Tough Problems, Transformational Solutions
70 companies. 2,500 employees. 500 investors. iSelect is not just a venture capital fund, it is a network of innovators, problem solvers and investors thinking differently about big problems in food, health and nutrition. Opportunities in their own right, but together a network that transforms food and health.
Food & Agriculture Portfolio Companies
Improving food yield, nutrition and taste while putting more carbon into the soil.
Location: Champaign, IL
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Agrible sells software that connects the agricultural supply chain from field-to-market, providing critical sustainability,agronomic, and yield data.
Location: Sydney, -1
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AgriWebb is building the digital backbone of the livestock industry, connecting animal and land management to the supply chain and the consumer.
Location: San Francisco, CA
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Arable, the leader in crop intelligence, advances digital agriculture globally. Forward-thinking agribusinesses, farming operations, and food and beverage companies use Arable to be more productive, sustainable, and profitable. Arable’s intuitive IoT-based solution combines reliable in-field weather, forecast, plant, soil, and irrigation data with advanced modeling and machine learning to deliver real-time, actionable insights into the entire crop system.
Location: Brooklyn, NY
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Artemis is a software company making indoor farming profitable, efficient and traceable, enabling growers to drive the indoor farming revolution.
Location: Tel Aviv, AL
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Autonomous Pivot turns center-pivot irrigation systems into a noninvasive soil/crop sensor and communications network. This network feeds an artificial intelligence decision support engine for autonomous irrigation, fertigation, and crop protection, which ultimately helps growers maximize yield and minimize inputs.
Location: St. Louis, MO
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Benson Hill is a crop improvement company that taps the natural genetic diversity of plants to develop healthier and more sustainable food. CropOS combines machine learning and big data with genome editing and plant biology to differentiate and accelerate the product development process to modernize our food system.
Location: Castine, ME
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Software platform for shellfish growers, seafood dealers, and seafood wholesalers to help improve the efficiency of their operations and take the guesswork and anxiety out of regulatory compliance
Location: Boulder, CO
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Produces high-quality animal proteins through fermentation, supplying ingredients to manufacturers for pet food, treat and supplement applications
Location: Charlottesville, VA
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Bonumose is commercializing low-glycemic index, natural sugars through a proprietary, cost-effective enzymatic process.
Location: San Francisco, CA
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Brightseed is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered nutrition discovery company that identifies unique micronutrients in the plant kingdom and maps them to specific human health conditions where they can have the highest impact.
Location: Marlborough, MA
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Accessible low cost nutritional measurement for the agrifood supply chain.
Location: San Leandro, CA
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Geltor has a platform technology that enables it to cost effectively produce sustainable and beneficial proteins for the cosmetic, food, beverage, nutritional supplement, and healthcare industries.
Location: Blacksburg, VA
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EarthOptics is building the technologies and data products that will allow for the accurate measurement and modeling of key soil attributes, enabling land managers to improve soil health and unlock the value of healthy soils.
Location: Johnston, IA
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Growers Edge offers warranty and lending products and services in the agtech marketplace. Their warranties help farmers by guaranteeing yield with the adoption of new technologies.
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Harpe Bioherbicide Solutions, Inc. (“Harpe”) is an agtech company focused on providing natural and sustainable solutions to expand and provide new opportunities for organic agriculture while reducing, replacing, and synergizing with synthetic chemical use in row & specialty crops and commercial & consumer markets.
Location: Plant City, FL
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HarvestCROO is building the premier automation and robotics solution to solve the labor shortage crisis in specialty agriculture, starting with strawberries.
Location: Longmont, CO
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HerdDogg’s patented animal wearable technologies provide animal tracking and aid in the identification of missed heats, illness, and dystocia (difficult births) for the 2.5 billion herd animals worldwide.
Location: Glen Mills, PA
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Holganix produces organic plant probiotics that make soils and plants healthier, more resilient, and more productive.
Location: Somerville, MA
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Kula Bio is an agriculture biotechnology company that aims to extend the life of microbes to unlock their biological potential and maximize their impact.
Location: St. Louis, MO
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Kultevat combines genetic breeding and chemical process engineering to produce natural rubber from the Russian dandelion in North America.
Location: Silver Spring, MD
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Mercaris is a market data service and trading platform for organic, non-GMO, and other Identity Preserved (IP) agricultural commodities.
