Lewis & Clark Ventures

Lewis & Clark Ventures, established in 2015 and located in Saint Louis, Missouri, is a venture capital firm focused on investing in high-potential B2B software, fintech, and digital health companies. Founded by former operators, the firm aims to identify and support innovation and entrepreneurial talent in often overlooked regions. By partnering with entrepreneurs, Lewis & Clark Ventures seeks to assist these companies in their growth and development, ultimately guiding them toward greater scale and significance. As a Registered Investment Adviser, the firm is committed to fostering strong relationships with the businesses it finances, positioning itself as a trusted ally in their journey.

Scott Bernstein

Principal

Brian Hopcraft

Managing Director and Founder

Nick Nardacci

Senior Associate

Michael Rockhold

Principal

Rockhold, Michael

Principal

Verma, Rohan

Principal

40 past transactions

Occuspace

Series A in 2025
Occuspace specializes in crowd monitoring technology aimed at optimizing occupancy management and enhancing safety within various environments. The company provides a platform that captures real-time and historical occupancy data through the use of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors that analyze radio frequency signals. This data enables businesses to better understand and manage how their spaces are utilized, facilitating improved planning and allocation decisions. By offering insights into occupancy levels, Occuspace helps clients enhance the visitor experience while also achieving greater efficiency and cost savings.

ArborXR

Series A in 2024
ArborXR is a developer of an extended reality (XR) device management platform that enables businesses to efficiently manage virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) devices at scale. The platform allows for remote content deployment and user control, providing enterprises and XR service providers with streamlined services for device management and content distribution. With a focus on enterprise-level security, ArborXR collaborates with numerous Fortune 500 companies to enhance the user experience and operational efficiency. The company aims to empower individuals by leveraging the capabilities of XR technology, and its solutions are currently utilized by organizations in 60 countries worldwide.

Sailes

Series A in 2023
Saile is a company that leverages artificial intelligence to enhance sales efficiency for leaders and organizations. Its innovative technology, known as Sailebots, automates a wide range of prospecting tasks, significantly reducing the time spent on manual labor while increasing revenue opportunities. Sailebots are capable of managing the entire prospecting lifecycle, which includes finding contacts, scheduling meetings, data cleansing, and summarizing reports related to prospective companies. This patent-pending digital labor solution is currently operational in 29 countries and supports multiple languages, making it a versatile tool for global sales teams. Headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, Saile employs a diverse workforce distributed across various locations worldwide.

Dalia

Series A in 2023
Dalia is a candidate engagement platform designed to assist employers in hiring passive talent. By integrating with career sites and applicant tracking systems, Dalia helps organizations identify and engage with lost candidates, ensuring they are matched to suitable job opportunities at the right time. This approach not only reduces recruiting costs for employers but also aids candidates in discovering new career possibilities. Through its recruitment marketing automation capabilities, Dalia effectively converts lost job seeker traffic into qualified applicants, streamlining the hiring process for businesses.

ChatLingual

Series A in 2022
ChatLingual enables companies to radically simplify their support teams. Our multichannel service platform empowers each Advisor to be your Best Advisor by removing barriers around language, technical skill set and tribal knowledge. With ChatLingual, Global Fortune 500’s are simplifying staffing models, increasing NPS scores, accelerating entry into new markets and driving efficiency across their customer care, sales, IT and HR support teams.

PayGround

Convertible Note in 2022
PayGround, Inc. specializes in developing billing and payment software solutions tailored for the healthcare industry. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, the company offers a cloud-based financial platform that allows healthcare providers to manage patient accounts efficiently. This includes creating and sending invoices, tracking payments, and accessing billing analytics. Patients benefit from the platform by having the ability to view and pay their bills quickly, using various methods such as email, text, or U.S. Mail. By streamlining the payment process, PayGround assists healthcare businesses in reducing costs and simplifying the management of multiple accounts, ultimately enhancing the billing experience for both providers and patients.

Amper Technologies

Series A in 2022
Amper Technologies, Inc. is a Chicago-based company founded in 2016 that develops a clip-on device designed to help factory owners and managers analyze power consumption, predict machine downtime, and implement predictive maintenance. The company provides a comprehensive solution that includes both hardware and software, featuring non-invasive sensors, an Internet-connected gateway, and web dashboards. This technology enables plant managers to monitor various machine types, thereby enhancing productivity and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). Amper's real-time monitoring and analytics tools allow manufacturing teams to identify root causes of issues, optimize operations, and reduce production losses. The solution is user-friendly and can be deployed quickly across different machines, empowering operators and managers with actionable data to improve performance and meet production targets.

