−Removed: otherwise stated or the context otherwise requires, references in this report to “Agrify”, the “Company,” “we,”
−Removed: “us,” “our,” or similar references mean Agrify Corporation and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis.
−Removed: are a leading provider of innovative cultivation and extraction solutions for the cannabis industry, bringing data, science, and technology
−Removed: to the forefront of the market.
−Removed: Our proprietary micro-environment-controlled Agrify Vertical Farming Units (“VFUs”) enable
−Removed: cultivators to produce high quality products with what we believe to be unmatched consistency, yield, and return investment at scale.
−Removed: Our comprehensive extraction product line, which includes hydrocarbon, alcohol, solventless, post-processing, and lab equipment, empowers
+Added: Unless otherwise stated
+Added: or the context otherwise requires, references in this report to “Agrify”, the “Company,” “we,” “us,”
+Added: “our,” or similar references mean Agrify Corporation and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis.
+Added: Business Overview
+Added: Agrify is a developer of branded innovative solutions for the cannabis
+Added: and hemp industries.
+Added: Our Señorita brand offers consumers hemp-derived tetrahydrocannabinol (“THC”) beverages that mirror
+Added: well-known cocktails like a margarita – in three flavors – classic Lime Jalapeño Margarita, Mango Margarita, and Paloma.
+Added: Known for its clean, fresh taste and commitment to high-quality, natural ingredients, Señorita offers a low-sugar, low-calorie
+Added: alternative to alcoholic beverages and is available at top retailers including Total Wine, ABC Fine Wine & Spirits, and Binny’s
+Added: states and Canada, with plans for expansion and future availability in premier on-premises destinations.
+Added: In addition to beverages,
+Added: Agrify has also historically been a leading provider of innovative cultivation and extraction solutions for the cannabis industry.
+Added: comprehensive extraction product line, which includes hydrocarbon, alcohol, solventless, post-processing, and lab equipment, empowers
producers to maximize the quantity and quality of extract required for premium concentrates.
−Removed: our inception, we have gone from primarily developing, selling, and supporting our VFUs along with our fully integrated Agrify Insights™
−Removed: cultivation software (“Agrify Insights™”) to being able to offer customers a far more complete set of solutions, products,
−Removed: and services across both cultivation and extraction.
−Removed: This has been a function of both our natural evolution and through a set of strategic
−Removed: mergers and acquisitions.
−Removed: Since 2020, we have integrated six new brands into Agrify’s broader organization.
−Removed: Our first acquisition,
−Removed: TriGrow Systems, Inc., was completed in January 2020.
−Removed: TriGrow Systems, Inc.
−Removed: was formerly the exclusive distributor of Agrify’s
−Removed: We added Harbor Mountain Holdings, LLC to our portfolio on July 21, 2020, to help scale up our manufacturing strategy with engineering,
−Removed: prototyping, manufacturing, testing, warehousing, and installation services.
−Removed: Since October 2021, we have been strategically focused on
−Removed: establishing ourselves as a global leader in the cannabis and hemp extraction equipment industry, complementing our cutting-edge cannabis
−Removed: and hemp cultivation solutions.
−Removed: Over five months, we acquired four of the top brand names in the industry.
−Removed: On October 1, 2021, we acquired
−Removed: Precision Extraction Solutions, a market leader in developing and producing high-quality hydrocarbon and alcohol extraction solutions,
−Removed: and Cascade Sciences, LLC, a market leader in developing and producing high-quality vacuum purge ovens and decarboxylation ovens.
−Removed: December 31, 2021, we acquired PurePressure, LLC, a market leader in developing and producing high-quality solventless extraction solutions
−Removed: and advanced ice-water hash processing equipment in the cannabis and hemp industry.
−Removed: On February 1, 2022, we completed our acquisition
−Removed: of LS Holdings Corp., a market leader in developing and producing high-quality distillation and solvent separation solutions for the
−Removed: cannabis and hemp industry.
−Removed: now offer our customers an extensive ecosystem of solutions, products, training, and service capabilities in what has historically been
−Removed: a highly fragmented market.
−Removed: Our offerings, which are described in more detail below, are compelling on their own.
−Removed: However, we believe
−Removed: what sets us apart is our ability to bring to the market the most comprehensive set of cultivation and extraction solutions from a single
−Removed: As a result, we believe we are well-positioned to capture market share and create a dominant market position in the indoor
−Removed: cannabis sector.
−Removed: We currently have two primary areas of business focus:
−Removed: ● Cultivation
−Removed: we do not cultivate, come in contact with, distribute, or dispense cannabis or any cannabis derivatives that are currently prohibited
−Removed: federal law, our equipment and business solutions can be used within indoor grow facilities by fully licensed cannabis cultivators.
−Removed: We sell our proprietary cultivation solutions to independent licensed cultivators.
−Removed: The two primary products we sell are the VFUs and
−Removed: Agrify Insights™.
−Removed: We believe we are one of a limited number of companies offering a fully integrated cultivation solution optimized
−Removed: for precision growing with robust automation capabilities in the industry.
−Removed: Vertical Farming Unit
−Removed: proprietary VFU technology offers a modular, compartmentalized micro-climate growing system for indoor vertical farming.
−Removed: Our VFU system
−Removed: is designed for craft farmers, single-state operators, and multi-state operators who are looking to consistently produce higher-quality
−Removed: crops at scale.
−Removed: The VFUs are designed to line up horizontally in rows, and can be stacked vertically up to three units tall, taking advantage
−Removed: of unused indoor vertical space with the below benefits:
−Removed: Floor Space Utilization .
−Removed: Each VFU provides two tiers of growing canopy.
−Removed: introduce an open-room facility design approach to maximize available cultivation floor space
−Removed: while offering superior risk mitigation via individual compartmentalized cultivation chambers
−Removed: which aim to contain potential biological threats to cultivation facilities.
−Removed: Environmental Controls .
−Removed: Each VFU has an Environmental Control Unit that is integrated
−Removed: with our proprietary cultivation software, Agrify Insights™.
−Removed: This integration allows
−Removed: for precise control and automation over light photoperiod and intensity, temperature, humidity,
−Removed: vapor pressure deficit (“VPD”), carbon dioxide, fertigation, and irrigation throughout
−Removed: the lifecycle of the plants.
−Removed: Scalability .
−Removed: The VFU is designed to stack up to three units tall, sextupling production
−Removed: volume over the same traditional footprint.
−Removed: Each unit is designed to easily integrate with
−Removed: a mezzanine catwalk system providing unparalleled access to all levels of cultivation.
−Removed: Safety & Efficiency .
−Removed: The VFU’s design was thoughtful and intentional;
−Removed: the ergonomic dimensions that facilitate safe, easy access to plants for scouting and plant
−Removed: husbandry, to the integrated catwalks that allow cultivators to work from a safe sitting
−Removed: or standing position without the need for scissor lifts, ladders or removable platforms.
−Removed: ● Biosecurity
−Removed: and Risk Mitigation .
−Removed: The VFU has a motorized curtain on both sides of the unit that
−Removed: encloses the grow area to prevent light pollution and the spread of disease that would typically
−Removed: lead to facility-wide crop failure.
−Removed: Contamination can be controlled and limited to the affected
−Removed: units, which are designed with sanitation in mind.
−Removed: From the aluminum frame to the selection
−Removed: of antimicrobial plastics and down to the IP65 electronics and polycarbonate-lensed LED lights,
−Removed: the entire VFU can be easily sanitized, especially with the VFU’s High Heat mode, which
−Removed: helps sanitize all internal VFU surfaces effortlessly.
−Removed: VFUs are designed to work in conjunction with our Agrify Insights™ software.
−Removed: Each VFU sold includes a license for Agrify Insights™
−Removed: and a monthly Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS”) subscription fee is charged per VFU.
−Removed: The VFU cannot operate successfully without
−Removed: Agrify Insights™, and we typically charge between $1,500 to $2,400 per VFU sold annually.
−Removed: Agrify Insights™ license agreements
−Removed: are generally for a multi-year term, with an annual auto-renewal.
−Removed: Insights™ is a SaaS-based solution that interfaces with our proprietary hardware to provide customers with real-time control and
−Removed: monitoring of facilities, growing conditions and insights into both production and profit optimization.
