Cavallo Ventures is the private capital arm of Wilbur-Ellis, a multi-generational, family-owned business based in San Francisco, CA. I am located in the Kansas City area. I invest in early and growth stage companies across agriculture, food, and sustainability/climate. Both deep tech/bio and software are relevant.

The Kauffman Fellows Program identifies and develops global leaders in VC while providing a structured curriculum, peer learning, executive coaching, and networking — all with a focus on giving back and one's responsibility as a leader in venture capital. With 800+ Fellows across 65 countries, Kauffman Fellows is the largest network of VCs and innovation leaders in the world. In the 27 years since inception, Kauffman Fellows have started hundreds of funds, raised and deployed hundreds of billions of dollars in capital, and helped pave the way for some of the world’s most groundbreaking companies. As a network, Kauffman Fellows represent over $290 billion in assets under management, have collectively raised over $790 billion dollars in capital, and have been responsible for over $8.5 trillion in exits to LPs.

Building a vaccine that combats methane-producing microbes in bovine immune systems, reducing a major accelerant towards a climate catastrophe.

Talus Renewables, an energy technology company, pioneered the first commercial, modular, zero-carbon green ammonia system that makes the production and distribution of a critical raw material cheaper, cleaner, and more reliable. Talus locally produces lower-cost, carbon-free ammonia at or near the point of use, creating value for agriculture, mining, and maritime shipping, with applications in renewable energy storage and power generation. The talusOne and talusTen operate on intermittent renewable power and are fully containerized and modular, enabling rapid deployments and scaling.

Novel neuropeptide-based bio-pesticides for climate friendly pest control

Methane abatement across oil/gas, landfills, and agriculture

Electric, hybrid autonomy and tele-assist platform for vehicles in agriculture, construction, and other potential industries

Real meat proteins for pets using precision fermentation

Enhanced rock weathering for permanent carbon removal

AIoT for greenhouse, indoor growing, and factories

Proprietary cell-free biomanufacturing platform for high-value ingredients

Using synthetic biology to create high performance materials and chemicals without petrochemicals

Bio-mineralization for low-cost, scalable, highly permanent carbon removal

Technology Acceleration Partners (TechAccel, LLC) is a venture development organization that invests across the agriculture, animal health, and food science industries.

Uses the power of science to design reliable and effective tools that increase production, improve food quality and reduce food waste.

Helped start and operate RNAissance Ag, an agriculture biotechnology startup developing novel RNA-based biopesticides for the control of Lepidopteran and other invasive insect pests. Led commercial, strategic, and financial activities including arrangements with large agrochemical companies and the acquisition of proprietary biomanufacturing assets.

$1.2B SPAC, Ticker GRNA

Helped start and operate Covenant, an animal health company developing regulated products for livestock and companion animals. Sold to NovaQuest Capital Management

Novel precision therapeutics for infectious disease and inflammatory indications- $12.5M partnership with the global non-profit, Combatting Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X).- Contract with Johnson & Johnson worth up to $818M- $144M dollar partnership with BARDA, a government agency established to aid in securing the U.S. from influenza, pandemics and emerging infectious diseases (EID)

$1.35B SPAC, Ticker BHIL

EpiBiome was a microbiome precision engineering company that was acquired by Locus Biosciences in 2018.

Lansing Trade Group is one of the nation’s leading privately held commodity merchandising and handling companies. Based in Overland Park, Kansas, Lansing is focused on the merchandising of agricultural products, feed ingredients, and energy products.• Analyzed and executed mergers and acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, partnerships, and greenfield projects across the agriculture, feed, and energy industries• Worked on 150+ deals in excess of $1 billion leading to the successful deployment of over $200 million in capital towards strategic growth initiatives. • Helped manage the M&A process from end to end including sourcing, strategy, opportunity evaluation, due diligence, deal structuring, negotiation, execution, and integration. • Led financial modeling / valuation work and sourced new deals by building relationships with CEOs and CFOs of target companies.• Built valuation models and helped create marketing materials for the company's debt and equity financings

• Created financial models and valuations for growth equity, later stage private equity, and M&A transactions• Performed industry research to identify and analyze market size and growth factors, competitors, supply/demand, marketing and distribution channels, management teams, synergies, etc. • Oil and gas, healthcare, renewable biofuels, start-up technology

• Analyzed the financial strength, capital structure, liquidity, and repayment capacity of companies across various industries for the commercial lending group• Prepared presentations for the bank's executive committee on various commercial loan/debt opportunities• Evaluated company fundamentals, monitored macroeconomic and industry-specific factors, and analyzed valuation models for the equity research team at the Commerce Trust Company.