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Agrify Upsizes IPO, Launches On NASDAQ

January 29, 2021

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Indoor agriculture company Agrify Corporation (Nasdaq: AGFY) has listed its shares on the NASDAQ after pricing its upsized initial public offering of 5,400,000 shares of common stock at a price of $10.00 per share for total gross proceeds of $54 million. The shares began trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “AGFY” on Thursday.

Raymond Nobu Chang, President & CEO of Agrify said, “We’re beyond thrilled to officially announce our IPO. This is an incredible step forward to solidifying Agrify’s foothold in the indoor agriculture and tech space. We look forward to empowering a generation of modern growers to achieve better consistency and quality through the understanding that cultivation techniques must evolve to meet the market’s future needs.” The company said that it does not cultivate, come in contact with, distribute or dispense cannabis or any cannabis derivatives that are currently prohibited under U.S. federal law, but notes that its cultivation solutions can be used within indoor grow facilities by cannabis cultivators if they choose to do so.
In addition to the shares that began trading, Agrify has granted the underwriters a 45-day option to purchase up to an additional 810,000 shares of common stock to cover over-allotments, if any. The offering is expected to close on February 1, 2021, subject to customary closing conditions. Maxim Group LLC and Roth Capital Partners are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering. The company reported net revenue of $4 million in 2019, which grew to $7.7 million for nine months ending September 30, 2020. The net losses were $8.5 million for those nine months in 2020.

Backlog

As of December 31, 2020, Agrify said its backlog, which consists of purchase orders or purchase commitments, was $59.3 million. In the company’s filing, it said, “We expect to recognize revenue of approximately $40 million in 2021 and the rest gradually thereafter. As of December 31, 2020, we have $105 million of carefully vetted potential sales opportunities (which we refer to as our qualified pipeline). Of this, $78 million of the qualified pipeline was generated through our company directly and $27 million through our Agrify-Valiant Joint-Venture. We are presently working to convert this pipeline into confirmed bookings over the next 12 months.”

Horizontal Modular Growing

“We believe that our AVFU is the only product on the market that offers a modular, compartmentalized micro-climate growing system for indoor vertical farming. These 8.5 ft. long x 4 ft. wide x 9.3 ft. tall units each have two tiers of growing space. They are designed to line up horizontally in rows, and they can be stacked vertically up to 3 units tall allowing a total of 6 layers of canopy, effectively taking advantage of previously unused indoor vertical space. The AVFU is a premium indoor grow solution with an MSRP starting at $20,000, and our most recent AVFU deals have been for between 60 and 535 units as our new customers become satisfied that our grow solutions will be an instrumental part of their operations moving forward. We are targeting large scale projects that range in size from $1 million to over $10 million in AVFU hardware sales before any additional revenue from our Agrify Insights™ software and ancillary products and services are realized.”

“A key component of our cultivation solution is our proprietary software, Agrify Insights, which has been developed in-house. This cloud-based software interfaces with a microservices middleware and relational database that integrates with our hardware and provides our managers, facility owners, facility managers, and growers real-time control and monitoring of facilities, growing conditions, and insights into both production and profit optimization. The combination of precise environmental control and automation with data collection and actionable insights empowers our customers to be more efficient, more productive, and more intelligent about how they run their businesses. We believe that the robust data analytics capabilities from our Agrify Insights platform coupled with our AVFU system is enabling our customers to transform their businesses and quality of the product they are cultivating.”

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