
Connecting Innovators, Investors, Industry Professionals and Early Adopter Customers
From improvements in nutritional value, to better resource efficiency, to improved yield, to better cost controls, the agriculture industry is ripe for disruption. It’s happening already, with harvesting automation systems, sensor-based farm management tools and other advanced technologies already appearing on the modern farm. iSelect is investing in the entrepreneurs who are focused on making these innovations happen.
“Given the overall AgTech entrepreneurial activity in the region, and the large number of multinational players, the American Heartland can be a powerful influence in driving the objectives of the AgTech revolution. Taken together, these resources indicate a regional competitive advantage in AgTech, similar to what the Silicon Valley cluster has provided for the IT industry.”
“AgTech: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Growth”, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, April 2014
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iSelect focuses on early-stage food and agriculture companies that are poised to help push the next agricultural revolution forward. We deliberately invest in companies that can make a positive impact on our society, as well as on the bottom line.
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Resources and News

How Ag Companies are Impacting Carbon Capture Efforts
As more and more efforts are directed towards challenging climate change worldwide, companies at home in the U.S. are doing their part to direct the power of entrepreneurial farmers towards the problem. Companies like Indigo Ag are investing millions of dollars to...

What the Food System Needs Now? A Real Connection Between Capital and the Farm
The trick with technology is less about technology and more about adoption. When I was a young engineer at McDonnell Douglas, we developed the first bunker buster bomb in 30 days, taking a cannon barrel, turning it down and building this new design back in ‘91, a...

Where iSelect Invests, and Where We Don’t Invest
Innovation as a concept is defined as the introduction of a “new idea, method or device,” effectively creating something new that has not existed before. It is also a key economic force, but one that is often overlooked. Done right, innovation can deliver better,...

The Mississippi River is Drying up, and That Should Concern Us All
I love rivers. I grew up in Louisiana on the Mississippi River. Our cotton fields bordered the levee. When I was working in those fields I would always eat my lunch on the levee so I could watch the massive river rolling by peacefully. This week I have friends posting...

A Look Inside the Future of Carbon MRV in Agriculture
As the world around us continues to strive for net-zero carbon emissions as a global society, the agriculture industry has been marked as a key sector for improvement. All of the decisions that we make as a culture about our food choices and the ways that we choose to...

We Solved Y2K, We’ll Solve #FoodIsHealth
The turn of the millennium in 2000 was supposed to be an exciting event. Instead, for the IT and internet communities, it was a looming disaster. Thanks to a widespread computer programming shortcut from the early days of the technology, many programs only allowed two...

87,000 New IRS Agents Aren’t Going to Solve America’s Real Problems, but Innovation Will
The IRS is about to hire as many as 87,000 new agents thanks to $80 billion in funding from the Inflation Reduction Act. It’s an attempt to correct years of underfunding at the agency. “There are a bunch of problems. They have about 8 million unprocessed 2021 returns...

Deep Dive: Precision Fermentation
What the Future Holds for Precision Fermentation: A Deep Dive Recap Humans have harnessed the biochemical process of fermentation for millennia, with the oldest traces dating back to more than 9,000 years ago. Although we might not always think of our predecessors as...

What the Inflation Reduction Act Could Mean for Food & Health
On August 7, 2022 the United States Senate approved the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). It is anticipated to pass the House of Representatives and be signed into law in the near-term future. The IRA allocates more than $369 billion for climate change and clean energy...

The World is Facing a New Food Crisis. Innovators Can Help
Today the world is facing the prospect of widespread food insecurity and starvation unlike any food crisis we have experienced in our lifetimes. According to the United Nations World Food program (WFP), “[m]illions of people across the world are at risk of being...

It’s a New Day in Food Ingredients, and That’s a Good Thing
Food producers are increasingly trying to make their ingredients more sustainable, healthy, and affordable. There are many ingredients today in all sorts of food products that achieve the exact opposite aim: they entail negative environmental effects, they can be...

How Aquaculture Factors into the Future of Food
The world’s population is growing rapidly. There are currently over 7.9 billion people on the planet, with this figure set to rise to around 8.5 billion by 2030 and 9.8 billion in 2050. At the same time, world hunger remains a major problem; while steadily declining...