Participated · Series A · May 2026

Kanvas Biosciences develops a spatial biology platform for microbiome drug screening, discovery and manufacturing aimed at accelerating live biotherapeutics development. The company’s lead program is KAN-001, an immuno-oncology candidate for which the recent Series A will fund clinical trials. Kanvas intends to use proceeds to advance commercial partnerships alongside clinical development. Its core technology was initially developed at Cornell University and is exclusively licensed. The company is led by CEO Matthew Cheng. The articles do not report revenue, user metrics, founding year, or prior financing details.

Participated · Series A · Mar 2025

Wheeler Bio is a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) built on its Modular CMC scientific platform, focused on accelerating antibody-based therapeutic candidates from discovery into clinical trials. It provides integrated services including manufacturability assessments, stable pool and clone development, process and analytical method development, process demonstration, technology transfer, and cGMP manufacturing. The company emphasizes a customer-intimate approach to build robust CMC packages vital for regulatory filings and ongoing manufacturing. Wheeler plans to broaden capabilities, expand its partner base and team, and is planning a 52,000 square-foot large-scale biologics manufacturing facility adjacent to a biomanufacturing workforce training center at Convergence in the Oklahoma City Innovation District. The company is headquartered in Oklahoma City and cites regional advantages such as lower business costs and a growing biomanufacturing workforce. The recent financing is intended to fund these expansion and capability-build efforts. Wheeler Bio is an Oklahoma City-based contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) focused on the gene-to-IND supply chain. Its primary product is Portable CMC, an open-source "CMC middleware" that integrates discovery CROs and CDMOs to streamline translational steps. Portable CMC includes a complement of integrated development services, including manufacturability assessments, stable pool and clone development, process and analytical method development, process demonstration, and technology transfer into CGMP production. The platform also enhances business integrations that speed up translational steps while lowering technical, regulatory, and business risks. Wheeler Bio plans to use the $31M Series A to complete its CGMP cell banking and 500 L drug substance manufacturing facility in The Ziggurat in downtown Oklahoma City. Leadership includes CEO Dr. Jesse McCool, Chief Development Officer Dr. Brian Berquist, and Christian Kanady. Wheeler Bio offers Portable CMC™, a platform that integrates with preclinical discovery to accelerate the discovery-to-IND path. Portable CMC is designed to provide faster, easier, and more predictable tech transfer and clinical supply by partnering with preclinical CROs and antibody drug developers. The company has an initial focus on antibody therapeutics and is partnered with Alloy Therapeutics to extend discovery offerings into IND-enabling manufacturing. Wheeler Bio is headquartered in Oklahoma City and operates pilot labs inside Alloy Therapeutics’ Boston facility. It closed a $14M Seed financing to expand its team and make Portable CMC more broadly available. Scientific and operational leadership for Portable CMC is led by CTO Dr. Stephen Hamilton, and the company emphasizes speed, predictability, and shared success with CDMO and CRO partners.

Participated · Equity · May 2024

AgriWebb offers an all-in-one livestock management software platform that simplifies farming operations and provides insights to improve ranch productivity and practices. The platform is used to manage over 23 million head of livestock across more than 150 million acres in 18 countries, with strong presence in Australia, the UK, the US, and Brazil. AgriWebb partners with major food companies and programs, including McDonald’s, USDA’s Climate Smart Commodities collaborations, and Cargill in Brazil. In May 2024 the company closed a $7.2M (AU$11M) funding round. The company plans to use the funds to enhance platform capabilities, particularly to connect on‑farm data with global food brands and retailers. AgriWebb focuses on beef cattle production customers and on integrating farm-level data with supply-chain partners. Founded in 2014 by fifth‑generation farmers, AgriWebb offers a connected livestock business management platform that turns everyday on‑farm data into actionable insights for profitability, efficiency, and sustainability. Its digital solutions are used to manage animal records, productivity and land stewardship across a unified agtech ecosystem the company is expanding. AgriWebb is trusted by over 16,000 farmers, manages more than 19 million animals and 136 million acres of land, and is adding roughly 250 new users each month. The company plans to roll out new partnerships, features and capabilities to support improved animal productivity and sustainable land stewardship and to expand early‑stage U.S. partnerships such as RanchBot and RanchSense. AgriWebb is also participating in USDA Partnerships for Climate‑Smart Commodities grant projects to launch carbon‑smart initiatives with partners led by Trust in Food and American Farmland Trust. AgriWebb offers a mobile-first farm-management and record-keeping app built around a visual, map-based interface with drag-and-drop functionality tailored for livestock producers. The product includes task lists per field, inputs tracking for pasture and complementary cropping, and decision-support reports on stocking rates, fertility, sales, treatments, and feed. Much data is currently entered by farmers, and the company is working to integrate electronic ID tags, soil sensors, and point-of-sale platforms to automate data flows and connect to supply chains. AgriWebb emphasizes a bottom-up approach targeting smaller producers who largely do not track animals individually; it cites that 80% of producers don’t track livestock individually. The company has over 300 clients across roughly 400–500 farms in Australia. Management plans to explore expansion into the US market in the future, likely via a local partner to adapt to varied livestock management techniques.

