Startup Ecosystems

One of the things that we’ve discovered is that every place, these ecosystems, have something that they do best, that they’re special about. And, if you go in and you talk to people about where they’ve had success in the past, where their expertise... Read more

Innovation Anarchy: Doctor, Please Stop, You’re Killing Me!

I learned three important lesson about innovation early in my career as an engineer at McDonnell Douglas. It was 1989 and I was assigned to work on the Navy’s F/A-18 Hornet, a carrier-based fighter jet. Originally designed in 1976, the F/A-18 was planned to remain... Read more

David Yocom, Venture for America Fellow, Joins iSelect Ventures Team

iSelect is pleased to welcome David Yocom, a 2017 Venture For America Fellow, to its Ventures team, where he will be focused on investment due diligence and portfolio maintenance. As a Venture Analyst, he will also be helping to build out iSelect’s Market Networks program and assisting in other outreach efforts.

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What Is the iSelect Diligence Process?

Our diligence is pretty extensive. It’s about a 60-day process. We have a dual path of both business and legal diligence. From a business standpoint, once the internal review’s over and we made a decision to go forward, we engage an outside group of... Read more

Don’t Worry Dad, We Are Just Editing Our Genes  

I was in Phoenix recently meeting with some prospective investors. At the end of the dinner presentation, I sat with a table of younger investors and we started talking about genomics, CRISPR and 23andMe. Then the floodgates opened… These young people not only... Read more