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iSELECT FUND

Founders Michael Kime

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Total investments 79
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$12M
Portfolio companies 51
Rounds per year 6.58
Lead investments 8
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.35
Exits 4
Key employees 8
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Agriculture
  • Software
  • Farming
Summary

In 2013 was created iSELECT FUND, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the St Louis. The company was established in North America in United States.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The average startup value when the investment from iSELECT FUND is 1-5 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2015. Opposing the other organizations, this iSELECT FUND works on 27 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Agriculture, SaaS. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Benson Hill Biosystems, ImmunoPhotonics, Gremlin Social For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the iSELECT FUND, startups are often financed by BioGenerator, Missouri Technology Corporation, Y Combinator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Cultivation Capital, Missouri Technology Corporation, BioGenerator. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Cultivation Capital, Argonautic Ventures, Missouri Technology Corporation.

The fund was created by Michael Kime. Besides them, we counted 8 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Holobiome

Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
09 Oct 2024 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Triplebar

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$20M25 Oct 2023 Emeryville, California, United States

MEND

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Nutraceutical
Nutrition
$15M06 Jun 2023 New York, New York, United States

Pluton Biosciences

AgTech
Biotechnology
$16M24 May 2023 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

Mercy BioAnalytics

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$41M03 Apr 2023 Natick, Massachusetts, United States

Growers Edge

Agriculture
Farming
Financial Services
FinTech
$15M13 Feb 2023 Iowa, United States

EarthOptics

Information Technology
$27M18 Jan 2023 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

AgriWebb

Enterprise Software
Livestock
SaaS
Software
$7M11 Oct 2022 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Pattern Ag

Agriculture
AgTech
Farming
$35M25 Aug 2022 California, United States
News
Sentera Raises $25M in Series C Funding

– Sentera from Minneapolis MN provides an AI-powered platform that fives time sensitive insights to optimize decisions and improve outcomes for stakeholders throughout the agricultural supply chain.
– The company raised $25m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) and S2G Ventures with participation from Akroyd LLC, KuE Capital, Continental Grain Company, iSelect Fund and Middleland Capital.
– The new investment will be used to expand operations and business reach.

Molecular Assemblies Closes $24M Series A

– Molecular Assemblies is a private life sciences company developing an enzymatic DNA synthesis technology designed to power the next generation of DNA-based products.
– The company announced that it has closed an oversubscribed $24m Series A financing with significant investment from Agilent Technologies, iSelect Fund, Codexis, Alexandria Venture Investments, and Argonautic Ventures.

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Total investments 79
Average round size 12M
Rounds per year 6.58
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.35
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.87

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Holobiome

Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
09 Oct 2024 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Triplebar

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$20M25 Oct 2023 Emeryville, California, United States

MEND

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Nutraceutical
Nutrition
$15M06 Jun 2023 New York, New York, United States

Pluton Biosciences

AgTech
Biotechnology
$16M24 May 2023 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

Mercy BioAnalytics

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$41M03 Apr 2023 Natick, Massachusetts, United States

Growers Edge

Agriculture
Farming
Financial Services
FinTech
$15M13 Feb 2023 Iowa, United States

EarthOptics

Information Technology
$27M18 Jan 2023 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

AgriWebb

Enterprise Software
Livestock
SaaS
Software
$7M11 Oct 2022 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Pattern Ag

Agriculture
AgTech
Farming
$35M25 Aug 2022 California, United States
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