TomoCredit

Series A in 2021
TomoCredit LLC is a financial technology company based in San Francisco, California, that focuses on providing credit solutions for individuals with no credit history or score, particularly targeting Millennials and immigrant populations. Founded in 2018, the company uses alternative data sources analyzed through a proprietary algorithm to assess creditworthiness, allowing users to build their credit and qualify for loans. TomoCredit's product includes a digital credit card that not only helps users establish credit but also offers the opportunity to earn rewards in cryptocurrency. Additionally, the company provides a mobile application that facilitates account management and enhances user engagement. The founding team, comprised of professionals with backgrounds from notable organizations such as Coinbase and Google, aims to address the challenges faced by foreign nationals in obtaining credit.

Territory Foods

Series B in 2021
Territory Foods is a chef-prepared meal delivery service that creates nutritionist-approved menus tailored to support various dietary preferences and regional market tastes. Its fresh, healthy, ready-to-eat meals are designed by in-house culinary professionals and nutrition experts, prepared by a dedicated team of chefs, and powered by a proprietary algorithm that informs personalized menu variety at scale. Its boredom-proof rotating menus feature a wide variety of freshly-made artisan meals per week that are responsibly sourced, always free of refined sugars, and made without ingredients that contain gluten and dairy. Menus can be customized to meet dietary templates such as Vegan, Vegetarian, Whole30, and Keto, taking the guesswork out of navigating and committing to healthy eating. Territory Foods launched in 2011 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Rantizo

Series A in 2020
Rantizo, Inc. is a company that specializes in the development and sale of agricultural drones and related equipment, including trailers, sprayers, spreaders, and battery chargers. Founded in 2018 and based in Iowa City, Iowa, Rantizo offers precision spraying services for crops using an innovative electrostatic spraying technique. This technology ensures even coverage of pesticides and chemicals, addressing common challenges faced by farmers in applying these substances. Additionally, Rantizo integrates software solutions with drone manufacturers and agronomy systems to enhance large-scale agricultural operations, facilitating efficient mapping, compliance, and coordination of spraying needs. Through its products and services, Rantizo aims to streamline agricultural practices and improve crop management for farmers.

MedAvail

Series E in 2020
MedAvail Holdings, Inc. is a technology-enabled pharmacy company based in Mississauga, Canada. It integrates automated pharmacy services into clinics and other healthcare points through its proprietary technology. The company offers comprehensive services via its robotic dispensing platform, the MedAvail MedCenter, and includes home delivery operations. MedAvail primarily operates SpotRx, a telehealth-enabled retail pharmacy that provides remote pharmacist consultations through an on-site dispensing kiosk, catering mainly to Medicare patients in the United States. Additionally, the Pharmacy Technology segment focuses on developing and commercializing the MedCenter for direct sale or lease to third-party customers.

BinSentry

Series A in 2020
BinSentry is an agricultural technology company developing an innovative Internet of Things (IoT) solution which enables feed mills and livestock producers to effectively monitor on-farm inventory, dramatically increasing operational efficiencies. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Kitchener, Canada.

GreenLight Biosciences

Series D in 2020
GreenLight Biosciences, Inc. is a biotechnology company that specializes in developing RNA-based solutions for agricultural and pharmaceutical applications. Headquartered in Medford, Massachusetts, with an additional facility in North Carolina, the company focuses on producing high-quality RNA quickly and cost-effectively. GreenLight's technology platform facilitates the biological conversion of renewable substrates into valuable products, including chemicals and fuels. The company is actively involved in advancing vaccine development, particularly mRNA-based candidates aimed at preventing diseases such as SARS-CoV-2. Additionally, GreenLight engages in crop management and plant protection initiatives, contributing to sustainable agricultural practices and supporting the health of pollinators. Through its innovative approaches, GreenLight Biosciences aims to address global challenges in food security and public health.

