Cliff Holekamp is Cofounder, Managing Director, and General Partner of Cultivation Capital. He previously founded Foot Healers and was a professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
What Cliff can write
Cultivation Capital writes $100K to $10M checks, larger than 5% of firms in the atlas.
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- IBM · Enterprise Sales
- Foot Healers · Founder and Presidentuntil 2007
- Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis · Professor of Practice and Academic Director for Entrepreneurshipuntil 2019
- Cultivation Capital · Cofounder, Managing Director, and General PartnerNow
- IBM
- Cultivation Capital · Cofounder, Managing Director, and a General PartnerNow
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Who is Cliff Holekamp?
Cliff Holekamp is Cofounder, Managing Director, and General Partner of Cultivation Capital. He previously founded Foot Healers and was a professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
How much does Cliff Holekamp invest?
Cliff Holekamp invests through Cultivation Capital, which writes checks of $100K to $10M at seed, series a, series b.
How do I pitch Cliff Holekamp?
Email [email protected], the firm's inbox for founders, and name Cliff in the subject. A warm intro from a founder Cultivation Capital backed works better.
What did Cliff Holekamp do before Cultivation Capital?
Enterprise Sales at IBM; Founder and President at Foot Healers; Professor of Practice and Academic Director for Entrepreneurship at Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis; IBM.
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