Computomics raises €6.3M Series B to breed crops for a hotter climate
What's the deal? ComputomicsDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a Tübingen-based biotech company, has raised €6.3 million in a Series B round to scale commercial delivery of its climate-smart crop breeding platform. Convent Capital Agri Food Fund led with €5 million, joined by existing investors High-Tech GründerfondsDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, MBG Baden-Württemberg, and Amathaon CapitalDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →.
What's the endgame? Founded in 2012 as a spin-off from the Max Planck Institute for BiologyDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → and the University of TübingenDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, Computomics builds machine learning models that forecast how a specific crop genotype will perform under given environmental conditions. Its ×SeedScore platform runs these predictions across full commercial breeding programmes, serving breeders in field crops, forages, vegetables, and specialty crops.
Why now? European growers have been hit hard by heat and drought. The European Commission's Joint Research Centre has cut its 2026 yield forecasts for all spring and summer crops, with the steepest downgrades affecting maize and sunflower, while France faces one of its weakest maize harvests in decades.
The models combine genomic data with factors such as temperature, rainfall, and soil characteristics to tell breeders which candidates will hold up in hotter, drier conditions — answering questions trial data alone cannot within the time available.
"Breeders have never lacked ambition about climate resilience. What they have lacked is a way to see it before the field tells them, which takes years they no longer have," said Dr. Sebastian J. Schultheiss, co-founder and chief executive officer of Computomics.
What's the money for? The new capital will fund the scaling of commercial delivery, extending the technology to more breeding programmes at a faster pace.
"Better breeding predictions mean fewer wasted seasons and varieties that hold up in the field, so the impact case and the business case point the same way," said Stephen McLoughlin, partner at Convent Capital Agri Food Fund.
The signal: At €6.3 million, the round sits in the top quartile of deals by size — a modest sum in absolute terms, but a signal that investors see agricultural AI as a lever worth backing as the climate shifts. HTGF notes that AI-based breeding of stress-resistant crops is now part of the German federal government's High-Tech Agenda.
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