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Deep Dive: Carbon MRV in Agriculture

Oct 5, 2022

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Agrifood Conversations: HerdDogg

Sep 16, 2021

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Inside the #Goodsugar Movement to Make Healthier Sweeteners

Nov 5, 2020

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Agrifood Conversations: Safe, Effective and Sustainable Crop Protection with Biological Peptides

Jul 23, 2020

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Agrifood Conversations: Better Data, Better Ag Outcomes: Optimizing In-Season Decisions for Farmers

Jul 16, 2020

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Managing Farm Profits to Support Agtech Adoption

Jun 4, 2020

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Agrifood Conversations: Automated Agricultural Harvesting as a Service

May 28, 2020

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Agrifood Conversations: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century: Discovering Phytonutrients with AI

Apr 9, 2020

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Vestaron: Crop Protection, Without Synthetic Pesticides

Aug 29, 2019

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Plastomics: Designing Better Crops to Help Farmers Feed the World

Aug 22, 2019

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PlantResponse: Bringing Science to the Service of Agriculture

Jun 27, 2019

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Holganix: Plant Probiotics That Grow Strong Crops, from the Ground Up

Jun 6, 2019

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Mercaris: Bringing Market Intelligence to Sustainable Agriculture

Feb 14, 2019

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ProteoSense: Do You Really Know What’s in Your Food?

Oct 4, 2018

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Harvest CROO: Robots, Automation and the Future of Farm Labor

Aug 16, 2018

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Geltor: Engineering Proteins for Use in … Everything – 7/26/2018

Jul 26, 2018

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HerdDogg: Bringing IoT to the Field for Cattle Management

Jun 14, 2018

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Mercaris: Bringing Market Intelligence to Sustainable Agriculture

May 3, 2018

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Agrilyst: Developing New Tools to Help Indoor Farmers Thrive

Apr 5, 2018

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Benson Hill: Bringing the Power of CRISPR and Advanced Gene Editing to Mainstream Agriculture

Mar 29, 2018

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Agribody: Expanding Global Food Supply by Significantly Increasing Crop Yields, Stress Tolerance and Shelf Life Using Patented Gene Technology

Mar 15, 2018

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Agrifood Conversations Live Panel: Future of Genetics & Agriculture

Mar 8, 2018

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Plastomics: Using Chloroplast Genetic Engineering to Develop the Next Generation of High Performing Crops

Mar 1, 2018

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Agrible: Bringing Real-Time Data and Insights to Sustainable Agriculture

Feb 22, 2018

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Skycision: Bringing the Power of Drone Imaging to the Agriculture Market

Feb 15, 2018

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AGERpoint: Redefining Data Acquisition and Analysis for Growers

Feb 8, 2018

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S4: Using Data Analytics to Improve Agriculture Yield and Help Farmers Manage Risk

Feb 1, 2018

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Holganix: Optimizing Soils With Plant Probiotics to Grow Healthier, More Sustainable Plants

Jan 25, 2018

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BVT: Partners in Pollination: Nature’s Solution for Healthy, Disease-Free Crops

Jan 18, 2018

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Persistence Data Mining: Improving Soil Management and Fertilizer Efficiency With Real-Time Data Analytics

Jan 11, 2018

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New West Genetics: Bringing Modern Plant Genetics to Cannabis and Hemp Producers

Dec 14, 2017

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Sollum: Artificial Light for Agriculture Applications That Outperforms the Sun

Nov 30, 2017

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Holganix: An Organic, Cost Effective Way to Increase Yield, Reduce Inputs and Kill Nematodes Across All Crops

Nov 16, 2017

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Agrilyst: Developing New Tools to Help Indoor Farmers Thrive

Nov 9, 2017

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Agrible: Bringing Predictive Analytics to the Farm (UPDATE)

Nov 2, 2017

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Tradelanes: Automating the Maritime Supply Chain

Oct 26, 2017

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SomaDetect: Improving Dairy Quality With Real-Time, Digital Monitoring

Oct 19, 2017

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Catalina Sea Ranch: How Aquaculture Is Going to Revolutionize the Agriculture & Food Industries

Sep 28, 2017

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HerdDogg: Smart Tags For Smart Cows

Aug 10, 2017

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Zasso: Reshaping Weed Control for a Healthier Future

