Cutting Horse Ventures Management LLC
cuttinghorse.com Direct investor
Cutting Horse is a growth equity firm that provides minority investments of $1-10 million to consumer product and service companies with revenue between $1-20 million. The firm focuses on seed, Series A, and emerging growth stages, and is led by operators with experience scaling consumer brands.
Cutting Horse Ventures Management LLC is a private equity firm. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series A, in health & Wellness, food & Beverage, pet & Animal Health and home & Lifestyle. Its stated cheque size is $1–10 million minority growth investments. 13 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We make minority growth investments of $1–10 million into consumer product and service businesses generating $1–20 million in revenue, backing exceptional founders building high-growth, capital-efficient companies designed to endure.”
— Cutting Horse Ventures Management LLC, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Private equity
- Sectors
- Health & Wellness, Food & Beverage, Pet & Animal Health, Home & Lifestyle, Personal Care & Beauty
- Cheque size
- $1–10 million minority growth investments
- Portfolio
- 13 companies
Team, as Cutting Horse Ventures Management LLC publishes it
- Michael Wystrach Founder & Managing Partner
- Chris Protasewich Founder & Managing Partner
- Henry West Vice President
- Jimmy Shen Vice President
- Hayden Cheek Associate
- Nate Champion Operating Partner
- Ed Finn Operating Partner
- Jason King Chief Financial Officer
Names and roles exactly as listed on cuttinghorse.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 65 co-investors found.
- Biomatics Management Company, LLC 2 shared companies: beam.gg, arkpes.com
- Five Seasons Ventures 1 shared company: butternutbox.com
- White Star Capital 1 shared company: butternutbox.com
- Capital Innovators 1 shared company: beam.gg
- F-Prime Capital 1 shared company: beam.gg
- Index Ventures 1 shared company: beam.gg
- Partech 1 shared company: beam.gg
- Peak XV Partners 1 shared company: beam.gg
- Blossom Capital 1 shared company: freshly.com
- Left Lane Capital 1 shared company: freshly.com
and 55 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Cutting Horse Ventures Management LLC publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.cuttinghorse.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status
- https://www.cuttinghorse.com/portfolioportfolio_count
- https://www.cuttinghorse.com/teampeople
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Record 3885 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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