Matthew Badler

Matthew Badler is a General Partner at Cultivation Capital, a prominent early-stage venture capital firm, and is currently based in New York, New York. Operating within the St. Louis-headquartered firm co-founded by Jim McKelvey, Badler helps manage and direct investments across a broad portfolio of more than 140 technology startups. He recently participated in deploying capital from the firm's Tech Fund III, which successfully raised $74 million to write initial checks ranging from $500,000 to $3 million. His investment purview includes backing recognizable portfolio companies such as Cheddar, Assembly, and Lockerdome, alongside executing recent seed transactions involving FinOpsly and a $3 million round for My FLiiP. Badler currently focuses his investment strategy on sourcing and funding pre-Series A and seed-stage enterprises operating within the software, artificial intelligence, life sciences, healthcare, and business intelligence sectors.