2024 AgTech Venture Capital Investment and Exit Round Up
2024年农业科技风险投资与退出融资
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- 来源：
- CropLife；Global Ag Tech Initiative；
- 类型：
- 前沿资讯
- 语种：
- 英语
- 原文发布日期：
- 2025-01-13
- 摘要：
- Last year, our analysis ofCrunchbase data shows 736 AgTech startups raised a total of $5.7B, writesmarket expert Kyle Welborn at CropLife. Thisrepresents a flat level of funding and a small decrease in deals from 2023.There were 37 AgTech exits last year, 36 M&A transactions and one IPO. Thisis up 32% from the 28 AgTech exits from 2023.Key Takeaways from Last YearIn 2024, startup fundingmirrored the previous year, with $314B raised globally across industries — a 3%increase from 2023. AgTech made up 1.82% of total venture capital funding.Compared to 2023, robotics startups saw a $135M funding increase, while fundingfor crops and genetics startups grew by $280M in 2024. However, climatemonitoring and farmer credit startups raised $300M less, and funding forcontrolled environment agriculture dropped by $125M compared to 2023.AgTech exits began to reboundcompared with 2023. Data from Pitchbook and the National Venture CapitalAssociation count 3,083 venture backed exits last year. That means AgTechrelated deals accounted for 1.2% of all exits in 2024. There were 34 unique groupsthat acquired an AgTech startup last year, of which 47% of those acquirers werestartups and early-stage companies, 44% were more mature or establishedcompanies, and 9% were investment firms and holding companies.Startup-to-startup acquisitions are often stock-based, so around 19 M&Atransactions last year likely involved cash that went back to founders andinvestors.AgTech Venture InvestmentsBelow is a breakout of thedeals and dollars that flowed to different sectors of AgTech last year:
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