Wild Bioscience uses AI and precision plant breeding based on natural evolution, aiming to produce high-yielding wheat, corn and soy crops
Prof Steve Kelly (right) with Wild Biosciences CEO and co-founder Ross Hendron. Photo: Alexander Bedwell
An agri-tech start-up co-founded by a scientist from Dublin has raised $60m (€51.4m) of so-called series A funding, in an investment round led by Oracle chairman and co-founder Larry Ellison’s eponymous Institute of Technology (EIT) in Oxford.
Professor Steve Kelly co-founded the start-up, Wild Bioscience, at Oxford University in 2021 with fellow scientist Ross Hendron. Prof Kelly is also Head of Plant Biology Institute at EIT.
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