CaCo Earth BV is the international holding vehicle for one of agriculture's most compelling waste-to-value innovations. Its South African operating company, EggCellent Calcium, has spent three years developing and validating a patented process that converts poultry waste, a costly liability for the industry, into high-performance, 100% natural liquid fertilisers.
CaCo Earth BV now exists to take that proven model global, with the structure, credibility, and governance framework required to access European development finance and ESG-mandated capital. This raise is specifically targeted at funding the Netherlands incorporation and the two-year substance period required to unlock that institutional capital pipeline.
International holding entity. Innovation Box 9% IP tax regime. Gateway to European DFI and ESG-mandated institutional capital.
EggCellent Calcium (Pty) Ltd. Live operation. Active commercial sales. ~95% revenue CAGR over three years. First profitable year FY2026.
Patents filed across 60+ countries via ARIPO, EPO, USPTO, CIPO and Australia — consolidating under the Dutch holding structure.
EggCellent Calcium was founded on a simple but powerful observation: the poultry industry generates enormous volumes of organic waste, eggshells and residual matter, that it is legally and operationally obliged to remove and dispose of, at significant cost and environmental impact. Meanwhile, agriculture faces a deepening crisis of soil degradation, over-reliance on synthetic fertilisers, and declining crop yields. The EggCellent team spent three years in iterative R&D to build a bridge between these two problems.
Calcium is one of the most consequential and most misunderstood nutrients in modern agriculture. Often overshadowed by nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, calcium simultaneously governs plant cell structure, soil chemistry, root development, disease resistance, and fruit quality. When calcium supply fails, the consequences are felt across every stage of the crop cycle.
| Cell Structure & Plant Integrity | Improves cellular wall structure and membrane function — the two physical barriers that determine whether a plant can resist mechanical stress, pathogen entry, and water loss. Without calcium, cell walls weaken and the plant's first line of defence collapses. |
| Root & Germination Performance | Promotes vigorous root growth and strong seed germination without burning seedling roots — a critical advantage over synthetic calcium inputs. A well-developed root system underpins every subsequent stage of crop performance. |
| Growth, Photosynthesis & Yield | Stimulates plant growth and photosynthesis, promotes flower and fruit development, and unlocks macro and micro nutrient uptake. A soil with adequate calcium absorbs more of every other input a farmer applies. |
| Disease & Soil Protection | Builds disease resistance at the cellular level, prevents blossom end rot, restores degraded soils, increases fertility, and neutralises acidity — the foundation of any soil health programme. |
Despite its importance, calcium is chronically under monitored. Over 66% of tested soils show calcium deficiency, yet calcium appears in fewer than 30% of routine soil analyses. Globally, over 33% of agricultural soils are classified as moderately to highly degraded (FAO), with calcium leaching from acidic, over-farmed soils at an accelerating rate.
A chicken eggshell is composed of 94 to 97% calcium carbonate (CaCO3), free from heavy metals, rich in complementary trace minerals, and when properly milled and activated, as effective as pure calcium. Peer-reviewed research confirms that eggshells produce the same liming effect as standard agricultural lime at equivalent application rates.
Beyond calcium carbonate, eggshells contain trace elements including magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, iron, zinc, manganese, and copper, contributing to broader soil and plant nutrition. EggCellent Calcium's proprietary process is engineered to maximise bioavailability across both product formats.
The result of three years of R&D is a proprietary mechanical and chemical process, now protected by patent applications filed across 60+ countries, that extracts eggshells from bulk poultry waste, mills and activates them, and produces two distinct natural fertiliser products serving different application windows in the crop cycle.
Delivers a concentrated dose of bioavailable calcium carbonate and trace minerals directly to the seed surface. At germination, the developing root system encounters calcium in an immediately accessible form. The eggshell inner membrane is retained — delivering collagen (Types I, V & X), glucosamine sulfate, chondroitin sulfate, hyaluronic acid, and a full profile of amino acids. No conventional calcium input carries this nutritional payload.
Because calcium is not mobile within the plant, a single soil application is rarely sufficient to protect developing fruits and growing tips across the entire season. The foliar product delivers liquid calcium and trace elements through leaf tissue, bypassing soil chemistry constraints. The inner membrane is retained — delivering collagen, glucosamine sulfate, chondroitin sulfate, hyaluronic acid, and amino acids in soluble form. This dual-action delivery is a differentiator no competing foliar calcium product offers.
CaCo Earth BV's international ambitions are grounded in a South African operation that has already done the hard work: product validation, regulatory navigation, direct farmer sales, B2B agronomic partnership development, and engagement with the country's largest poultry producers. This is not a concept being taken to market, it is a working business being scaled.
South Africa's largest poultry producers have indicated willingness to sign waste-removal SLAs once manufacturing infrastructure scales. The Rustenburg facility, once expanded, will process 30 tonnes per day — sufficient to service the entire northern half of South Africa from a single site.
Active direct farmer sales and private B2B agronomic partnerships providing last-mile reach. Current manufacturing capacity supports ~1 million hectares. Large co-operatives have confirmed readiness to onboard once capacity is sufficient.
Unsolicited partnership approaches already received across multiple international markets. These enquiries validate the global applicability of the model and confirm that demand exists well ahead of supply.
