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 headquartered in United States. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, 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
- Headquarters
- United States
- 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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 65 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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, hq_country
- https://www.cuttinghorse.com/portfolioportfolio_count
- https://www.cuttinghorse.com/teampeople
- https://www.cuttinghorse.com/approachstage_min, stage_max
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Record 3885 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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