Ordway Selections, a private investment office, and Cavallo Ventures, a venture capital firm, led a $82m Seriec C round in Vestaron, a company that develops biological alternatives to chemical-based crop controls using peptides. "The Raleigh, North Carolina-based startup will use the funding for further development of Spear, widening its use in the row crops market and developing “contact-kill applications for soft-bodied pests like thrips, aphids, whiteflies, and mites,” Anna Rath, Vestaron CEO.