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Cavallo Ventures

Corporate VC

San Francisco Β· Seed–Series A Β· 5 people tracked

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Investment thesis

Cavallo Ventures backs dedicated founders solving real problems with strong execution ability. As the venture arm of Wilbur-Ellis, it offers more than capital, providing deep industry expertise and market knowledge across the company's divisions. It helps founders introduce new technologies into Wilbur-Ellis's global business lines, launch products and services, run trials, expand operations, and recruit talent. The firm focuses on markets it serves through Wilbur-Ellis, including agriculture and crop production technology, novel ingredients, and specialty chemicals such as liquid fertilizers.

Invests inAgTechCleantechFoodTechNew MaterialsGlobalSan FranciscoUnited States

Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.

Stage
Seed–Series A
HQ
San Francisco, California, US
Instruments
Equity
Founded
2017
Tracked investments
49

Team Β· 5 people

from public directories

What they invest in

from 25 of 49 portfolio companies

AgTech Γ—16Biotech Γ—8FoodTech Γ—7AI & Machine Learning Γ—6Cleantech Γ—4Climate Tech Γ—4IoT Γ—4Deep Tech Γ—3

HQs:United StatesΓ—15CanadaΓ—1MexicoΓ—1

Investments Β· 49 tracked

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Sound Agriculturesound-agriculture.comNov 2017

AgTechEmeryville, US

Eric Davidson(Director)Paul Beck(Executive Officer)Dave Vosburg(Executive Officer)Adam Litle(Executive Officer, Director)Derek Norman(Director)Travis Bayer(Director)

Board seatMichael WilburΒ· per SEC Form D

Agcodeagcode.comin𝕏

AgCode provides farm management software for specialty crop growers, offering reporting, tracking, and business intelligence tools to manage operations, labor, equipment, and contracts.

AgTechSaaS

AgroSpheresagrospheres.com

Charlottesville, US

Ameer Hamza Shakeel(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Payam Pourtaheri(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)David Reese Blackwell III(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Yelda ?nal(Director)

BoardCarl M. Casale(Director)Robert Fraley(Director)

Agtonomyagtonomy.comin

Agtonomy embeds artificial intelligence into industrial equipment used in agriculture and off-road industries to enable autonomous operation and improve productivity.

AgTechAI & Machine LearningIoTRoboticsUnknown β€” page states operations across western United States with international expansion in 2025, but no specific headquarters city named, US

Tim Bucher(CEO & Co-Founder)Valerie Syme(Co-Founder, Board Member)

Andesandes.bio
Andes Ag

Uses microbes to enable positive action against climate change.

Ashbrook

Risk management tools to protect livestock producers.

Ashbrook Technologiesashbrook-technologies.comin𝕏

Ashbrook Technologies is a venture builder that creates and scales companies focused on agricultural risk management across the insurance and reinsurance value chain.

AgTechFintechInsurTechAlbuquerque, US

Bond Pet Foods

Produces real meat proteins from precision fermentation as ingredients for the pet food sector.

Boulder, US

Bondpetsbondpets.comin𝕏

Bond Pets develops brewed meat proteins using precision fermentation for pet food products that are marketed as better for pets, farm animals, and the planet.

BiotechFoodTechBoulder, US

Rich Kelleman(CEO & Founder)

Bountifulbountiful.agin𝕏

Bountiful provides machine learning-based crop yield forecasting and transparent supply chain insights for specialty crop farmers.

Advanced ManufacturingAgTechAI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureMarketplacesSan Francisco, US

Megan Nunes(Founder/CEO)in

Checkerspotcheckerspot.comin

Checkerspot develops high-performance fats and oils using precision fermentation technology, targeting food, nutrition, and other industrial applications.

BiotechClimate TechFoodTechAlameda, US

John Krzywicki(CEO)Layla Ward(CFO)Scott Franklin(Executive Officer, Director)Charles Dimmler(Executive Officer, Director)Casey Lippmeier(CTO)Leon Parker(SVP, Molecular Biology)

Debutdebutbiotech.comin

Debut combines artificial intelligence and biotechnology to develop novel skincare and haircare ingredients.

AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep Tech

Joshua Britton(Founder & CEO)

Debut Biotechnology

Specialty enzyme solutions combined with continuous manufacturing.

Advanced ManufacturingCarlsbad, US

Cain A. McClary(Director)Joshua Britton(Executive Officer, Director)

FieldInfieldin.comin𝕏

Fieldin provides software tools and real-time insights to high-value crop growers for optimizing farm operations, improving productivity, and enhancing environmental and social governance outcomes.

AgTechIoTSaaS

Guardian Agriculture

Advanced crop protection services using state-of-the-art technology.

Koidrakoidra.aiin
Kuehnle AgroSystemskuehnleagro.com

Honolulu, US

Konrad Mueller Auffermann(Director)Laurent Genet(Director)Claude Kaplan(CEO, Secretary, and Board Member)Frode Sandmark(Director)ADELHEID KUEHNLE(Executive Officer, Director)GORDON WALLACE(Executive Officer)

Lithos Carbonlithoscarbon.comin𝕏

Lithos Carbon uses enhanced weathering of basalt spread on croplands to remove atmospheric carbon dioxide and store it in ocean carbonates.