Jul 20, 2017

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Agrible: Bringing Predictive Analytics to the Farm

Jul 13, 2017

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ProteoSense: Making Foodborne Illness a Thing of the Past

Jun 29, 2017

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Hazel Technologies: Improving Efficiency and Reducing Waste in the Produce Supply Chain

Jun 15, 2017

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OnFarm: Turning Data into Better Farming

Jun 8, 2017

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Conservis: Meeting the Global Demand for Agriculture

May 25, 2017

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Holganix: Environmentally Sustainable Agriculture Technology: Finding an answer to the increasing consumer concern over use of GMOs

Apr 13, 2017

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Agrible: Bringing Predictive Analytics to the Farm

Apr 6, 2017

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ProteoSense: Making Foodborne Illness a Thing of the Past

Mar 23, 2017

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Benson Hill: Innovation in Agriculture: plant biology, data analytics and cloud computing

Feb 2, 2017

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Holganix: Environmentally Sustainable Agriculture Technology: Finding an answer to the increasing consumer concern over use of GMOs

Jan 12, 2017

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Consideration

With 2021 well underway and with public markets still strong, we think it is an important time to highlight some of the key private market, venture investment themes that iSelect fund has identified for the year. We believe technologies transforming the Agriculture, Food and Wellness markets will flourish, with a focus on four areas: technologies that enable better food choices to drive better health outcomes, technologies that drive better, more profitable farm operations, technologies that drive the Consumerization of Healthcare, and biome-based treatment technologies. At iSelect, we invest for impact AND performance. We offer qualified investors access to emerging growth companies through our national venture capital strategy. Our unique structure allows our investors to continue to invest in these companies as they develop.

Timing

Why is now the right time for venture? The answer is that now is not explicitly the right time. Venture is something we need in our economy at all times. Now is not better than any other particular time. The question is, why ever stop? When we look at the challenges we’re facing in food and healthcare the reality is there is someone, somewhere who has an insight about how to build a product that will solve those problems. And if they put the right resources to it, they will succeed. As long as we need new technology to make life better or make our lives more enjoyable, we need venture capital to help fuel those entrepreneurs.

What is iSelect as a product?

iSelect is a very unique product, but when you break it into its parts it’s fairly easy to understand. On the front end we’re a traditional venture capital fund. We have a diligence process. We have an investment process. We have categories of industries where we have focus and real expertise, and we invest in companies in those areas that meet requirements for the fund. On the back end we’re unique in that we don’t raise a large amount of capital at one time and deploy it over the life of our fund. Each deal that we bring onto the fund, our investors have to prove and determine to invest in that deal. We have to constantly prove our diligence standards. It’s accessible, transparent and easy for investors to come in and see our comprehensive process.

What is the ideal iSelect company?

We are looking for founders that are passionate and we want the problem they’re trying to solve to be big, real, and painful. We want the solution to be revolutionary and we want our capital to be able to help them solve that problem. We want to know that they have customers involved and that the solution they’ve come up with actually meets those customers’ and market needs. And we want the team to be capital efficient with the money they’re spending.

What does the ideal iSelect company look like?

We’re looking for a company that has an opportunity to have a 10x return to our investment or greater in a period of three to seven years. What excites us at iSelect are companies that are solving big problems. We want companies that are going to be the Monsantos of the future. Not just in the size and the scope, but the impact they have on people’s lives. We want to create positive impacts on people’s lives, so we invest in areas like agricultural production and areas like producing healthy foods for our kids. They are problems that impact real people’s lives on a daily basis. That’s what we’re trying to do at iSelect. We’re trying to solve the big problems out there. Find ways to bring capital to the entrepreneurs who are the real heroes out there getting up every morning, beating away at these things that are problems that you and me and everyone else faces in their everyday lives.

What is iSelect?

iSelect is a venture capital firm. What that means is we look at hundreds and hundreds of different companies and we apply tough diligence standards to each of them, looking at whether the team has a good plan for growing the business, whether the team is qualified and credible, and more. We do that to resolve the few who provide the best opportunities for investors. And then iSelect takes that smaller set of investments and goes to investors who are interested in venture capital and provides a way for them to invest in these companies, either individually or all at once. We co-invest alongside other venture capitalists. We source transactions through to an exit where the company would become public or get bought. And we manage that whole investment process on behalf of our investors.