This is your invitation to a high-level, open-source guidance convening with California’s ag and food tech regulatory leaders (i.e., market-makers) and farm organizations (i.e., customers).
Details, including one hurdle you must leap in a single bound, in a moment. But first …
Investments in agricultural and food technology nearly doubled in 2015.
Investments in agricultural and food technology nearly doubled in 2015.
It’s worth repeating, truly. Venture capital in 2014 placed $2.36 billion in seed (Get it?) money for agtech developers. Last year, the ante upped to $4.6 billion – in spite of a turbid business economy, according to AgFunder.
Your interest in food and ag technology is well timed.
So, then, what about this free guidance? The California AgTech Roundtable convenes near the end of the month in downtown Sacramento.
And we invite a few of you ag and food tech entrepreneurs to join us at our real roundtable for an interactive, real-time conversation about the near future of your market parameters and customers — and the validity of your company’s strategic vision.
Members of our two-year-old pro bono group include senior executives from the California Department of Food and Agriculture, University of California Ag and Natural Resources, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), Department of Conservation, Department of Pesticide Regulation and friends from the California Farm Bureau Federation and Western Growers Association. Other interesting people will be there, too.
However, there is the aforementioned hurdle: Your ag/food tech firm is a going concern, has a few customers and a few years of operating experience, as well as sufficient capital. The best possible situation would be your desire to gather insight and input on a new or evolutionary product or service.
And we’d like to listen to YOUR ideas on this: In partnership with West Hills College Coalinga’s Farm of the Future, we will explore launching an applied ag tech center to create next-gen jobs in the San Joaquin Valley — a region that is about two-thirds disadvantaged.
A two-way conversation with 360-degree benefits.
Send an email to me: bob_gore@gualcogroup.com and we’ll talk.