−Removed: The combination of precise environmental
−Removed: control and automation with data collection and actionable insights empowers our customers to be more efficient, more productive, and
−Removed: more intelligent about how they run their businesses.
−Removed: We believe that the robust data analytics capabilities from our Agrify Insights™
−Removed: platform, coupled with our VFU system, is enabling our customers to transform their businesses and quality of the product they are cultivating.
−Removed: Insights™ is focused on optimizing four key components:
−Removed: ● Optimization
−Removed: at the plant level;
−Removed: ● Optimization
−Removed: at the VFU unit level;
−Removed: ● Optimization
−Removed: at the facility level;
−Removed: ● Optimization
−Removed: at the business level.
−Removed: these key components are combined, they encompass the cultivation operations of an Agrify customer.
−Removed: By reducing human error and providing
−Removed: insights through data collection and analysis, Agrify Insights™ minimizes risk and increases operational efficiencies.
−Removed: our customers seek to produce end products with the highest level of consistency no matter where they are located.
−Removed: to our solution is granular control of the cultivation environment.
−Removed: A crop’s end-product is determined by the plant’s genetics
−Removed: and the environment in which the plants are grown.
−Removed: Control over the growing environment is accomplished through the integration of Agrify
−Removed: Agrify Insights collects data from multiple sensors on a per plant basis between 4 and 60 times an hour.
−Removed: This can result
−Removed: in between 100,000 and 151 million data points annually, depending on the number of plants and fluctuations in the VFU microclimate.
−Removed: By recording data points and reproducing specific environments based on the data, cultivators can effectively minimize the variation
−Removed: in their crops and dial-in the maximum quality.
−Removed: Individual plant varietals can be optimized by tailoring the grow plan (recipe for cultivation)
−Removed: to enhance genetic traits;
−Removed: increasing the temperature can speed chemical processes and growth rates and adjusting the length of different
−Removed: phases of a plant’s lifecycle can maximize the crop’s yield.
−Removed: Additionally, when new varieties of plants are cultivated, having
−Removed: multiple controlled, compartmentalized, growth chambers allow for iterative experiments which offer real insight into how new varieties
−Removed: are best cultivated which is beneficial for research and development purposes.
−Removed: “Grow Plans” are the templates or recipes that define the parameters for each lifecycle.
−Removed: Grow Plans define the environmental
−Removed: settings (light - photoperiod and intensity, temperature, humidity, VPD, CO2, irrigation, fertigation) for each crop variety and cultivator
−Removed: as well as the schedule for completing, as applicable, “plant touching” tasks such as bottoming, pruning, and harvesting.
−Removed: Agrify Insights™ ships to the customer with many pre-developed Grow Plans and customers can create their own Grow Plans, electing
−Removed: to share them with other customers or not.
−Removed: VFU Level Optimization
−Removed: VFU hardware provides cultivation environmental control within the grow chamber.
−Removed: This hardware and its component valves, motors and sensors
−Removed: are directed and controlled by Agrify Insights™.
−Removed: and Control Agrify Hardware .
−Removed: Agrify Insights™ can either automatically or manually
−Removed: control our hardware.
−Removed: For example, the water-chilled fan coil can keep the temperature in
−Removed: a range accurate to 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit.
−Removed: ● Cultivation
−Removed: Environmental Control .
−Removed: Using Agrify Insights™, users can view environmental
−Removed: charts that plot temperature, humidity, and carbon dioxide over time.
−Removed: It also shows when
−Removed: plant irrigation occurs and whether the unit is in cooling, circulating, or dehumidifying
−Removed: We sample these values every minute and report them back to the cloud every 15 minutes
−Removed: or more often if significant changes occur.
−Removed: Each growing chamber reports millions of data
−Removed: points annually, enabling our clients to perform an in-depth analysis of their grow performance.
−Removed: The manual control screen visualizes the current state of the grow chamber and allows our
−Removed: technicians to take direct control for troubleshooting, if necessary.
−Removed: The device log shows
−Removed: us what decisions were made by Agrify Insights™ and why.
−Removed: Level Optimization
−Removed: modular VFUs are deployed in scale at a customer’s facility with the smallest commercial operation deployment being 60 VFUs to
−Removed: Agrify Insights™ is designed to operate these individual VFUs as a combined facility.
−Removed: Agrify Insights™ features at
−Removed: the facility level include:
−Removed: The production planning feature is designed to maximize a facility’s
−Removed: utilization by executing a “best-fit” scheduling algorithm to selected Grow Plans
−Removed: across VFUs that have been deployed at a customer facility.
−Removed: Since grow plans typically have
−Removed: a different number of growing days that start on staggered schedules, this module is a critical
−Removed: component for optimizing the planting and moving schedules, significantly increasing plant
−Removed: production, and reducing the cost per pound of harvest.
−Removed: Agrify Insights™ includes a workforce planning feature to assign
−Removed: tasks to staff.
−Removed: These tasks can be automatically assigned based on the user role or their
−Removed: knowledge, skills, and abilities.
−Removed: The calendar displays the estimated time required to complete
−Removed: plant-touching tasks on any given day.
−Removed: Notification System .
−Removed: Users can select to subscribe to anomalous events, and users
−Removed: are notified in the order in which they are listed.
−Removed: If a user does not acknowledge the notification
−Removed: within the specified time frame, the next user in the list is notified, providing the business
−Removed: with 24/7 monitoring and notifications.
−Removed: ● Preventative
−Removed: Maintenance .
−Removed: Our equipment and facility preventative maintenance schedules and related
−Removed: tasks are contained, tracked, and monitored within Agrify Insights™.
−Removed: Infrastructure Controls .
−Removed: Agrify Insights™ controls the irrigation on a facility
−Removed: level and connects with the water chilled HVAC system and ambient lighting system, providing
−Removed: our customers with a central piece of software for facility management.
−Removed: at the Business Level
−Removed: Insights™ analysis features enable customers to understand how cultivation decisions impact their overall business.
−Removed: Understanding
−Removed: the data from the cultivation facility can help our customers better plan and make informed decisions that impact downstream parts of
−Removed: their business.
−Removed: ● Consumables
−Removed: Procurement Integration .
−Removed: Each task can also be assigned a set of consumables whose
−Removed: inventory will be reduced when the task is started.
−Removed: This feature can help customers manage
−Removed: supply levels and can automatically create purchase orders so that they never run out of
−Removed: required supplies.
−Removed: Standard Operating Procedures (“SOPs’’) and Safety Datasheets .
−Removed: Agrify Insights™ hosts digital copies of our included Standard Operating Procedures
−Removed: and datasheets, or users can upload their own via our content management system, ensuring
−Removed: that the most recent version of SOPs and forms are available to users.
−Removed: ● Roles-Based
−Removed: Ability to obtain access to information specifically suited to your workforce’s
−Removed: various needs.
−Removed: Facility owners have access to high-level information about crop yields and
−Removed: equipment usage in an easy-to-understand scorecard.
−Removed: Farm managers receive a worksheet and
−Removed: calendar that lets them manage their workforce and automatically assign plant-touching tasks.
−Removed: This also provides facility managers with an ongoing window into consumables and lets them
−Removed: set inventory levels.
−Removed: Agrify Insights™ is a centralized repository for all data relating
−Removed: to the cultivation aspects of our clients’ business, including research and development
−Removed: testing data, and the ability to capture and compare test results.
−Removed: By doing so, Agrify Insights™
−Removed: becomes a customers’ cultivation statement of record.
−Removed: Simulator / What If Scenarios .
−Removed: Our operating expenses (“OpEx”) calculator
−Removed: enables users to evaluate impacts to profitability by changing hundreds of attributes including,
−Removed: but not limited to, changes to costs in labor, electric, water, CO 2 , and growing
−Removed: media as well as potential volatility in yields and pricing.
−Removed: Reporting Integration.
−Removed: We have integrated our software with Metrc, a leading seed-to-harvest
−Removed: compliance management and tracking solution, which will enable our customers to handle most
−Removed: regulatory reporting directly through Agrify Insights™.
−Removed: Deployment Options
−Removed: Deployment Pack (“RDP”) Program
−Removed: RDP program was established in 2022 to make it easier for a broader range of customers to access our award-winning cultivation technology.
