iSelect
VC Fund
Cheltenham, Australia
iSelect is a VC fund in Cheltenham focused on Agriculture and Farming. Founded in 2000 as a private health insurance intermediary, iSelect's momentum over recent years has resulted in the addition of both life and motor insurance categories to its growing portfolio. At iSelect get that most people find insurance, utilities and personal finance boring. But iSelect understand that it’s really important to always get these things right. As Australia’s life admin store, we’ll help you take care of the boring but important stuff. iSelect are proud of the service we provide to millions of Australians who seek our expert advice each year on some of life’s most important purchase decisions. iSelect is much more than just another online comparison website. Comparing online is just the first step in our personalised comparison and expert advisory service. That’s why most of our customers choose to speak over the phone with one of our 500 highly-trained expert advisers at iSelect HQ. Our dedicated departments cover all of life’s essentials, from choosing the right health or life insurance policy through to refinancing your home loan. iSelect can sort out your energy and broadband connections, and even take care of your car insurance. iSelect compare and sell some of Australia’s biggest brands and are always adding more. With plenty of partners and thousands of policies, plans and products, we’ll give you the confidence to make the right call on some of the things that matter most. So you can spend time doing, well… anything else. iSelect are proud to be 100% independently-owned, and unlike other comparison services, we are not owned by an insurance company and we do not own any of the companies or brands whose products we sell. As well as our flagship iSelect brand, the iSelect Group also owns personal finance comparison website InfoChoice and energy comparison website Energy Watch.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 40%
Last updated:
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Industries iSelect invests in
Stages iSelect invests in
Countries iSelect invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $7.1M–$9.7M
- Series B
- $4M–$15M
- Series C
- $8.4M–$40M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Agriculture 4 (40%)
- Farming 3 (30%)
- Biotechnology 3 (30%)
- AgTech 2 (20%)
- Internet 2 (20%)
Stage
- Series B 3 (30%)
- Series A 2 (20%)
- Series C 2 (20%)
- Funding Round 1 (10%)
- Corporate Round 1 (10%)
Country
- United States 5 (50%)
- Canada 1 (10%)
- Malaysia 1 (10%)
- Australia 1 (10%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Melanie Wilson
Independent Non-Executive Director
|
Independent Non-Executive Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Brodie Arnhold
CEO
|
CEO | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Slade Sherman
CXO
|
CXO | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pow.bio provides intelligent fermentation services for industrial and synthetic biology, helping turn great ideas into profitable products. We combine continuous fermentation with advanced control methodology to quickly optimize your fermentation process and deliver high yields at low costs. Our scale runs from 1-100 liter capacity for bacteria,yeast, and filamentous fungi. | $9.7M / Series A / Oct 04, 2023 | ||
| Vive Crop Protection makes effective and sustainable pesticides for organic and non-organic production. The company creates new ways to use proven crop protection products using their targeted Allosperse Delivery System, which improves the targeting and performance of pesticide active ingredients. This helps farmers do more with less, all whileincreasing crop quality and yields.Vive Crop Protection was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. | $8.4M / Series C / Jun 07, 2023 | ||
| Arable is a developer of an integrated system for agriculture that helps digitize and optimize decisions from seed breeding to food production.The platform measures everything that matters to the crop, from the weather to the soil, to the plant itself by the use of a unique set of spectral and thermal sensors. This enables Arable to observe acrop’s development through the season and determine the onset of stress due to a lack of water or nutrients. Its integrated hardware, agronomic modeling, and software suite is enabling farmers, agronomists, researchers, processors, and food companies to understand the crop system at the plant, field, and region level, which helps to reduce risk, improve productivity, and optimize for sustainability.Arable received recognition, including the Irrigation Association’s Best New Product of 2018, Plug & Play’s Top 10 Ag Tech Companies to Watch in 2019, and THRIVE’s Top 50 Companies for 2020 awards. | $40M / Series C / Jul 25, 2022 | ||
| CIMET is a fully automated solution to energy comparison designed to add value to clients' customers. They provide a full end-to-end digital comparison platform, using an automated system to reduce conversion times. They take care of all the technical aspects of the affiliate programs and allow tracking commissions and rewards using aneasy-to-understand dashboard. | $26.6M / Corporate Round / Mar 08, 2022 | ||
