Trailhead Capital was founded as the family office of longtime grain broker Bobby Pelz, leveraging 40+ years of global trading relationships through McDonald Pelz Global Commodities to source deals across the food and agriculture value chain—giving them unusually deep commercial ties into "old world" agriculture compared with typical climate or agtech VCs. The fund uses a bespoke "Soil, Systems, Stakeholders" investment framework that requires every deal to be evaluated for soil impact, systemic effects across the food system, and ripple effects on multiple stakeholders, while formally hardwiring "regenerative alignment" into investment selection by requiring portfolio companies to directly drive specific targets like expanding regeneratively managed land or measurable carbon sequestration.