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Innovations in Personal Health Management (October 11, 2023)

Deep Dive: Nutrient Density & The Food System (September 13, 2023)

Future of Primary Care (May 3, 2023)

Carbon MRV in Agriculture: Measurement, Verification & Reporting (October 13, 2022)

Precision Fermentation (August 5, 2022)

Future of Fat (June 10, 2022)

Future of Home Health (April 8, 2022)

The Future of Cheese (January 28, 2022)

Metabolic Health – Science and Tools (December 15, 2021)

Longevity and Aging (December 13, 2021)

Specialty Crops: Industry Dynamics, Challenges, and Opportunities (July 13, 2021)

Value-based Care (June 2, 2021)

How CPGs are Adapting to Changing Consumer Preferences (April 22, 2021)

Advances in Nutritional Science (March 10, 2021)

Soil Carbon Measurement, Management, and Marketplaces (February 11, 2021)

The Consumerization of Healthcare (January 14, 2021)

Role of Sugar in Disease (December 10, 2020)

Nutrient Efficiency in Agriculture (November 10, 2020)

Gaps in Nutritional Research (October 21, 2020)

Specialty Crops (September 2, 2020)

Protein Precision and Efficiency (July 1, 2020)

Wearables for Digital Health (June 9, 2020)

COVID-19: Implications Across the Food System (May 28, 2020)

Medical Foods (May 1, 2020)

Artificial Intelligence in Medical Diagnostics (April 30, 2020)

Soil Health Deep Dive (March 18, 2020)

Non-invasive Cancer Diagnostics (March 4, 2020)

Robotics & Automation on the Farm (February 19, 2020)

Therapeutics Role in Inflammation (February 9, 2020)

Longitudinal Data in Healthcare (February 3, 2020)

Food Waste (January 16, 2020)

Farm Profitability and Tech Adoption (December 19, 2019)

Autoimmune Disease (December 4, 2019)

Cellular Agriculture (November 21, 2019)

Why Bioavailability Is the Next Buzzword in Food and Agriculture (October 16, 2019)

Nutrition’s Role in Inflammation (October 2, 2019)

Deep Dive: Soil Health (September 26, 2019)

Digitizing New Food Product Development (September 18, 2019)

Designing Ingredients (August 21, 2019)

Nutritional Genomics (August 7, 2019)

Shortening the Crop Development Cycle – Part 2 (July 17, 2019)

Antimicrobial Resistance in Infectious Disease & Human Health (July 10, 2019)

Shortening the Crop Development Cycle – Part 1 (June 29, 2019)

Type 2 Diabetes (June 7, 2019)

Developing World Agriculture (April 3, 2019)

Food Ingredients – Part 2 (March 20, 2019)

Functional Food Analysis (March 13, 2019)

Food Ingredients – Part 1 (February 27, 2019)

Nutrition in Healthcare (February 15, 2019)

Farm Profitability and Finance (February 6, 2019)

Nutrition’s Role in Healthcare (January 23, 2019)

Labor Shortage in Agriculture (January 16, 2019)

Hemp & Cannabinoids: Overview (December 14, 2018)

The Farm Labor Crisis (December 5, 2018)

Brain Computer Interface Analysis (November 28, 2018)

Synthetic Biology in Food & Agriculture (November 14, 2018)

Brain Computer Interfaces Overview (November 7, 2018)

Aquaculture Feed Analysis (October 31, 2018)

CRISPR in Plants Analysis (October 23, 2018)

Aquaculture Feed Overview (October 10, 2018)

Indoor Farming (October 3, 2018)

CRISPR Gene Editing in Livestock & Aquaculture (September 26, 2018)

Seafood Supply Chain (September 19, 2018)

AI in Drug Discovery (September 12, 2018)

CRISPR Gene Therapeutics in Humans (September 5, 2018)

Aquaculture Systems and Technology (August 29, 2018)

Alzheimer’s Disease: Therapeutics (August 22, 2018)

iSelect Deep Dive: CRISPR Gene Therapy in Humans (August 19, 2018)

Traumatic Brain Injury Diagnostics (August 15, 2018)

Deep Dive: Longevity (August 9, 2018)

Senolytics (August 8, 2018)

Alzheimer’s Diagnostics: Advancing the State of the Art (August 1, 2018)

Joint Warfighter Medical Research Program (July 26, 2018)

Swine Technology (July 20, 2018)

Microbiome Therapeutics for Humans (July 12, 2018)

Multi-Omic Approach to Precision Diagnostics (July 2, 2018)

Precision Cancer Medicine (July 2, 2018)

Human Microbiome Diagnostics (June 27, 2018)

Food Waste (April 25, 2018)

Blood Based Cancer Diagnostics (April 25, 2018)

Biohacking: Revolutionizing Health and Redefining the Future (April 25, 2018)

Gene Therapy (April 25, 2018)

Soil Microbiome (April 25, 2018)

Longevity (April 25, 2018)

Synthetic Biology (April 25, 2018)

Future of Agriculture (April 25, 2018)

Cellular Agriculture (April 25, 2018)

Tissue Engineering (April 25, 2018)

Livestock Wearables and Electronics (April 25, 2018)

Aquaculture (November 6, 2017)

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.