# Trailhead Capital

> Trailhead Capital is a VC fund in Boulder backing Agriculture and AgTech. See 28 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boulder, United States
- Total investments: 28
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/trailheadcapitalllc/
- Website: https://trailheadcap.com/

Trailhead Capital is a mission-driven investment firm creating outstanding financial, societal, and ecological returns by backing entrepreneurs who are building the regenerative future of food and agriculture.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.5M–$8.1M |
| Series A | $3.5M–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Agriculture | 7 | 25% |
| AgTech | 6 | 21% |
| Farming | 5 | 18% |
| Software | 5 | 18% |
| Biotechnology | 4 | 14% |

44 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 11 | 39% |
| Seed | 7 | 25% |
| Convertible Note | 3 | 11% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 18 | 64% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bobby Pelz | Founder & Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bobby-pelz |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SWARM | SWARM is an AI-powered operational optimization company that builds decision intelligence software for agrifood and manufacturing. The company focuses on helping organizations improve efficiency and reduce costs by using AI systems that model operational challenges and generate optimized decisions across areas such as supply chain planning,logistics, workforce allocation, pricing, and production management. Its platform is designed around an agent-based architecture that uses intelligent systems to interpret business data, identify inefficiencies, and recommend or execute improved operational plans. Rather than requiring users to build models or write code, SWARM allows organizations to define operational problems in a structured way and then uses AI-driven engines to compute optimal solutions. | $10M | Series A | Jun 10, 2026 |  |
| Ascribe Bioscience | Ascribe Bioscience develops products that enable farmers to combat crop pathogens without negative impacts on the environment. The company is currently developing a seed treatment product that acts by boosting crops’ natural defenses. Ascribe Bioscience was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Ithaca, New York. | $12M | Series A | Oct 14, 2025 |  |
| Avalo | Avalo is a plant biology company that harnesses interpretable machine learning, genomic discovery, and evolutionary theory to rapidly design new crops for the future of agriculture. Their process uses AI-assisted plant breeding, so all products are non-GMO and support the natural diversity of the world around us. The technological core of Avalo isa discovery engine that can identify the genetic underpinnings of complex traits with minimal training. In turn, these findings are leveraged into high-precision, low-cost simulations and forecasts. Even in understudied crops, Avalo can reduce the time that it takes to produce new crops by years and reduce the cost by an order of magnitude. | $11M | Series A | Mar 06, 2025 |  |
| Edacious | Edacious is a Public Benefit Corporation that develops a radical transparency-based food verification system. | $8.1M | Seed | Feb 06, 2025 |  |
| Eion | Eion removes atmospheric CO2, permanently and verifiably, with enhanced rock weathering on the soil. Its product rapidly captures and stores carbon dioxide when applied to agricultural soils to help farmers and the agricultural industry with a verifiable pathway to decarbonization. | $3M | Series A | Sep 24, 2024 |  |
| Avalo | Avalo is a plant biology company that harnesses interpretable machine learning, genomic discovery, and evolutionary theory to rapidly design new crops for the future of agriculture. Their process uses AI-assisted plant breeding, so all products are non-GMO and support the natural diversity of the world around us. The technological core of Avalo isa discovery engine that can identify the genetic underpinnings of complex traits with minimal training. In turn, these findings are leveraged into high-precision, low-cost simulations and forecasts. Even in understudied crops, Avalo can reduce the time that it takes to produce new crops by years and reduce the cost by an order of magnitude. |  | Series A | May 21, 2024 |  |
| HerdDogg | HerdDogg is a global herd health and data science platform. It is a two-part system that helps ranchers track health and proximity data from their herd. The company's device gathers the data captured by the ear tags and reports it directly to the rancher via an app or web database. | $6M | Series A | Mar 26, 2024 |  |
| HerdDogg | HerdDogg is a global herd health and data science platform. It is a two-part system that helps ranchers track health and proximity data from their herd. The company's device gathers the data captured by the ear tags and reports it directly to the rancher via an app or web database. | $3.5M | Series A | Oct 06, 2023 |  |
| Clean Crop Technologies | Clean Crop Technologies is translating groundbreaking research on ways to reduce molds, toxins, and pests into commercial scale services for the global grain and nut sectors. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 07, 2023 |  |
| Funga | Funga uses the forest fungal microbiome to improve forestry outcomes and address the climate crisis. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, United States. | $4M | Seed | Jan 05, 2023 |  |

10 of 28 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Trailhead Capital invest in?

Trailhead Capital invests primarily in Agriculture, AgTech and Farming startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 28 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Trailhead Capital's check size?

Trailhead Capital typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$8.1M at Seed and $3.5M–$12M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Trailhead Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Trailhead Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Trailhead Capital?

The team at Trailhead Capital includes Bobby Pelz (Founder & Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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