Wilson Acton

Wilson Acton

Managing Partner, Tall Grass Ventures

Wilson is a serial entrepreneur and 4x tech start-up founder with an extensive background in M&A, capital markets, venture building and multi-generational experience in agriculture.

As a company builder, Wilson has led or assisted a wide range of businesses across a host of matters from capital raises across various stages to strategic acquisitions, including complex M&A and corporate finance transactions totaling more than $160 billion. 

As a tech co-founder, Wilson has built corporate development teams, sales and marketing teams, advisory boards, transaction teams and helped take companies from back-of-the-napkin ideas through to successful exits.

Wilson is Managing Partner of Tall Grass Ventures, a leading ag and food investment firm based in Calgary, Alberta.  Tall Grass is focused on investing experience and capital into the future of agriculture. Working closely with the other members of the team, Wilson drives the strategic direction of the firm and works closely with investors, the management teams with which the firm works and other members of the ecosystem.

Between venture building and chasing kids, Wilson is also an avid skier, an average golfer and still digs in the dirt, just in a yard in Calgary instead of a field in Saskatchewan.