−Removed: Featuring our flagship VFUs in a prepackaged, self-contained, and quick-to-deploy format, the thoughtfully designed and engineered RDPs
−Removed: offer an accelerated path to production, cash flow, and profitability for customers.
−Removed: By removing certain barriers and points of friction
−Removed: with the RDPs, we can provide customers who have properly equipped facilities with best-in-class cultivation capabilities in potentially
−Removed: as little as 90 days.
−Removed: Once installed, the modular nature of the RDPs allows for seamless expansion opportunities, enabling customers
−Removed: the flexibility to grow and scale.
−Removed: we do not intend to enter into any new TTK Solutions for the foreseeable future, we have deployed this program with certain key customers.
−Removed: We also believe that our data-driven TTK Solution for cultivation solutions is unlike any other customer solution being offered and enables
−Removed: our customers to get to market faster by providing them with our seamlessly integrated hardware and software offerings as well as access
−Removed: to capital and a wide range of associated services from experts including consulting, training, design, engineering, and construction
−Removed: to form what we believe is the most complete solution available from a single provider.
−Removed: We engage qualified cannabis operators in the
−Removed: early phases of their business plans and provide critical support, typically over a 10-year period.
−Removed: TTK Solution provides our valued customers with the benefit of working with a single, highly qualified provider in what has historically
−Removed: been a decentralized market full of piecemeal solutions that were not necessarily designed and engineered to work harmoniously with one
−Removed: Given the significant shortcomings associated with traditional indoor grow methods across all commercial agriculture segments,
−Removed: it was apparent that a new paradigm in indoor cultivation was needed, which is why we have brought a more modern, manufacturing style
−Removed: approach that is process driven through technology and measured via data and analytics.
−Removed: Overall, our holistic approach to addressing
−Removed: our customers’ cultivation needs treats their production facilities as an end-to-end ecosystem whose success depends on all components
−Removed: working together optimally.
−Removed: Despite the rapidly growing cannabis and hemp industry, many growers and processors face some significant
−Removed: obstacles to their operations that pose a serious threat to their long-term viability.
−Removed: believe Agrify’s proprietary TTK Solution is the key to resolving many of the challenges our customers encounter.
−Removed: We have set ourselves
−Removed: apart by bringing to market a horticulturist expertise, bundled solution of state-of-the-art equipment, software and services that is
−Removed: turn-key, end-to-end, fully integrated and optimized for precision growing and extraction.
−Removed: Agrify’s TTK Solution provides customers
−Removed: with the following bundled equipment and services:
−Removed: design, lab design, and engineering services
−Removed: and lab build-out project management
−Removed: data driven Agrify Insights™
−Removed: extraction products
−Removed: horticulturist training and ongoing support
−Removed: we do not extract, come in contact with, distribute, process, or dispense cannabis or hemp or any cannabis or hemp derivatives that are
−Removed: currently prohibited under U.S.
−Removed: federal law, our extraction equipment and business solutions can be used within indoor processing facilities
−Removed: by fully licensed cannabis and hemp cultivators and processors or in some cases, by individual processors for individual use in compliance
−Removed: with applicable law.
−Removed: We sell our proprietary extraction solutions to independent, licensed cultivators and processing labs.
−Removed: represents a potential cornucopia of medicinal and pharmaceutical advancement.
−Removed: Cannabis produces over 550 different phytochemicals, over
−Removed: 120 of which are cannabinoids like tetrahydrocannabinol (“THC”) and cannabidiol (“CBD”).
−Removed: Other cannabinoids like
−Removed: varins, cannabigerivarin (“CBGV”), tetrahydrocannabivarin (“THCV”), and cannabidivarin (“CBDV”) are
−Removed: less well known and potentially offer significant value.
−Removed: As we continue to learn more about the complex chemical composition of
−Removed: cannabis, the need for distillation solutions is clear.
−Removed: Distillation enables the identification, isolation, and separation of valuable
−Removed: cannabis metabolites.
−Removed: The ability to take cannabis compounds distilled into their pure forms, and then recombine them into specific,
−Removed: purposeful end-products could have significant potential for the pharmaceutical industry in the future.
−Removed: stated previously, we strategically acquired four of the top brands in the extraction space in late 2021 and early 2022 in Precision
−Removed: Extraction, PurePressure, Lab Society, and Cascade Sciences.
−Removed: These iconic brands encompass everything from hydrocarbon, alcohol, and
−Removed: solventless extraction to distillation and post-processing and have supported and continue to support over 90% of legal operators in
−Removed: one fashion or another.
−Removed: these four acquisitions provide what we believe to be the most comprehensive extraction solutions from a single provider, with over 7,000
−Removed: customers, including over 30 Multi-State-Operators, and some of the best extraction labs in the industry.
−Removed: Our leading extraction brands
−Removed: provide equipment and solutions for extraction, post-processing, and testing for the cannabis and hemp industries.
+Added: Additionally, prior to its sale on December
+Added: 31, 2024, our proprietary micro-environment-controlled Agrify Vertical Farming Units (“VFUs”) enabled cultivators to produce
+Added: high quality products for the cannabis industry.
+Added: Corporate Developments
+Added: Sale of Cultivation Business
+Added: On December 31, 2024, we
+Added: entered into and closed an Asset Purchase Agreement (the “Cultivation Purchase Agreement”) with CP Acquisitions, LLC (“CP”),
+Added: an entity affiliated with Raymond Chang, our former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
+Added: Under the Cultivation Purchase Agreement, CP
+Added: acquired assets from us relating to our VFU business, including the related Agrify total turnkey (“TTK”) solution assets
+Added: and Agrify Insights TM software solutions (collectively, the “Cultivation Business”).
+Added: The aggregate consideration
+Added: received by us for the sale of the Cultivation Business consisted of the assumption by CP of (i) all of our obligations pursuant secured
+Added: indebtedness then held by CP with an aggregate amount of principal and accrued interest of approximately $7 million, and (ii) certain
+Added: other liabilities relating to the Cultivation Business.
+Added: February 2025 Changes in Directors
+Added: On February 5, 2025 the Company announced that Peter Shapiro and Sanjay
+Added: Tolia were appointed to our Board of Directors (the “Board”) effective January 31, 2025.
+Added: The Company also announced Richard
+Added: Drexler’s departure from the Board effective as of January 31, 2025.
+Added: Señorita Acquisition
+Added: On December 12, 2024, we closed an Asset Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase
+Added: Agreement”) for the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Double or Nothing LLC (“Double or Nothing”) in
+Added: connection with its Señorita brand of beverages containing hemp-derived cannabinoids.
+Added: Under the Purchase Agreement, we acquired
+Added: the Señorita brand of beverages and related assets from Double or Nothing relating to the portions of its business operating in
+Added: compliance with Canadian law and under the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018 (the “2018 Farm Bill”) and applicable state
+Added: Private Placement
+Added: On November 20, 2024, we raised gross proceeds of approximately $25.9
+Added: million in a private placement following the closing of certain securities purchase agreements with institutional investors and other
+Added: accredited investors.
+Added: In connection with the private placement, we issued (i) 203,988 shares Common Stock and (ii) pre-funded warrants
+Added: to purchase up to an aggregate of 949,515 shares of common stock at a purchase price per share of Common Stock of $22.30 and a purchase
+Added: price per pre-funded warrant of $22.2999.
+Added: Convertible Note
+Added: On November 5, 2024, we issued
+Added: a Secured Convertible Note (the “Note”) to RSLGH, LLC (the “Investor”), a subsidiary of Green Thumb Industries
+Added: (“Green Thumb”).
+Added: The Note is a secured obligation and ranks senior to all of our indebtedness except for certain indebtedness
+Added: set forth in the Note.
+Added: The Note will mature on November 5, 2025 (the “Maturity Date”) and contains a 10.0% annualized interest
+Added: rate, with interest to be paid on the first calendar day of each September and March while the Note is outstanding, in cash, beginning
+Added: January 1, 2025.
+Added: The principal amount of the Note will be payable on the Maturity Date.
+Added: 2024 Board and Management Changes
+Added: Also on November 5, 2024, immediately following the issuance of the
+Added: Note, Raymond Chang, our prior CEO and Chairman, resigned as a member of the Board and any subsidiaries and as President and Chief Executive
+Added: Officer of the Company, and I-Tseng Jenny Chan resigned as a member of the Board.
