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

Past deals in Indiana

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cheddar

Seed Round in 2017
Cheddar (formerly CheddarGetter) is a usage-based billing platform for SaaS companies. The platform is capable of managing all the complexity of billing and collections including pricing, processing, underwriting, SaaS metrics, customer communications, and revenue optimization. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Bloomington, Indiana.

Salesvue

Venture Round in 2016
Salesvue, LLC provides salesforce automation software. It offers Salesvue, a prospect-to-pipeline automation solution. Salesvue, LLC was formerly known as Jesubi, LLC and changed its name to Salesvue, LLC in June 2013. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Emplify

Series A in 2016
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.

Emplify

Venture Round in 2015
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.

Salesvue

Venture Round in 2014
Salesvue, LLC provides salesforce automation software. It offers Salesvue, a prospect-to-pipeline automation solution. Salesvue, LLC was formerly known as Jesubi, LLC and changed its name to Salesvue, LLC in June 2013. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana.