analysis of cardiac arrhythmias in catheter lab environments. SentiAR is working towards obtaining FDA approval for its software, which has the potential to transform the experience for both clinicians and patients in medical settings.

Swell

Seed Round in 2020
Helping local businesses capture and retain customers. Swell is an automated growth platform that helps businesses find new customers and turn their feedback into reviews, referrals, and a booming bottom line. It helps businesses get discovered in local searches, learn from customer feedback, and enhance their reputation through true customer sentiment. www.swellcx.com Swell serves multiple industries including healthcare, retail, service, hospitality and tourism. We believe software should be easy-to-use, simple to integrate, and effective. Learn more at www.swellcx.com

ThirdPartyTrust

Seed Round in 2020
ThirdPartyTrust’s SaaS vendor management platform measures and monitors vendor risk and related cyber threats. Enterprises require their vendors (e.g. IT service providers, consultants and contractors) to create a ThirdPartyTrust profile, which includes security audits, insurance certificates and compliance documentation in a central repository. Vendors can share their ThirdPartyTrust profile with all their enterprise clients and CISO's and the C-Suite have the ability to manage and mitigate risk across the organization.

Summersalt

Series B in 2019
Summersalt is a generation-defining apparel brand, providing wardrobe essentials for women who are going places. Summersalt launched in 2017 with swimwear made from recycled materials at a $95 price point — designer quality swimwear without the designer price tag. Since then, we’ve launched additional categories including loungewear, knitwear, sleepwear and activewear. Summersalt pieces are modern, sophisticated and fun, with an impeccable data-backed fit based on millions of measurements from over 10,000 women. In the few short years since our founding, Summersalt has built a loyal following of customers, influencers and celebrities, while garnering praise from leading fashion media including ELLE, Vogue and People.

LoanNEX

Seed Round in 2019
LoanNEX provides loan discovery and pricing tools to residential mortgage originators. Today’s mortgage business calls for a more diverse approach to the market, and that means delivering a broader selection of products than just agency programs to meet your borrowers needs. LoanNEX provides originators the discovery tools needed to increase their loan volume and serve a broader base of borrowers. Originators can offer more product options to fit all borrowers’ needs and employ the LoanNEX® platform to deliver the right products to their borrowers. A Seamless Solution: The non-agency market is complicated enough. With LoanNEX, there is no long, drawn-out onboarding process. Just sign up and start using it. Our platform is light-touch and intuitive, based on legacy systems, so it is easy for originators to learn and being accessing. Pricing can be adjusted for lender compensation. Simplify the Day-to-Day: Expand your volume opportunity while simplifying your tools. You no longer need to manage multiple portals and platforms to access solutions for expanded credit borrowers. LoanNEX® offers an alternative to working through multiple investors portals to find solutions, allowing originators to do more volume efficiently and confidently.

Textel

Seed Round in 2019
Textel provides a cloud-based texting platform for contact centers and businesses specifically designed to dramatically improve the customer experience, increase customer engagement, and improve contact center performance and efficiency. With nearly 800 customers across North America, Textel enables inbound/outbound SMS and MMS texts for organizations who need to connect with customers faster and more efficiently than traditional channels (email, voice, chat). Best of all, Textel users can enable their pre-existing numbers and integrate with industry-leading systems of record (Genesys, Nice inContact, and more).

Healthy Bytes

Series A in 2019
Healthy Bytes, Inc. develops a software for personalized and expert nutritional counseling. It offers Healthy Bytes, a platform that connects physicians, employers, and patients to nutritional counseling. The company’s platform also helps users to book their private consultation, and consult registered dietitian online. Healthy Bytes, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri with an additional office in New York, New York.

Popwallet

Seed Round in 2019
Popwallet is a mobile wallet customer experience management platform, working with some of the most innovative brands in the world to reach and engage people in a safe and contactless way through mobile wallets like Apple Wallet and Google Pay. These experiences include dynamic coupons and offers, rebates, loyalty and gift cards, tickets, and other lightweight branded content.