+Added: Benjamin Kovler, Armon Vakili and Richard Drexler replaced
+Added: Raymond Chang and I-Tseng Jenny Chan on the Board and Benjamin Kovler assumed the position of Interim CEO.
+Added: Effective May 17, 2024, Leonard
+Added: Sokolow resigned as a member of the Board and its committees.
+Added: Effective December 3, 2024, Brian Towns resigned from his roles as the Company’s
+Added: Executive Vice President and General Manager of Extraction Division to pursue other opportunities.
+Added: On December 31, 2024, in connection
+Added: with the Cultivation Purchase Agreement, David Kessler ceased serving as the Company’s Chief Science Officer, Executive Vice President
+Added: and General Manager of Cultivation.
+Added: Lines of Business
+Added: Hemp-Derived Beverages
+Added: We acquired the Señorita brand of hemp-derived THC beverages
+Added: in December 2024.
+Added: Señorita was designed and formulated by world-class winemakers Charles Bieler and Joel Gott.
+Added: Recognizing a growing
+Added: generational demand for adult beverage alternatives, Bieler and Gott gave the classic margarita a modern twist—replacing alcohol
+Added: with hemp-derived THC to create a delightful, hangover-free beverage alternative.
+Added: Through the use of all-natural, premium ingredients
+Added: like organic Mexican agave, fresh lime juice and sweet, tangy mango, Señorita quickly gained acclaim, taking home the top spot
+Added: in The High Times Cannabis Cup just one year after inception.
+Added: Gott and Bieler continue to collaborate on the brand with Mr.
+Added: the Agrify team.
+Added: Señorita currently offers three award-winning flavors –
+Added: classic Lime Jalapeño Margarita, Mango Margarita and Paloma.
+Added: A fourth flavor, low-calorie Ranch Water, is expected to debut in
+Added: Señorita’s hemp-derived beverages comply with the 2018 Farm Bill and are currently available at top retailers including
+Added: Total Wine, ABC Fine Wine & Spirits, and Binny’s in nine U.S.
+Added: states and Canada.
+Added: Products are also available for direct-to-consumer
+Added: purchase where permissible under state law at senoritadrinks.com.
+Added: Extraction Solutions
+Added: Our extraction equipment and
+Added: business solutions can be used within indoor processing facilities by fully licensed cannabis and hemp cultivators and processors or in
+Added: some cases, by individual processors for individual use in compliance with applicable law.
+Added: We sell our proprietary extraction solutions
+Added: to independent, licensed cultivators and processing labs.
+Added: In light of our increased
+Added: focus on hemp-derived beverages following the Señorita acquisition, the Board is exploring a variety of alternatives for the extraction
+Added: business while focusing on optimizing shareholder value creation.
+Added: We strategically acquired four of the top brands in the extraction
+Added: space in late 2021 and early 2022:
+Added: in Precision Extraction, PurePressure, Lab Society, and Cascade Sciences.
+Added: These iconic brands encompass
+Added: everything from hydrocarbon, alcohol, and solventless extraction to distillation and post-processing.
+Added: Combined, these four acquisitions
+Added: provided what we believed to be one of the most comprehensive extraction solutions from a single provider.
+Added: Our extraction brands provide
+Added: equipment and solutions for extraction, post-processing, and testing for the cannabis and hemp industries.
The extraction, post-processing
and testing services are complementary and highly attractive areas of the supply chain.
−Removed: extraction division now offers cutting-edge technologies and end-to-end service solutions.
−Removed: Solutions from the extraction division include
−Removed: equipment, technology, facility and lab design, training, and extensive research and development capabilities.
−Removed: By providing new hardware-as-a-service
−Removed: we intend to capture higher margin recurring revenue and supply chain optimization through streamlined product sourcing, purchasing,
−Removed: manufacturing, and warehousing.
−Removed: acquisitions have greatly expanded our product and service offerings in the post-harvest segment of the supply chain.
−Removed: We believe we are
−Removed: positioning Agrify as one of the most vertically integrated total solutions provider for our cannabis and hemp customers.
−Removed: a report published by Grand View Research in November 2022, the global cannabis extraction market is expected to potentially grow to
−Removed: $15.5 billion by 2030, and as the cannabis industry continues to experience rapid growth globally, we expect the sales of our extraction
−Removed: solutions to follow a similar growth trajectory.
−Removed: Market Opportunity
−Removed: we do not cultivate, come in contact with, distribute or dispense cannabis or any cannabis derivatives that are currently prohibited
−Removed: federal law, our cultivation solutions can be used within state-licensed indoor grow facilities by cannabis cultivators if
−Removed: they choose to do so.
−Removed: the U.S., the development and growth of the regulated medical and recreational (adult-use) cannabis industry has generally been driven
−Removed: by state law and regulation, and accordingly, the market varies on a state-by-state basis.
−Removed: State laws that legalize and regulate cannabis
−Removed: for medicinal reasons allow patients to consume cannabis with a designated healthcare provider’s recommendation, subject to various
−Removed: requirements and limitations.
−Removed: As of January 2024, 39 states have passed laws allowing their citizens to use medical cannabis.
−Removed: of this medical condition growth trend, there has been a slow but steady increase in the number of states that have chosen to legalize
−Removed: cannabis for recreational use.
−Removed: As of January 2024, 24 states have passed laws allowing their citizens to use recreational cannabis.
−Removed: public attitudes and state law and legislative activity are driving this change as indicated by a 2019 poll by Quinnipiac University
−Removed: that found that 93% of Americans support patient access to medical-use cannabis if recommended by a doctor, which was the same level
−Removed: of support from a similar poll conducted by Quinnipiac University in 2018.
−Removed: Similarly, the trend toward further legalization and regulation
−Removed: of cannabis sales is spreading globally.
−Removed: As of the date of this report, over 70 countries outside the U.S.
−Removed: currently have medicinal cannabis
−Removed: regulation in force, and that number is expected to significantly increase over time.
−Removed: that the market size of legal cannabis in the U.S.
−Removed: in 2022 was estimated to be $33.6 billion according to MJBiz Daily, and 88% of legal
−Removed: cannabis cultivators grow indoors (Fluence 2022 Industry lighting report), we estimate that the indoor segment of the legal U.S.
−Removed: cannabis sector is a $30 billion market with the expectation that there will be even more growth on the horizon.
−Removed: A recent report from
−Removed: Fortune Business Insights projected global cannabis revenue to reach $57.18 billion in 2023, with annual growth rate of 34.03%, with
−Removed: a projected global market volume of $444.34 billion by 2030.
−Removed: different cultivation environments for cannabis each have advantages and disadvantages, and this leads to a variance in price points
−Removed: based on quality, actual and perceived, and process.
−Removed: Based on the Fluence 2022 state of the cannabis industry lighting report, 88% of
−Removed: cultivators have some or all of their facilities growing indoors, up 9% over 2021.
−Removed: believe our full suite of product offerings forms an unmatched ecosystem for indoor growing and extraction.
−Removed: At this time, our VFUs, Agrify
−Removed: Insights™, extraction solutions, our facility design and build services, and our engineering/installation services are highly differentiated
−Removed: from anything else on the market.
−Removed: the same time, our customers are actively being approached by a variety of companies who do offer compelling standalone products and
−Removed: services, so we recognize that our customers do have choices and alternatives, and they also need to factor in opportunity costs whenever
−Removed: they make purchasing decisions.
−Removed: Consequently, we more broadly define our competition as any other company going after the same finite
−Removed: budget dollars as us in the indoor agriculture space.
−Removed: We have highlighted below the most notable players that operate across some of
−Removed: the same functional, highly fragmented areas of agriculture technology that we operate.
−Removed: ● mi-Integrated
−Removed: Vertical Cultivation Systems - Sprout AI
−Removed: Systems - AEssenceGrows and Thrive Growing
−Removed: ● Horticultural
−Removed: Lighting - Gavita, Fluence, VividGro, Hydrofarm, GrowGeneration, Hawthorne and Heliospectra
−Removed: Solutions - ExtractionTek Solutions, Mach Technologies, Decimal Engineering, Low
−Removed: Temp Plates, Whistler Technologies, Maratek and Hashatron
−Removed: Software - Grownetics and Trym
−Removed: ● Cultivation
−Removed: Software - Quantum Leaf, Flourish, and Grow Link
−Removed: Cultivation Racking Systems - Pipp Horticulture and Montel
−Removed: the presence of some well-funded and well-established competitors who offer pieces of what we do, we are able to compete on the basis
−Removed: of several defensible factors including our industry experience, our technical expertise, the differentiated value proposition of our
−Removed: individual offerings, and our positioning as a single-source provider.
