Software is eating the world

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Is software eating Agriculture?

From Hardware based business to Software services:

Yesterday: Banking, Retail, News, Music, Travel, Movies, Photos, Books, Smartphones, Games,

Today: Taxis (Uber), Hotels (Airbnb), Cars (Tesla, Apple, Self driving)

Tomorrow: Bitcoin (money, contracts, notary, lawyer, government)

Agriculture + Technology = AgTech

Revolution in many IndustriesRevolution in Agriculture?examples

urban farmingcommunity farmingNew York

Luxury segment

https://agfundernews.com/does-the-ritz-carltons-new-indoor-farm-mean-that-indoor-ag-is-here-to-stay.html

Drones

Drones = Data, IoTDJI = 1Bn company

Robotics

automated seeding, weeding, cropping etc.

3DPrinting

vertical farming

towers, shelfs, walls, skyscraper,

decentralized farming - Agrilution

2050 10Mrd people +70% food production

What are hot startups in AgTech?

1000 agriculture startups on angellist

10 most popular AgTech Startups on Angellist

1000 startups listed

IoT

Grove indoor farming

10 most promising AgTech Startups on Angellist

climate change 930M exit in2013 to monsanto - weather prediction and insurance

big data

going mainstream

several projectslocal supermarketjust in time production30 times a year

http://www.theplaidzebra.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/FreightFarms-5-of-7-750x400.jpg

Fiction or Reality?

startup contests full of agtechagtech > fintech in 2014

The average deal size for drone and robotics companies was $10.58 DJI raised $75 million, 3D Robotics attracted $64 million and Pulse AeroSpace brought in $23 million.

Germany is far behind

What are your challenges in Agriculture?

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