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Cultivian Sandbox Ventures

Cultivian Sandbox Ventures portfolio

Cultivian Sandbox Ventures has 1 portfolio company on record at Recent Funding, with 1 investment in the last 12 months.

Website: cultiviansbx.com.

Type: Venture capital.

Portfolio on Recent Funding: 1.

Deals, last 12 months: 1.

Rounds led: 2 of 3.

Capital in their rounds: $95M.

Latest deal: Culture Biosciences · Dec 16, 2025.

About this page

It is a venture capital firm based in Chicago, US, founded in 2008. It led 2 of the 3 rounds it joined. Its most recent investment on record is Culture Biosciences's Series B+ round in December 2025, which it led, alongside Synthesis Capital, S32 and Northpond Ventures. That company is in Health and bio. It has co-invested with S32, Northpond Ventures and Synthesis Capital, most often S32 (3 rounds).

About Cultivian Sandbox Ventures

Firm type: Venture capital.

Headquarters: Chicago, US.

Founded: 2008.

Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Late Stage.

Sectors: AgTech, AI & Machine Learning, Biotech, Cleantech, FoodTech, New Materials.

Check size: $5M to $15M.

Leads rounds: No.

Portfolio companies: 10.

Exits: 0.

Rounds led: 0.

What Cultivian Sandbox Ventures invests in

Health and bio · 1 · 100%
Manufacturing and industrial · 1 · 100%

Cultivian Sandbox Ventures recent investments

Company	Round	Date	Alongside
CCulture Biosciences	Series B+ · lead	Dec 16, 2025	Synthesis Capital (lead), S32 (lead), Northpond Ventures (lead)
CCulture Biosciences	Series B+ · $80M	Oct 14, 2021	Craft Ventures, Synthesis Capital, GRIDS Capital +6
CCulture Biosciences	Series A · $15M · lead	Mar 4, 2020	Craft Ventures, Sandbox Industries, Y Combinator +5

How Cultivian Sandbox Ventures invests

Stage	Deals	Capital in rounds
Series B+	2 67%	$80M
Series A	1 33%	$15M

Year	Deals	Capital in rounds
2020	1 33%	$15M
2021	1 33%	$80M
2025	1 33%	undisclosed

Cultivian Sandbox Ventures portfolio companies

CCulture BiosciencesSeries B+ · Dec 2025

Company	Round with Cultivian Sandbox Ventures	Total raised	Latest raise
CCulture Biosciences Health and bio	Dec 16, 2025 Series B+ · lead	$95M	Dec 16, 2025 Series B+

Most frequent co-investors

Similar investors

Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Health and bio).

How this is counted

Firm profile: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-09, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.

Share is of the 3 rounds on Recent Funding that name Cultivian Sandbox Ventures. Rounds with no announced date are left out of the year split, and "round" is a round whose stage is not on file.

Portfolio companies are the companies on Recent Funding with a round that lists Cultivian Sandbox Ventures, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/cultivian-sandbox-ventures (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.