Kaizen Health

Series B in 2020
Kaizen Health, Inc. is a healthcare mobility company based in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 2015. It operates a web-based platform that connects healthcare providers with transportation services, aiming to eliminate transportation barriers that hinder access to medical care. By facilitating rides for patients, the company serves various sectors, including healthcare systems, pharmaceutical companies, payers, in-home healthcare, and senior living. Kaizen Health's technology and transportation network are designed to enhance access, quality, satisfaction, and efficiency in healthcare delivery, particularly for vulnerable populations such as low-income individuals, the elderly, the disabled, and veterans. The platform also addresses social determinants of health and promotes health equity by ensuring that patients receive timely communication about their appointments and transportation arrangements.

Aker Technologies

Venture Round in 2019
Aker Technologies Inc. specializes in providing crop intelligence and in-season analytical tools to enhance farm operations. The company develops smart crop management solutions aimed at promoting precision farming practices. Utilizing patented computer vision and biometric sensors, along with comprehensive software and service offerings, Aker Technologies enables the detection, classification, and measurement of pest pressures, airborne pathogens, crop diseases, and fertility issues within crop canopies. Its customer service platform caters to chemical suppliers, agricultural retailers, and consultants, facilitating support for growers. Established in 2014 and headquartered in Winnebago, Minnesota, Aker Technologies also maintains an office in Chicago, Illinois.

Benson Hill

Series C in 2019
Benson Hill is a crop improvement company that unlocks the natural diversity of plants and empowers innovators with a revolutionary crop design platform to develop healthier and more sustainable food and ingredients. Benson Hill empowers innovators to develop more healthy, flavorful, and sustainable food by unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants. Benson Hill’s CropOS™ platform combines machine learning and big data with breeding techniques and plant biology to drastically accelerate and simplify the product development process.

Territory Foods

Series A in 2019
Territory Foods is a chef-prepared meal delivery service that creates nutritionist-approved menus tailored to support various dietary preferences and regional market tastes. Its fresh, healthy, ready-to-eat meals are designed by in-house culinary professionals and nutrition experts, prepared by a dedicated team of chefs, and powered by a proprietary algorithm that informs personalized menu variety at scale. Its boredom-proof rotating menus feature a wide variety of freshly-made artisan meals per week that are responsibly sourced, always free of refined sugars, and made without ingredients that contain gluten and dairy. Menus can be customized to meet dietary templates such as Vegan, Vegetarian, Whole30, and Keto, taking the guesswork out of navigating and committing to healthy eating. Territory Foods launched in 2011 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Waldo Photos

Seed Round in 2018
Waldo Photos is a photo-sharing platform designed to simplify the process of obtaining photos taken by others during various events, such as sports games, concerts, and gatherings. The platform employs facial recognition technology and GPS data to identify and deliver photos directly to users' smartphones. By transforming the traditional photo retrieval process into a seamless experience, Waldo enables professional photographers to increase their sales through real-time delivery and easy purchasing options. Users benefit from the convenience of receiving their photos without the need for constant requests to friends or family, allowing them to fully engage in their experiences. Additionally, Waldo's services are particularly useful for organizations such as camps, schools, and youth sports leagues, facilitating efficient photo management while ensuring that no memorable moments are missed. Overall, Waldo Photos combines advanced technology with user-friendly functionality to enhance the way people access and enjoy their photos.

Big Squid

Venture Round in 2018
Big Squid, Inc. is a data and digital solutions company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, established in 2009. The company focuses on predictive analytics and business intelligence, offering software solutions that enable users to conduct self-service predictive modeling. Their main product, the Predictive Toolkit, empowers non-data scientists to upload and select data, identify metrics for prediction, and create scenarios with visualizations based on the results. Additionally, Big Squid provides consulting services, leveraging platforms like Domo to support various sectors, including retail, insurance, real estate, media, and healthcare. By catering to professionals in marketing, sales, operations, finance, and human resources, Big Squid aims to enhance decision-making through advanced data science techniques.

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.

Benson Hill

Series C in 2018
Benson Hill is a crop improvement company that unlocks the natural diversity of plants and empowers innovators with a revolutionary crop design platform to develop healthier and more sustainable food and ingredients. Benson Hill empowers innovators to develop more healthy, flavorful, and sustainable food by unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants. Benson Hill’s CropOS™ platform combines machine learning and big data with breeding techniques and plant biology to drastically accelerate and simplify the product development process.