−Removed: However, we believe above all else, it is our ability to offer
−Removed: an unrivaled level of precision through a total end-to-end turnkey solution that sets us apart from existing competitors and potential
−Removed: new market entrants.
−Removed: Competitive Strengths
−Removed: believe our business has, and our future success will be driven by, the following competitive strengths:
−Removed: Technology in an Attractive Growing Industry .
−Removed: Our innovative solutions are aimed
−Removed: at large and growing U.S.
−Removed: domestic and global markets.
−Removed: We believe we are the only provider
−Removed: of a fully integrated end-to-end hardware and software turnkey solution for indoor cultivation
−Removed: and extraction facilities that allows customers to produce high-quality products with consistency
−Removed: at scale while meeting the growing demand and needs of end users at a relatively low cost.
−Removed: As such, we believe we have a first mover advantage due to innovating this new type of smart
−Removed: cannabis and hemp cultivation and processing solution, which is already designed, manufactured,
−Removed: and implemented in several commercial scale deployments across multiple states within the
−Removed: Proprietary Components .
−Removed: We design and create our own hardware, software, and SOPs
−Removed: from the ground up rather than buying piecemeal from third parties.
−Removed: We take a systems-engineered
−Removed: integrated approach that we believe has inherent advantages over other, ad-hoc systems.
−Removed: on Precision and Consistency Through Our Proprietary Grow Solutions .
−Removed: able to help our customers increase capacity, yield and consequently revenues holds a tremendous
−Removed: amount of value, we believe that our biggest differentiator is our ability to impact the
−Removed: actual quality and consistency of the output by controlling the environment in which the
−Removed: crops are grown and all the variables that influence harvests with an unparalleled level
−Removed: of precision.
−Removed: The by-product of our TTK Solution is that our customers can create consistent
−Removed: high-quality products with repeatability from anywhere similar to any other consumer product
−Removed: company that provides a branded food or drink product.
−Removed: on Precision and Consistency Through Our Extraction Division.
−Removed: In addition to our
−Removed: premium grow solutions, we have begun offering our customers industry leading cannabis and
−Removed: hemp extraction equipment, design, and training solutions.
−Removed: By acquiring leading brands earlier
−Removed: this year, we are immediately able to offer our customers premium solutions to meet their
−Removed: processing needs in this rapidly expanding sector.
−Removed: Knowledge and Understanding .
−Removed: We have extensive experience with controlled agriculture
−Removed: environments, extraction, post-processing, and scale-up manufacturing, as well as industry
−Removed: technical knowledge and relationships.
−Removed: We are keenly aware of the struggles that indoor cultivators
−Removed: and extractors face, and we serve as a credible and collaborative partner through the entire
−Removed: customer lifecycle.
−Removed: We believe that our fully integrated TTK Solution, extraction equipment
−Removed: and ancillary services are the key to resolving many of the challenges our customers face.
−Removed: ● Differentiated
−Removed: Business Model .
−Removed: Unlike many of our competitors, we offer a diversified mix of hardware,
−Removed: software, and services, which leads to potential multiple revenue streams.
−Removed: Given the nature
−Removed: of our deployments, we become deeply embedded in our customers’ operations through
−Removed: our numerous product offerings.
−Removed: This puts us in a position where customer success is directly
−Removed: tied to our equipment.
−Removed: Our ability to differentiate our business model provides us with multiple
−Removed: opportunities to expand our installed user base, which we believe will lead to future high-margin
−Removed: and stable recurring SaaS revenues, via our Agrify Insights™ and production fee revenues.
−Removed: primarily market and sell our products to newly licensed, well-funded producers in a single market as well as multi-state operators.
−Removed: Our customers choose us for several reasons, including the breadth and availability of the products we offer, our extensive expertise,
−Removed: and the quality of our customer service.
−Removed: For large multi-state operators, our solutions allow operators to produce consistent high-quality
−Removed: products regardless of the geographic locations where they are licensed to operate.
−Removed: Our system removes the variations of local grow environments,
−Removed: and also provides consistent standard operating procedures across different facilities, helping every facility to achieve the highest
−Removed: Good Manufacturing Processes standards.
−Removed: Our ability to provide a “one-stop shop” experience allows us to be the preferred
−Removed: vendor to many of these customers by streamlining their entry or expansion of their cultivation capabilities.
−Removed: In addition, we believe
−Removed: our customers find great value in the advice and recommendations provided by our knowledgeable sales and service associates, which further
−Removed: increases demand for our products.
−Removed: believe the nature of our solutions and our high-touch customer service model strengthens relationships, builds loyalty and drives repeat
−Removed: business as our customers’ businesses expand.
−Removed: In addition, we feel as if our premium product lines and comprehensive product portfolio
−Removed: position us well to meet our customers’ needs.
−Removed: Furthermore, we fully anticipate that we will be able to leverage all the data that
−Removed: we are collecting from our existing customer base to make continuous improvements to our offerings and better serve our current and new
−Removed: customers in the future.
−Removed: date, we have customers across the U.S.
−Removed: and internationally in the cannabis and hemp industry and are of all sizes, ranging from small,
−Removed: single location businesses to multi-state enterprise operations that use Agrify’s solutions.
−Removed: For the year ended December 31, 2023,
−Removed: no customer represented more than 10% of revenues;
−Removed: however, for the year ended December 31, 2022, we had two customers that represented
−Removed: more than 10% of total revenues at 13% and 15% respectively.
−Removed: Growth Strategy
−Removed: have developed a multi-pronged growth strategy as described below to help us capitalize on the sizable opportunity at hand.
−Removed: Through methodical
−Removed: sales and marketing efforts, cultivation and extraction solutions, and scale-up manufacturing, we believe we have implemented several
−Removed: key initiatives we can use to grow our business more effectively.
−Removed: We also intend to opportunistically pursue the strategies described
−Removed: below to continue our upward trajectory and enhance shareholder value.
−Removed: We believe we have significantly improved our new bookings and
−Removed: qualified pipeline.
−Removed: With our expanded product line that includes quality extraction solutions, we have become more attractive to our
−Removed: prospects and customers, enhancing our overall appeal and the scope of opportunities we are able to pursue.
−Removed: We expect our qualified pipeline
−Removed: and new bookings of opportunities to continue to grow.
−Removed: and Marketing
−Removed: Sales Process and Strong Infrastructure in Place to Drive Revenue Growth
−Removed: utilize a highly structured sales process to evaluate potential new opportunities and then advance vetted prospects through the different
−Removed: phases of our qualified pipeline.
−Removed: Our salespeople spend most of their time building relationships and qualifying opportunities to make
−Removed: closing new business more streamlined, collaborative, and organic in nature.
−Removed: There are specific requirements, milestones, and events
−Removed: that we have identified along the sales process that must be met to move prospects through and convert them from vetted opportunities
−Removed: into committed sales orders within a 12-month period.
−Removed: At each phase of the pipeline, a prospect opportunity is assigned a probability
−Removed: value for closing, providing management production forecast ability.
−Removed: sales team works to convert our qualified pipeline of opportunities into confirmed contractual bookings.
−Removed: At the time of this report,
−Removed: our sales team was comprised of one Director of Business Development, Account Managers, Customer Support and Success Manager, Customer
−Removed: Service Support Reps, and a Sales Support Admin.
−Removed: Additionally, we take measures to ensure that all members of the sales organization
−Removed: are cross-trained on cultivation and extraction products.
−Removed: believe our business has, and our future success will be driven by, the following sales and marketing strategy:
−Removed: We capitalize on our direct marketing efforts by utilizing our internal
−Removed: CRM database, as well as the external help of trusted industry databases to target the right
−Removed: Emails go out on a weekly basis and are subdivided by product focus and state,
−Removed: depending on the campaign.
−Removed: We use A/B testing in our email campaign strategy to harness meaningful
−Removed: Media and Thought Leadership.
