Tradecorp Ventures

Omaha, Nebraska

We buy good businesses, then build inside them.

Tradecorp Ventures is a well-funded strategic investment company. We own and operate established companies with proven revenue streams and bottom-line profitability in agriculture, food systems, water management, and agricultural technology — and the technology we build to run them, we now put in the hands of other operators.

Jan 2026 First platform company acquired
1,000 Farmer customers at Cornhusker
5,000 Pivots served
700,000+ Acres covered
What We Own

An operating company that invests, not a fund that allocates.

Tradecorp is privately held and owner-operated. We hold our companies directly and indefinitely — there is no fund life, no exit clock, and no outside capital to answer to.

Platform Companies
Cornhusker Irrigation Acquired January 2026

One of the largest single-location Zimmatic dealers in the United States, serving roughly 1,000 farmer customers, 5,000 center pivots, and more than 700,000 acres across eight counties in east-central Nebraska — Platte, Merrick, Polk, Butler, Colfax, York, Boone, and Nance.

The business sells and installs new pivots and runs a year-round service operation covering repair, repiping, pivot inspection, parts, and FieldNET remote monitoring. Six field technicians work out of a company-owned facility in Columbus. The prior owner retains an ownership stake and remains our partner in the business and in new ventures.

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CircleIQ Live in production

An agentic operations platform for agricultural service businesses. It answers the inbound call, troubleshoots or quotes parts, writes the work order, dispatches the tech, invoices the job, and posts to the general ledger — with the owner choosing where a human steps in. It is how we run Cornhusker Irrigation today — which is why we can put it in the hands of anyone running the same kind of operation.

Built for Ag service businesses and equipment dealers

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Cornelia Labs Owner Intelligence System

We partner with founders, family offices, and operating companies to show them what is actually happening inside their business. Most companies believe they already have the tools — a CRM, an ERP, a dashboard, maybe an AI pilot. The systems do not talk to each other, the data never reaches the people making decisions, and the AI sits beside the operation instead of inside it.

We know because we lived it at Cornhusker and built our way out. We bring that experience, the tools we built, and a bench of partners across finance and accounting, ERP and systems integration, operations, legal, and tax. Not consultants — partners with skin in the game who step in alongside an owner or CEO.

Built for Founders, family offices, and operating companies — any size, any industry

Visual Spray Technologies Provisional patent filed with the USPTO

There are roughly 300,000 center pivots in the United States and 700,000 worldwide, and no technology exists to verify that a pivot is applying water the way it was designed to. Problems surface after the fact — striping, yield loss, a crop that has already suffered.

Visual Spray uses drone-based computer vision to catch them first. It detects spray plumes, measures throw distance, maps results to nozzle positions, and produces a diagnostic report that prices the repair against the yield at risk.

Built for Growers and irrigation service providers

Investment Philosophy

The graying of America.

Thousands of established, profitable businesses across the agricultural supply chain — dealerships, distributors, service companies — are owned by founders in their sixties and seventies with no succession plan. The next generation does not want to take over.

Too big for SBA buyers. Too small for traditional private equity.

That is our lane. We acquire these businesses, keep the names and the teams, honor what the founders built, and modernize the operations with an AI-native technology layer.

What we bring alongside the capital is operating experience — decades of running commodity processing and manufacturing businesses, closing transactions, and managing risk through full commodity cycles.

The thesis is the same in every deal: increase profitability, expand margins, and build a business that earns a higher multiple than the one we paid. We will do that side by side with an owner who wants to stay, or as a wholly owned subsidiary. The structure follows what the seller wants, not the other way around.

Where We Invest

Four sectors we know from the inside.

Agriculture

Processing, equipment manufacturing and distribution, sales and service businesses, and established agricultural enterprises with durable customer relationships.

Food Systems

Production, processing, and technology companies with existing sales and real room to grow — businesses where added capital and discipline compound rather than simply fund losses.

Water Management

Crop-based irrigation systems, plus advanced optimization and monitoring for data-driven energy and water management. The result is lower carbon intensity and better farm profitability, delivered alongside comprehensive irrigation service.

Our conviction is simple: over the next twenty years, water will be the single greatest factor in global crop production, and the businesses that manage it will be among the best investments in agriculture.

Agricultural Technology

Data-driven agricultural business intelligence and operational systems, customer segmentation and analytics, digital supply chain solutions, and advanced technology integration across business operations.

What We Look For

Profitable today, with a clear reason to be worth more tomorrow.

  • Established revenue streams
  • Bottom-line profitability
  • Margin we can improve
  • Growth potential
  • Experienced management teams
  • Strategic fit within our sectors
  • Capital needs for expansion or acquisition
$5 million to $50 million Core transaction range Funded to date with our own capital and conventional bank financing, which keeps us fast and accountable only to the businesses we serve. For larger opportunities we have capital partners and private equity relationships ready to move alongside us.
What We Bring

Operators first, investors second.

  • Operational expertise and guidance
  • Strategic capital deployment
  • Industry network access
  • M&A and capital markets experience
  • Risk management capabilities
  • International market knowledge
Leadership
Todd Becker Managing Partner

Todd Becker has 39 years in executive management, risk management, and trading — physical and financial, across agriculture and energy — with operations experience in commodity processing, trading, and manufacturing. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of Green Plains Inc. (NASDAQ: GPRE) from 2009 to 2025.

Earlier
ConAgra Foods — trading, management, operations, and international markets
Board — Hillshire Brands
Director; audit and compensation committees. Exited in the over-$8 billion sale to Tyson Foods.
Board — Core Scientific
Chairman, audit committee. Oversaw two capital raises of more than $1 billion following emergence from bankruptcy.
Education
M.S. Finance, Indiana University Kelley School of Business; B.S. Finance, University of Kansas
Contact

If you own a business in these sectors, we should talk.

We are actively searching across the water and irrigation supply chain — dealerships, distribution, service, and the businesses that support them — and evaluating opportunities in agriculture, food, feed, and distribution more broadly.

If you own one of these businesses, or know someone who does, the door is open. A short description of the business and recent financial performance is enough to start.

todd@tradecorpventures.com Omaha, Nebraska