Description: Ceres drives high-quality agri-tech innovation by providing translational funding and expertise to partner universities.
The first three spin-out companies have been launched from Ceres, the knowledge exchange partnership designed to revolutionise the creation and uptake of early-stage agri-tech opportunities.
Ceres is a collaborative agri-tech partnership between five leading UK universities and three renowned agricultural research institutes. Funded by Research England, it provides translational funding and commercialisation expertise to drive agri-tech innovation by accelerating high quality research to market.
The University of Cambridge (UoC) is ranked in the UK’s top two universities and in the top three worldwide by the Times Higher Education 2020 Rankings. It draws on a long tradition of research excellence, spanning over 11 departments from Plant Sciences to Engineering, with key strengths in big data, biotechnology, and computing.