Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Early Stage Venture investors for Software startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
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Cultivation Capital | Early Stage Venture, Seed | St Louis, Missouri, United States, North America | ||
Billiken Angels Network | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | St Louis, Missouri, United States, North America | ||
OPENAIR Equity Partners | Early Stage Venture | Kansas City, Missouri, United States, North America | ||
Abstraction Capital | Early Stage Venture | Kansas City, Missouri, United States, North America | ||
TRIBUS | Convertible Note, Debt, Early Stage Venture, Seed | Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, North America |
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We’ve ranked the top Software Early Stage Venture investors in Missouri. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
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Top Software Investors & Funds (Missouri)

Cultivation Capital
Cultivation Capital is a venture capital firm that manages a family of funds focused on early-stage investing. Most of our initial investments are during a startup’s Seed or Series A phase, and our initial checks range from $500k – $3.5M. Our industries of focus include life sciences and health tech, software and IT, agriculture tech, and geospatial tech.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: St Louis, Missouri, United States, North America
Industries: AgTech, FinTech, Geospatial, Life Science, Software, Venture Capital
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Billiken Angels Network
The Billiken Angels Network (BAN) was part of the Entrepreneurship Program of the John Cook School of Business at Saint Louis University. Announced in 2007, it started operating in September 2008 with twenty angels ready to fund suitable opportunities, and a $1,000,000 sidecar co-investment fund made available by the University from its endowment. It closed in September 2017, having made 34 investments in 20 companies. The Billiken Angels’ tag line was “…the deals that make a difference” and that is the goal of the BAN – to identify and invest funds and expertise in those businesses that can make a difference in the economy of the St. Louis region, and in the lives of the people living in the region and elsewhere. The BAN considered businesses at any stage (seed, start-up, existing, growing, etc.) and in any industry (retail, wholesale, manufacturing, service, financial, internet, high-tech, etc.). BAN invested in firms in the St. Louis region, and only considered firms outside of the region when the firm has SLU DNA (firms owned by current or former SLU students, current or retired SLU faculty and staff, or firms using intellectual property licensed from SLU). Membership was open to accredited investors only. All BAN members had a strong commitment to help develop entrepreneurship through education at Saint Louis University in addition to investment.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: St Louis, Missouri, United States, North America
Industries: Apps, Biotechnology, Enterprise Software, Fitness, Health Care, Internet, Medical Device, Mobile, Pharmaceutical
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Abstraction Capital
Abstraction Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm building tools for developers and software infrastructure. The firm also focused on companies building dev tools and workflow automation that reduces the time required to build, deploy, and measure the performance of the software. The technology stacks are moving from monolithic suites to a composed mesh of loosely-integrated, best-in-class tools, and developers are continuing to gain influence.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Kansas City, Missouri, United States, North America
Industries: Developer Tools, Software, Venture Capital
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TRIBUS
Founded in 2009, TRIBUS provides a suite of integrated products and services created specifically for premier real estate brokerages. In addition to increasing efficiency and productivity at the brokerage level, TRIBUS offerings offer an equal level of value to agents within the brokerage. Through custom websites, the CRM platform and a suite of marketing and concierge services, TRIBUS assists brokerages in turning more leads into sales, enhancing brand identity, building lasting relationships with past, current and prospective clients and propelling recruiting and retention efforts. With offices in Colorado, Illinois, Missouri, and Illinois, TRIBUS serves over 75,000 brokerage and agent clients throughout 41 states, Guam, Canada, Mexico, Dominican Republic, and more. TRIBUS most recently announced its acquisition of Displet – an IDX and VOW company that offers the first rating system for properties and a collaborative search interface. The announcement marks the company’s dedication to providing a fully-integrated suite of high-quality services to its clients.
Stages: Convertible Note, Debt, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, North America
Industries: CRM, Email Marketing, Real Estate, Software
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Ingenology
Ingenology is a product factory that turns ideas into customers. We make strategic, phased investments in R&D coming from our building as well as other companies that align with our philosophy.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Kansas City, Missouri, United States, North America
Industries: E-Commerce, Enterprise Software, Fashion
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Sigla
Sigla is a St. Louis based technology venture building firm. In other words, we’re a tech startup that creates tech startups. We transform innovative ideas into launch-worthy products that scale and disrupt markets. We invest in startups through a venture building model, bringing years of experience in entrepreneurship, product design, software engineering, user experience and startup focused agile to the team. We love working with early stage startups, often serving as original co-founders, management team members, strategic partners, and building out entire product teams. We also happen to know our way around the vibrant and flourishing St. Louis startup ecosystem pretty well, and we’re always looking for ways to help our startups navigate that landscape. Above all, we’re passionate about designing, architecting and building products, and love nothing more than taking ideas to market.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: St Louis, Missouri, United States, North America
Industries: Consulting, Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology, Legal, Marketing, Mobile, Software, Venture Capital
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