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Keller Enterprises is a family company integrating venture investing, venture philanthropy and venture farming. The firm's operating business, Inglewood Farm, is located in central Louisiana. The firm's areas of focus for venture investing lie in energy, agriculture and real estate. Keller is a limited partner in VC/PE firms such as Sands Capital, Mangrove Equity Partners, and NextGen Venture Partners. In 1998, Caroline 'Polly' Keller Winter founded Keller Enterprises. The Kellers are a fifth-generation Arkansas family. Polly Murphy's father, C.H. Murphy, was a banker, farmer and oil producer with substantial holdings in South Arkansas and Louisiana. In 1940 Christoph Keller Jr. married Polly Murphy of El Dorado, whom he had courted as a college classmate at Mary Baldwin College in Virginia. She is the daughter of Charles H. and Bertie W. Murphy. Polly joined with her brother Charles, and sisters Theodosia and Bertie, to found Murphy Oil Corporation, which with Charles Murphy Jr. at the head grew into a worldwide integrated oil and gas company, and which is also parent to Deltic Timber Corporation, a land, timber and real estate concern with holdings in Arkansas and Louisiana.
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