About Cargill Ventures
Cargill Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2000. It is primarily based out of San Mateo, United States. As of Jun 2010, Cargill Ventures has invested in 7 companies. It primarily invests in Series B round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to Life Sciences and Enterprise Infrastructure. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series C round of Virent Energy Overall, Cargill Ventures portfolio has seen 4 acquisitions including key companies like MarkMonitor, Virent Energy and NimbleGen. A lot of funds co-invest with Cargill Ventures, with names like Intel Capital sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Cargill Ventures has team of 1 people including 1 partners.Key Metrics
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Series B & Series A
Portfolio Acquisitions
Cargill Ventures' List of Top Investments
Cargill Ventures has a portfolio of 7 companies. Their most notable investments are in NimbleGen and Aspectrics.Their portfolio spans across United States, India and Switzerland. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, Life Sciences, Enterprise Infrastructure and 4 other sectors, across stages such as Series B, Series A stages. Here is the list of top investments by Cargill Ventures:1. Microland
Provider of IT suite solutions. Its other services include cloud & datacenter, networks, digital workplace, cybersecurity, industrial IoT, and consulting to make it easier for enterprises to adopt NextGen Digital infrastructure.
Key facts about Microland
- Founded Year: 1989
- Location: Bengaluru (India)
- Annual Revenue: ₹1,610Cr as on Mar 31, 2025
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $25.8M
- Employee Count: 6,346 as on Nov 19, 2025
- Investors: ICICI Venture, Icon Ventures and 16 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Feb 06, 2013, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. MarkMonitor
MarkMonitor provides a security solution to protect the online brand reputation of the enterprise. Its product, MarkMonitor Domain Management defends online brand presence by domain management protection of an enterprise's portfolio of domain names. Its solution, MarkMonitor Brand Protection mitigates threats of online brand abuse including counterfeiting, unauthorized channels, brand impersonation, stolen web traffic, and more. Its other solution, MarkMonitor AntiPiracy protects an enterprise's revenues by pinpointing, monitoring and enforcing on the illegal distribution and promotion of pirated digital content across various internet channels. Its product, MarkMonitor AntiFraud protects enterprises and their customers from phishing and malware attacks by focusing on preventative measures.
Key facts about MarkMonitor
- Founded Year: 1999
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $12M
- Employee Count: 76 as on Sep 30, 2012
- Investors: IVP, Foundation Capital and 3 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, May 11, 2006, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
Developer of renewable fuels and chemicals from plant-based sugars. This company uses patented catalytic chemistry to convert bio-based sugars into hydrocarbon fuels and chemicals that are molecularly identical to petroleum-based products. These include gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and chemicals for plastics and fibers. The process is feedstock flexible, utilizing a variety of plant sugars. Key strategic relationships accelerate commercialization efforts.
Key facts about Virent Energy
- Founded Year: 2002
- Location: United States
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $103M
- Employee Count: 27 as on Mar 31, 2026
- Investors: Shell, WARF and 10 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Grant (prize money), Dec 01, 2013, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
4. NimbleGen
NimbleGen Systems was a life sciences company focussed on developing solutions for genomics research. They used their proprietary Maskless Array Synthesis technologies to manufacture their suite of microarray products that included the microarray instruments, reagents as well as off-the-shelf and custom microarrays. It leveraged its expertise in genomics to develop reagents and kits for targeted next generation sequencing. In June 2007, Roche acquired NimbleGen for $272.5M. Currently, NimbleGen's targeted NGS library preparation reagents and kits are available under the NimbleGen SeqCap range from Roche.
Key facts about NimbleGen
- Founded Year: 1999
- Location: Basel (Switzerland)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $31.4M
- Employee Count: 603 as on Jul 01, 2024
- Investors: Skyline Ventures, WARF and 9 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Grant (prize money), Jul 03, 2007, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
Key facts about IndX Software Corp
- Founded Year: 1999
- Location: Aliso Viejo (United States)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $21M
- Employee Count: 109 as on Dec 31, 2021
- Investors: Houston Ventures, Tech Coast Angels and 8 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Jul 23, 2003, $*****
Cargill Ventures' Investments by Stage
Cargill Ventures has made 6 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $12.7M and 1 investment in Series A stage with an average round size of $26M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Series B | 6 |
Series A | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Cargill Ventures' Investments by Sector
Cargill Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Business Services, Life Sciences, Energy and Energy Tech. Notably, it has invested in 5 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 4 Tech companies and 3 Software companies.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 3 |
Business Services | 2 |
Life Sciences | 2 |
Energy | 1 |
Energy Tech | 1 |
Others | 2 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Cargill Ventures' Investments by Geography
Cargill Ventures has made most investments in United States (5), followed by India where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
United States | 5 |
India | 1 |
Switzerland | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Cargill Ventures' recent investments
Cargill Ventures has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Cargill Ventures:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 07, 2010 | United States | Series C | 5108 | [+1] | |
May 2008 | United States | Series A | 6932 | [+3] | |
Sep 06, 2007 | United States | Series B | 7617 | [+1] | |
Aug 08, 2006 | India | Series B | 3924 | [+4] | |
May 11, 2006 | United States | Series B | 9016 |
Acquired companies in Cargill Ventures' Portfolio
4 companies from Cargill Ventures' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was MarkMonitor in Sep 2025 by Com Laude for $*****.Here are Cargill Ventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 24, 2025 | May 11, 2006 | Series B | 9728 | |
Sep 06, 2016 | Sep 06, 2007 | Series B | 4636 | |
Mar 15, 2016 | May 2008 | Series A | 5020 | |
Jun 19, 2007 | Dec 2005 | Series B | 4888 |
Team profile of Cargill Ventures
Cargill Ventures has a team of 1 member. Cargill Ventures' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Co-investors of Cargill Ventures
Over the past 23 years, 44 investors have co-invested in Cargill Ventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Cargill Ventures: ICICI Venture, Synnex and 12 others have invested in rounds before Cargill Ventures. There is 1 company where ICICI Venture has invested before Cargill Ventures and 1 company where Synnex has invested before Cargill Ventures.
- Top Co-investors of Cargill Ventures: 19 investors entered a company along with Cargill Ventures. These include investors like Intel Capital (1 company).
- Invested after Cargill Ventures: A total of 11 investors have invested in Cargill Ventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Black River (2 companies), JPMorgan Chase (1 company) and Pradeep Kar (1 company).
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