# iSelect Fund: portfolio, investments and team

> iSelect Fund is a vc firm based in United States. 15 investments on record, latest Oct 2019. Portfolio, stages, co-investors and team.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/fund/iselect-fund (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

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# iSelect Fund

Filed with the SEC to raise a fund in Dec 2024, closing $97M. Last cheque observed Oct 2019.

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Quiet New fund $97M, Dec 2024 VC firm

Pre-seed Seed Series A Agtech In Vitro Diagnostics Fashion

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Cheques on record

**0%** of best year **0** **cheques in 12 months**, 15 on record

Since the last cheque **2587** days **00** hrs **00** min **00** sec

Median round **$10M** Cheque size, as they say **$250K – $2.0M** Rounds led **1 of 15** Sole investor **7 rounds** Mostly in **United States, 100%**

Pitch iSelect Fund

## iSelect Fund highlights

- 01 15 rounds on record
- 02 Mostly Seed and Series A: 80% of its rounds
- 03 Sole investor in 7 rounds, median $3.0M

## What they do

> As venture investors, we take a balanced portfolio approach, using diversification, and maximizing optionality, to narrow risk. From their own website

- **Type:** VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- **Cheque size:** $250K – $2.0M as they say
- **Stages:** Pre-seed Seed Series A Series B Growth Pre-IPO
- **Sectors:** Agtech In Vitro Diagnostics Fashion
- **Based in:** Saint Louis, United States
- **Cold pitches:** Not accepted

## The record

Every round we can evidence, newest first **15 appearances**

- **2019** 3 rounds
- **Oct** **[Molecular Assemblies](https://millionrounds.com/company/molecular-assemblies)** Series A · US · FinSMEs **$12M** *Led*
- **May** **[Artemis](https://millionrounds.com/company/artemis)** Series A · US · FinSMEs **$8.0M** With 3 others
- **Apr** **[Flywheel](https://millionrounds.com/company/flywheel)** Series A · US · Americaninno **$6.0M** Sole investor
- **2018** 1 round
- **Jul** **[HerdDogg](https://millionrounds.com/company/herddogg)** Seed · US · FinSMEs **$2.3M** With 1 other
- **2017** 2 rounds
- **Sept** **[Cofactor Genomics](https://millionrounds.com/company/cofactor-genomics)** US · FinSMEs **$18M** With 5 others
- **Mar** **[Benson Hill Biosystems](https://millionrounds.com/company/benson-hill-biosystems)** Series B · US · FinSMEs **$25M** With 10 others
- **2015** 1 round
- **Jan** **[Kultevat, Inc.](https://millionrounds.com/company/kultevat-inc)** Venture **Undisclosed** Sole investor
- **2014** 6 rounds
- **Nov** **[Gremln](https://millionrounds.com/company/gremln)** Seed · US **$500K** With 1 other
- **Sept** **[ImmunoPhotonics](https://millionrounds.com/company/immunophotonics)** Series A · US **$1.8M** With 2 others
- **Aug** **[Benson Hill Biosystems](https://millionrounds.com/company/benson-hill-biosystems)** Seed · US **$50K** Sole investor
- **Jun** **[Benson Hill Biosystems](https://millionrounds.com/company/benson-hill-biosystems)** US **Undisclosed** Sole investor
- **Apr** **[adFreeq](https://millionrounds.com/company/adfreeq)** US **Undisclosed** Sole investor
- **Feb** **[Time To Cater](https://millionrounds.com/company/time-to-cater)** Seed · US **$103K** With 1 other
- **2013** 2 rounds
- **Sept** **[Tansna Therapeutics](https://millionrounds.com/company/tansna-therapeutics)** US **Undisclosed** Sole investor
- **Aug** **[Time To Cater](https://millionrounds.com/company/time-to-cater)** US **Undisclosed** Sole investor

An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.

## The team

Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration **7 named**

CM **Craig Meredith Herron** Executive Officer i Filing they signed

JC **James Carter William** President, Managing Director and Board Member i Form ADV

JC **James Carter Williams** Executive Officer, Director i Filing they signed

JM **James Meyer** Director i Filing they signed

MD **Michael Duaine Kime** Senior Vice President, Managing Director and Board Member i Form ADV

RP **Richard Paul Imperiale** Chairman, Equity Owner and Board Member i Form ADV

SS **Susan Slavik Williams** Equity Owner and Board Member i Form ADV

We also hold **102** people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.

