Officials of C-CAMP and Bayer Science and Innovation exchanging MoUs in Bengaluru on Thursday
The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP)’s Agri Centre of Excellence (CoE) has joined hands with Bayer Science and Innovation Private Limited to support early-stage startups.
The collaboration is launched under the C-CAMP Agri CoE programme supported by the Govt of Karnataka’s Department of IT, BT & S&T and Department of Agriculture (KSDA). The agreement fosters early-stage startups and entrepreneurs through knowledge sharing, mentoring, pilot deployment, and strategic engagement to promote innovation and enterprises aligning with sustainability, food security, climate resilience and crop productivity goals of both partners, said a C-CAMP statement.
The agreement was signed yesterday at C-CAMP premises by C-CAMP Director-CEO, Taslimarif Saiyed and Anil Luke Dhanaraj, Bayer Science Fellow, Principal CI Analyst, SCIPI LifeHub, Bayer Science and Innovation Private Limited.
Saiyed said, “C-CAMP Agri CoE launched in 2019 has promoted over 100 deep-science and deep tech-based solutions over the years. These innovations can potentially transform Indian agriculture and redefine how we view sustainability in agri. We are going beyond farming practice changes to commercial viability, scalability and mass-scale adoption of tech. With this partnership with Bayer, a global leader in agriculture and life sciences sector, we aim to increase industry engagement and participation in the innovation and go-to-market process in the complex Agri ecosystem.”
Dhanaraj said, “Bayer’s LifeHubs strive to leverage open innovation from the ecosystem to develop solutions for farmers across the globe. Bayer’s LifeHub in Bangalore is looking forward to working closely with C-CAMP to address some of the challenges faced by smallholder farmers in India and beyond. We are also looking forward to partner with C-CAMP to run events to promote science and innovation and foster collaborations in agriculture”.
The primary objectives of the MoU include startup identification, mentorship and handholding support, deployments or pilots with Bayer’s deep R&D facilities, market access support and co-development partnerships for mutually selected technologies.
The MoU also lays down a framework to explore potential investment or commercial partnerships, such as licenses or technology transfers, to enable and facilitate the idea-to-product journey of emerging agricultural technologies, the statement said.
Published on September 12, 2025