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NIAB is a major international centre for plant science, crop evaluation and agronomy, with headquarters in Cambridge and regional offices across the UK. We conduct field crops research and provide impartial variety and crop husbandry information. We hope to share some of our news and research with you here, but also check out our Twitter feed @niabgroup and our website www.niab.com
Overview
Location
United Kingdom, England, Cambridge
Employees
201-500
Phone
+44 1223 342200
Founded date
1919
Mentions in press and media 10
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| Aug 4, 2025 | The do’s and don’ts of raising capital in 2025: in conversation with Dr. David Buckeridge | ESG-centric investment was always bound to focus on food and agriculture, says Dr. David Buckeridge, a longtime operator, investor, and advisor in agribusiness and life sciences. We saw this play out in 2021—often dubbed “the year of ESG in... |
| Jun 6, 2024 | Scots Science Supercomputer Clocks in 100 Million Hours of Compute | Hosted and managed by independent research organisation The James Hutton Institute in north east Scotland, the UK CropDiversity High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster has handled more than 400 terabytes of new data in the last 12 months a... |
| Jul 11, 2019 | Insight from a very soggy Cereals 2019 | Insight from a very soggy Cereals 2019 11-07-2019 It’s now a month on from Cereals 2019 – the arable industry’s leading technical event which brings together farmers, agronomists and others working in agriculture from all over the country. ... |
| Jan 22, 2018 | KisanHub Raises £1.75m for Big Data Potato Platform | UK-based startup KisanHub has raised a £1.75 million ($2.43m) second seed round to expand its farm management and data analytics software platform capabilities, with a focus on enhancing weather predictions. The round was led by UK-based B2... |
| Jul 8, 2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: Online Payment Platform for Growers and Satellite Data Company Raise Funding, more | ProducePay Raises $2.51m Seed Round ProducePay, an online platform helping farmers to sell their produce and receive payment in a timely manner, has raised $2.51 million in seed funding. Investors in the round include Californian venture ca... |
| Jul 7, 2016 | Rare UK Ag Big Data Startup KisanHub Raises Seed Funding for B2B SaaS Platform | KisanHub, a UK-based agriculture big data hub, has raised $1 million in seed funding from Notion Capital, a venture firm focused on B2B Software-as-a-Service and cloud companies, and NIAB, a major international plant science research center... |
| Feb 17, 2016 | RoCRE’s CEO Chris Dunkley Talks Agtech Incubation and Collaborating with the Industry | Chris Dunkley is CEO of the Rothamsted Centre for Research and Enterprise, which is an incubation center and hub for agtech startups in the UK. It’s attached to the world’s longest running agricultural research station Rothamsted Research, ... |
| Nov 4, 2015 | Five Minutes with UK Minister for Life Sciences on £160m Agri-Tech Strategy | The UK government created an Agri-Tech strategy in 2013 after the sector was identified a key national industry and was awarded £160 million in funding from the Treasury department. This funding has translated into a range of different init... |
| UK’s Vertical Future harvests £21 million in Series A round | Hailed at the largest Series A round to ever reach European shores in the controlled environment agriculture space, southeast London’s Vertical Future has raised £21 million in a Series A round. The funds will be used to move along the depl... |
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FAQ about NIAB
When was NIAB founded?
NIAB was founded in 1919.
What has the press written about NIAB?
Parsers VC has collected 10 articles mentioning NIAB, among them “The do’s and don’ts of raising capital in 2025: in conversation with Dr. David Buckeridge” (Aug 4, 2025) and “Scots Science Supercomputer Clocks in 100 Million Hours of Compute” (Jun 6, 2024).
Is NIAB still active?
Yes, NIAB is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jan 28, 2026.