| Plastomics is a biotechnology startup that focuses in developing the next generation of crops by using chloroplast genetic engineering. Its technology platform is applicable to different crops and traits. Plastomics provides solutions for the many current industry challenges.The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in St. Louis,Missouri. | $7.1M / Series A / Nov 16, 2021 | ||
| Flywheel is a data management and analysis platform built specifically for scientists and the researcher's workflow. They empower research momentum by focusing on data and medical image capture, content management, scientific computation, and collaboration. With reproducible research in mind, they combine open-source methods from topuniversities, a modern web user interface, and an extensible compute engine based on containerization technology. The result is a software platform to accelerate discovery and help researchers do science, not IT.Flywheel accelerates new scientific discoveries in life-science, biotech, and academic imaging research through cloud-scale collaboration. As a result, imaging researchers are able to avoid innovation bottlenecks, and accelerate discovery by doing more science, and less IT. | $15M / Series B / Feb 03, 2021 | ||
| Plant Response is accelerating biological solutions to advance and restore the agricultural ecosystem. PRB is based on technology initially developed by the CBGP Researchers. Their goal was to create synergy and value in their crop protection research programs and thus meet the current challenging agricultural market needs. | $6.9M / Series B / Dec 09, 2018 | ||
| iMoney is a Financial Aggregator which equips Malaysians to make #IntelligentMoney decisions for every Life Moment. Founded in 2012, we help consumers simplify personal finance so they can reach their goals. Through our website, consumers can compare and apply for financial and utility products that fits their needs including credit cards, loans,insurance, and investment products. Visitors can also learn about personal finance through jargon-free and insightful articles on our Learning Centre and social media. Additionally, we empower consumers to take charge of their finances with tools like the iMoney CreditScore and Income Tax Calculator. In 2020, iMoney was acquired by a Malaysian-based B2B fintech company, JurisTech. Commenting on the acquisition, See Wai Hun, CEO of JurisTech and iMoney said, "We are now poised to bring more value by offering a more holistic end-to-end solution to our clients. From marketing to consumers, onboarding consumers digitally, providing immediate decisioning through Artificial Intelligence (AI) and straight-through processing, JurisTech and iMoney will help elevate and shape the future of the financial services industry.”iMoney is headquartered in Malaysia, and has a branch in the Philippines. | $4.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 03, 2017 | ||
| iMoney is a Financial Aggregator which equips Malaysians to make #IntelligentMoney decisions for every Life Moment. Founded in 2012, we help consumers simplify personal finance so they can reach their goals. Through our website, consumers can compare and apply for financial and utility products that fits their needs including credit cards, loans,insurance, and investment products. Visitors can also learn about personal finance through jargon-free and insightful articles on our Learning Centre and social media. Additionally, we empower consumers to take charge of their finances with tools like the iMoney CreditScore and Income Tax Calculator. In 2020, iMoney was acquired by a Malaysian-based B2B fintech company, JurisTech. Commenting on the acquisition, See Wai Hun, CEO of JurisTech and iMoney said, "We are now poised to bring more value by offering a more holistic end-to-end solution to our clients. From marketing to consumers, onboarding consumers digitally, providing immediate decisioning through Artificial Intelligence (AI) and straight-through processing, JurisTech and iMoney will help elevate and shape the future of the financial services industry.”iMoney is headquartered in Malaysia, and has a branch in the Philippines. | $4M / Series B / Sep 25, 2014 | ||
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FAQ
What does iSelect invest in?
iSelect invests primarily in Agriculture, Farming and Biotechnology startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does iSelect invest in?
iSelect typically joins rounds of $7.1M–$9.7M at Series A, $4M–$15M at Series B and $8.4M–$40M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not iSelect's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds iSelect took part in.
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Who are the partners at iSelect?
The team at iSelect includes Melanie Wilson (Independent Non-Executive Director), Brodie Arnhold (CEO) and Slade Sherman (CXO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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