Q&A With Mark Brooks, FMC Ventures

1. INVESTMENT
SPOTLIGHT
Mark Brooks
Managing Director
FMC VENTURES
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2. FOCUS
Game changing tech that reimagines the
future of crop protection while helping
growers be more profitable and sustainable.
Including: automation & robotics driving
precision ag, data & analytics driving decision
making, fintech helping growers gain access
to sustainable products and practices with
credit and liquidity, biologicals and delivery,
active ingredient discovery.

3. PRIORITIES
We are focused on early stage
start-ups. The fundamentals still
matter most – amazing teams with
a bias towards action and
coachability, unique and defensible
IP, early market validation, and
strategic synergies with FMC.

4. ADVICE
Solve problems that are huge and
on the edges of big ag today
Raise enough so that you have at
least 24 months runway
Seek investment from and
collaboration with ag strategics like
FMC!
At the early stages:
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At later stages, optimized performance
and realistic valuation expectations.