Biographica

ML-driven crop design

Biographica logo
1-20 employees
  • B2B
  • Deep Tech
  • Biology
  • Agriculture
  • Biotechnology
Spitalfields, London, UK

Company mission

To accelerate the development of more productive, sustainable, nutritious & climate-resilient food sources.

Our take

Gene editing has the potential to change agriculture forever, enabling the creation of more resilient crops that can survive the evolving conditions brought about by climate change. Biographica is a company employing machine learning to discover promising targets for crop gene editing, with the potential to accelerate the development of more robust key crops.

Finding such targets has proved to be a major bottleneck for existing crop editing programs, as their ability to introduce edits has grown beyond their understanding of what is worth editing. Biographica directly addresses this, leveraging the same techniques that have supported innovation in drug discovery to identify targets with maximal efficacy but minimal undesired effects.

With a global food crisis looming, Biographica's approach may prove vital to securing food for all in the future. This fact is reflected in the company's early fundraising which it will invest in the expansion of its platform, development of additional crop traits and the strengthening of partnerships across the seed industry.

Kirsty headshot

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Benefits

  • Pension Contribution
  • Share Options
  • Private Health Insurance
  • Learning & Development Budget
  • 25 days of holiday per year + 8 UK bank holidays
  • Quarterly strategy days (with an annual overnight offsite)
  • Bi-monthly socials
  • Hybrid working

Funding (1 round)

Jan 2026

$9.5m

SEED

Total funding: $9.5m

Leadership

Cecy Price

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Studied at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London. Was an Entrepreneur First LD19 Cohort Member and founded Biographica in 2022.

Dominic Hall

(Co-Founder & CTO)

Studied at the University of Cambridge. Was a Data Scientist at Relation Therapeutics, Founder-In-Residence at Entrepreneur First and founded Biographica in 2022.