Cleaner, Cheaper and More Sustainable
Whether it’s in the realm of energy, or water, or agriculture, or health, at iSelect, we believe in profitably doing more with less. We view resource efficiency not as a sustainability challenge to be won, but an opportunity for smart innovations to carve out a place in the market. iSelect is doing this by supporting companies that are driving this change — helping commercial real estate companies save 20-50% of their energy bills, helping farmers reduce their water usage by up to 30%, and creating sustainable new sources of natural products such as rubber.
iSelect Portfolio Companies
iSelect focuses on early-stage resource efficiency companies that are poised to help push the next sustainability revolution forward. We deliberately invest in companies that can make a positive impact on our society, as well as on the bottom line.
Location: Austin, TX
Prior Round Funding: Series B
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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
Prior Round Funding: Series A
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Rebound Technologies builds IcePoint, a novel cooling technology that delivers unmatched control and efficiency to industrial freezers.
Meet Our Selection Committee
Our Resource Efficiency Selection Committee consists of industry and subject matter experts who help guide iSelect’s investment decisions. With firsthand experience and a true pulse on the industry, we consider these individuals key to our success in finding and investing in resource efficiency innovation.
Mr. Tom Willis serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Conestoga Energy Partners LLC. Mr. Willis is responsible for all aspects of the business. He joined Conestoga in November 2006. He possesses widespread knowledge in…
Mr. Steve Barr is a Co-Founder of Osborn & Barr Communications, Inc. and served as its Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Barr has more than 35 years of marketing and communications planning experience. He is a…
Mr. Piper has extensive experience in start-up company development in founder, investor, board member, and executive roles. His experience encompasses intellectual property assessment, building strong development and management teams, raising private investment and government funding,…
Mr. Waserstein is currently the Founder and Managing Partner of SOIL Funds Management, LLC. The firm targets control and semi-control investments in resource efficiency, renewable energy, and other sustainable businesses. It’s inaugural fund, Sustainable Opportunities…
Mr. Conser has very deep and broad experience in emerging energy technology, and is an expert in both theory and practice corporate innovation and venturing. Russ currently serves as a board member to StarRotor Corporation,…
Mr. Ware is the founder of Advance Capital Markets, Inc. a private investment firm with a long and successful track record in the energy and power industries. He served as a financial advisor and then…
Mr. Nelson has over 20 years of energy, entrepreneurial, business management and technology development/research experience. He is currently managing partner at Saoradh Energy Partners LLC and was recently president of Ward Alternative Energy (a Saoradh…
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Resources and News
Food Insecurity Is the Biggest Threat to Life On Earth, Except That it Isn’t
Are we running out of food? The short answer is yes. As of 2016, there were roughly 815 million undernourished people in the world. Beyond that, several billion suffer levels of serious micronutrient malnourishment. But the United Nations says that the world’s...
MIT OpenAg Is the Future of Agriculture. Here’s How We’re Helping
The MIT Media Lab is reimagining the food supply. It’s called the Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg) and it is staffed by a team of researchers that has been working since 2014 to create healthier, more engaging, and more inventive future food systems.
Agrilyst: Developing New Tools to Help Indoor Farmers Thrive
Based in Brooklyn, NY, Agrilyst’s SaaS-based platform provides indoor farmers with data-driven insights to make more profitable production decisions, optimizing labor cost efficiency and improving crop yield. With Agrilyst, indoor growers create seeding plans, schedule harvests, assign tasks, manage climate and nutrient density, and forecast yield, sales, and varietal performance.
It’s Getting Cold in Here: Transforming Modern Refrigeration With Control and Efficiency
Based in Boulder, Colo., Rebound Technologies is commercializing a freeze point suppression cooling cycle technology that targets the most critical part of the cold chain: refrigeration.
Agrilyst Closes Strategic Funding Round
Agrilyst, the intelligence platform for indoor farms, is pleased to announce the recent closure of its latest strategic fundraising round. New investors included iSelect Fund, Argonautic Ventures, Horizons Lab and Onlan Capital Ventures, with existing investors Compound and New York State Innovation Venture Capital Fund joining as a follow-on.
Agrible: Helping CPGs Leverage Farm-Level Predictive Analytics
Supply chain management for the agriculture industry is a tricky thing. First of all, the industry itself is sprawling and opaque. It all starts with farmers in the field, but as soon as those crops are harvested they move on to distribution, processing, packaging...
Meet the Companies That Are Revolutionizing Organics
The market for organics is changing, fast. According to a new report published this week in The Wall Street Journal, sales of organic crops are soaring, but the prices paid for those products are dropping steadily due to increased imports and new competition in the...
Clean/Cheap Energy: Boosting Real Estate Net Asset Value
Let’s say you’re the CFO of a REIT managing 20 million square feet of commercial floorspace. Chances are you’re paying $2.35 per square foot in utility expense, roughly $47 million annually. If you knew you could reliably cut 30% of this expense, adding $14 million...
iSelect Adds New Portfolio Company: Bractlet
Bractlet – The Cutting Edge of Energy Insight Alec Manfre, CEO and Co-Founder Matthew Lynch, CPO and Co-Founder Brian Smith, CTO and Co-Founder Talk about your “movers and shakers.” The three founders of Bractlet know a thing or two about moving and shaking up the...