> Billions for fast food delivery apps, not a dime for defense or sustainable agriculture

Defense venture capital funding is literally in the billions and has resilient even in a broader VC pullback: https://www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence/en/news-insight...

Beyond Meat also hit 15 billion market cap at peak.

I don't consider synthetic nutrition agriculture; what I'm talking about is regenerative farming practices or high tech alternatives to pesticides i.e. Carbon Robotics.

Fair enough, I suppose I was being hyperbolic, but nevertheless...

It would be interesting to see the graph before 2019. For a decade, all of the investment money, talent following behind it, piled into Uber, etc.

> has resilient even in a broader VC pullback

Yes, people are starting to catch on now. Even so, investment is at best a leading indicator. In terms of existing on-the-ground domestic infrastructure, we're sorely lagging in real-world capabilities, but the better part of the last fifteen years was spent creating a vast Grubhub-type delivery infrastructure across the US while the amount of resources dedicated to peer or near-peer conflict logistics and long term agricultural production were relatively ignored.