State-backed investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) has supported a €500,000 ($544,000) seed funding round for Computomics, a plant bioinformatics firm commercialising technology from Tübingen University and Max Planck Institute.
Founded in 2012, the company offers bioinformatics analysis for sequencing data on agricultural biotechnology and plant breeding companies. The funds will be used to expand by the Germany-based firm internationally.
The University of Kentucky has formed an industry-university partnership to advance aspects such as sustainable agriculture in the whiskey distilling industry.
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