AgTechCircular EconomyCleantechClimate Tech

Mary Yap(CEO & Co-founder)Noah Planavsky(Co-founder)Chris Reinhard(Co-founder)

Mavrxtaranis.agin𝕏
microTERRAmicroterra.com.mxin

microTERRA develops functional food ingredients derived from Lemna (aquatic plants) that enhance flavor intensity, block undesirable tastes, improve mouthfeel, and integrate flavors in food products for the food and beverage industry.

AgTechCleantechClimate TechFoodTechNew MaterialsIrapuato, MX

Marissa Cuevas(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardPablo Fernandez(Director)Gabriel Wilmoth(Director)

Microterramicroterra.comin

microTERRA develops functional food ingredients derived from Lemna (duckweed) that improve flavor and texture, offering a sustainable alternative to conventional ingredient sources.

AgTechBiotechFoodTechNew Materials

Native Microbials

Feed solutions based on the science of Endomicrobial Ecology.

Nativemicrobialsnativemicrobials.com
Omeatomeat.bioin

Omeat (Evergreen) produces cultivated beef that augments traditional beef supply to deliver price-predictable, consistent-quality product at industrial scale.

BiotechFoodTech

Eric Schulze(Chief Scientific and Technology Officer)

oto Lawn

Automatic lawn treatments and irrigation.

Otolawnotolawn.com

OtO makes a solar-powered smart sprinkler that connects via app and Wi-Fi to water lawns and garden features across custom zones, with weather-based scheduling that skips watering during rain or high winds.

ConsumerHardwareIoT

Pasture Biopasturebio.comin𝕏
Performance Livestock Analyticsperformancelivestockanalytics.comOct 2017

Ames, US

Dane Kuper(Executive Officer)

Sabanto Ag

Farming-as-a-Service performing row-crop operations with autonomous equipment.

Smartwyresmartwyre.comin

Smartwyre provides software, data, and services that connect commercial programs across essential industries, helping organizations manage incentives, pricing, and costs.

Enterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSDenver, US

John Brubaker(Chief Executive Officer)Rich Fleck(SVP, Professional Services & CS)Dan Covill(SVP, Engineering)Elias Tavarez(Chief Revenue Officer)Bilyana Petrova(VP, Finance)

BoardDudley Hawes(Director)

Solasta Biosolastabio.comin

Neuropeptides for climate-friendly pest control.

Soma Detectsomadetect.comin𝕏

SomaDetect makes sensor hardware and AI-driven analytics that give dairy farmers real-time data on milk quality and herd health.

AgTechAI & Machine LearningHardwareIoT

David Blyth(CEO)Bharath Sudarsan(CTO & Founder)Nicholas Clermont(COO & Founder)

Sound Agsound-ag.com
Spraywithkiwispraywithkiwi.com
Talus Renewables

First commercial modular zero-carbon green ammonia system producing lower-cost, carbon-free ammonia at point of use for multiple industries.

Talusagtalusag.comin

Talusag produces modular, containerized green ammonia systems for local production near the point of use, serving agriculture, mining, and maritime sectors.

AgTechCleantechEnergy

Taranistaranis.comin𝕏

Taranis provides crop scouting and field monitoring services to farmers and agricultural advisors using advanced imaging and AI.

AgTechAI & Machine Learning

Tarfinin𝕏

Sabanto builds a retrofit autonomy system that installs on existing tractors, using cameras, GNSS, obstacle detection sensors, and robotics with mobile and desktop apps to run driverless field operations such as mowing, tilling, seeding, rolling, and aerating.

AgTechAI & Machine LearningRobotics

Thombarthombar.ag
Verdant Roboticsverdantrobotics.comin𝕏

Verdant Robotics develops the SharpShooter, a precision application robot that uses computer vision to detect and treat individual plants for weeding, thinning, and targeted input application in specialty crop farming.

AgTechDeep TechRobotics

Vestaron, Inc.vestaron.comin

Vestaron Corporation makes peptide-based biological crop protection products, including its SPEAR family of bioinsecticides, for use in agriculture.

AgTechBiotechCleantechNew MaterialsKalamazoo, US

Juan Estupinan(Executive Officer, Director)Dawn de los Santos(Executive Officer)Robert Kennedy(Executive Officer)Elin D. Miller(Director)Keith Gillard(Director)James M. Schultz(Director)

Vowvowfood.com

Vow produces cultured meat using proprietary cell-culturing technology, growing animal cells in bioreactors to create novel meat products for consumers.

FoodTech

Vow Foods

New category of food made with cell-cultured meat.

Windfall Biowindfall.bioin𝕏

Windfall Bio develops microbial-based solutions that convert methane into valuable products for industrial and agricultural customers.

AgTechBiotechClimate TechDeep TechSan Francisco, US

Louis Stenmark(Cofounder)

Youracgyouracg.com
Zyazya.co

Zya develops enzyme-based ingredients for food manufacturers that convert sugar into dietary fiber during digestion, allowing consumers to enjoy conventional foods with improved nutritional profiles.

BiotechFoodTech

Joshua Sauer(Co-Founder & CEO)inNiels Wicke(Co-Founder & CSO)in

ZymoChemzymochem.comin𝕏

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Frequently asked questions

What stage does Cavallo Ventures invest at?
Cavallo Ventures invests at the Seed, Series A stages.
What sectors does Cavallo Ventures focus on?
Cavallo Ventures focuses on AgTech, Cleantech, FoodTech, New Materials.
Where is Cavallo Ventures located?
Cavallo Ventures is headquartered in San Francisco, US.

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