Mobilion Systems

Series A in 2019
Mobilion Systems, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, that specializes in advanced ion mobility separation technology known as structures for lossless ion manipulation (SLIM). Founded in 2015, the company focuses on identifying and analyzing difficult-to-detect molecules, particularly those relevant to biologic therapeutics and disease diagnostics. Mobilion's innovative SLIM technology allows for the separation and detection of clinically significant biomolecules that conventional instruments struggle to identify. By providing enhanced sensitivity, resolution, and throughput, Mobilion's analytical instruments support the development of improved therapeutics and enable earlier disease detection, ultimately aiming to address diseases at their core rather than merely treating symptoms.

Kangarootime

Series A in 2019
Kangarootime, Inc. develops a cloud-based childcare management solution that connects parents with childcare professionals. Its solutions include revenue cycle management, mobile and laptop accessibility, enrollment, sign-in and sign-out, messaging and picture sharing, employee management, support, reports, and accounting. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Buffalo, New York.

Emplify

Series B in 2019
Emplify, a leader in employee engagement measurement, enables executives to ask for, analyze, and act on employee feedback — transforming data insights into human action. Informed by science and psychometrics. Emplify is the first to fuse survey insights, employee communication, performance enhancement, and transformation strategists into a proven agile engagement system. It was founded in 2010 and is based in Fishers, Indiana.

Geneoscopy

Series A in 2019
Geneoscopy, LLC is a diagnostic company based in Saint Louis, Missouri, focused on developing non-invasive solutions for gastrointestinal diseases, particularly colorectal cancer. Founded in 2015, Geneoscopy utilizes stool-derived eukaryotic RNA (seRNA) to create a multi-target RNA biomarker panel aimed at identifying colorectal cancer by detecting the effects of cancer-related DNA mutations. The company is committed to improving colorectal cancer screening compliance and facilitating early detection, thereby reducing the associated morbidity and mortality. By employing a novel methodology to extract human RNA transcripts from stool samples, Geneoscopy aims to provide a reliable alternative to traditional colonoscopies, which are often viewed as unpleasant and invasive. In addition to its colorectal cancer diagnostic test, Geneoscopy is also exploring other potential applications of its RNA technology for additional gastrointestinal conditions.

Balto

Seed Round in 2019
Balto Software Inc. is a company that specializes in developing sales software utilizing artificial intelligence and real-time conversation analytics to enhance the performance of sales representatives during phone calls. Founded in 2017 and based in Saint Louis, Missouri, Balto's platform provides live guidance by listening to both sides of a conversation and offering prompts to agents, enabling them to address objections, recognize buyer signals, and maintain an effective dialogue. The software alerts representatives to errors in real-time, allowing for immediate self-correction and ensuring compliance with industry standards. Additionally, it automatically populates dashboards with detailed conversation data for managerial review, helping to identify areas for improvement. Balto's solutions cater to various sectors, including sales leadership, customer service, and compliance, ultimately aiming to improve conversion rates and enhance customer experiences.

FinTech Studios

Venture Round in 2019
FinTech Studios, founded in 2014 by Jim Tousignant, specializes in providing AI-driven applications and big-data analytics tailored for the financial sector. Leveraging machine learning and natural language processing, the company offers a cloud platform that enables users to discover and analyze relevant content from millions of online sources and proprietary databases. This powerful search technology delivers timely market intelligence and insights, catering to the needs of investors, financial professionals, and business executives. Through its innovative tools, FinTech Studios aims to enhance decision-making processes and improve access to critical financial information.

Dynamo Metrics

Seed Round in 2019
Dynamo Metrics delivers property-level intel to quantify the impact of policy and investment decisions.

DemandJump

Series A in 2019
DemandJump is a customer acquisition software that shows marketers new sources of growth online. Their mission is to understand the world’s competitive digital data and make it actionable for marketers everywhere. The company's software uses artificial intelligence that shows a holistic view of the data, overlays absent data, and maps that target market behavior, thereby, enabling marketers to make better decisions by providing actions that maximize return on investments. DemandJump was founded in 2015 and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Paytient

Seed Round in 2019
Paytient Technologies, Inc. is an innovative company that provides a financial platform designed to alleviate the burden of out-of-pocket healthcare expenses for employees. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Columbia, Missouri, Paytient offers an employer-sponsored payment solution that allows employees to address medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, and veterinary bills. By utilizing the Paytient card, employees can pay these expenses upfront and then repay the amount through interest-free, payroll-deducted payment plans over a set number of pay periods. This approach helps to reduce financial anxiety associated with high-deductible health plans, enabling employees to access necessary care without the stress of immediate out-of-pocket costs.

