Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) is a state agricultural research institution whose scholars and alumni have spun out into multiple agtech startups tracked by Chinese venture capital. In 2018, a FreeS Capital deal note highlighted that the core team of MaiFei Technology—an AI-powered precision crop-protection service—hailed from CAAS, alongside recruits from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking University, and Alibaba . More recently, CAAS researchers have supplied the underlying crop-science models for 3D digital-twin platforms: a 2021 5Y Capital article noted that CAAS scholars built a 3D simulation system for winter wheat that can model growth dynamics and yield predictions for staple crops including maize and rice . The academy also appears as a strategic partner for Linear Capital-backed Yimu Technology, a dairy-farm management platform that collaborates with CAAS on R&D alongside Lanzhou University and Jilin University .