This week, we’re breaking down the freshest announcements from the agribusiness, agtech, and broader policy and tech worlds to share insights and ask “so what?” 

Sarah and Matthew are joined this week by Shane Thomas, author of Upstream Ag Insights, to tackle:

• Reading the tea leaves on Alphabet’s announcement that it’ll be licensing out the tech built by it’s moonshot Mineral, an ag-robotics company
• Why things are heating up right now in the biologicals space and what could be around the corner
• What’s going on at Benson Hill and what does it mean for the asset-heavy vs. asset-light agtech play going forward
• Tenacious’ first close of Fund II

Useful Links:

• The Mixing Bowl Hub’s BioControl Landscape Map
• Joel Lipsitch’s episode about Evaluating Biologicals Businesses
• 7 Critical Questions for Biological Startups
• Benson Hill Confirms Receipt of Preliminary, Non-binding Indication of Interest from Argonautic (Press Release)
• Matt Crisp episode about Benson Hill and Designing Crops to Change the Plant-Based Food System
• Alphabet is abandoning its Mineral robo-agriculture startup
• Tenacious First Close Announcement
• Upstream Ag Insights

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