Carter Williams

Carter Williams is the CEO and Managing Director of iSelect Fund, a venture capital firm he founded in 2014.12 Here are some key details about his background and career:

Education and Early Career

Carter Williams holds an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.1 He began his career as an engineer at McDonnell Douglas before moving into leadership roles at Boeing.12

Experience at Boeing

At Boeing, Carter:

• Managed R&D and started Boeing Ventures1
• Led Boeing's technology planning process as part of Boeing Phantom Works1
• Founded and managed Boeing Ventures1

Entrepreneurial Ventures

After leaving Boeing, Carter:

• Served as President of Gridlogix, a startup that was successfully acquired by Johnson Controls in 200812
• Was Senior Managing Director at Progress Partners, an energy and technology investment banking firm1
• Worked as a Managing Partner at Open Innovation Ventures1

iSelect Fund

In 2014, Carter founded iSelect Fund in St. Louis.2 As CEO and Managing Director, he:

• Focuses on investments at the convergence of agtech and human health2
• Has built a portfolio of about 80 companies, split evenly between agtech and health sectors2
• Provides qualified individual investors access to early-stage private venture investments3

Additional Roles and Interests

Carter is also:

• Past President and Founder of the MIT Corporate Venturing Consortium1
• Co-founder of the MIT Entrepreneurship Society1
• A writer on innovation topics, publishing on LinkedIn and a substack newsletter called Creative Destruction2

Throughout his career, Carter has directly managed over $600 million in early-stage ventures and corporate research, resulting in several billion dollars of new product revenues.12