Invest with impact

Investors who “Invest with Impact” are forward-thinkers, viewing their investments as catalysts for societal progress. They value sustainable solutions, acknowledging their superior performance and long-term market viability. These investors champion sectors that reflect their values, from green energy to advanced farming techniques and life-enhancing healthcare innovations. They understand the broader implications of their investments on retirement and longevity, favoring ventures that improve quality of life. Their investment decisions echo their vision of a world thriving economically, socially, and environmentally. This unique breed of investors not only seeks wealth creation but also strives to shape a better world, leaving a lasting legacy. Their approach underscores their belief that investing with impact is about much more than finance – it’s about contributing to a sustainable future. Investments that are the right kind of investment for themselve, for their family and for society.

iSelect has deliberately focused on investments and companies that make a positive impact on our society, as well as on the bottom line.
We are not passionate about backing the latest app or consumer entertainment product. iSelects portfolio is attempting to save lives, save our food supply and positively impact our environment. We are very excited to come to work each day to further this worthy effort.

iSelect Portfolio Impact Summary – Food and Agriculture Companies

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How iSelect is Investing with Impact Without Sacrificing Performance

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iSelect Invests for Impact and Performance: 3 Case Studies

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Investment Areas

iSelect invests in four verticals, three of which are directly impact-oriented — Agriculture, Healthcare, and Resource Efficiency. In Agriculture, we are focused on plant sciences, seed genetics, and sustainability. In Healthcare, we are investing in immunotherapy, personalized medicine, and consumerism. In Resource Efficiency, one of our companies is using AI/machine learning to cost-efficiently save energy, and another is developing a more sustainable means to produce natural rubber.

However, even in our 4th vertical, B2B, we have invested in a company that is enabling part-time workers and agencies to more efficiently find each other and manage the process of employment – thereby positively impacting a growing segment of our workforce and economy. We have another company that is deploying a different model for education and one that is improving the job placement process for recent college graduates.

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Co-Invest Alongside Top Venture Investors

In venture capital, it always pays to partner with others. iSelect co-invests alongside many of the top VC investors in the industry, including subject matter experts in agriculture, software, healthcare, resource efficiency and more. This ensures access to the best deals in the market, as well as giving our investors opportunities to invest with the best in the business, accessing deals that would otherwise be closed to them.

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Bonumose: Creating Healthy, Affordable Sugars From Agriculture Waste Products

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RNA Is Becoming the New DNA, Opening New Doors in Medicine

Gila Therapeutics: New Solutions for the Obesity Crisis

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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.

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iSelect Portfolio Impact Summary – Food and Agriculture Companies

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Co-Invest Alongside Top Venture Investors

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Consideration

Timing

What is iSelect as a product?

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What does the ideal iSelect company look like?

What is iSelect?