Location: Ramat Yishai, AL
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AI based solution that helps beef and dairy farmers optimize production and increase profitability with significantly, measurable lower methane emissions
Location: Vancouver BC, AL
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Based in Vancouver, BC, Miraterra is revolutionizing soil analysis with its innovative technology for soil labs. The company’s breakthrough lies in enhancing and adapting Raman spectroscopy, a sophisticated analytical technique, for soil analysis.
Location: Oakland, CA
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TradeLanes offers a SaaS-based trade execution and automation platform that eliminates the manual tasks needed to ship ocean containers. Its interface accesses real-time data about shipments, destinations, and clients, TradeLanes simplifies the export/import process by driving efficiencies, improving visibility, and reducing errors in the process.
Location: Emeryville, CA
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PatternAg’s crop protection product delivers actionable intelligence to farmers, based on high resolution mapping of the DNA found in a farmer’s soil. With nearly 100 billion organisms per soil core, Pattern’s metagenomic DNA sequencing technology maps the unique microbial community found in a farmer’s field, identifying key opportunities to increase yield and save money. Armed with Pattern’s insights into next season’s risks, especially from the most costly pathogens like Corn Rootworm and Soybean Cyst Nematode, farmers can apply recommended protective measures to maximize their yield or save money on inputs when those risks are absent.
Location: Durham, NC
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PlantResponse Biotech is a Raleigh, NC based company that is developing and commercializing biologically related products that improve plant health and protect yield potential.
Location: Saint Louis, MO
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Plastomics has developed a proprietary genetic engineering model that can produce high performing crops through editing the chloroplast.
Location: Saint Louis, MO
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Pluton Biosciences applies systems biology to global agriculture, combining the power of microbiomes and crop genetics with genomics, environmental, and synthetic biology to solve global threats to our climate and food.
Location: Columbus, OH
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ProteoSense is building a biosensing platform for rapid, cheap and highly sensitive food safety testing.
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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Sentera is a UAV and crop analytics company delivering the most comprehensive suite of value-added hardware and software solutions available today to growers & agronomists.
Location: Springfield, TN
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Stony Creek Colors, Inc. produces eco-friendly, bio-based dyes for sale to premium denim and garment brands, as well as other consumer goods, to allow them to sell traceable and environmentally friendly products.
Location: Chicago, IL
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Digital agriculture real estate platform that allows farmers, landowners, sellers, and buyers to buy, sell, rent, manage, or finance farmland
Location: Emeryville, CA
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Triplebar Bio (“Triplebar” or the “Company”) makes products by harnessing the power of evolutionary biology to allow nature to do what it does best: design the solution itself. Triplebar captures this power through a groundbreaking hyper-throughput screening platform that couples microtechnology and hyperspeed testing with artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to give them unprecedented access to product design and testing functionality.
Location: San Diego, CA
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Vence is a livestock data management and technology company that enables the scaling of the sustainable production of nutritious grass fed and pasture raised livestock. Its initial offering is solving the labor and capital intensive problem of fencing in pastured livestock management. The benefits to livestock management include improved control of animal movement, enhanced nutritional quality of animal products, reduced land degradation, improved soil health and sequestration of carbon in the soil.
Location: Kalamazoo, MI
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Vestaron is developing new products in the crop protection industry that address the growing concerns of resistance, high costs of R&D, and safety/environmental externalities.
Location: Mississauga, CA
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Vive Crop Protection is delivering precision chemistry crop protection and fertility products that can reduce the volume of chemistry applied, reduce application costs, improve yields and improve the viability of more sustainable inputs, like biologics.
Healthcare Portfolio Companies
Aiming to reduce diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer and neurological conditions through nutrition, personalized medicine and diagnostics.
Location: Cambridge, MA
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Cocoon Biotech is a biomaterials company that uses fibroin, a protein derived from the cocoon of the silkworm, to both replace unsustainable ingredients and provide the foundation for a new generation of innovative products.
Location: St. Louis, MO
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Cofactor Genomics is a precision medicine company that focuses on RNA for its understanding of disease – initially cancer but with applicability across many diseases.
Location: Seattle, WA
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Cyrus Biotechnology is a drug discovery company that has developed and is employing innovative protein design software to make highly differentiated therapeutics. The company is building both internal and partnered protein biologics that are engineered to be safer, longer lived, more efficacious and more readily manufactured than those currently available.
