Benson Hill SPAC Presentation Deck
BENSON HILL
Crop
Expansive Platform Opportunity
Food Made Better From
The Beginning
CropOS
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Food technology company: A category-defining
company unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants
to lead the plant-based food revolution for healthier and
more sustainable food and ingredient choices
Proprietary CropOS® technology platform: Uses
artificial intelligence (AI), data and a variety of advanced
breeding techniques that combine data science, plant
science and food science to deliver new crops optimized
for nutrition, flavor and yield, with the potential to shave
years off the traditional crop breeding process
Integrated Business Model: Starting with the seed and
then working with growers and food supply chain partners
to commercialize and broadly scale food and ingredients
that are healthier, more sustainable, more affordable and
better tasting
The 'Picks and Shovels' of the
Plant-based Food Revolution
Plant-based meats: Commercializing
soybean (near-term) and yellow pea
(medium-term) products with
forecasted $140B TAM¹ by 2029
Plant-Based
Meat
Longer-term: Building scale as CropOS® deployed to drive
innovation across sustainability-driven food & health trends
within a $5T TAM² agri-food industry, including:
Health &
Beauty
Today's Focus
Aquaculture
Animal Feed
& Pet Food
Other
Functional
Food
Ingredients
Soybean
Investing Today
Yellow Pea
Fresh
Produce
Controlled
Environment /
Indoor
Agriculture
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Longer-Term Opportunity
Source: Benson Hill. (1) Market calculation through 2029, Barclay's Global Food Report, 'I Can't Believe It's Not Meat' (2019). (2) McKinsey.View entire presentation