iSelect Fund

iSelect Fund Management, LLC is a venture capital firm based in St. Louis, Missouri, that specializes in early-stage investments, focusing on series seed, A, and B rounds. The firm targets a diverse range of industries, including agriculture, healthcare, resource efficiency, education services, diversified financial services, and B2B software. Within agriculture, iSelect emphasizes plant sciences, seed genetics, and sustainability, while in healthcare, it concentrates on immunotherapy and personalized medicine. The firm typically invests a minimum of $0.05 million in companies, primarily located in the United States, particularly in the Midwest, as well as in India. It aims for investment durations of 5 to 7 years or longer. Additionally, iSelect provides accredited clients of financial advisors with access to a carefully evaluated portfolio of promising early-stage ventures, utilizing insights from a committee of experienced entrepreneurs and venture investors.

Roland Baer

Broker Business Development

Thomas Bunn

Associate

Daniel Griffis

Associate

Craig Herron

Managing Principal

Michael Kime

Managing Principal

Mark McCall

Managing Director

Scott Prey

Product Development

Carter Williams

Chief Executive Officer & Managing Principal

David Yocom

Associate

Past deals in Missouri

Immunophotonics

Series B in 2022
ImmunoPhotonics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company that engages in the development of a proprietary novel drug product for use in an in situ autologous cancer vaccine for the treatment of metastatic solid tumor cancers. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

Benson Hill

Series D in 2020
Benson Hill is an agricultural technology company focused on crop improvement, particularly in soy protein innovation. By leveraging its proprietary CropOS™ platform, the company integrates machine learning, genomic data, and traditional breeding techniques to streamline the development of healthier and more sustainable food products. Benson Hill emphasizes unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants to empower innovators in creating flavorful and nutritious ingredients. The company operates a Crop Accelerator for rapid prototyping and is developing a diverse seed portfolio that includes protein ingredients, aquaculture, specialty animal feed, and vegetable oils. Its revenue is generated from both proprietary and non-proprietary product categories, reflecting its commitment to advancing agricultural innovation.

Benson Hill

Series C in 2019
Benson Hill is an agricultural technology company focused on crop improvement, particularly in soy protein innovation. By leveraging its proprietary CropOS™ platform, the company integrates machine learning, genomic data, and traditional breeding techniques to streamline the development of healthier and more sustainable food products. Benson Hill emphasizes unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants to empower innovators in creating flavorful and nutritious ingredients. The company operates a Crop Accelerator for rapid prototyping and is developing a diverse seed portfolio that includes protein ingredients, aquaculture, specialty animal feed, and vegetable oils. Its revenue is generated from both proprietary and non-proprietary product categories, reflecting its commitment to advancing agricultural innovation.

Journeys Metabolic

Seed Round in 2019
Readout is a digital health company with a mission to help patients better manage their own health by providing novel, clinically-backed tools to easily measure health biomarkers. Biosense was launched in early 2020 as a Class 1 medical device in the clinical, consumer, and research market after a successful clinical trial. As the only clinically-backed breath ketone measurement handheld device+app, Biosense provides full-day feedback of ketosis with unlimited measurements leading to protocol adherence and better outcomes. Biosense is used by obesity and diabetes clinics for in-home testing of ketosis, pharma and academic trials, as well as DTC via https://mybiosense.com.

Benson Hill

Series C in 2018
Benson Hill is an agricultural technology company focused on crop improvement, particularly in soy protein innovation. By leveraging its proprietary CropOS™ platform, the company integrates machine learning, genomic data, and traditional breeding techniques to streamline the development of healthier and more sustainable food products. Benson Hill emphasizes unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants to empower innovators in creating flavorful and nutritious ingredients. The company operates a Crop Accelerator for rapid prototyping and is developing a diverse seed portfolio that includes protein ingredients, aquaculture, specialty animal feed, and vegetable oils. Its revenue is generated from both proprietary and non-proprietary product categories, reflecting its commitment to advancing agricultural innovation.

PopBookings

Venture Round in 2017
PopBookings is a cloud-based software that automates the hiring process for temporary and promotional staffing companies. It makes the process of booking and communicating with promotional staff simple by streamlining every step on one easy platform. They connecting agencies and brands with event workers, helping find everyday people to celebrate beloved brands through beautiful events. PopBookings was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

Benson Hill

Series B in 2017
Benson Hill is an agricultural technology company focused on crop improvement, particularly in soy protein innovation. By leveraging its proprietary CropOS™ platform, the company integrates machine learning, genomic data, and traditional breeding techniques to streamline the development of healthier and more sustainable food products. Benson Hill emphasizes unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants to empower innovators in creating flavorful and nutritious ingredients. The company operates a Crop Accelerator for rapid prototyping and is developing a diverse seed portfolio that includes protein ingredients, aquaculture, specialty animal feed, and vegetable oils. Its revenue is generated from both proprietary and non-proprietary product categories, reflecting its commitment to advancing agricultural innovation.

