Stony Creek Colors sells sustainable, plant-based dyes to textile manufacturers, allowing fashion brands to offer consumers more environmentally friendly clothing. The company’s products are of consistent, industrial quality, but without the toxic wastewater of synthetic, petroleum-based dyes.
Wild Type is developing a platform to allow any meat to be cultured in the lab, multiplying basic animal cells and using well-defined procedures to effectively culture meat. Rather than focus on any one type of protein, the company’s technology can be used apply across all kinds of different animal species based on their similar genetic markers, opening up the door to everything from beef, to chicken, to fish and more.
On our November 2019 Portfolio Update, we dove deep into how the iSelect portfolio has grown over the past few years, with a look at the good things that are coming for the fund in 2020. Plus, we discuss:
Markets: What’s happening in the broader U.S. venture capital market as of 2019 and where iSelect sits in the mix.
The Fund: A look at iSelect’s new Bravo Portfolio approach and what it means for our investors.
Innovation in Food & Health: Venture team insights into a pair of iSelect portfolio companies: Vestaron and HepaTx.
Using state-of-the-art cell culture techniques, Higher Steaks is growing high-quality meats using just small samples of animal cells, feeding them a rich and animal-free growth media. The meats created using this technology do not require the use any antibiotics and are produced under clean conditions reducing the risk of food-borne diseases, and a single blood sample could allow indefinite production of many meat products. What’s more, cell-based meat has the potential to reduce CO2 emission and land and water usage.
Waste, fertilizer, feces. Manure is one substance that is available all over the world in mass quantities. But it’s also one that, to-date, has not yet been fully leveraged. A number of different innovators are working to change that, developing new manure-based technologies that use what are today waste products to do everything from create sustainable energy, to provide clean water, to provide nutrients to crops. Please join us for a panel discussion about the latest innovations in manure technology, the companies currently working on solutions, and the opportunities we’re seeing to help this market develop.