Clever Real Estate

Series A in 2019
Clever Real Estate company that specializes in the fields of commercial real estate and online marketplace. It offers a software platform that guides its users through the process of interviewing real estate agents to find the right one for them. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in St Louis, Missouri.

Ethix360

Seed Round in 2019
ETHIX360 provides next-generation Compliance as a Service (CaaS) solutions that can be configured to seamlessly facilitate identifying, managing, investigating and resolving issues within any business. Our enterprise class solution, CaseTrac™, helps minimize the negative impact on an organization’s reputation, and the creation of financial liabilities or other harmful consequences. Reporting of concerns and workplace investigations are enabled via a variety of technologies that can be deployed to support the multi-lingual input of a globally diverse constituent base. CaseTrac™’s unique resolution management solution can be configured to promote adherence to a company’s policies and procedures for any program such as Employee Code of Conduct, Supply Chain Code of Conduct, Safety, Asset Protection, HR employee relations, FCPA compliance and more. This can include everything from workplace sexual harassment and bullying at work to Medicare fraud waste and abuse. Powerful workflow engines and a notification matrix couple with system-wide security and data privacy rules to automate the resolution of concern in accordance with the company’s standards. Through real-time dashboards and data analysis, ETHIX360 provides users and executive management with enterprise-wide visibility of issues enabling effective responses and proactive, continuous improvement. ETHIX360’s innovative solution has been designed and developed by experts in the fields of ethics, law, mediation, arbitration, human resources, labor, government services and web based applications. ETHIX360’s best practices for mitigating and managing risk can be configured to accommodate each client’s preferred organizational processes and procedures. ETHIX360 clients include global leaders in insurance, global package delivery, retail, technology, healthcare mining, energy, schools and many other industries. These clients have deployed a variety of programs targeted to just a few employees or over 500,000 employees and contractors. Collectively, these clients support operations in virtually every country in the world. Our mission is to continue to develop and deploy innovative technologies that help companies of all types understand their corporate risks through communications with their constituents, manage to resolution those reported concerns in a consistent manner that is compliant with the corporation’s policies and procedures and provide the related reporting and information analysis that addresses both the tactical and strategic needs of the business.

Reconstruct

Series A in 2019
Reconstruct, Inc. specializes in predictive computer vision data analytics software tailored for construction projects. The company's visual production management platform facilitates data collection using drones, fixed cameras, or mobile devices for comprehensive progress analysis and documentation. It visualizes images and 3D points aligned with Building Information Modeling (BIM) through a web interface, enhancing coordination and transparency among project stakeholders. The platform identifies locations at risk of delays, supporting proactive weekly work planning, and integrates schedules with BIM animations to illustrate changes. Established in 2015, Reconstruct is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with an additional office in Champaign, Illinois.

Nanoguard Technologies

Series A in 2019
Nanoguard Technologies is developing cold plasma technology for the treatment of grains. Its cold plasma technology facilitates food sanitation technology which is designed to preserve the freshness and wholesomeness of food while improving its safety from food borne illness, providing food growers with a safe, cost efficient, and environmentally friendly tool to manage and reduce mycotoxins. Nanoguard Technologies was founded on 2014 and is headquartered Saint Louis, Missouri.

Avail

Venture Round in 2019
Avail is an online platform that facilitates the rental and leasing process for independent landlords and property managers. Founded in 2012 and based in Chicago, the company provides essential tools for managing rental properties, including rental listings, tenant screening, electronic leases, online rent payments, maintenance tracking, and customized lease agreements. Avail specifically caters to landlords with fewer than ten units, a segment that has historically lacked access to comprehensive online management tools. With its user-friendly interface, Avail allows users to efficiently advertise vacant properties, collect rental applications and credit reports, and manage various aspects of property management, all from a single platform. As a subsidiary of Move, Inc., Avail has attracted around 70,000 landlords who utilize its end-to-end services to simplify and enhance their rental operations.

