Andrew Dearing
General Partner at Cultivation Capital
St Louis, Missouri
Overview
Work Experience
Executive Vice President and Regional Manager
2025 - Current
General Partner
2021
As a General Partner at the Geospatial Tech Fund, I'm dedicated to investing in groundbreaking startups that are revolutionizing the way we interact with the world through location data. We're on a mission to back the next generation of geospatial innovators who are pushing the boundaries of what's possible.
Cultivation Capital is a venture capital firm managing funds focused on software, agriculture, geospatial, and health tech startups.
Board Member
2021
Hydrosat is a climate tech company that was founded to help Earth manage its most valuable resource: water.
Raised $35,623,002.00 from Cultivation Capital, Statkraft Ventures, Freeflow Ventures, Hemisphere Ventures, Techstars, Hartree Partners, Blue Bear Capital, Santa Barbara Venture Partners, Expon Capital and OTB Ventures.
President
2019 - 2025
Driving the Future of Location-Based Technology | As a strategic consultant, I empower organizations to harness the power of location-based technology and services. My expertise spans: • Leading GeoFutures: Spearheading the growth of the geospatial industry in St. Louis, fostering innovation and collaboration. • Optimizing GTM Strategies: Developing and executing cutting-edge go-to-market strategies for software companies. • Providing Fractional COO Support: Serving as a strategic partner to small and medium-sized businesses, driving operational excellence and growth. My passion lies in leveraging technology to solve real-world challenges and create sustainable value. Let's collaborate to shape the future of location-based solutions.
Senior Vice President, Operations
2019 - 2024
Driving operational excellence in high-growth precision medicine SaaS company. As a seasoned operations executive, I specialize in creating and scaling customer success, optimizing processes, and building high-performing teams. With a proven track record of delivering results in fast-paced, venture-backed environments, I am passionate about enabling innovation and driving sustainable growth.
Board Member
2019 - 2022
Board member supporting executive team through growth to acquisition by Munetrix.
GeoSLU Advisory Board Member
2018 - 2022
Served on the advisory board for the GeoSLU Big Idea, an initiative to enhance geospatial research, training, and innovation at St. Louis University.
Interim President
2019 - 2019
Interim President for the Federal subsidiary to Planet Labs. Engaging with the Planet Labs team for the transition and integration of Boundless Spatial into the Federal subsidiary to support US Government customers and business. Supported the transition and integration of the Boundless Spatial team into the larger Planet Labs organization. Worked with key stakeholders and clients to transition accounts for longer-term support.
Planet is an aerospace and data analytics company that builds small satellites and delivers information about the changing planet.
Raised $573,898,658.00 from Google, Koch Strategic Platforms, BlackRock and Time Ventures.
Chief Executive Officer
2015 - 2019
- Developed high quality business strategies to expand software sales growth and product expansion, ensuring their alignment with short-term and long-term objectives, leading to over 200% growth in Sales in 2 year span. - Built and grew executive leadership functions (Marketing, Sales, Professional Services, Engineering), leading and motivating subordinates to advance employee engagement, developed a high performing managerial team who oversaw over 100 team members. - Oversaw all operations and business activities to ensure they produced the desired results and are consistent with the overall strategy and mission. - Served as Chairman of the Board for Boundless Spatial, coordinating regular communications and strategic planning meetings with Board Members and Observers. - Successfully led to company to exit, transitioning operations to Planet Labs, Inc. through the formation of Planet Labs Federal, Inc.
Vice President Of Professional Services
2015 - 2015
- Led a team of over 40 program managers and engineers for the implementation and integration of open source geospatial technologies into government and commercial clients. - Oversaw a portfolio of 40+ engagements, totaling more than $5M of revenue. - Created Project Management Office and associated processes to ensure quality and efficient delivery of consulting and implementation services to our clients. - Aligned closely with Sales team to create GTM packaged offerings to generate upsell opportunities and decrease product churn rates. - Coordinated with Engineering / Product leadership team on customer feedback, generating new product capabilities and offerings to expand portfolio of SKUs for the Sales team.
Boundless is a provider of open source product support, training, and core development to meet geospatial requirements.
Raised $10,255,000.00 from IQT, Motorola Solutions Venture Capital and Vanedge Capital.
Manager: Database Services - St. Louis
2006 - 2015
- Served as lead for Esri Professional Services in the Midwest, responsible for delivery of GIS solutions to Federal, Defense/Intel, Commercial and other regional clients throughout the Midwest. - Led team of 60+ engineers, analysts, project managers, and consultants supporting customers. - Supported Sales team in engagement and winning of new deals with commercial and Federal clientele. - Led large multi-million dollar proposal engagements, serving as capture manager. Coordinated color team reviews and submission for several Federal procurements.