Bindbridge, an agtech startup using an AI discovery platform to support crop resilience, has secured a $3.8m (£2.8m) investment.
The Cambridge-based company has developed an AI platform, called BRIDGE, that is used to design new agricultural molecular glues to support the creation of new herbicides and crop protection agents.
Founded in 2025, Bindbridge said its platform can be used to discover molecular glues capable of degrading a target protein in a weed or pest leveraging the plant’s intracellular protein control system.
“The agricultural industry faces significant performance and sustainability challenges which is driving demand for more efficient products,” said the company’s co-founder and chief executive George Crane.
“Yet there is no affordable, rational, or systematic way to discover molecular glues that are the foundation for such products. We’re changing that. We’re using the power of AI to rapidly and accurately derive new molecules that can change farming’s future.”
The investment round came from Speedinvest and Nucleus Capital.
“We invested because Bindbridge is bringing modern AI to one of the most overlooked and consequential industries on Earth,” said Speedinvest’s Namratha Kothapalli.
“They’re building the BRIDGE platform for the next generation of crop protection, unlocking entirely new chemical space that the industry simply couldn’t reach before.
“This is the rare combination of deep science, a massive market, and a team that can build the foundation for the next era of crop protection.”