OnScale

Series A in 2019
OnScale Inc. develops on-demand scalable engineering simulation software that accelerates research and development, reduces costs, and helps engineers build future. The company offers OnScale Multiphysics CAE software that empowers engineers to accelerate innovation across various industries, including next-generation technologies, such as MEMS IoT, 5G, biomedicine, and autonomous vehicles. Its software is used in MEMS and filters, sensors, NDE and NDT, medical, and sonar applications. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Fifth Eye

Series A in 2019
Fifth Eye Inc., a medical software company, develops a real time analytics system designed to analyze hemodynamic instability in patients. It offers early warning system that continuously forecasts patient trajectory, giving doctors and nurses a heads up about impending trouble hours in advance of other methods. The company's tool provides first score in five minutes with no baseline needed, minute-to-minute continuous patient assessment, advance warning and real-time treatment feedback, and historical trends without the need for electronic health record inputs. The company was formerly known as Trove Analytics, Inc. and changed its name to Fifth Eye Inc. in June 2018. Fifth Eye Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Well Principled

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Well Principled Corp. is an artificial intelligence management consulting firm based in St. Louis, Missouri, specializing in providing insights for chief marketing officers and chief supply chain officers. Founded in 2018, the company utilizes advanced AI technology to predict customer buying behavior, thereby optimizing marketing and supply chain processes for retail and consumer packaged goods brands. Its software offers actionable plans derived from established business theories and contemporary AI methodologies, enabling businesses to enhance customer retention, cross-selling strategies, and product pricing. Well Principled aims to streamline process optimization by providing a more efficient alternative to traditional methods, which often rely on extensive analyst teams or generic consultant recommendations.

Arch Oncology

Series B in 2019
Tioma Therapeutics, Inc. operates as an immuno-oncology company that develops anti-CD47 antibodies for the treatment of solid and hematologic cancers. Tioma Therapeutics, Inc. was formerly known as Vasculox, Inc. and changed its name to Tioma Therapeutics, Inc. in August 2016. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri with a corporate office in Brisbane, California.

SharpenCX

Venture Round in 2019
SharpenCX develops software and voice solutions aimed at enhancing communication between businesses and their customers. Its core offering, the Sharpen platform, is a cloud-native Communications Platform-as-a-Service designed to function as a contact center solution. This platform provides leadership, operations, and IT teams with essential tools and data to support frontline customer service staff. SharpenCX allows clients to manage voice systems through customizable web portals and offers real-time analytics for monitoring call center performance. The company serves a diverse range of professionals, including agents, supervisors, and IT directors, across various sectors such as education, marketing, retail, and insurance. Established in 2011 and based in Indianapolis, Indiana, SharpenCX emphasizes the development of solutions that improve the working conditions of contact center agents, ultimately leading to a better customer experience.

Threater

Series A in 2019
Bandura uses simple, innovative technology and best-in-class threat intelligence to secure your networks, data and users in real time - wherever they are. Whether it’s from data we provide out of the box, data from one of our Partner Integrations - or any other data source you have - we block attacks from up to 150 Million malicious IPs and domains in real-time, with no latency. At Bandura, we believe nothing scales like simplicity. We make blocking threats smart and simple - at scale - everywhere.

NarrativeDx

Corporate Round in 2019
NarrativeDx Inc. develops a data analytics solution for hospitals. Its solution enables healthcare administrators to collect and monitor what patients say by aggregating data from various sources, including social media platforms and output from HCAHPS survey vendors; learn the context behind patient satisfaction scores; and know which improvement actions to take for better patient engagement, maximum reimbursements, and quality care. The company is based in Austin, Texas. As of March 17, 2020, NarrativeDx Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Press Ganey Associates, Inc.

ImageMoverMD

Venture Round in 2019
ImageMoverMD is a medical imaging software company that integrates enterprise imaging and electronic health record systems. The company's innovative solutions employ an exclusive approach to securely connect photos, video, and outside medical images with the EHR, simplifying communication, and enhancing patient care. It transforms enterprise imaging to improve the quality and cost of care while optimizing patient and provider experience. ImagerMoverMD using web-native automation applications that integrate with both the EMR and the VNA/PACs systems, the ImageMover platform measurably improves efficiency, increases revenue capture, and drives HIPAA compliance across the entire care continuum. It also provides end-to-end imaging optimization for health systems.

Aggio

Seed Round in 2019
Aggio, LLC is an information technology company that specializes in developing cloud-based sales applications tailored for the agriculture industry. Established in 2016 and headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, with an additional location in Madison, New Jersey, Aggio offers a platform designed to enhance marketing and sales processes. Its solutions facilitate data-driven decision-making through advanced analytics, data harmonization, and visualization, enabling clients to effectively engage their customers and channel partners.

