MolBreeding

MolBreeding (博瑞迪) is a Chinese agricultural biotechnology company that operates as the country's largest CRO in crop and animal breeding . Founded around 2018, the company spent its first six years building a high-throughput, low-cost molecular breeding platform that it says has cut qualified germplasm development cycles by over 50%, improved selection accuracy by 20–30%, and slashed costs by more than 90% compared with traditional solid-phase chip methods . Its liquid-phase chip technology is positioned as solving a core bottleneck for bringing molecular breeding to domestic agriculture .

The company shifted toward a CRO platform model in 2023, offering services tailored to different species and client needs to address the long development cycles, high costs, and uncertainty typical in agriculture . Dalton Venture, which backed MolBreeding in 2023, frames the bet as part of a broader push into seed-industry technology amid China's strategic focus on reducing import dependence in germplasm .吕子岳, MolBreeding's CFO, has described the domestic breeding field as still in a 2.0–3.0 technology phase while developed countries have moved to 4.0 intelligent breeding .