Company profile
Rainbow Crops
Engineering resilient crops through AI and gene editing.
- Category
- Vertical SaaS
- Headquarters
- Belgium
- Sells to
- Enterprise
- Business model
- Other
- Deployment
- Not stated
- Pricing
- Not published
- Builds own models
- Yes
- Modalities
- Tabular
What Rainbow Crops does
Rainbow Crops is an Agtech company that engineers complex traits to develop resilient, high-performing crops. They combine AI, genome engineering, and validation to help breeding partners develop improved crop varieties faster. Their integrated platform, Trait Foundry™, connects prediction, engineering, validation, and learning in a continuous development cycle to accelerate complex trait discovery and crop improvement. The company focuses on translating biological insight into measurable crop outcomes, with a scientific foundation rooted in VIB–UGent research and validation demonstrated in corn. They collaborate with leading seed and breeding companies to accelerate crop development.
Products
- Trait Foundry™An integrated platform for engineering complex traits, combining AI, systems biology, multiplex genome editing, and biological validation to develop resilient, high-performing crops. It connects prediction, engineering, validation, and learning in a continuous development cycle, designed to accelerate complex trait discovery and crop improvement through a Design → Build → Test workflow.
Key capabilities
- AI-powered trait discovery
- Genome engineering
- Validation capabilities
- End-to-end platform
- Reduced development risk
- Multi-trait capability
- Partner-focused delivery
- Systems biology
- Artificial intelligence
- Multiplex genome editing
- Precision breeding
- Automated phenotyping & validation
- Rationally designed genetic diversity
- Continuous Learning
Use cases
- Accelerating complex trait discovery
- Crop improvement
- Developing resilient, high-performing crops
- Engineering yield stability
- Engineering drought resilience
- Engineering heat resilience
- Engineering input efficiency
- Engineering biomass
- Engineering resource use efficiency
- Engineering nutritional value
- Engineering taste
AI approach
Rainbow Crops uses AI, systems biology, multiplex genome editing, and biological validation within its Trait Foundry™ platform to engineer complex traits in crops. AI is specifically used to identify gene networks controlling complex traits, prioritize genetic modifications, identify patterns and relationships across large biological datasets, and continuously improve predictions based on validation data.
Tech named: AI, systems biology, multiplex genome editing, precision breeding, automated phenotyping, machine learning, deep learning, computational biology, bioinformatics
Industries served
- Agriculture
- Agtech
What it says sets it apart
- Combines AI, genome engineering, and validation
- Integrated platform for engineering complex traits (Trait Foundry™)
- Validated in corn
- Gates Foundation-Supported Programmes
- VIB–UGent Spin-Out
- Focuses on complex traits governed by complex biological networks
- End-to-end proof-of-concept demonstrated in corn
- Rooted in world-class plant science from VIB–UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology
- World-class expertise in plant science, AI, genome engineering, and crop development
Funding rounds we track
LIFTT, LIFTT EuroInvest, Corteva, Maia Ventures
From the AI funding tracker — rounds as reported by the linked publications.
This profile was compiled from Rainbow Crops's own public pages in July 2026 and reflects what the company states about itself — not an endorsement or an independent audit of those claims. Facts are extracted with AI and filtered by an automated check that drops any named product, customer or certification missing from the source pages. Full method. Something out of date? Tell us.