08/08/2026
Introducing Cultivar 🌱🌍
It’s Vayunamu here and I’m happy to welcome you to Cultivar Collective!
I’ve moved a lot in my life, and I’ve noticed that every move taught me that walls are temporary and that I grow at the edges of them. I've spent the past 11 years between countries, between versions of stability, between what was the expected path and what I went and built instead. Every time a door closed, I found or built and opened another one. This year, I stopped seeing all of this lore as chaos and started seeing it as a pattern I could trust: disruption, then self-assertion, then expansion. I know now that I can turn uncertainty into something, rather than just let it be something that just happens to me.
That’s the spirit Cultivar Collective is built from, and it’s the essence of this new space.
You’re here because you’ve known me in one way or the other, but I’ve been ruminating on my purpose and the shape that it can take over the past few years, and have warmly welcomed the spirit of Cultivar, where people come together in community to design a fuller life for themselves and each other.
Through tons of conversations and a startup incubator this year in Switzerland alongside my master’s program, came forth as a culture-and-community ecosystem for people who are craving rejuvenation, not just another obligation to manage. It's built around the core belief that people thrive when they're surrounded by the right people, in the right spaces, doing things that actually nourish them as opposed to simply consuming more content and checking more boxes.
I’ll share more in this space as this develops, and you’ll be the first to know when a trip or a dinner comes up.
I’m glad you’re here and I hope to see you soon!
— Vayunamu (Vay Bawa) 🌱
