Paul Meier
General Partner at Cultivation Capital
Chicago, Illinois
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2022 - Current
Geospatial Tech Fund
Principal
2019
Software Tech Funds
Cultivation Capital is a venture capital firm managing funds focused on software, agriculture, geospatial, and health tech startups.
Board Obs
2021
Hydrosat is a climate tech company that was founded to help Earth manage its most valuable resource: water.
Raised $35,623,002.00 from Cultivation Capital, Statkraft Ventures, Freeflow Ventures, Hemisphere Ventures, Techstars, Hartree Partners, Blue Bear Capital, Santa Barbara Venture Partners, Expon Capital and OTB Ventures.
Board Obs
2021
Board Obs
2024
Board Obs
2022
Board Obs
2020
Cloudbeds’ hospitality management platform enables hotels to grow revenue, streamline operations, and deliver memorable guest experiences.
Raised $248,440,000.00 from Echo Street Capital, Walleye Capital, PeakSpan Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund, Counterpart Ventures and Viking Global Investors.
Board Obs
2022
Seed Investor, Board Observer, FP&A, M&A
2019 - 2022
Sold to BitSight in 2022.
Venture Investor
2018 - 2019
M25 is the most active early-stage VC firm investing in Midwest headquartered startups (14 states, 100+ companies) across most industries
R&D Finance; Global Risk Manager
2015 - 2017
Software, hardware, and advanced materials new product finance, manager of Americas treasury and the global insurance program at NYSE: BRC