Growers

Series A in 2018
Growers is a company that has developed a platform designed to enhance collaboration among ag retailers, advisors, and farmers. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Garner, North Carolina, Growers provides digital tools that facilitate farm evaluation and planning, focusing on services such as soil management, variable rate planting, and hardware calibration. These tools enable farmers to make quick and strategic decisions that enhance profitability per acre, reduce input costs, and improve overall farming performance. Additionally, the platform allows farmers to efficiently explore and purchase products by category, manufacturer, and retailer, streamlining their engagement with retailers and supporting informed decision-making.

MedAvail

Series D in 2018
MedAvail Holdings, Inc. is a technology-enabled pharmacy company based in Mississauga, Canada. It integrates automated pharmacy services into clinics and other healthcare points through its proprietary technology. The company offers comprehensive services via its robotic dispensing platform, the MedAvail MedCenter, and includes home delivery operations. MedAvail primarily operates SpotRx, a telehealth-enabled retail pharmacy that provides remote pharmacist consultations through an on-site dispensing kiosk, catering mainly to Medicare patients in the United States. Additionally, the Pharmacy Technology segment focuses on developing and commercializing the MedCenter for direct sale or lease to third-party customers.

Kaizen Health

Series A in 2018
Kaizen Health, Inc. is a healthcare mobility company based in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 2015. It operates a web-based platform that connects healthcare providers with transportation services, aiming to eliminate transportation barriers that hinder access to medical care. By facilitating rides for patients, the company serves various sectors, including healthcare systems, pharmaceutical companies, payers, in-home healthcare, and senior living. Kaizen Health's technology and transportation network are designed to enhance access, quality, satisfaction, and efficiency in healthcare delivery, particularly for vulnerable populations such as low-income individuals, the elderly, the disabled, and veterans. The platform also addresses social determinants of health and promotes health equity by ensuring that patients receive timely communication about their appointments and transportation arrangements.

Territory Foods

Series A in 2018
Territory Foods is a chef-prepared meal delivery service that creates nutritionist-approved menus tailored to support various dietary preferences and regional market tastes. Its fresh, healthy, ready-to-eat meals are designed by in-house culinary professionals and nutrition experts, prepared by a dedicated team of chefs, and powered by a proprietary algorithm that informs personalized menu variety at scale. Its boredom-proof rotating menus feature a wide variety of freshly-made artisan meals per week that are responsibly sourced, always free of refined sugars, and made without ingredients that contain gluten and dairy. Menus can be customized to meet dietary templates such as Vegan, Vegetarian, Whole30, and Keto, taking the guesswork out of navigating and committing to healthy eating. Territory Foods launched in 2011 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Springbuk

Series B in 2018
Springbuk provides a health analytics software solution to prevent disease with data. Its health intelligence platform unifies medical claims, pharmacy, biometric, and activity data. The predictive modeling engine helps employers target their engagement with pinpoint accuracy, forecast overall healthcare spending, identify at-risk employees, and measure their wellness programs. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Beam

Series B in 2017
Beam Technologies Inc. is a dental benefits company based in Columbus, Ohio, founded in 2012. It specializes in providing digital-first dental insurance plans that emphasize preventive care and ease-of-use. Beam’s offerings include dental insurance, which features perks such as floss, toothpaste, and the Beam Brush—a wirelessly connected toothbrush that allows users to track and monitor their brushing habits through a smartphone app. The company incorporates rewards for maintaining good dental hygiene into its policy pricing, making it a unique player in the dental benefits market.

Bindplane

Series B in 2017
Bindplane builds cutting-edge observability tools for businesses, private users, and open-source projects. Our mission is to advance observability technology by promoting and contributing to open-source communities. We are a proud partner of the OpenTelemetry project. Docs: https://bindplane.com/docs

GreenLight Biosciences

Series D in 2017
GreenLight Biosciences, Inc. is a biotechnology company that specializes in developing RNA-based solutions for agricultural and pharmaceutical applications. Headquartered in Medford, Massachusetts, with an additional facility in North Carolina, the company focuses on producing high-quality RNA quickly and cost-effectively. GreenLight's technology platform facilitates the biological conversion of renewable substrates into valuable products, including chemicals and fuels. The company is actively involved in advancing vaccine development, particularly mRNA-based candidates aimed at preventing diseases such as SARS-CoV-2. Additionally, GreenLight engages in crop management and plant protection initiatives, contributing to sustainable agricultural practices and supporting the health of pollinators. Through its innovative approaches, GreenLight Biosciences aims to address global challenges in food security and public health.

