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Forget Cryptocurrencies. The Real Opportunities are in Entrepreneurship
It seems like everyone is pitching a new cryptocurrency “investment” these days.
Telegram raised more than $1.5 billion in an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) this year, and startups like Dragon, Filecoin and Tezos...
Meet the Davos on the Delta Philanthropy Partner: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
The mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. Consistent with the vision of our founder Danny Thomas, no...
Food Insecurity Is the Biggest Threat to Life On Earth, Except That it Isn’t
Are we running out of food?
The short answer is yes. As of 2016, there were roughly 815 million undernourished people in the world. Beyond that, several billion suffer levels of...
MIT OpenAg Is the Future of Agriculture. Here’s How We’re Helping
The MIT Media Lab is reimagining the food supply. It’s called the Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg) and it is staffed by a team of researchers that has been working since 2014 to create...
Why It Matters That We’re Talking About Gender Discrimination in Agriculture
Agrilyst CEO Allison Kopf has something to say.
After several years in agriculture, she’s seen the impact that gender discrimination can have on women in the industry, leaving them feeling overlooked, marginalized and...
Corporate Venture Capital Is Reaching New Heights, and That’s a Good Thing
Is corporate venture capital (CVC) -- the investment of corporate funds directly in external startup companies -- the future of VC funding?
The numbers don’t lie. Global CVC activity reached record highs in...
Why the Midwest’s ‘Blue Collar Silicon Valley’ Is About More Than Just ‘Mid-Tech’
The Midwest is different than Silicon Valley.
Where they have deep roots in silicon development, software and other IT fields, we bring different skills to the table.
St. Louis knows agriculture...
What the ‘Rise of the Rest’ Is Still Missing
The headline of a recent post on Recode says it all: “A whopping 80% of all venture capital investment goes to just three states. That has to change.”
Peter Thiel is one of the savviest investors of our time. His $2.5 billion net worth is proof of that. So when Thiel says the next big innovations will be born in the... The U.S. economy grew at roughly 2.5% last year, below the 3% benchmark that policymakers have targeted going forward, indicating a general economic slowdown that might be difficult to reverse. Are retiring Baby... The population is aging, that much we know. But it’s the implications of this for individuals that should really have the attention of financial advisors.
Up to three-fourths of Americans are chronically dehydrated, and the condition can be far more debilitating than it might seem. Mild dehydration -- literally, not drinking enough water on a day-to-day basis --... iSelect Fund, The Van Trump Report and The Yield Lab Institute are pleased to announce the launch of a new weekly webinar series entitled Agrifood Conversations featuring the best in agricultural innovation. With... Based in Brooklyn, NY, Agrilyst’s SaaS-based platform provides indoor farmers with data-driven insights to make more profitable production decisions, optimizing labor cost efficiency and improving crop yield. With Agrilyst, indoor growers create seeding... Based in Boulder, Colo., Rebound Technologies is commercializing a freeze point suppression cooling cycle technology that targets the most critical part of the cold chain: refrigeration.
The small town of Marshall, Calif. probably isn’t the first place most people would expect to find the latest in precision agriculture, but don’t tell that to Josh and Albert Blake. That’s because... From AgDaily: Software, social media and the latest wearable gadgets might be getting all the attention, but its the technological changes that are shaking up the agriculture market that are really going to... If a person’s DNA is the roadmap of their lifetime health, their RNA is more of a real-time barometer, recording what happens in their body on a minute-by-minute basis. Our DNA stores and... Agrilyst, the intelligence platform for indoor farms, is pleased to announce the recent closure of its latest strategic fundraising round. New investors included iSelect Fund, Argonautic Ventures, Horizons Lab and Onlan Capital Ventures,... This is iSelect's monthly venture update for the month of January 2018. Learn about Mark Zuckerberg's trip to St. Louis, what iSelect offers to entrepreneurs, what our portfolio companies have been up to,... As of the end of 2017, iSelect had invested in more than 30 startup companies, created more than 300 new jobs, our portfolio companies raised more than $160 million and the total value... The modern world has a serious problem with sugar. As of 2015, the average American consumes more than 129 pounds of sugar each year, according to the USDA, more than double what we... 
Peter Thiel Is Bullish on the Midwest. So Are We
Are Retiring Boomers to Blame for Slow Economic Growth?
Why it Matters That Financial Advisors Are Becoming ‘Longevity Navigators’
Dehydration Nation: Preventing One of the Most Common Health Risks in Real-Time
Agrifood Conversations, a New Agriculture Innovation Webinar Series
Agrilyst: Developing New Tools to Help Indoor Farmers Thrive
It’s Getting Cold in Here: Transforming Modern Refrigeration With Control and Efficiency
HerdDogg: Bringing IoT to the Field
Ag Venture Capital: Here’s What Investors Are Watching in 2018
RNA Is Becoming the New DNA, Opening New Doors in Medicine
Agrilyst Closes Strategic Funding Round
iSelect Monthly Update: January 2018
A Note from iSelect CEO Carter Williams: 2017 Year in Review
Bonumose: Creating Healthy, Affordable Sugars From Agriculture Waste Products
