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Bonumose: U.S. Patent to be Issued for “Enzymatic Production of D-Tagatose”
On September 21, 2018, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office issued Bonumose LLC a Notice of Allowance on its patent application for “Enzymatic Production of D-Tagatose.” The USPTO’s action recognizes the importance of...
Investing with Impact: The New Rules of Making a Difference
iSelect was not conceived as an impact investment fund. When we started the idea was (and continues to be) to find the best and brightest entrepreneurs outside of Silicon Valley and make lots...
Enabling the Next Generation of Healthcare IT
It’s been a long time coming, but technology is finally transforming the healthcare industry, enabling functions and services that were all but unimaginable just a few years ago. Case in point: data.
Who Has Your DNA? Why Data Privacy Is the Next Battleground in Consumer Genetics
Genetics is changing the world as we know it, and not only in the realm of healthcare and medical science. Whether it’s 23andMe delivering specific details about our ancestry, genetic science being used...
Humanity Is Dehydrated, and It Doesn’t Even Know It Yet
One thing is for sure: we’re not drinking enough water. None of us. And it’s damaging our health. That was the message of a recent article in The New York Times.
Entrepreneurs, Innovation … and the Pursuit of Happiness
As an entrepreneur, July 4th is sort of like Christmas for me. Christmas in the sense that it’s a celebration of one of my personal beliefs: that the individual is capable of unlimited...
Lost Causes and the Power of Innovation
Innovation is about more than just apps, SaaS and the Internet of Things. It’s also about cutting-edge medical treatments. It’s about taking on the most difficult cases. It’s about making the world a...
Paying It Forward: Experienced CEOs Are Bringing Their Talents Back to Startups
Startups need more than just investment. They also need experience. Experience in their markets. Experience growing and leading a team. Experience developing and marketing a product. But, that is often the one thing...
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 iSelect 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... 
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