−Removed: Through the creation and promotion of engaging content
−Removed: that positions us as a thought leader, we continue to organically grow our social media audience.
−Removed: We share original videos, photography, industry-related articles, and blog content on a consistent
−Removed: By developing strong relationships with our customers and sharing testimonials as
−Removed: well as live footage of our products being in action, we are better positioning ourselves
−Removed: Furthermore, we promote our social media in our email communications, on our website,
−Removed: and through paid advertising.
−Removed: We also keep our finger on the pulse of trends and competitors
−Removed: in the market, remaining in the know.
−Removed: Trade shows and events related to the cannabis industry have proven to be
−Removed: highly effective.
−Removed: When attending trade shows and events, we typically position ourselves
−Removed: front and center, with high-level sponsorships, outstanding booth placement, and speaking
−Removed: opportunities.
−Removed: Our product and subject matter experts take advantage of speaking opportunities,
−Removed: positioning Agrify as an industry thought leader.
−Removed: We expect to continue to grow our industry
−Removed: presence by generating leads using conferences as a platform.
−Removed: The trade show plan has been
−Removed: carefully vetted to ensure that these shows are reputable, have a strong business-to-business
−Removed: focus, high foot-traffic rates, as well as hosted in a desirable market.
−Removed: Advertising .
−Removed: We utilize paid advertising such as banner ads on high-trafficked
−Removed: media sites that largely focus on cannabis and other relevant topics.
−Removed: We provide content
−Removed: offers and other downloadable materials to capture these leads.
−Removed: As we gain experience through
−Removed: these different marketing initiatives, we will make appropriate spending adjustments with
−Removed: our most effective outlets.
−Removed: We seek to expand our business both nationally and internationally
−Removed: and will do so when we have proven, viable marketing options available to us.
−Removed: Relations Campaigns.
−Removed: We have actively utilized press releases, industry and investor
−Removed: events, and interviews and speaking engagements to increase awareness of our brand, solutions,
−Removed: customer engagements, and other relevant company developments.
−Removed: With our industry positioning
−Removed: using thought leadership and ongoing participation in industry conferences, we have been
−Removed: highlighted through the Newswire and featured in a variety of media outlets.
−Removed: We will continue
−Removed: to sponsor and present keynotes at industry-related events including technology and agriculture
−Removed: conferences, podcasts, radio shows and more to continue to gain press and ultimately more
−Removed: Manufacturing Capabilities in Order to Meet the Increasing Demand for Our Grow Solutions
−Removed: currently use both internal and external manufacturing to support our increasing demand.
−Removed: Internal production is primarily at our Michigan
−Removed: and Colorado facilities.
−Removed: Externally, we use a variety of contract manufacturers (“CMs”) in the U.S.
−Removed: and in Asia for prototyping
−Removed: and volume manufacturing, and we plan to expand our capabilities to meet the increasing demand for our grow solutions.
−Removed: We design the
−Removed: systems internally, and then work with our CMs and suppliers to refine, prototype, and test the designs.
−Removed: The designs are documented at
−Removed: a level that allows us to have our products manufactured at multiple CMs, both in the U.S.
−Removed: As demand increases beyond our
−Removed: internal capacities additional volume can be shifted to external manufacturing to ensure market demands are met.
−Removed: our approach to manufacturing is to use both internal and external manufacturing capabilities to prototype, iterate, and begin initial
−Removed: production, then transition to volume production.
−Removed: As volumes increase, this will also include increasing production in lower-cost geographies,
−Removed: which results in both rapid time-to-market and low production costs.
−Removed: As we grow, we intend to continually analyze and evolve our manufacturing
−Removed: capabilities to best meet our customers’ needs while always focusing on ways to maximize operating margins.
−Removed: rely on a combination of patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret, including federal, state and common law rights in the U.S.
−Removed: other countries, nondisclosure agreements, and other measures to protect our intellectual property.
−Removed: We require our employees, consultants,
−Removed: and advisors to execute confidentiality agreements and to agree to disclose and assign to us all inventions conceived under their respective
−Removed: employment, consultant, or advisor agreement, using our property, or which relate to our business.
−Removed: Despite any measures taken to protect
−Removed: our intellectual property, unauthorized parties may attempt to copy aspects of our products or to obtain and use information that we
−Removed: regard as proprietary.
−Removed: Our business is affected by our ability to protect against misappropriation and infringement of our intellectual
−Removed: property, including our trademarks, service marks, patents, domain names, copyrights and other proprietary rights.
−Removed: hold 20 patents in the U.S.
−Removed: We also have one pending patent application.
−Removed: These patents and patents applications are directed to, among
−Removed: other things, extraction and processing of botanicals and particular compounds.
−Removed: and Copyrights
−Removed: own or have applications for numerous national and state trademarks which are essential to our businesses, including Agrify, Precision,
−Removed: PurePressure, PressWare, Lab Society and Elitelab, among others.
−Removed: In addition, we recognize common-law trademark rights AGRIFY INSIGHTS
−Removed: and AGRINAMICS for SaaS products.
−Removed: subsidiary, Agrify Brands, LLC is the owner of certain common-law trademarks that it licenses to third parties.
−Removed: Marks covered by the
−Removed: license include, DAWG STAR (including multiple logo designs), WESTERN CULTURED (including multiple logo designs), TWISTED LEGION (logo),
−Removed: WAXTRONAUT (including multiple logo designs) and WAXTRONAUT COSMICALLY CURATED EXTRACTS.
−Removed: we have not sought copyright registration for our technology or works to date, we rely on common law copyright and trade secret protections
−Removed: in relation to our TechOps/ Agrify Insights™ computer program for indoor agriculture management.
−Removed: We have registered our Internet
−Removed: domain names related to our business.
−Removed: We license software from third parties and utilize open-source software for integration into our
−Removed: applications.
−Removed: addition, while we know that our current product and service capabilities are highly novel and compelling, we do not intend to be complacent.
−Removed: We will continue to learn from our customers and from the market, and if there is an opportunity to deploy a new and improved version
−Removed: of one of our offerings or if we decide there is room in the market for a new type of solution, we fully intend to diligently explore
−Removed: those possibilities to augment our existing business and grow our reach.
−Removed: Capital Resources
−Removed: of March 31st, 2024, we had a total of 39 employees, of which 39 are full-time employees.
−Removed: None of our employees are subject to collective
−Removed: bargaining agreements.
−Removed: We consider our relationship with our employees to be good.
−Removed: strive to attract and retain diverse, high-caliber employees who raise the talent bar by offering competitive compensation and benefit
−Removed: packages, regardless of their gender, race, or other personal characteristics.
−Removed: We regularly review and survey our compensation and benefit
−Removed: programs against the market to ensure we remain competitive in our hiring practices.
−Removed: We provide employee salaries that are competitive
−Removed: and consider factors such as an employee’s role and experience, the location of their job and their performance.
−Removed: In addition to
−Removed: our competitive salaries, to enhance our employees’ sense of participation in the company and to further align their interests
−Removed: with those of our stockholders, we offer equity packages to a majority of our employees.
−Removed: The principal purposes of our equity incentive
−Removed: plan are to attract, retain and reward personnel through the granting of stock-based compensation awards, in order to increase stockholder
−Removed: value and the success of our company by motivating such individuals to perform to the best of their abilities and achieve our objectives.
−Removed: strive to hire, develop, and retain talent that continuously raises the performance bar.
−Removed: We encourage, support, and compensate our employees
−Removed: based on our philosophy of recognizing and rewarding exceptional performance.
−Removed: We believe that performance and development is an ongoing
−Removed: process in which all employees should be active participants.
−Removed: Individual and company key performance goals are linked to employee compensation.
−Removed: Implications of Providing Equipment and Services in the Cannabis and Hemp Industry
−Removed: sell products and services that end users may purchase for use in industries or segments, including the growing and processing of cannabis
−Removed: and hemp, which are subject to varying, inconsistent, and rapidly changing laws, regulations, administrative practices, enforcement approaches,
−Removed: judicial interpretations, and consumer perceptions.
−Removed: For example, certain countries and 36 U.S.
−Removed: states have adopted frameworks that authorize,
−Removed: regulate, and tax the cultivation, processing, sale, and use of cannabis for medicinal and/or non-medicinal use, while the U.S.