Euclises Pharmaceuticals

Venture Round in 2016
Euclises Pharmaceuticals, Inc is developing novel pain and cancer medications that offer superior safety margins compared to existing drugs. The company is based on new inventions from Dr. John Talley, the most accomplished medicinal chemist in the world. Dr. Talley previously invented Celebrex and seven other approved drugs. New compounds from Euclises will offer both improved efficacy and safety relative to existing therapies. Euclises is located at the BioGenerator Accelerator Labs.

Epharmix

Seed Round in 2016
Epharmix, Inc. develops clinically validated and condition-specific communication tools for health care industry. Its products provide digital interventions that are built per condition and patient population to maintain patient-physician engagement, collect clinical data over time automatically, and algorithmically alert health care providers to provide chronic care management for the patients. Epharmix, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Open Studio Network

Seed Round in 2015
Open Studio Network Access to premier musical artists, through a simple, interactive online lesson platform.

Mentor Spaces

Venture Round in 2015
Mentor Spaces, developed by Better Weekdays, Inc., is a virtual mentorship platform aimed at supporting emerging Black and Latinx professionals. The platform facilitates communication between corporate mentors and prospective employees through career interest-based groups, thereby assisting companies in their efforts to scale diversity and inclusion initiatives. Mentor Spaces is currently utilized by over 10,000 emerging leaders, helping organizations from startups to Fortune 500 companies to find, hire, and retain diverse talent. By enhancing the development of underrepresented minorities, Mentor Spaces contributes to building a diverse talent pipeline, improving employee retention, and fostering an inclusive corporate culture. Better Weekdays, founded in 2011 and based in Saint Louis, Missouri, operates this innovative platform as part of its broader online career services offering.

Antegrin Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2015
Antegrin Therapeutics, LLC, is a drug discovery and development company focused on the development of novel therapies for fibrotic diseases. Our lead program aims to develop a treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive, life-threatening condition that currently has no FDA-approved medication.

Antegrin Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2015
Antegrin Therapeutics, LLC, is a drug discovery and development company focused on the development of novel therapies for fibrotic diseases. Our lead program aims to develop a treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive, life-threatening condition that currently has no FDA-approved medication.

Euclises Pharmaceuticals

Venture Round in 2015
Euclises Pharmaceuticals, Inc is developing novel pain and cancer medications that offer superior safety margins compared to existing drugs. The company is based on new inventions from Dr. John Talley, the most accomplished medicinal chemist in the world. Dr. Talley previously invented Celebrex and seven other approved drugs. New compounds from Euclises will offer both improved efficacy and safety relative to existing therapies. Euclises is located at the BioGenerator Accelerator Labs.

BenchmarkONE

Seed Round in 2015
BenchmarkONE is sales and marketing software for small businesses and marketing agencies. We help agencies and small business owners propel relationships into sales with all-in-one CRM and marketing automation. Cut through the clutter and complexity of bulky tools with a simple, affordable platform made for you.

Ward Alternative Energy

Venture Round in 2015
Ward Alternative Energy was born from a passion to provide American, low cost, clean transportation fuels for vehicles. Discovering, producing and compressing natural gas in the field is a deep upstream expertise built over the past 50 years at Ward Petroleum. At Ward Alternative Energy, we add the down-stream natural gas, fueling and NGV expertise of our industry veterans. Our team is well prepared to be the natural gas fuels, station services and vehicle services provider and partner of choice for fleets. We started our business in Colorado in 2012 but are now expanding to Wyoming, New Mexico, northwest Texas and east through Kansas to St. Louis.

BenchmarkONE

Venture Round in 2015
BenchmarkONE is sales and marketing software for small businesses and marketing agencies. We help agencies and small business owners propel relationships into sales with all-in-one CRM and marketing automation. Cut through the clutter and complexity of bulky tools with a simple, affordable platform made for you.

Immunophotonics

Series A in 2015
ImmunoPhotonics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company that engages in the development of a proprietary novel drug product for use in an in situ autologous cancer vaccine for the treatment of metastatic solid tumor cancers. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

Gremlin Social

Seed Round in 2014
Gremlin Social offers organizational tools to streamline all of your social media marketing needs. Save time and money with Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn all in one easy-to-use dashboard. Engage with customers, search Twitter hashtags and brand mentions, and schedule your posts in as little as 15 minutes a day at the optimal time and frequency in each social network without leaving GremlinSocial.com. Gremlin Social employs a staff of experts who specialize in social media best practices. We offer services for our customers including strategy, training, analytics, and research (STAR). Gremlin Social Guardian is also endorsed by the American Bankers Association – through its subsidiary the Corporation for American Banking - and the New York Bankers Association (NYBA) as the recommended social media management and compliance toolkit for all member financial institutions. Products Gremlin Social offers enterprise and white label options for banks and financial services. Gremlin Social features include: team management, scheduled and recurring posts, keyword filtration, translation, branded reports, analytics, content libraries, Bit.ly and Brev.is link shorteners, and much more!

