Rainbow Crops Raises €9.7M Seed Round to Scale AI-Driven Multiplex Gene Editing for Next-Generation Crops

Ghent’s Rainbow Crops bags €9.7 million to advance AI-powered gene editing for improved crop varieties

Rainbow Crops, a Ghent-based AgTech startup developing improved crop varieties by engineering complex agronomic traits, has raised €9.7 million in Seed funding to advance its technology platform, expand its application across multiple crops, and scale the team. The over-subscribed funding round was led by Italian venture capital company LIFTT, together with its vehicle LIFTT EuroInvest, with participation from existing investors AIF (Agri Invest…

Rainbow Crops raises €9.7M seed round to scale AI-driven multiplex gene editing for next-generation crops

Left to Right_ Prof Hilde Nelissen (leading researcher at the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology) and Giacomo Bastianelli (CEO of Rainbow Crops) holding Maize. Rainbow Crops, a next-generation agtech company developing improved crop varieties by engineering complex agronomic traits, today announced it has raised €9.7 million to further advance its technology platform, expand its […] The post Rainbow Crops raises €9.7M seed round to scale…

Rainbow Crops raises $11.25m to scale AI-guided multiplex gene editing

Rainbow Crops, a Belgium-based startup using AI and multiplex gene editing to improve yield, drought tolerance and other complex traits in corn and other key crops, has raised a €9.7 million ($11.25 million) seed round. The round was led by LIFTT EuroInvest, a venture capital vehicle launched as a partnership between the European Investment Bank and Italian VC firm LIFTT. Other participants include existing investors AIF (Agri Investment Fund), …