Key Takeaways
- Computomics GmbH, a Tübingen, Germany-based genomic prediction company, closed a EUR 6.3 million Series B round on Aug. 18, 2026.
- Convent Capital Agri Food Fund led the round with a EUR 5 million investment, joined by existing backers High-Tech Gründerfonds, MBG Baden-Württemberg and Amathaon Capital.
- The company will use the funds to scale commercial delivery of its climate-smart breeding platform, ×SeedScore®, which predicts how a given genotype will perform under specific environmental conditions.
- The round comes as the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre has cut its 2026 yield forecasts for spring and summer crops, with the deepest reductions in maize and sunflower.
- Computomics, founded in 2012, works with commercial breeders across field crops, forages, vegetables and specialty crops, and counts three of the world’s four largest agriculture companies among its customers.
Computomics Closes EUR 6.3 Million Series B
Computomics GmbH, a genomic prediction company based in Tübingen, Germany, announced on Aug. 18, 2026, that it has raised EUR 6.3 million in a Series B financing round. The company said the round arrives as European growers have lost yield to heat and drought across nearly every crop this summer, with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre revising down its 2026 yield forecasts for spring and summer crops, hitting maize and sunflower hardest, and France on track for one of its weakest maize harvests in decades.
Round Led by Convent Capital Agri Food Fund
Convent Capital Agri Food Fund led the round with a EUR 5 million investment. Existing backers High-Tech Gründerfonds, MBG Baden-Württemberg and Amathaon Capital also participated, alongside the company’s founders and scientific advisors. The financing benefits from support from the European Union’s InvestEU Fund.
Computomics CEO on Closing the Climate Resilience Gap
“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.”
Investor Perspectives on the Round
“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.”
About Computomics’ Breeding Platform
Founded in 2012, Computomics applies machine learning to genomic data to predict how crop varieties will perform under specific temperature, rainfall, soil and management conditions. Its ×SeedScore® platform runs those predictions at the scale of a commercial breeding program, alongside tools including CropCompass, BreedScope, the Pantograph omics data hub, and the microbiome tools MORPHEUS and MEGAN7. The Series B round follows a broader wave of crop genomics funding as breeders look for faster ways to select for climate resilience.
