Biographica
Category: AI in Agriculture
An AI-first genomic discovery platform that utilizes Graph Machine Learning to identify and accelerate the development of climate-resilient and high-yield crop traits. Biographica was founded in 2022. The company is led by Cecily Price. Based in London, United Kingdom. Team size: 10-50. Total funding raised: £8.5M (~$11M). Latest round: Seed. Key investors include Faber VC, SuperSeed, Cardumen Capital, EQT Foundation, Sie Ventures, The Helm, Chalfen Ventures, Entrepreneurs First, Nucleus Capital, Saras Capital, Ventures Together, Dhyan Ventures.
- Founded
- 2022
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom
- Team size
- 10-50
- Total funding
- £8.5M (~$11M)
Value proposition
Reduces the time-to-market for new crop varieties by using predictive AI to identify complex genetic traits, helping the global food system adapt to climate change faster than traditional breeding methods.
Products and solutions
Biological Knowledge Graph (Proprietary plant interactome database), AI-Powered Trait Discovery Engine, Genomic Mapping & Predictive Modeling Suite, Climate-Resilience Trait Pipeline (Drought, heat, and pest resistance focus)
Unique value
Applies advanced Graph Neural Networks (GNNs)—a paradigm typically used in human drug discovery—to plant genomics, moving beyond simple linear gene analysis to map complex biological networks.
Target customer
Global seed companies, agricultural biotechnology firms, plant breeders, and large-scale agricultural producers.
Industries served
Agriculture (AgTech), Biotechnology, Genomics, Climate Technology
Technology advantage
The platform models the 'interactome' of plants, allowing for the discovery of non-obvious genetic correlations and multi-gene traits that traditional CRISPR or breeding techniques often overlook.
How they differentiate
Biographica applies Graph Machine Learning (GNNs)—a paradigm typically used in human drug discovery—to plant genomics. Unlike competitors focusing on linear gene editing, Biographica maps the 'interactome' to identify complex, non-obvious genetic correlations and multi-gene traits.
Main competitors
Inari Agriculture, Benson Hill, Equinom
Key partnerships
BASF | Nunhems (Strategic R&D / commercial partnership), Cibus (AI collaboration on disease resistance in canola and oilseed rape; progressed to commercial contracts), Viridian Seeds (Partner), Entrepreneur First (Foundational incubator)
Notable customers
BASF | Nunhems, Cibus
Major milestones
Founded in 2022 via Entrepreneur First (EF), Nov 2024: Cibus collaboration on AI-driven disease resistance in canola/oilseed rape, Jan 2026: Closed £7M ($9.5M) Seed led by Faber VC; announced BASF | Nunhems partnership, Commercial contracts with BASF | Nunhems and Cibus; targets in partner testing pipelines
Growth metrics
Post-Seed scale-up: ~22 LinkedIn employees (Tracxn 21 as of May 2026); commercial partnerships with BASF|Nunhems and Cibus; hiring toward Series A per company LinkedIn (~mid-2026).
Market positioning
Deep-tech AgGenomics innovator focusing on the R&D discovery layer for seed companies.
Geographic focus
United Kingdom, Europe, and North America
Patents and IP
Proprietary trade secrets regarding Graph ML architectures; no specific public patent registrations disclosed as of the latest funding update.
About Cecily Price
Cecily (Cecy) Price is the Co-Founder and CEO of Biographica. She is a biological scientist and machine learning specialist with a background in Biological Sciences from the University of Oxford and an MSc in Machine Learning from Imperial College London. Her professional career includes experience at GSK in drug manufacturing and supply chain operations, as well as market access strategy for gene-editing technologies. She is an alumna of Entrepreneur First (EF), where she met her co-founder to apply drug-discovery AI paradigms to agricultural genomics.
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Official website: https://graphica.bio/