## What the register says

From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law

**$108M** gross assets of its funds Oct 2026

**Exempt** reporting adviser venture or small private funds

- **Legal name:** Iselect Fund Management, LLC
- **SEC number:** CRD 285182

## What they claim to have backed

From their own portfolio page (on their website)

**35** of 60 we have independently watched raise

[AgriWebb Australia Pty Ltd](https://millionrounds.com/company/agriwebb)[Agrible](https://millionrounds.com/company/agrible)[Artemisag](https://millionrounds.com/company/artemis)[Autonomous Pivot](https://millionrounds.com/company/autonomous-pivot)[Bensonhill](https://millionrounds.com/company/benson-hill)[Biolumic](https://millionrounds.com/company/biolumic)[BlueTrace](https://millionrounds.com/company/bluetrace)[Cofactorgenomics](https://millionrounds.com/company/cofactor-genomics)[Cyrus Biotechnology](https://millionrounds.com/company/cyrus-biotechnology)[EarthOptics](https://millionrounds.com/company/earthoptics)[Entacmedical](https://millionrounds.com/company/entac-medical)[Faeth Therapeutics](https://millionrounds.com/company/faeth-therapeutics)[Geltor](https://millionrounds.com/company/geltor)[Geneoscopy, Inc](https://millionrounds.com/company/geneoscopy)[Gilatherapeutics](https://millionrounds.com/company/gila-therapeutics)[Harpe Bioherbicide Solutions,](https://millionrounds.com/company/harpe-bio)[Healionics](https://millionrounds.com/company/healionics)[Herddogg](https://millionrounds.com/company/herddogg)[Holobiome](https://millionrounds.com/company/holobiome)[Immunophotonics](https://millionrounds.com/company/immunophotonics)[Infinant Health](https://millionrounds.com/company/infinant-health)[Kulabio](https://millionrounds.com/company/kula-bio)[Mend](https://millionrounds.com/company/mend)[Mercaris](https://millionrounds.com/company/mercaris)[Mobilionsystems](https://millionrounds.com/company/mobilion-systems)[Molecular Assemblies](https://millionrounds.com/company/molecular-assemblies)[Neurosmedical](https://millionrounds.com/company/neuros-medical)[Plastomics](https://millionrounds.com/company/plastomics)[Scibac](https://millionrounds.com/company/scibac)[Sentera](https://millionrounds.com/company/sentera)[Stony Creek Colors,](https://millionrounds.com/company/stony-creek-colors)[Tillable](https://millionrounds.com/company/tillable)[Tradelanes](https://millionrounds.com/company/tradelanes)[Vence](https://millionrounds.com/company/vence)[Vestaron](https://millionrounds.com/company/vestaron) Alden Scientific Alphabiome Arable Bond Pet Foods Bonumose Bractlet Brightseedbio Edacious, PBC Euclises FINRA FINRA’s BrokerCheck Flywheel Gene-matters Growers Edge Financial, Inc Harvest CROO, LLC Kultevat Madewithcocoon Mercybio Miraterra Technologies Corporation Nabaco Nextsense Nixbiosensors One Plantresponse Plutonbio and 8 more

Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.

New fund on file

**$97M**

raised in Dec 2024

From its SEC filing, not a journalist: a firm that has just raised has money to deploy.

## The cheque

Pre-seed Seed Series A

Median round joined **$10M** the round, not its cheque Alone, median **$3.0M**

Led 1 of 15 rounds **7%**

- **Said size:** $250K – $2.0M
- **Sole investor:** 7 rounds
- **Last cheque:** Oct 2019

Rounds by stage said on their site

- Seed said *4*
- Series A said *4*
- Series B said *1*
- Venture *1*
- Pre-seed said *-*
- Growth said *-*
- Pre-IPO said *-*

Cheques by year Led Joined

2013 2019

Often in the room with

- [Cultivation Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/cultivation-capital) 3
- [Alexandria Real Estate Equities](https://millionrounds.com/fund/alexandria) 2

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## Who they invest alongside

The investors most often in the same rounds as iSelect Fund. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed.

[**Cultivation Capital** VC firm **3** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/cultivation-capital)[**Alexandria Real Estate Equities** VC firm **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/alexandria)

## Recently backed

The latest companies iSelect Fund put money into.

[**Molecular Assemblies** $12M · Oct 2019](https://millionrounds.com/company/molecular-assemblies)[**Artemis** $8.0M · May 2019](https://millionrounds.com/company/artemis)[**HerdDogg** $2.3M · Jul 2018](https://millionrounds.com/company/herddogg)[**Cofactor Genomics** $18M · Sept 2017](https://millionrounds.com/company/cofactor-genomics)

## Quick answers about iSelect Fund

### What does iSelect Fund invest in?

iSelect Fund invests most often at Seed and Series A (80% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Agtech, In Vitro Diagnostics and Fashion.

### How active is iSelect Fund?

15 investments on record, 0 of them in the last 12 months, and it led 1. The most recent was in Oct 2019.

### What has iSelect Fund invested in recently?

Its most recent investments on record: Molecular Assemblies (Series A, Oct 2019), Artemis (Series A, May 2019) and Flywheel (Series A, Apr 2019).

### How big are iSelect Fund's cheques?

The median round it joins is $10M. It says it writes cheques of $250K to $2.0M.

### Does iSelect Fund lead rounds?

Sometimes: it led 1 of its 15 investments on record (7%).

### Where does iSelect Fund invest?

Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (100%).

### Is iSelect Fund investing now?

No investments in the last 12 months; the latest was in Oct 2019.

### Who does iSelect Fund invest alongside?

Most often Cultivation Capital (3 rounds together) and Alexandria Real Estate Equities (2 rounds together).

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