Brian Matthews

Cofounder and General Partner at Cultivation Capital

πŸ“ St Louis, Missouri, United StatesπŸ”„ Updated September 2026πŸ’Ό 3 investmentsπŸ“… 15 years investingπŸ—“ Last invested Oct 2018𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Member
Oct 2018
SimpleRose is a supercomputing company with a mission of enabling customers to optimize and accelerate decision-making. With the proliferation of data, growing business complexity, and importance of immediacy, data-to-insight is no longer sufficient. Our next-gen optimization platform transforms data-to-action, quickly and accurately, to maximize revenue / profit / productivity and minimize cost / time / wasted resources. Our proprietary technology solves some of the largest, most complex optimization problems in the world, thousands of times faster than alternative solutions. Our applications, including scheduling, production planning and portfolio optimization, can drive hundreds of millions of dollars in cost savings and/or revenue uplift.
Board Member
Jan 2014
GlobalHack is building a better tech ecosystem through software competitions. Our events bring together developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and technologists to build innovative software solutions that solve real-world problems. Learn more at globalhack.org.
Investor/Mentor
Aug 2011
Capital Innovators is the innovation engine for startups, corporations, and universities. Through our nationally recognized seed program, Capital Innovators has been ranked as a top accelerator four years consecutively and featured in Entrepreneur, Forbes, CB Insights, Inc., and TechCrunch, among others. In addition to the core accelerator program, Capital Innovators is creating a new model for innovation bringing together corporations, universities, and startups together like never before. For more information about Capital Innovators, please visit www.capitalinnovators.com.
Experience Β· 5 entries
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Founder (1)
Board (2)
2018
Board Member
Oct 2018
SimpleRose is a supercomputing company with a mission of enabling customers to optimize and accelerate decision-making. With the proliferation of data, growing business complexity, and importance of immediacy, data-to-insight is no longer sufficient. Our next-gen optimization platform transforms data-to-action, quickly and accurately, to maximize revenue / profit / productivity and minimize cost / time / wasted resources. Our proprietary technology solves some of the largest, most complex optimization problems in the world, thousands of times faster than alternative solutions. Our applications, including scheduling, production planning and portfolio optimization, can drive hundreds of millions of dollars in cost savings and/or revenue uplift.
2014
Board Member
Jan 2014
GlobalHack is building a better tech ecosystem through software competitions. Our events bring together developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and technologists to build innovative software solutions that solve real-world problems. Learn more at globalhack.org.
2012
General Partner
Feb 2012
Cultivation Capital is a venture firm focused on investing in technology, life sciences, geospatial, and agtech companies whose ideas have the potential to transform the way we live and work. We partner with entrepreneurs who have the potential to build some of the world’s most successful startups. We actively invest out of a variety of funds, and support and invest in multiple business development programs focusing on areas like financial technology, agriculture technology, cyber security technology, and women-led companies.
2011
Investor/Mentor
Aug 2011
Capital Innovators is the innovation engine for startups, corporations, and universities. Through our nationally recognized seed program, Capital Innovators has been ranked as a top accelerator four years consecutively and featured in Entrepreneur, Forbes, CB Insights, Inc., and TechCrunch, among others. In addition to the core accelerator program, Capital Innovators is creating a new model for innovation bringing together corporations, universities, and startups together like never before. For more information about Capital Innovators, please visit www.capitalinnovators.com.
2001
Owner
2001
River City Internet Group, LLC, (RCIG) is an Internet delivery system holding company. RCIG is a Missouri Corporation and was founded in 2001. RCIG owns or invests in companies that are predominately focused on providing Enterprises and Carriers with Internet based products and services. Through our wholly owned company, Hostirian, we offer dedicated servers, virtual servers, shared hosting, and co-location solutions featuring cold row containment pods, real-time domestic support 24x7x365, fully managed services, and other products to help your company with it's hosting needs. http://www.hostirian.com.
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2011–2018 Β· 3 investments
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