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Curt Bergfors Foundation

Disclosed deals

Every published round Curt Bergfors Foundation took part in, and every parcel of existing shares it bought off another holder. Deals we hold but haven't published yet are not counted.

Company	Stage	Announced	Amount	Role	Alongside	Sources
Future Feed	Grant	20 Dec 2020	US$1m ($1.3m)	Participant	Food Planet Prize	Startup Daily (Sun 20 Dec 2020), Beef Central / Grain Central, @AuManufacturing, Startup Daily (Tue 15 Dec 2020)

Portfolio

Companies Curt Bergfors Foundation has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.

Company	What it does	First invested	Rounds	Led
Future Feed		20 Dec 2020, Grant	1	0

Funds

Fund closes reported for Curt Bergfors Foundation, as distinct from the investments it has made.

Fund	Announced	Committed	Target	Close	Sources
No fund closes recorded for Curt Bergfors Foundation yet.

Portfolio companies acquired

Companies Curt Bergfors Foundation has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Curt Bergfors Foundation did.

Company	Bought by	Kind	Announced	Price
No portfolio company of Curt Bergfors Foundation is recorded as having been acquired.

Coverage

Stories naming Curt Bergfors Foundation. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

2 deals

Million-dollar planet prize for CSIRO FutureFeed seaweed innovation

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.

Beef Central / Grain Central Thu 17 Dec 2020 Future Feed CH4 Global Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation James Cook University Meat & Livestock Australia Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Stockholm Resilience Centre UC Davis AGP Sustainable Real Assets–Sparklabs Cultiv8 Joint Venture CSIRO Curt Bergfors Foundation GrainCorp Harvest Road Group Woolworths Professor Johan Rockström Line Gordon Dr Michael Battaglia Dr Rob Kinley

Also AgFunderNews·Startup Daily·@AuManufacturing·Beef Central / Grain Central·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·@AuManufacturing·Beef Central / Grain Central·AgFunderNews

2 deals

Methane busting cow feed wins $1 million global prize

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.

@AuManufacturing Tue 15 Dec 2020 Future Feed CH4 Global Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation James Cook University Meat & Livestock Australia Narrunga Nation Penn State UC Davis AGP Sustainable Real Assets–Sparklabs Cultiv8 Joint Venture CSIRO Curt Bergfors Foundation GrainCorp Harvest Road Group Woolworths Dr Michael Battaglia Dr Rob Kinley

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

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