Overview
TÜBINGEN, Germany, 18 August 2026 - Computomics GmbH has raised EUR 6.3 million in new equity in a Series B financing round led by Convent Capital Agri Food Fund, which invested EUR 5 million. Existing investors including High-Tech Gründerfonds, MBG Baden-Württemberg and Amathaon Capital participated, alongside founders and scientific advisors. The proceeds will be used to scale commercial delivery of the company's climate-smart breeding platform.
The financing comes in a summer in which European growers have lost yield to heat and drought across nearly every crop. The European Commission's Joint Research Centre has revised down its 2026 yield forecasts for all spring and summer crops, with the largest reductions for maize and sunflower, and France is heading for one of its weakest maize harvests in decades. Varieties now entering the market were selected in a different climate than the one they will be grown in.
Computomics builds machine learning models that predict how a given genotype will perform under a given set of conditions, combining genomic data with environmental data such as temperature, rainfall and soil, and with field measurements. Breeders use the predictions to answer questions that trial data alone cannot answer in time: which candidates hold up under hotter and drier conditions, which are stable across environments rather than strong in one, and where a variety should be placed. Its ×SeedScore® platform runs those predictions at the scale of a commercial breeding program. Customers include commercial breeders working in field crops, forages, vegetables and specialty crops.
"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. "This financing is about getting that capability into far more breeding programs, faster."
"We back companies whose environmental impact grows with their commercial success. 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. That alignment is why we led this round," said Stephen McLoughlin, Partner at Convent Capital Agri Food Fund.
"AI-based breeding of stress-resistant crops is part of the German federal government's High-Tech Agenda for good reason: it is one of the levers that matter most as the climate shifts," said Dr. Frank Hensel, Principal at High-Tech Gründerfonds. "HTGF has supported Computomics since the seed phase and congratulates the team on this growth financing."
This operation benefits from support from the European Union under the InvestEU Fund.
About Computomics
Computomics GmbH, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Tübingen, Germany, applies machine learning to genomics for plant breeding. Its climate-smart breeding portfolio includes ×SeedScore® for predicting performance across genotype, environment and management, CropCompass and BreedScope. Pantograph, the company's omics data hub, supports trait discovery through pangenome analysis, and MORPHEUS and MEGAN7 serve microbiome applications. The company works with commercial breeders and agri-food companies worldwide. https://computomics.com
About Convent Capital Agri Food Fund
Convent is a Dutch investment company founded in 2011, with the vision to create a thriving global economy that operates within the boundaries of our planet's resources, driven by the principles of a circular economy. Through its Agri Food Fund, an SFDR Article 9 impact fund, Convent invests in pioneering Agri & Food companies that create positive environmental impact, backing management teams with both capital and hands-on support to scale their businesses. https://conventcapital.nl/
About HTGF - High-Tech Gründerfonds
Germany and Europe need a New Wirtschaftswunder, we are laying the foundations. We are Germany's most active VC investor, funding deep-tech, life sciences and digital tech companies that secure technological sovereignty and build industrial strength. From the initial idea through to international scaling, we support bold founders as a multi-stage VC platform - seamlessly, reliably and for the long term. 350 active start-ups, 200+ exits and 5 unicorns. Over EUR 10 billion in follow-on funding mobilised. Together with DTCF, we represent more than EUR 3 billion in fund volume - and turn German and European innovations into global tech champions. More information at https://www.htgf.de or on https://www.linkedin.com/company/high-tech-gruenderfonds/
About Amathaon Capital
Founded in 2020, Amathaon is a Munich-based operational venture capitalist focused on early stage deep tech companies operating along the food production and biotech value chain. Amathaon focuses on sustainable solutions to enable the implementation of the European Green Deal and to address the growing global labor shortage in food and agriculture. In this way, Amathaon Capital supports founders to shape the most important parts of our food production. Further information at www.amathaon.com.
About MBG Mittelständische Beteiligungsgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg GmbH
MBG Mittelständische Beteiligungsgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg is one of the leading providers of equity and venture capital in Germany and acts as a partner to small and medium-sized enterprises. It currently provides about 270 million euros in equity and venture capital to more than 700 small and medium-sized enterprises in Baden-Württemberg. MBG supports growth and innovation projects, business succession and start-ups, primarily with mezzanine capital in the form of silent partnerships. In the venture capital sector, MBG manages several funds, including the Start-up BW Seed Fonds and the Start-up BW Innovation Fonds. MBG’s shareholders include chambers of commerce, trade associations and banking institutions. https://www.mbg.de
Media Contact
Uta Nickels, Marketing Manager
Computomics GmbH, Eisenbahnstr. 1, 72072 Tübingen, Germany
uta.nickels@computomics.com | +49 7071 568 3995
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