Location: Germantown, TN
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Entac Medical is developing noninvasive devices for predictive and diagnostic medicine based on a novel, patented, platform technology, Previs Audio Spectral Analysis. Their first product is used to predict post operative ileus after GI surgeries.
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Euclises Pharmaceuticals is developing novel enzyme (COX-2) inhibitors designed to increase the effectiveness of chemotherapy safely
Location: San Francisco, CA
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Combines known cancer therapies with targeted and specific nutritional interventions to improve the outcome of many cancers
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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Flywheel offers a SaaS platform that provides cloud-scale data management and computational analysis.
Location: Saint Louis, MO
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Geneoscopy is developing next generation diganostics that use stool-derived RNA to prevent, detect, and guide treatment for gastrointestinal diseases.
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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GeneMatters is a digital health platform that provides scalable, on-demand genetic counseling to meet the rapidly growing demand for genetic services.
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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Gila Therapeutics is developing a treatment for obesity using naturally occurring hormones known to induce satiety, leading to weight loss.
Location: Seattle, WA
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Healionics, Inc. has developed a novel bio-material called STAR, that features strong anti-infective properties and significant reduction in the formation of scar tissue around implanted medical devices coated with the material.
Location: Palo Alto, CA
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HepaTx is a cell therapy company developing stem cell technologies to produce low-cost and scalable sources of liver cells that can be used to preserve or regenerate liver function in patients with liver failure.
Location: Cambridge, MA
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Holobiome is developing a platform for microbiome-based therapeutics to treat diseases of the central and enteric nervous systems.
Location: St. Louis, MO
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Immunophotonics has developed a novel polymer that retains cancer antigens after an ablation procedure. Injected into the tumor site after the procedure, it primes the immune system for a systemic wide response to the tumor and its metastases.
Location: Davis, CA
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Evolve Biosystems is an infant nutrition that develops microbial products that are key to the development of gut & immune health.
Location: New York, NY
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Mend is a health & nutrition startup focused on delivering nutritional & digital interventions that improve patient recovery and accelerate the adoption of healthy lifestyle choices.
Location: Natick, MA
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Mercy BioAnalytics is on a mission to save lives through the early detection of cancer. Their patented approach analyzes extracellular vesicles and shows promise in offering a highly sensitive screening test for early-stage cancers.
Location: Exton, PA
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MOBILion Systems is an analytical instrumentation company using ion mobility to substantially improve the ability to see and identify previously undetectable, clinically significant molecules in minutes.
Location: San Diego, CA
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Molecular Assemblies is developing an enzymatic DNA synthesis platform technology. Molecular Assemblies’ novel enzymatic DNA synthesis platform has the potential to fundamentally transform how we write genetic building blocks with applications across food, healthcare, energy, and beyond.
Location: Willoughby Hills, OH
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Neuros Medical, a medical device company, develops an electrical nerve block to treat chronic pain for conditions including neuroma/residual limb pain and chronic post-surgical pain.
Location: Boston, MA
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Nix Biosensors is developing a wearable device and biosensor system platform that monitors hydration in real-time, helping reduce health incidents associated with dehydration while improving performance for athletes, laborers, military personnel and the elderly.
Location: Davis, CA
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One.Bio (formerly BCD Bioscience) discovers, develops and understands naturally occurring carbohydrate based prebiotics that enable unprecedented control of the microbiome for beneficial health and nutritional outcomes.
Location: Berkeley, CA
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High efficiency continuous fermentation platform for biomanufacturing that decouples growth and production, solving the problems of contamination and genetic drift
Location: St. Louis, MO
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Readout (or The Company) has developed a low-cost breath-analysis device with clinical grade accuracy for measuring blood-ketone levels, an important indicator of a patient’s metabolism.
Location: Burlingame, CA
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SciBac is developing a platform technology called MERGE that enables the Company to efficiently combine desired traits of two microbes into one stable hybrid organism through lab-induced directed evolution.
SAAS and Resource Efficiency Portfolio Companies
Sectors with unsettled footing, the gig economy and energy.
Location: Austin, TX
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Bractlet forecasts and verifies energy savings for retrofits of energy consuming equipment in commercial buildings, enabling significant energy saving and cost reduction.
Location: Boulder, CO
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Rebound Technologies builds IcePoint, a novel cooling technology that delivers unmatched control and efficiency to industrial freezers.