Participated · Equity · Aug 2023

Bushel develops software tools that digitize, permission, and accelerate information, transactions, and payments across the agricultural supply chain. Its platform includes a flagship mobile app, websites, trading tools, digital payments, market feeds, API services, and farm management software. Key products and initiatives include Bushel Wallet for digital payments and Bushel Farm, a next-generation farm management software launched after the acquisition of FarmLogs in 2021. The Bushel Network comprises more than 100,000 farmers and 2,600 grain and ag retail locations and securely manages account-related data for more than 45% of farm-originated grain in the U.S. and Canada annually (an estimated 10 billion bushels). Enterprise customers such as Scoular, The Andersons Inc., and ADM use the platform, and the company is SOC 2 Type II compliant and processes debit transactions over PCI-certified networks. Bushel offers a software platform — including a mobile app, websites, trading tools, market feeds, API services and a custom software division — that connects growers, grain buyers, ag retailers, protein producers and food companies. The platform integrates with grain accounting systems, trading desks, farm management systems, insurance companies and market feeds to standardize and permission data across the supply chain. Monthly, 60,000 growers use Bushel’s products and nearly 2,000 grain buying locations across the U.S. and Canada rely on the platform; Bushel reports its platform reaches 40% of U.S. grain origination and $22 billion of grain is contracted annually within its ecosystem. Bushel plans to introduce payments, credit and trading offerings and increase data services to help consumer brands sustainably source commodities and accelerate current product offerings. The company emphasizes data security, ownership and transparency and positions itself as an independent integration hub to reduce manual processes and strengthen grower–agribusiness relationships. Bushel was founded in 2011, launched its platform in 2017, and is headquartered in Fargo, N.D. Bushel provides software technology solutions that integrate into grain elevator accounting systems and market feeds to deliver real-time account information directly to growers. Its elevator-branded apps power real-time scale tickets, contracts, commodity balances, futures, prepaids, cash bids, settlements, e-sign and contract management. The product suite also includes websites and market feeds and a custom software division focused on agriculture. Since launching in 2017, Bushel's software has powered 1,200+ grain facilities across the U.S. and Canada. The company intends to use new funds to accelerate offerings for the grain industry and broader agriculture supply chain, including technology and solutions to improve profitability and market access for growers and to enhance efficiency and insights for financial services and farm management companies. Planned work also includes linking in-season production data and sustainable practices with downstream traceability and enabling direct and local sourcing of grains and other crops. The company is led by co-founder and CEO Jake Joraanstad. Bushel offers a patent-pending, cloud-based platform delivered through business-branded mobile apps that gives growers real-time access to scale tickets, contract settlements, cash bids, pre-pays, e-signatures and contract management. The platform is powered by a proprietary translator developed by Myriad Mobile and includes an API and secure infrastructure to connect fragmented systems across the grain value chain. Since launching in June 2017, Bushel has expanded from ten pilot locations to more than 400 elevator and ethanol plant locations across the U.S. and Canada, and more than 20,000 growers have access to Bushel-powered apps. The company plans to use new funding to expand its reach, accelerate product roadmap and R&D, improve customer success, and evaluate strategic acquisition opportunities. Bushel is positioned as a free, grower-facing tool offered through trusted grain buyers and has been adopted by leading elevators, cooperatives and ethanol plants such as Landus Cooperative, Agtegra and Flint Hills Resources. Myriad Mobile’s custom software division will continue to provide ongoing strategy, design and development services for Bushel.

Participated · Series A · Mar 2023

Andes develops beneficial microorganisms that grow with plant roots to capture carbon dioxide and convert it into minerals in the ground, providing a high‑permanence carbon removal solution. The company deploys its technology across working farmland without disrupting existing agricultural practices and reports having removed more than 50,000 tonnes of CO2 to date. Andes has partnered with farmers across the Midwest on 25,000 acres and says enrolling in its Carbon Removal Program can increase farmers' net income by up to 25%. The company also reports a 3X increase in farmer interest this year. In parallel with carbon removal, Andes is developing biological nitrogen technology that integrates with seeds. Andes plans to use the new funding to expand partnerships with farmers, continue developing its microorganism technology, and make its carbon removal credits available to organizations of all sizes. Andes develops a seed-applied microbial technology called Microprime that integrates a library of microbes with seeds so they colonize roots and enable biological nitrogen fixation, reducing reliance on synthetic nitrogen fertilizers. The company’s first-generation Microprime-treated corn seeds deliver the equivalent of 30 to 50 lbs/acre of nitrogen; Andes is developing second-generation microbes aimed at roughly doubling that amount. Andes is also engineering microbial strains intended for nature-based permanent carbon capture to sequester CO2 from the atmosphere into soil, initially focusing on microbial-powered corn crops with the potential for gigaton-scale capture if deployed at scale. The technology is positioned as a scalable, grower-facing solution that can save time and input costs while lowering agriculture’s greenhouse-gas footprint; the article notes synthetic fertilizers account for roughly 3% (1.5 gigatons) of global emissions. Andes plans to scale its self-sustaining, nitrogen-fixing seeds across the U.S., expand into South America, and continue R&D on its carbon-capture technology funded by the recent investment. No operating revenue or user metrics are reported in the article.