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Cavallo Ventures
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Cavallo Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Wilbur-Ellis, founded in 2017, focusing on early-stage companies in agriculture, food technology, and sustainability. The firm invests in innovative technologies across all business divisions and markets of Wilbur-Ellis globally, including agronomy, aquafeed, cosmetics ingredients, and nutrition. Beyond capital, Cavallo provides deep expertise and market knowledge, giving portfolio companies access to deep industry relationships, market expertise, and distribution channels. As early investors and active board members, they employ a hands-on approach to building companies and are often directly involved in setting company strategy, recruiting key executives, and raising additional capital.
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“We're glad to be able to back the Crop Enhancement team as they develop innovative solutions to long-standing challenges in production agriculture. Their unique approach addresses trends in the food and ag industry calling for products that are more sustainable and friendlier for growers, their farms and the global ecosystem.”
“The focus of Cavallo is to invest in or partner with companies that we believe we can positively impact. There's a ton of innovation and technology coming down the pipe, but as a distributor and agronomist, we're obviously not going to be able to develop all these solutions in-house. But we have customers asking us to help them sort through these new technologies, so we want to be in a position to help them and maintain our circle of influence with the grower. We want to remain innovative and be thought leaders in the sector.”
“Brett will help us identify early-stage investment opportunities, as well as managing these relationships, evaluating the valuation of investment opportunities and negotiating investment parameters and deal structures. It's a big job, but with his deep experience in developing opportunities, he's perfectly suited for Cavallo Ventures.”
Recent investments
| Company | Round | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agtonomy | Series A | $10m | 2024-10-19 |
| AgroSpheres | Series B Extension | $5m | 2024-10-02 |
| Solasta Bio | Series A | $2m | 2024-09-11 |
| Kuehnle AgroSystems | Series A Extension | — | 2024-03-01 |
| ZymoChem | Series A | $6m | 2024-01-16 |
| Talus Renewables | Series A | $9m | 2023-11-02 |
| Trace Genomics | unknown | — | — |
| Crop Enhancement | unknown | — | 2019-01-01 |
| Performance Livestock Analytics | Series A | $3m | 2019-03-11 |
| AgCode | unknown | $9m | 2017-02-09 |
Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| Autotech Ventures | 1 |
| Zebra Ventures | 1 |
| Forbion | 1 |
| Breakout Ventures | 1 |
| Material Impact | 1 |
| Terra Venture Partners | 1 |
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