Immunophotonics

Series A in 2014
ImmunoPhotonics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company that engages in the development of a proprietary novel drug product for use in an in situ autologous cancer vaccine for the treatment of metastatic solid tumor cancers. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

Benson Hill

Seed Round in 2014
Benson Hill is an agricultural technology company focused on crop improvement, particularly in soy protein innovation. By leveraging its proprietary CropOS™ platform, the company integrates machine learning, genomic data, and traditional breeding techniques to streamline the development of healthier and more sustainable food products. Benson Hill emphasizes unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants to empower innovators in creating flavorful and nutritious ingredients. The company operates a Crop Accelerator for rapid prototyping and is developing a diverse seed portfolio that includes protein ingredients, aquaculture, specialty animal feed, and vegetable oils. Its revenue is generated from both proprietary and non-proprietary product categories, reflecting its commitment to advancing agricultural innovation.

Time to Cater

Seed Round in 2014
Time To Cater is a web-based platform that helps companies and individuals coordinate their ideal catered even at NO EXTRA COST to client. If you have had to coordinate catering for events or if you need food ordered quickly online, and especially if you have done it consistently, you understand that valuable time is wasted calling potential caterers for availability, prices, and delivery details, etc. We fix this problem by providing a web-based platform and mobile app that helps companies and individuals coordinate their ideal catered event. Our client only has to submit their event details and budget to our web application and then show up for the event and enjoy! We take care of EVERYTHING in between. And the BEST part is that there is NO EXTRA COST to our client for our service! We make money by making a commission from the caterers in our Preferred Caterer Network.

CrazyForEducation

Seed Round in 2014
CrazyForEducation is a K-12 software designed by Flip Teachers for Flip Teaching. The company was founded by Dr. Renato Cataldo in 2012 and is based in St Louis, Missouri, United States.

Benson Hill

Seed Round in 2014
Benson Hill is an agricultural technology company focused on crop improvement, particularly in soy protein innovation. By leveraging its proprietary CropOS™ platform, the company integrates machine learning, genomic data, and traditional breeding techniques to streamline the development of healthier and more sustainable food products. Benson Hill emphasizes unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants to empower innovators in creating flavorful and nutritious ingredients. The company operates a Crop Accelerator for rapid prototyping and is developing a diverse seed portfolio that includes protein ingredients, aquaculture, specialty animal feed, and vegetable oils. Its revenue is generated from both proprietary and non-proprietary product categories, reflecting its commitment to advancing agricultural innovation.

adFreeq

Seed Round in 2014
AdFreeq is a socially integrated classified ad service that brings buyers and sellers together in real-time. The platform allows companies to present all of their goods or services as a simple ad on any website. AdFreeq was founded in 2011 and is based in Columbia, Missouri, United States.

adFreeq

Angel Round in 2014
AdFreeq is a socially integrated classified ad service that brings buyers and sellers together in real-time. The platform allows companies to present all of their goods or services as a simple ad on any website. AdFreeq was founded in 2011 and is based in Columbia, Missouri, United States.

Tansna Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2014
Tansna Therapeutics, Inc., a drug discovery and development company, develops and commercializes oral drugs to treat epilepsy. The company focuses on novel therapies for the treatment of central nervous system disorders. Its products under pipeline include oral anticonvulsant agent that reduces seizure frequency in patients with epilepsy. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

Time to Cater

Angel Round in 2014
Time To Cater is a web-based platform that helps companies and individuals coordinate their ideal catered even at NO EXTRA COST to client. If you have had to coordinate catering for events or if you need food ordered quickly online, and especially if you have done it consistently, you understand that valuable time is wasted calling potential caterers for availability, prices, and delivery details, etc. We fix this problem by providing a web-based platform and mobile app that helps companies and individuals coordinate their ideal catered event. Our client only has to submit their event details and budget to our web application and then show up for the event and enjoy! We take care of EVERYTHING in between. And the BEST part is that there is NO EXTRA COST to our client for our service! We make money by making a commission from the caterers in our Preferred Caterer Network.

Tansna Therapeutics

Angel Round in 2013
Tansna Therapeutics, Inc., a drug discovery and development company, develops and commercializes oral drugs to treat epilepsy. The company focuses on novel therapies for the treatment of central nervous system disorders. Its products under pipeline include oral anticonvulsant agent that reduces seizure frequency in patients with epilepsy. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

Time to Cater

Angel Round in 2013
Time To Cater is a web-based platform that helps companies and individuals coordinate their ideal catered even at NO EXTRA COST to client. If you have had to coordinate catering for events or if you need food ordered quickly online, and especially if you have done it consistently, you understand that valuable time is wasted calling potential caterers for availability, prices, and delivery details, etc. We fix this problem by providing a web-based platform and mobile app that helps companies and individuals coordinate their ideal catered event. Our client only has to submit their event details and budget to our web application and then show up for the event and enjoy! We take care of EVERYTHING in between. And the BEST part is that there is NO EXTRA COST to our client for our service! We make money by making a commission from the caterers in our Preferred Caterer Network.