−Removed: Substances Act and the laws of other U.S.
−Removed: states prohibit growing cannabis.
−Removed: In addition, with the passage of the Farm Bill in December
−Removed: 2018, hemp cultivation is now broadly permitted.
−Removed: The Farm Bill explicitly allows the transfer of hemp-derived products across state lines
−Removed: for commercial or other purposes.
−Removed: It also removes restrictions on the sale, transport, or possession of hemp-derived products, so long
−Removed: as those items are produced in a manner consistent with the law.
−Removed: Our products are multi-purpose products and may be used on a wide range
−Removed: of plants and are purchased by cultivators who may grow any variety of plants, including cannabis and hemp.
−Removed: the majority of states now have laws that regulate or decriminalize various types of cannabis use, marijuana remains a Schedule I drug
−Removed: under the Controlled Substances Act, making it illegal under federal law in the U.S.
−Removed: to, among other things, cultivate, distribute or
−Removed: possess cannabis in the U.S.
−Removed: In those states in which the use of marijuana has been legalized, its use remains a violation of federal
−Removed: law pursuant to the Controlled Substances Act.
−Removed: The Controlled Substances Act classifies marijuana as a Schedule I controlled substance,
−Removed: and as such, medical and adult cannabis use is illegal under U.S.
−Removed: Unless and until the U.S.
−Removed: Congress amends the Controlled
−Removed: Substances Act with respect to marijuana (and the President approves such amendment), there is a risk that federal authorities may enforce
−Removed: current federal law.
−Removed: Financial transactions involving proceeds generated by, or intended to promote, cannabis-related business activities
−Removed: may form the basis for prosecution under applicable U.S.
−Removed: federal money laundering legislation.
−Removed: The approach to enforcement
−Removed: of such laws by the federal government in the U.S.
−Removed: has trended toward non-enforcement against individuals and businesses that comply
−Removed: with medical or adult-use cannabis regulatory programs in states where such programs are legal, strict compliance with state laws with
−Removed: respect to cannabis.
−Removed: most states that have legalized medical- and recreational-use cannabis in some form, the growing, processing and/or dispensing of cannabis
−Removed: generally requires that the operator obtain one or more licenses in accordance with applicable state requirements.
−Removed: In addition, many
−Removed: states regulate various aspects of the growing, processing and/or dispensing of cannabis and hemp.
−Removed: Local governments in some cases also
−Removed: impose rules and regulations on the manner of operating cannabis and hemp businesses.
−Removed: As a result, applicable state and local laws and
−Removed: regulations vary widely, including, but not limited to, regulations governing the medical cannabis program, product testing, the level
−Removed: of enforcement by state and local authorities on non-licensed cannabis operators, state and local taxation of regulated cannabis products,
−Removed: local municipality bans on operations and operator licensing processes and renewals.
−Removed: part of its rigorous due diligence policy on all potential customers, the Company carefully reviews the appropriate licensure of each
−Removed: potential customer in the cannabis and hemp industry for compliance with applicable local, state, and federal laws.
−Removed: The Company is not
−Removed: involved in the cultivation, processing, or retail of cannabis products and never takes a controlling interest in any of the operations
−Removed: of its cannabis customers as a matter of state law.
−Removed: Environmental
−Removed: are not aware of any environmental laws that have been enacted, nor are we aware of any such laws being contemplated for the future,
−Removed: that directly impact our business.
−Removed: of Being an Emerging Growth Company and Smaller Reporting Company
−Removed: qualify as an “emerging growth company” as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012, which we refer to
−Removed: as the JOBS Act.
−Removed: As a result, we are permitted to, and intend to, rely on exemptions from certain disclosure requirements that are applicable
−Removed: to other companies that are not emerging growth companies.
−Removed: Accordingly, for so long as we are an “emerging growth company,”
−Removed: we will not be required to:
−Removed: an auditor to report on our internal controls over financial reporting pursuant to Section
−Removed: 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act;
−Removed: with any requirement that may be adopted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board,
−Removed: or the PCAOB, regarding mandatory audit firm rotation or a supplement to the auditor’s
−Removed: report providing additional information about the audit and the financial statements (i.e.,
−Removed: an auditor discussion and analysis);
−Removed: certain executive compensation matters to shareholder advisory votes, such as “say-on-pay,”
+Added: Discontinued Operations
+Added: Cultivation Solutions
+Added: Prior to its sale on December 31, 2024, we sold proprietary cultivation
+Added: solutions to independent licensed cultivators.
+Added: The two primary products we sold were the VFUs and Agrify Insights™ software.
+Added: The proprietary VFU technology offered a modular, compartmentalized
+Added: micro-climate growing system for indoor vertical farming.
+Added: The VFU system was designed for craft farmers, single-state operators, and multi-state
+Added: operators who were looking to consistently produce higher-quality crops at scale.
+Added: The VFUs were designed to line up horizontally in rows,
+Added: and could be stacked vertically up to three units tall.
+Added: The VFUs were designed to
+Added: work in conjunction with the Agrify Insights™ software.
+Added: Each VFU sold included a license for Agrify Insights™ and a monthly
+Added: Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS”) subscription fee was charged per VFU.
+Added: The VFU could not operate successfully without Agrify
+Added: Insights™, and we typically charged between $1,500 to $2,400 per VFU sold annually.
+Added: Agrify Insights™ license agreements were
+Added: generally for a multi-year term, with an annual auto-renewal.
+Added: The Company’s TTK solution was the industry’s first-of-its-kind
+Added: program in which the Company engaged with qualified cannabis operators in the early phases of their business plans and provides critical
+Added: support, typically over a 10-year period, which includes:
+Added: access to capital for construction costs, the design and build-out of their
+Added: cultivation and extraction facilities, state-of-the-art cultivation and extraction equipment, subscription to the Company’s Agrify
+Added: Insights™, process design, training, implementation, proven grow recipes, product formulations, data analytics, and consumer branding.
+Added: While we have not entered into any new TTK solutions during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 and will not in the future, we have
+Added: previously deployed this program with certain key former customers.
+Added: The data-driven TTK solution for cultivation solutions enabled our
+Added: customers to get to market faster by providing them with seamlessly integrated hardware and software offerings as well as access to capital
+Added: and a wide range of associated services from experts including consulting, training, design, engineering, and construction.
+Added: Regulatory Landscape Overview
+Added: The regulatory landscape for products infused with hemp-derived delta-9
+Added: tetrahydrocannabinol and other psychoactive cannabinoids (collectively “hemp-derived THC”) is a source of material risk for
+Added: While the 2018 Farm Bill both defined and legalized hemp under federal law, the subsequent use of hemp to make psychoactive
+Added: or intoxicating consumer products created an unexpected new market.
+Added: This market mirrors the state-legal and federally illegal cannabis
+Added: industry, but without the rigid regulations and heavy tax burdens and without the prohibition on interstate shipping.
+Added: As the industry
+Added: expanded, lawmakers at the federal, state, and local levels raised concerns about minors’ easy access to these products, inadequate
+Added: testing, and the need for regulations governing the manufacturing, marketing, testing, sale, and transportation of hemp products.
+Added: result, to date, several states have passed laws regulating, restricting, or banning hemp-derived THC products.
+Added: In addition, during each
+Added: renewal of the 2018 Farm Bill, legislators proposed amendments that would make hemp-derived delta-9 THC products federally illegal.
+Added: these amendments have not passed, the 2018 Farm Bill is set to expire on September 30, 2025, and additional amendments seeking to curtail
+Added: the hemp industry could be introduced.
+Added: All of this creates significant uncertainty for Agrify’s business of manufacturing, marketing
+Added: and selling hemp-derived delta-9 THC products.
+Added: Competitive Landscape Overview
+Added: cannabis and cannabis-related industries are, and are expected
+Added: to continue to be, competitive.
+Added: A number of other companies engage in, and may in the future engage in, cannabis-related businesses, operate
+Added: businesses in competition with us and purchase businesses and assets or make investments that we will also seek to purchase or make.
+Added: face and expect to continue to face competition from state-licensed medical and adult-use dispensaries.
+Added: Large chain stores, manufacturers,
+Added: retailers, beverage and other consumer products companies that also recognize the potential for financial success through acquisitions
+Added: and investment in the hemp-derived beverage industry could strategically acquire competitors or invest in creating their own brands.