NewLeaf Symbiotics

Series C in 2017
NewLeaf Symbiotics is an agriculture technology company based in Saint Louis, Missouri, that specializes in the research, development, and commercialization of beneficial symbiotic bacteria aimed at enhancing plant health and increasing crop yields. The company focuses on natural bacteria, particularly pink pigmented facultative methylotrophs, which are utilized in various agricultural products for row crops, vegetables, fruits, and flowers. Through laboratory, greenhouse, and field trials, NewLeaf Symbiotics aims to provide sustainable agricultural solutions that assist farmers in combating plant diseases and improving overall agricultural productivity. Founded in 2011 and originally known as TrophoMax, LLC, the company rebranded to its current name in 2012.

Benson Hill

Series B in 2017
Benson Hill is a crop improvement company that unlocks the natural diversity of plants and empowers innovators with a revolutionary crop design platform to develop healthier and more sustainable food and ingredients. Benson Hill empowers innovators to develop more healthy, flavorful, and sustainable food by unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants. Benson Hill’s CropOS™ platform combines machine learning and big data with breeding techniques and plant biology to drastically accelerate and simplify the product development process.

Territory Foods

Series A in 2017
Territory Foods is a chef-prepared meal delivery service that creates nutritionist-approved menus tailored to support various dietary preferences and regional market tastes. Its fresh, healthy, ready-to-eat meals are designed by in-house culinary professionals and nutrition experts, prepared by a dedicated team of chefs, and powered by a proprietary algorithm that informs personalized menu variety at scale. Its boredom-proof rotating menus feature a wide variety of freshly-made artisan meals per week that are responsibly sourced, always free of refined sugars, and made without ingredients that contain gluten and dairy. Menus can be customized to meet dietary templates such as Vegan, Vegetarian, Whole30, and Keto, taking the guesswork out of navigating and committing to healthy eating. Territory Foods launched in 2011 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

FarmLead

Series A in 2017
Built by farmers for farmers, FarmLead is reinventing how grain is marketed and sold through the world’s fastest growing grain marketplace. Available online and as a mobile app, FarmLead also provides farmers access to exclusive market research, grain testing, price visibility and reduced brokerage fees and risks. The FarmLead Marketplace facilitates greater equality, efficiency and transparency for the grain industry. Farmers find more verified buyers and identify the best possible deal, while grain buyers easily access and identify the grain for sale in their desired location.

Adarza BioSystems

Series C in 2017
Adarza BioSystems is an early-stage medical diagnostics company based in St. Louis, Missouri, founded in 2008. The company specializes in developing a rapid and label-free biological assay platform that measures clinical and point-of-care samples. This innovative platform employs diagnostic arrayed imaging reflectometry (AIR) to enable the simultaneous detection of hundreds of analytes from a single drop of fluid, allowing healthcare professionals to conduct sophisticated tests with high sensitivity and specificity. By significantly reducing the time required for testing, Adarza BioSystems aims to enhance diagnostic capabilities in various healthcare settings.

Bindplane

Series B in 2016
Bindplane builds cutting-edge observability tools for businesses, private users, and open-source projects. Our mission is to advance observability technology by promoting and contributing to open-source communities. We are a proud partner of the OpenTelemetry project. Docs: https://bindplane.com/docs

Springbuk

Series A in 2016
Springbuk provides a health analytics software solution to prevent disease with data. Its health intelligence platform unifies medical claims, pharmacy, biometric, and activity data. The predictive modeling engine helps employers target their engagement with pinpoint accuracy, forecast overall healthcare spending, identify at-risk employees, and measure their wellness programs. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Adarza BioSystems

Series B in 2016
Adarza BioSystems is an early-stage medical diagnostics company based in St. Louis, Missouri, founded in 2008. The company specializes in developing a rapid and label-free biological assay platform that measures clinical and point-of-care samples. This innovative platform employs diagnostic arrayed imaging reflectometry (AIR) to enable the simultaneous detection of hundreds of analytes from a single drop of fluid, allowing healthcare professionals to conduct sophisticated tests with high sensitivity and specificity. By significantly reducing the time required for testing, Adarza BioSystems aims to enhance diagnostic capabilities in various healthcare settings.
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