Villhard Growth Partners

We are a St. Louis-based growth buyout firm that invests in, partners with and grows strong, tech-enabled healthcare and business services companies. We focus on lower market transactions in which we can invest alongside aggressive, entrepreneurial teams that share our passion for growing and building great businesses.

Peter S. Villhard

Co-Founder

Doug Villhard

Co-Founder

Past deals in Missouri

Flipstik

Seed Round in 2021
Flipstik offers a device that serves as a kickstand, wall mount, and selfie stick for phones. It allows users to complete tasks such as watching videos, taking selfies, and using GPS hands-free.

Honeymoon Chocolates

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Honeymoon Chocolates is one of five manufacturers in the US that has formulated the process for producing chocolate sweetened with honey. The process is much like mixing water and oil. Because this process is difficult, only a handful of small craft chocolate makers have been able to reproduce this. The market potential for a nationwide craft chocolate brand that uses honey is untapped. Our goal is to use chocolate as a medium to speak with our consumers. We not only want to introduce honey as a staple sweetener to the food industry- but also encourage our customers to make smarter decisions when purchasing other food items. Our hope is to be a brand that can bring about change within an industry that is focused on turning a profit at the expense of their consumers by using cheap ingredients in their products. With each bar we sell, we have pledged 20% of our profits to the Pollinator Partnership- a coalition fighting for research and education of honeybees nationwide.

Wepower

Funding Round in 2021
Wepower is a local nonprofit focused on developing equitable education, economic, health, and justice systems.

Hum

Pre Seed Round in 2020
HUM Industrial Technology is a supply chain technology company building predictive sensors to make the supply chain smarter and safer. Our wireless wheel and bearing sensors for railcars and locomotives provides predictive visibility into the health of your assets, eliminating derailments, optimizing your maintenance management, and controlling your inventory costs.

Adalo

Seed Round in 2019
Adalo is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of android, software, and information technology. It features a software application platform that allows its users to create a mobile app without traditionally learning how to code. Adalo was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Missouri, United States.