+Added: doing so, these larger competitors could produce and sell competing products at a lower price and establish a larger brand presence.
+Added: may not have the personnel, products, marketing and distribution capabilities, and/or financial resources to compete effectively against
+Added: such larger competitors.
+Added: We also face competition from
+Added: the illicit market and illegal dispensaries and cultivation operations that are unlicensed, not regulated and that are selling cannabis
+Added: or hemp products.
+Added: Any inability or unwillingness of law enforcement authorities to enforce existing laws prohibiting the unlicensed production
+Added: and sale of cannabis or hemp products could result in increased competition for us.
+Added: Intellectual Property
+Added: We rely on a combination
+Added: of patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret, including federal, state and common law rights in the U.S.
+Added: and other countries, nondisclosure
+Added: agreements, and other measures to protect our intellectual property.
+Added: We require our employees, consultants, and advisors to execute confidentiality
+Added: agreements and to agree to disclose and assign to us all inventions conceived under their respective employment, consultant, or advisor
+Added: agreement, using our property, or which relate to our business.
+Added: Despite any measures taken to protect our intellectual property, unauthorized
+Added: parties may attempt to copy aspects of our products or to obtain and use information that we regard as proprietary.
+Added: Our business is affected
+Added: by our ability to protect against misappropriation and infringement of our intellectual property, including our trademarks, service marks,
+Added: patents, domain names, copyrights and other proprietary rights.
+Added: Human Capital Resources
+Added: As of March 15, 2025, we had a total of 11 employees, all of whom were
+Added: employed full-time.
+Added: None of our employees are subject to collective bargaining agreements.
+Added: In addition, we rely on a shared services agreement
+Added: with Green Thumb to provide much of our human capital needs.
+Added: Environmental Regulations
+Added: We are not aware of any environmental
+Added: laws that have been enacted, nor are we aware of any such laws being contemplated for the future, that directly impact our business.
+Added: Implications of Being an Emerging Growth Company
+Added: and Smaller Reporting Company
+Added: We qualify as an “emerging
+Added: growth company” as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012, which we refer to as the JOBS Act.
+Added: As a result, we
+Added: are permitted to, and intend to, rely on exemptions from certain disclosure requirements that are applicable to other companies that are
+Added: not emerging growth companies.
+Added: Accordingly, for so long as we are an “emerging growth company,” we will not be required to:
+Added: ● engage an auditor to report on our internal controls over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404(b)
+Added: of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act;
+Added: ● comply with any requirement that may be adopted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, or the
+Added: PCAOB, regarding mandatory audit firm rotation or a supplement to the auditor’s report providing additional information about the
+Added: audit and the financial statements (i.e., an auditor discussion and analysis);
+Added: ● submit certain executive compensation matters to shareholder advisory votes, such as “say-on-pay,”
“say-on-frequency,” and “say-on-golden parachutes;” or
−Removed: certain executive compensation-related items such as the correlation between executive compensation
−Removed: and performance and the comparison of the chief executive officer’s compensation to
−Removed: median employee compensation.
−Removed: addition, the JOBS Act provides that an “emerging growth company” can use the extended transition period for complying with
−Removed: new or revised accounting standards.
−Removed: will remain an “emerging growth company” until the earliest to occur of:
−Removed: reporting $1 billion or more in annual gross revenues;
−Removed: issuance, in a three-year period, of more than $1 billion in non-convertible debt;
−Removed: end of the fiscal year in which the market value of our Common Stock held by non-affiliates
−Removed: exceeds $700 million on the last business day of our second fiscal quarter;
−Removed: cannot predict if investors will find our securities less attractive because we may rely on these exemptions, which could result in a
−Removed: less active trading market for our securities and increased volatility in the price of our securities.
−Removed: we are a “smaller reporting company” (and may continue to qualify as such even after we no longer qualify as an emerging
−Removed: growth company) and accordingly may provide less public disclosure than larger public companies, including the inclusion of only two
−Removed: years of audited financial statements and only two years of management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results
−Removed: of operations disclosure.
−Removed: As a result, the information that we provide to our stockholders may be different than you might receive from
−Removed: other public reporting companies in which you hold equity interests.
−Removed: executive offices are located at 2468 Industrial Row, Dr., Troy, Michigan 48084.
+Added: ● disclose certain executive compensation-related items such as the correlation between executive compensation
+Added: and performance and the comparison of the chief executive officer’s compensation to median employee compensation.
+Added: In addition, the JOBS Act
+Added: provides that an “emerging growth company” can use the extended transition period for complying with new or revised accounting
+Added: We will remain an “emerging
+Added: growth company” until the earliest to occur of:
+Added: ● our reporting $1 billion or more in annual gross revenues;
+Added: ● our issuance, in a three-year period, of more than $1 billion in non-convertible debt;
+Added: ● the end of the fiscal year in which the market value of our Common Stock held by non-affiliates exceeds
+Added: $700 million on the last business day of our second fiscal quarter;
+Added: ● December 31, 2026.
+Added: We cannot predict if investors
+Added: will find our securities less attractive because we may rely on these exemptions, which could result in a less active trading market for
+Added: our securities and increased volatility in the price of our securities.
+Added: Additionally, we are a “smaller
+Added: reporting company” (and may continue to qualify as such even after we no longer qualify as an emerging growth company) and accordingly
+Added: may provide less public disclosure than larger public companies, including the inclusion of only two years of audited financial statements
+Added: and only two years of management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations disclosure.
+Added: the information that we provide to our stockholders may be different than you might receive from other public reporting companies in which
+Added: you hold equity interests.
+Added: Corporate Information
+Added: Our executive offices are
+Added: located at 2468 Industrial Row, Dr., Troy, Michigan 48084.
Our telephone number at our executive offices is (855) 420-0020.
−Removed: Corporation was incorporated in the state of Nevada on June 6, 2016, originally incorporated as Agrinamics, Inc.
+Added: Agrify Corporation was incorporated
+Added: in the state of Nevada on June 6, 2016, originally incorporated as Agrinamics, Inc.
(“Agrinamics”).
−Removed: On September 16, 2019, Agrinamics amended its articles of incorporation to reflect a name change to Agrify Corporation.
−Removed: Company’s Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to reports filed pursuant to Sections
−Removed: 13(a) and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), are filed with the SEC.
−Removed: We are subject
−Removed: to the informational requirements of the Exchange Act and file or furnish reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC.
−Removed: Such reports and other information filed by us with the SEC are available free of charge at https://ir.agrify.com/financials-and-filings/sec-filings
−Removed: when such reports are available on the SEC’s website.
−Removed: The SEC maintains an Internet site that contains reports, proxy and information
−Removed: statements, and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC at www.sec.gov.
−Removed: We periodically provide other
−Removed: information for investors on our corporate website, www.agrify.com, and our investor relations website, investor.gnln.com.
−Removed: This includes
−Removed: press releases and other information about financial performance, information on corporate governance and details related to our annual
−Removed: meeting of shareholders.
−Removed: The information contained on the websites referenced in this Form 10-K is not incorporated by reference into
−Removed: Further, our references to website URLs are intended to be inactive textual references only.
+Added: On September 16, 2019, Agrinamics
+Added: amended its articles of incorporation to reflect a name change to Agrify Corporation.
+Added: Available Information
+Added: Our Annual Reports on Form
+Added: 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to reports filed pursuant to Sections 13(a) and 15(d)
+Added: of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), are filed with the SEC.
+Added: We are subject to the informational
+Added: requirements of the Exchange Act and file or furnish reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC.
+Added: Such reports and other
+Added: information filed by us with the SEC are available free of charge at https://ir.agrify.com/financials-and-filings/sec-filings when such
+Added: reports are available on the SEC’s website.
+Added: The SEC maintains an Internet site that contains reports, proxy and information statements,
+Added: and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC at www.sec.gov.
+Added: We periodically provide other information
+Added: for investors on our corporate website, www.agrify.com, and our investor relations website, investor.gnln.com.
+Added: This includes press releases
+Added: and other information about financial performance, information on corporate governance and details related to our annual meeting of shareholders.
+Added: The information contained on the websites referenced in this Form 10-K is not incorporated by reference into this filing.
+Added: references to website URLs are intended to be inactive textual references only.
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