The Bee Corp: Empowering Growers and Beekeepers with Big Data Insights into Beehive Health

The Bee Corp: Empowering Growers and Beekeepers with Big Data Insights into Beehive Health

The Bee Corp: Empowering Growers and Beekeepers with Big Data Insights into Beehive Health

The Bee Corp. applies data analytics to beehives to help growers with pollination. It developed a baseline statistical model of a healthy hive in 2017 and has since expanded to new models to determine hive strength for pollination. Its goal is to help beekeepers and growers make better decisions with non-invasive, unbiased hive grading.

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PlantResponse: Bringing Science to the Service of Agriculture

PlantResponse: Bringing Science to the Service of Agriculture

PlantResponse: Bringing Science to the Service of Agriculture

PlantResponse Biotech is a plant biotechnology company specializing in plant-innate immunity, drought and stress tolerance, and nutrient use efficiency. The company utilizes its expertise in the science of plants to understand key crop challenges and develop sustainable solutions to address those challenges.

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Kula Bio: An Innovative Approach to Nitrogen Fertilizers

Kula Bio: An Innovative Approach to Nitrogen Fertilizers

Kula Bio: An Innovative Approach to Nitrogen Fertilizers

Kula Bio is developing sustainable, biological solutions for modern agriculture. It supercharges natural nitrogen-fixing microbes with renewable energy in order to deliver reliable, low-cost organic biofertilizers. By rewiring the energy flow from sun to soil, the company is tackling the wholesale replacement of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers and eliminating the division between affordable practices, and better stewardship of land, sea and air.

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iSelect Portfolio Overview and Opportunities – June 2019

iSelect Portfolio Overview and Opportunities – June 2019

iSelect Portfolio Overview and Opportunities – June 2019

In June, we discussed Bonumose and Shield Diagnostics and learned how both companies are innovating how we approach our health. On the one hand, Bonumose is reducing the use of unhealthy sugars in our food whereas Shield Diagnostics is preventing antibiotic resistance.

Each month, iSelect hosts a webinar for investors, advisors, and other interested parties where we will discuss the latest news from our portfolio, the trends we are seeing, as well as feature two of our portfolio companies.

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Biovante: Proven Formulas for Better Seed, Soil and Plant Health

Biovante: Proven Formulas for Better Seed, Soil and Plant Health

Biovante: Proven Formulas for Better Seed, Soil and Plant Health

No two farms are alike. Climates are different, soil compositions are different, even production goals are different. That’s why, for farmers looking to augment the biological and nutritional needs of their crops, there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Learn how one company is addressing this problem with a series of tailored, specialty yield-boosting additives at “Proven Formulas for Better Seed, Soil and Plant Health,” a webinar featuring Chris Masters, CEO of Biovante.

Biovante is a specialty agriculture company that takes a holistic approach to helping producers raising yield averages and meet their other goals. Most of Biovante’s products are biologically-based, designed to enhance growth and restore balance to the crop environment, whether that means promoting uniform emergence, developing more balanced nutrition, or even changing the structure of the soil. Whatever the farmer needs to improve performance on their land.

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