Curate

Seed Round in 2018
Curate is a software as a service (SaaS) company that specializes in event management solutions for professionals in the industry. The company offers a platform that streamlines the planning and execution of events by managing various components such as documents, catering, and rental services. This comprehensive approach allows event professionals to significantly reduce the time spent on generating proposals and facilitates the creation of digital proposals during client consultations. By providing end-to-end event services, Curate enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of event planning and coordination.

Clever Real Estate

Venture Round in 2018
Clever Real Estate company that specializes in the fields of commercial real estate and online marketplace. It offers a software platform that guides its users through the process of interviewing real estate agents to find the right one for them. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in St Louis, Missouri.

Covercress

Venture Round in 2018
CoverCress is a biotechnology company that focuses on research and development of renewable fuel and livestock feed. It specializes in producing an oilseed crop for food, bioenergy, and cattle feed. It specializes in the fields of agriculture, biotechnology, plants, genetics, cover crop, and precision agriculture. CoverCress was founded in 2013 by Jerry Steiner and Dr. Tim Ulmasov and is headquartered in St. Louis Missouri.

Summersalt

Series A in 2018
Summersalt is a generation-defining apparel brand, providing wardrobe essentials for women who are going places. Summersalt launched in 2017 with swimwear made from recycled materials at a $95 price point — designer quality swimwear without the designer price tag. Since then, we’ve launched additional categories including loungewear, knitwear, sleepwear and activewear. Summersalt pieces are modern, sophisticated and fun, with an impeccable data-backed fit based on millions of measurements from over 10,000 women. In the few short years since our founding, Summersalt has built a loyal following of customers, influencers and celebrities, while garnering praise from leading fashion media including ELLE, Vogue and People.

CardiaLen

Series B in 2018
Cardialen, Inc., a medical device company that develops a therapy system that detects and treats atrial fibrillation, rapid ventricular tachycardia, and ventricular fibrillation. It offers an implantable device to restore normal heart rhythm and may reduce the potential for high-energy defibrillation shocks. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

SimpleRose

Venture Round in 2018
SimpleRose Inc. develops and operates optimal decision-making platform. The company's product enables optimal decision-making in complex world where the proliferation of data and growing scope of organizations. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri.

CareSignal

Seed Round in 2018
CareSignal provides an accessible remote patient monitoring platform that improves payer and provider performance in value-based care by engaging and identifying rising-risk patients. Care teams receive real-time alerts enabling real-time prioritization and outreach, and patients respond to evidence-based questions via text messages or phone calls.

Emplify

Venture Round in 2018
Emplify, a leader in employee engagement measurement, enables executives to ask for, analyze, and act on employee feedback — transforming data insights into human action. Informed by science and psychometrics. Emplify is the first to fuse survey insights, employee communication, performance enhancement, and transformation strategists into a proven agile engagement system. It was founded in 2010 and is based in Fishers, Indiana.

Hippo Manager

Series A in 2018
Hippo Manager Software, Inc. specializes in cloud-based veterinary practice management software aimed at improving the operations of both small and large animal veterinary practices. Established in 2012 and located in Lexington, Kentucky, the company provides a comprehensive suite of tools that includes medical records, patient scheduling, reporting, point of sale, inventory management, and reminders. This software is designed to enhance the quality of patient care by facilitating better access to records for both veterinarians and pet owners. By leveraging technology, Hippo Manager aims to help veterinary practices streamline their operations and develop new revenue streams, ultimately benefiting the overall veterinary healthcare industry.

Threater

Series A in 2018
Bandura uses simple, innovative technology and best-in-class threat intelligence to secure your networks, data and users in real time - wherever they are. Whether it’s from data we provide out of the box, data from one of our Partner Integrations - or any other data source you have - we block attacks from up to 150 Million malicious IPs and domains in real-time, with no latency. At Bandura, we believe nothing scales like simplicity. We make blocking threats smart and simple - at scale - everywhere.

iSite Media

Seed Round in 2018
iSite Media, LLC specializes in advertising and marketing through digital display technology, primarily focusing on a unique digital display network located in restrooms of high-traffic venues. Founded in 2015 and based in St. Louis, Missouri, iSite Media aims to connect brands with a captive audience by delivering impactful video messages in strategic environments. The company's approach enhances brand visibility while providing aesthetic upgrades to venues, such as stadiums and arenas, which also allows these locations to generate additional revenue. By targeting specific audiences in confined spaces, iSite Media ensures high relevance and recall, making it an effective choice for advertisers seeking to maximize the effectiveness of their media campaigns. Formerly known as Sitting Duck Advertising, the company rebranded to iSite Media in 2017.

