Capital Innovators
AcceleratorSt. Louis · Seed–Series A · 29 people tracked
Investment thesis
Capital Innovators runs a high-touch accelerator that has scaled over 180 startups worldwide, providing seed funding, mentorship, resources, and connections. It also makes Seed and Series A venture investments into high-growth startups across verticals such as technology and consumer products that are ready to scale, supporting them with strategic guidance and its network. Additionally, the firm partners with organizations on corporate innovation, sourcing startups to solve problem sets and running innovation programs, and offers educational courses for entrepreneurs and angel investors. It works with clients globally, ranging from startups to enterprises, universities, and governments.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 29 people
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What they invest in
from 73 of 103 portfolio companiesSaaS ×26AI & Machine Learning ×22Consumer ×14Data & Infrastructure ×13Enterprise Software ×9IoT ×8Defense Tech ×7EdTech ×7
HQs:United States×32Canada×1Switzerland×1Mexico×1
Portfolio companies · 103 tracked
alumni founders can tell you what the program is really likeBy year:2019 · 12017 · 12015 · 13 dated
AGOGIE makes activewear with resistance bands built into apparel and accessories, such as leggings and elbow sleeves, that add constant resistance to increase muscle activation during movement.
Direct to ConsumerSports TechWellness & Fitness
AirWorks provides AI-enabled geospatial processing and field intelligence solutions for infrastructure projects, serving telecommunications, power, architecture, engineering, construction, and government sectors.
AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwarePropTech
David Morczinek(CEO & Co-Founder)Adam Kersnowski(Chief Evangelist & Co-Founder)
Allosense designs and manufactures sensors, automated test systems, and software observability tools that provide real-time data capture and monitoring for factory production environments.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareIoTWellness & FitnessSan Antonio, US
Roman Sandoval(CEO & Founder)Joe Saporito(CFO)Reay Finigan(CTO)
Test range infrastructure for autonomous vehicles (unmanned aerial, ground, and marine systems) serving commercial and defense sectors.
Defense TechHardwareRoboticsDuluth, US
Matt Thomasson(Executive Officer)Steven Witt(Executive Officer, Director)Michael Cutrone(Director)Laura Barr(Director)
BoardCyndi Gula(Director)
Applied Particle Technology develops air quality sensors and AI-driven analytics platforms for industrial operations monitoring.
AI & Machine LearningCleantechHardwareIoTSaaSWellness & FitnessSt. Louis, US
Jiaxi Fang(Chief Executive Officer)inTandeep Chadha(Chief Technology Officer)inPratim Biswas(Chief Scientific Officer)in
BenchmarkONE is a sales and marketing software platform offering marketing automation and CRM tools for small B2B businesses, marketing agencies, and SaaS companies to generate leads and win customers.
Marketing TechSaaSSales TechSt. Louis, US
BenMedica offers BenCore, a medication benefit platform providing data insights and integration to help health plans, employer-sponsored plans, payors, PBMs, and pharmacies manage drug spend, utilization, and formulary performance.
Digital HealthHealthtechSaaS
Big Heart Tea Co. sells packaged teas distributed through retailers, coffee shops, and small businesses across the country.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerFoodTech
Bonfyre provides employee engagement tools embedded within Microsoft Teams, offering campaigns, celebrations, communications, feedback, recognition, and team activities.
Future of WorkHR TechSaaSSt. Louis, US
Stephen Sawyier(Director)Rick Holton, Jr.(Director)Mark Sawyier(Executive Officer, Director)Chris Dornfeld(Executive Officer, Director)Matthew Porter(Director)
Bookelicious runs an online platform that matches children with books based on their interests, offering a customizable catalog of over 40,000 titles along with reading programs and events.
ConsumerE-commerceEdTechPalo Alto, US
Lea Anne Borders(Executive Officer, Director)
Woodridge, US
Bernard Johnson(Executive Officer, Director)Julie Blumreiter(Executive Officer, Director)
Cognitive Space develops AI-driven automation software for satellite operations, enabling constellation operators to scale while meeting operational requirements.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechSaaSSpace TechHouston, US
Marc Bell(Co-Founder and CEO)Guy de Carufel(CEO & Founder)Dax Garner(CTO)Jeff Edwards(VP of Engineering)Hanna Steplewska(Executive Officer, Director)Andrew Feinberg(Director)
Coolfire offers Coolfire Core, a configurable work management platform that coordinates tasks, workflows, and real-time communication across HQ, field teams, customers, and partners.
Enterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSSt. Louis, US
Ben Langlinais(Executive Officer)David Senay(Director)Donald C Sharp(Executive Officer, Director)Ross Holdren(Director)Yomtov Senegor(Director)Brad S O' Halloran(Director)
Provides an AI-powered social media support tool (Social Intelligent Virtual Agent) that generates on-brand automated responses, moderates content, analyzes sentiment, and escalates complex issues to live agents across platforms like Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and X.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS
Samba.tv is a TV recommendation service that aggregates content from streaming services and live TV, personalized based on viewing trends.
ConsumerMedia & Entertainment
FastDemocracy is a legislative tracking platform that provides real-time bill and regulation tracking across all 50 states, Congress, D.C., and Puerto Rico, with AI tools for summarizing bills and transcribing committee and floor debates.
AI & Machine LearningGovTechSaaS
Denver, US
NATHANAEL NASRALLA(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)PATRICK RILEY(Director)
Fraym produces census-like, ward-level population data anywhere in the world using novel data sources and AI.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeep TechArlington, US
Benjamin C Leo(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardBobby Pittman(Director)Judd Devermont(Director)Guillaume Castel(Director)Queen Nworisara Quinn(Director)
FoodTechZapopan, MX
Gainsight provides a customer intelligence platform for revenue and sales teams that helps identify and prevent revenue leakage, optimize renewal processes, and identify expansion opportunities within existing customer bases.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales Tech
Granular.ai develops geospatial monitoring and analysis software for defense and intelligence applications, operating production systems for industrial site monitoring and search-space reduction under government programs.
Defense TechFintechBelmont, US
HeXalayer develops and supplies advanced materials—including turbostratic graphene and other carbon materials—for research and product development in electrochemistry, conductive and thermal composites, sensing, catalysis, coatings, and energy storage.
Deep TechEnergyNew Materials
HIPAAtrek is a HIPAA compliance software platform that centralizes policies, contracts (BAAs), training, risk assessments, and breach logging with automated reminders, version history, and reporting.
Digital HealthLegalTechSaaS
InfraLytiks provides a data analytics and visualization platform along with a proprietary algorithm for processing mobile LiDAR data (including Ouster LiDAR) without specialized hardware.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeep Tech
Kadri Clothing makes tactical clothing designed for women, developed by women.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerce
KIND Apothecary (KIND Soap) makes natural, vegan personal care and skincare products including facial cremes, bath bombs, beard oils, and colognes.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerce
Kwema makes a smart badge reel with a discreet duress button that lets employees call for help, plus an emergency response system that automates roll call during evacuations.
Enterprise SoftwareHardwareIoT
St. Louis, US
Kyle Welborn(Director)Anton Xavier(Executive Officer, Director)Dheeraj Patri(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardPaul Schaut(Director)Blair Garrou(Director)
Fazit makes a waterproof, sweat-proof makeup product designed for fast application and easy removal.
ConsumerDirect to Consumer
Clever operates a nationwide referral service that matches U.S. home buyers and sellers with local real estate agents at a reduced 1.5% listing fee and offers cash-back rebates to buyers.
ConsumerMarketplacesPropTech
Mentor Spaces provides a structured mentorship platform for nonprofits, universities, and companies to automate mentor-mentee matching, scheduling, and outcome tracking.
EdTechFuture of WorkHR TechSaaSDenver, US
Mingo Smart Factory is a plug-and-play manufacturing productivity platform that automatically collects machine data, tracks metrics like OEE, downtime, and scrap, and generates dashboards and reports for factory floor visibility.
Advanced ManufacturingIoTSaaS
Nulogy provides a Manufacturing Operating System that consolidates production, quality, compliance, maintenance, inventory, and supplier operations into one platform, with self-serve analytics, low-code integrations, and AI-driven monitoring.
Advanced ManufacturingLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesDisruptel · trysignalbase.com · Mar 24, 2026
Vidrovr · spacenews.com · Feb 26, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Capital Innovators invest at?
- Capital Innovators invests at the Seed, Series A stages.
- What is Capital Innovators's typical check size?
- Capital Innovators typically writes checks of $500K – $1M.
- What sectors does Capital Innovators focus on?
- Capital Innovators focuses on Consumer, Enterprise Software, SaaS, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Capital Innovators located?
- Capital Innovators is headquartered in St. Louis, US.
- Does Capital Innovators lead rounds?
- Yes, Capital Innovators leads investment rounds.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the team“Live Life a Little” says Capital Innovators’ Managing Partner – Judy Sindecuse
gaper_io · Judy Sindecuse
ECTV Edition 4 Show 15 - Judy Sindecuse of Capital Innovators
Judy Sindecuse · vimeo.com
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