The business model is built around a single, powerful metric. Every tonne of eggshell waste processed delivers measurable, predictable coverage and the input supply already exists at scale in every target market.
| 200,000 eggshells | → | 1 tonne of raw material |
| 1 tonne processed | → | 500 hectares of full-programme coverage |
| 1 medium hatchery | → | ~2 tonnes/day = 1,000 ha coverage potential daily |
| 1 large producer | → | Multiple facilities = thousands of ha per country, per day |
EggCellent Calcium has delivered a revenue CAGR of approximately 95% over three years, turning profitable for the first time in FY2026 and sustaining gross margins of approximately 90%, a structural consequence of its near-zero raw material cost model. Confirmed and contracted forward orders for the next 12-month period support continued strong growth. CaCo Earth BV will hold approximately 77% of EggCellent Calcium upon incorporation, providing direct economic exposure to this high-margin, fast-growing operating business from day one.
The €6,000,000 post-money valuation represents approximately 9.5× forward 12-month revenue of the South African operating company, but this multiple does not capture what investors in CaCo Earth BV are primarily acquiring. The valuation reflects the global IP portfolio, patent coverage across 60+ countries, and the right to replicate the same ~90% gross margin economics across every licensed territory worldwide. The South African business is the proof of concept. The holding company is the vehicle for everything that follows.
The establishment of CaCo Earth BV in the Netherlands is a deliberate and strategic decision, not an administrative formality. It reflects the team's understanding that accessing European development finance institutions (DFIs) and ESG-mandated investors requires a holding structure that meets their governance, transparency, and substance standards. The incorporation process is being executed in partnership with Bird & Bird and the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency (NFIA).
Innovation Box 9% IP tax on patent profits. 100+ bilateral tax treaties. No withholding tax on outbound royalty payments. Participation Exemption on dividends and capital gains. Advance Tax Ruling process for pre-confirmation before capital is deployed.
The Netherlands is the world's second-largest agricultural exporter. Wageningen University & Research — consistently ranked the leading agrifood institution globally — provides shared R&D facilities and institutional credibility with European DFI and ESG investors.
The international rollout model is capital-efficient and locally anchored. Rather than exporting product from a centralised facility, CaCo Earth BV will partner with local operators in each jurisdiction who bring access to eggshell waste, local capital, and agronomic distribution relationships. Each partner territory replicates the proven SA model with a licensed, low-capex modular processing plant.
Europe and Africa · Offtake and distribution discussions underway with large-scale poultry operators and agronomic partners.
North America and Australia · Selected for scale of poultry industry, agricultural demand, and alignment with CaCo Earth BV's licensing model.
CaCo Earth BV is raising €300,000 at a €6,000,000 post-money valuation. Every euro has a clear home in operational substance, IP consolidation, or the groundwork for a larger institutional round.
| Netherlands Establishment & Legal | Full incorporation of CaCo Earth BV by Bird & Bird. NFIA engagement and advisory. Registered office, company secretary, and initial governance framework. |
| Two-Year Substance Budget | Office space, R&D-focused personnel, and Wageningen research engagement to meet DFI substance requirements. The two-year window is the statutory minimum for institutional eligibility. |
| IP Consolidation | Formal assignment and legal protection of the 60+ country patent portfolio (ARIPO, EPO, USPTO, CIPO & Australia) under CaCo Earth BV. Includes patent attorney costs and international IP maintenance. |
| Bridge to European DFI Round | Operational costs and investor-readiness preparation ahead of the Series A. Governance, reporting infrastructure, and the legal/financial groundwork for a significantly larger raise. |
UCT Honours graduate in Finance. Over a decade as a senior equity trader at Barclays Africa and Renaissance Capital.
Co-Founder of Signal Hill Group, a Cape Town-based private equity and venture capital advisory firm. Active international agri-tech investor — including Taranis, a leading precision agriculture platform.
Leading EggCellent Calcium as Group CEO since late 2023, driving the commercial growth that has delivered a ~95% revenue CAGR and the company's first profitable year in FY2026.
UCT B.Bus.Sc (Honours) in Finance. Over fifteen years across quantitative analysis, asset management, and operational leadership.
A decade at RECM Group — one of South Africa's leading independent asset managers — progressing from Quantitative Analyst to Head of Dealing and ultimately Chief Operating Officer. Previously at JPMorgan Chase.
Co-Founder of Signal Hill Group. Joined EggCellent Calcium as Group CFO in September 2024, bringing institutional-grade financial rigour to a business preparing for a multi-jurisdictional capital raise.
CaCo Earth BV is not retrofitting an ESG narrative onto a conventional business. The environmental and social impact of the model is structural, it is the reason the economics work in the first place. For DFIs and ESG-mandated capital allocators, CaCo Earth BV offers something rare: an investment thesis where the financial returns and the impact returns are not at odds, they are the same thing.
Converts a high-carbon waste stream into a natural fertiliser. Eliminates a disposal liability. Replaces synthetic inputs. Restores calcium-depleted and acidic soils. Every unit sold is a net environmental positive.
Directly improves food security by increasing crop yields across global agricultural markets. Addresses soil degradation at scale using a process that is locally replicable, affordable, and accessible to smallholder and commercial farmers alike.
Incorporation under Bird & Bird's supervision, NFIA partnership, and a Dutch holding structure purpose-built for transparency, institutional reporting, and DFI compliance from day one.
This document is confidential and intended for sophisticated investors only. It contains forward-looking statements based on management's current plans and assumptions. Prospective investors should conduct independent due diligence and seek their own legal and financial advice before making any investment decision.