Exclusive: Biographica raises $9.5m for AI-driven crop design, unveils partnership with BASF

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Biographica raised a £7 million ($9.5 million) seed round led by Faber VC with participation from SuperSeed, Cardumen Capital, The Helm, Chalfen Ventures and Entrepreneurs First. The company will use the proceeds to expand proprietary data collection, extend its AI platform to new crop traits, and deepen commercial relationships across the seed industry. Biographica also announced a partnership with BASF's Nunhems and said it has completed pilots with multiple partners including two top-five global seed companies. The startup's multimodal AI models claim to identify causal gene targets up to 12x faster than traditional methods and pair predictions with lab-in-the-loop experimental validation to continuously improve hit rates.

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