Who We Are
Founded in 2011, Cultivate Ventures is a real estate developer, investor and advisory firm. Cultivate’s partners and network bring an unequaled combination of domain expertise in a variety of high-yield real estate sectors, with strong in-house real estate, legal and accounting experience. Cultivate Ventures also has strong expertise in high yield, long-term, alternative investments in private companies, specifically in niche sectors defined by high barriers to entry and complexity.
The Partnership
Cultivate Ventures launched CVCOF-GP in 2018 to manage its family of CVCOF real estate investment funds. CVCOF-GP partners and advisors bring extensive fund management and transactional experience, a market-leading real estate track record, a vast national network of professionals and partners for sourcing deals, and co-investment, advising, business development and investment monitoring. CVCOF-GP has full in-house investment and QOF compliance teams (tax, accounting and legal) to support its investment funds.
Our Funds
Cultivate Ventures' CVCOF Funds offers both traditional real estate funds open to all capital investments, and our Qualified Opportunity Zone Funds open to eligible capital gains. Funds invest in a complete suite of real estate for development, adaptive reuse, or investment in other real estate funds. Funds target industrial, residential, commercial, hospitality, health care and other real estate technology assets. Investments are diversified across asset class and industry, specifically designed to balance timing of cash yields with long-term capital appreciation.
Cultivate Ventures currently has two CVCOF Funds open for investment: CVCOF-III is a traditional real estate fund, and CVCOF-IV is open to eligible capital gains for OZ qualified investments. Interested in learning more?
Cultivate Ventures
Performance at a Glance
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Our Leadership
Passionate and Experienced
CVCOF-GP partners and advisors bring extensive fund management and transactional experience, a market-leading real estate track record.
Caesar Layton
Fund Management
Deal Origination
Developer Management
Co-founder of Cultivate Ventures, CVCOF-GP and CVGS. A seasoned business leader with over 20+ years of global experience in real estate development and construction management, private equity advisory and investment, and strategic business consulting. Private investor in real estate and ecommerce space.
Steve Holm
Financial Market & Real Estate Analysis
Accounting
Business Operations
Co-founder of Cultivate Ventures, CVCOF-GP and CVGS, brings over 20+ years of experience in private equity investment, corporate finance, strategy, and re-engineering. He has a strong background in leading analytics groups at top financial institutions, including at Citigroup, Credit Suisse and Lehman Brothers.
Rick Graf
Venture Capital
Corporate Finance & Mergers & Acquisitions
Founding investor in Cultivate Ventures and in-house counsel for CVCOF-GP Investment Funds, has over 30 years of experience leading legal efforts for venture and private equity capital investments exceeding $500 million and various M&A transactions.
Vikram Agarwal
Legal
Accounting & Tax
Real Estate Investment Analysis
Historic Tax Credits
Founding investor in CVCOF-GP. Founded CVCOF-GP strategic partner SIG, an 8a small business government contractor with real estate and financing lines of business supporting commercial / government clients. 20+ year experience as CPA with Ernst & Young, and attorney with Skadden Arps and Bean Kinney.
