{
  "id": 1711875,
  "title": "Computomics raises €6.3M to scale climate-smart plant breeding",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/computomics-raises-6-3m-to-scale-climate-smart-plant-breeding",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-18T12:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Tech.eu",
    "slug": "tech-eu",
    "url": "https://tech.eu/2026/08/18/computomics-raises-eur63m-to-scale-climate-smart-plant-breeding/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "German agritech firm Computomics has secured €6.3 million in Series B funding to expand its climate-smart breeding platform. Led by Convent Capital Agri Food Fund with a €5 million investment, existing backers High-Tech Gründerfonds, MBG Baden-Württemberg, Amathaon Capital, as well as the company's founders and scientific advisers, participated in the round. The European Union's InvestEU Fund also provided support.\n\nFounded in 2012 and based in Tübingen, Computomics employs machine learning and genomic analysis to aid plant breeders in predicting crop variety performance under various environmental conditions. Their technology integrates genomic data with insights on temperature, rainfall, soil, and field trial results. The Machine Learning models utilize these datasets to forecast a genotype's performance in a specific environment, enabling breeders to evaluate potential crop varieties earlier in the breeding process.\n\nThe SeedScore platform, a key component of Computomics' offering, employs these predictions across commercial breeding programs. It assists breeders in identifying candidates likely to thrive in hotter and drier conditions, determining which varieties remain stable across different environments, and assessing optimal cultivation locations for specific varieties. Computomics collaborates with commercial breeders specializing in field crops, forage crops, vegetables, and specialty crops.\n\nAs Europe grapples with increasingly challenging growing conditions, breeders face the dilemma of selecting varieties that were bred under different climate conditions years ago. Dr. Sebastian J. Schultheiss, co-founder and CEO of Computomics, highlights the company's solution: \"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.\" Computomics' portfolio encompasses CropCompass and BreedScope for climate-smart breeding, Pantograph for omics data analysis and trait discovery, MORPHEUS and MEGAN7 for microbiome analysis, and their SeedScore platform. The new funding will enable the expansion of their platform across more commercial breeding programs.",
  "summary": "Germanagritech company Computomics has raised €6.3 million in Series B funding toscale the commercial deployment of its climate-smart breeding platform. Theround was led by Convent Capital Agri Food F...",
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