Startup · $33.1m raised
San Francisco, SA
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round CH4 Global raised.
| Investor | Rounds | Invested |
|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Avenue | Series B | - |
| DCVC | Series B | - |
| DCVC Bio | Series B | - |
| Fisheries Research and Development Corporation | Seed | - |
| New Zealand Provisional Growth Fund | Seed | - |
| South Australian Landing Pad | Seed | - |
| South Australian Research and Development Institute | Seed | - |
Companies CH4 Global acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Steve Meller | CEO · Founder | AgFunderNews, Crunchbase News, SmartCompany |
Stories naming CH4 Global. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
The maker of methane-cutting cattle feed supplements is readying a possible 2026 stockmarket float after a deal to supply Europe, with celebrity and institutional names among its backers.
Weekly agrifoodtech digest: Colossal Biosciences' mammoth-de-extinction raise, Formo's venture debt, NatureMetrics' Series B, Chipotle's corporate bets, two agri fund closes, two acquisitions, and a cultivated-meat startup's layoffs.
Weekly agri-foodtech roundup: raises at THIS, Tender, Ever After Foods, Farmbot and Beta Bugs; two acquisitions; Proterra's rural fund raise; grants; and AgriFORCE appointing Jolie Kahn CEO.
Q&A with FutureFeed's chief executive on Asparagopsis seaweed as a livestock methane-cutting feed additive: its licensing business, backers, licensees' progress, regulation, research and scaling hurdles.
AgFunderNews reviews 2023's largest Novel Farming Systems funding rounds, showing sector investment fell to $680 million from $2.8 billion, and notes bankruptcies including Lemnature AquaFarms.
Queensland algae startup Provectus Algae launches a seaweed-based livestock methane additive, touting cheaper production; founder Nusqe Spanton recently took strategic backing from Korea's CJ Bio.
Weekly agrifoodtech roundup: funding rounds led by CH4 Global's $29 million Series B close, acquisitions of Aitme and The Weather Company, SoftBank selling Zomato shares, partnerships, an IPO filing and Toyota's greenhouse trial.
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Australia may adopt methane reduction targets, benefiting livestock feed additive startups. Sea Forest, a Tasmanian seaweed producer, previously received federal grants and counts major dairy and beef companies among its customers.
Asparagopsis seaweed feed supplement reaches commercial phase in Australia as CH4 Global records first feedlot sales. FutureFeed licenses CSIRO-discovered technology, with Sea Forest and SeaStock also taking orders from beef producers.
Weekly agrifoodtech roundup covering funding rounds for Rohlik, HappyVore, WayCool and others, Mondelēz's agreed purchase of Clif Bar, cloud kitchen Kune Food closing down, and a new McWin foodtech fund.
Tasmanian seaweed startup Sea Forest has raised an oversubscribed $34 million round from Macquarie's agricultural arm, PGA Investments and Rob Purves, to build a large farm and processing facility cutting livestock methane emissions.
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Australia's Accelerating Commercialisation grants include A$1 million for seaweed startup Sea Forest, with Agscent, Phyllome and Monsoon Aquatics also funded; the article recalls CSIRO and partners pooling A$13 million to launch FutureFeed.
Also RenewEconomy·Beef Central / Grain Central·Beef Central / Grain Central
A South Australian venture farming asparagopsis seaweed near Port Broughton seeks investors, while the article recalls CSIRO's FutureFeed venture, formed with five core investors including GrainCorp, Woolworths, Harvest Road and Sparklabs Cultiv8.
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FutureFeed, a seaweed cattle supplement spun out by CSIRO with backing from GrainCorp, Woolworths and others, has won a US$1 million Food Planet Prize from the Curt Bergfors Foundation for slashing livestock methane emissions.
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CSIRO's seaweed-based cattle feed venture FutureFeed has won the Food Planet Prize and its million-dollar purse, which it plans to spend on first-nations supply-chain participation and rangeland delivery research.
Also AgFunderNews·Startup Daily·@AuManufacturing·Beef Central / Grain Central·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·Beef Central / Grain Central·Beef Central / Grain Central·AgFunderNews
Seaweed-based cattle methane-cutting venture FutureFeed, spun out of CSIRO, won a US$1 million Food Planet Prize, partly funding Aboriginal participation in Asparagopsis supply chains; it earlier raised AU$13 million from agriculture backers.
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Roundup profiling four startups and their seed raises: CH4 Global ($3M), Mustard ($1.7M), Undock ($1.6M) and LaunchNotes ($1.8M), naming investors and founders for each.
Seaweed supplement maker CH4 Global has secured seed funding from government innovation bodies and private backers to expand cultivation and processing of asparagopsis, aimed at cutting methane emissions from cattle.