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3、oundersUpstream Ag Insights supports startup agribusinessesto multinational agriculture companies on the strategyand marketing of new products and technologies,byby ShaneThomas.In addition to consulting,Upstream Ag Insights is aweekly newsletter highlighting and analyzing essentialagribusiness news

4、and events,read by agribusinessleaders from around the globe.Learn more:https:/ Ag Insights is a consulting and advisory business2021 FARM TECH INVESTMENT REPORT|AGFUNDER.COM4INTRODUCTIONGlobal Farm Tech in 2021If the one word that summarized venture capital investing in 2020 was“pandemic,”2021s wor

5、d might well be“SPAC.”Before this year,less than a handful of agrifoodtech companies had used a special purpose acquisition company to go public.This year so far there have been six(see p45).All of them are related to Farm Techthe domain of agrifoodtech that services growers with new crop inputs,mac

6、hinery,devices,software,analytics and logistics.The SPAC surge is a milestone in a maturing agrifoodtech industry.Investors are finally seeing a pathway to exiting their early investments in what has otherwise been a slow trickle of IPOs and acquisitions;the last significant exits were in 2017when B