FinLocker

Seed Round in 2018
FinLocker is a financial services technology innovator, founded by a team of veterans and executives across the financial services and technology industries. It provides a personal financial assistant tool that enables loans and financial transactions. With consumer consent, FinLocker captures key borrower data and applies intelligent analytics such as loan product recommendations based on a consumer’s financial profile, asset and income verification, and more. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in St Louis, Missouri.

Popwallet

Seed Round in 2018
Popwallet is a mobile wallet customer experience management platform, working with some of the most innovative brands in the world to reach and engage people in a safe and contactless way through mobile wallets like Apple Wallet and Google Pay. These experiences include dynamic coupons and offers, rebates, loyalty and gift cards, tickets, and other lightweight branded content.

DemandJump

Series A in 2018
DemandJump is a customer acquisition software that shows marketers new sources of growth online. Their mission is to understand the world’s competitive digital data and make it actionable for marketers everywhere. The company's software uses artificial intelligence that shows a holistic view of the data, overlays absent data, and maps that target market behavior, thereby, enabling marketers to make better decisions by providing actions that maximize return on investments. DemandJump was founded in 2015 and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana.

SentiAR

Convertible Note in 2018
SentiAR, Inc. is a digital health company based in St. Louis, Missouri, focused on enhancing clinical practice through innovative software solutions. Founded in 2017 as a spin-off from Washington University, SentiAR is developing a 3D visualization platform that utilizes real-time holography to display a patient's anatomy and catheter location during interventional procedures. This technology aims to improve the speed and safety of care delivery by enabling clinicians to visualize critical information "floating" above the patient, allowing for hands-free control. The platform is particularly designed for the treatment and analysis of cardiac arrhythmias in catheter lab environments. SentiAR is working towards obtaining FDA approval for its software, which has the potential to transform the experience for both clinicians and patients in medical settings.

Summersalt

Seed Round in 2018
Summersalt is a generation-defining apparel brand, providing wardrobe essentials for women who are going places. Summersalt launched in 2017 with swimwear made from recycled materials at a $95 price point — designer quality swimwear without the designer price tag. Since then, we’ve launched additional categories including loungewear, knitwear, sleepwear and activewear. Summersalt pieces are modern, sophisticated and fun, with an impeccable data-backed fit based on millions of measurements from over 10,000 women. In the few short years since our founding, Summersalt has built a loyal following of customers, influencers and celebrities, while garnering praise from leading fashion media including ELLE, Vogue and People.

Aptimmune

Series B in 2018
Aptimmune Biologics Inc. is a biotechnology company dedicated to the development of prophylactic measures against viral diseases affecting swine. Founded in 2010, the company focuses on creating innovative mucosal vaccines to prevent significant diseases such as Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome virus (PRRSV) and influenza. Aptimmune employs novel technologies, including a proprietary pig alveolar macrophage cell line known as ZMAC, to enhance the efficacy of its nasal delivery vaccines. While the company was originally based in St. Louis, Missouri, its operations are currently located in Champaign, Illinois.

Decide

Seed Round in 2017
Decide operates an interest-based social platform that caters to various topics, including gaming, music, and politics. The company provides native advertising solutions that allow brands to effectively engage with their target audiences. It offers tools for audience development, such as polls, contests, quizzes, and feedback mechanisms, enabling publishers to activate user engagement through customizable actions like newsletter subscriptions and social media follows. Additionally, Decide assists in campaign planning, content creation, and performance optimization, while allowing real-time measurement of results. The platform leverages an in-house artificial intelligence, known as Neo, which utilizes machine learning to analyze vast amounts of data and make informed advertising decisions. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri, with an additional office in New York, Decide aims to enhance the advertising experience by connecting advertisers with relevant publishers and users.