Startup · $14.6m raised
Sydney, NSW
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Harvest B raised.
| Investor | Rounds | Invested |
|---|---|---|
| Aura Ventures | Seed · Pre-seed · Seed | - |
| W23 | Seed · Pre-seed · Seed | - |
| Woolworths | Seed · Pre-seed | - |
| Alberts | Seed | - |
| Breakthrough Victoria | Seed | - |
| Industry Growth Program | Seed | - |
| Investible | Seed | - |
| Mandalay VC | Seed | - |
| Sequoia | Seed | - |
| Aura Group | Pre-seed | - |
| Alex de Aboitiz | Seed | - |
| Fred Leforestier | Seed | - |
| Rayn Ong | Seed | - |
| Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre | Grant | $1,000,000 |
| Australian Government | Grant | $1,000,000 |
Companies Harvest B acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
Stories naming Harvest B. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Victoria has folded LaunchVic and its Breakthrough Victoria investment fund into a new body, Innovation Victoria, naming its chair, deputy chair and leader, while recapping agrifood startups the fund has backed.
Weekly roundup covering 19 Australian and New Zealand raises, headlined by Andromeda Robotics' $23m Series A, plus Freckle, Marloo, X-Hemp, Harvest B, Wable, Starboard and Techstars Sydney's 12-startup cohort.
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Harvest B, a Sydney-based protein maker, raised a $3.5 million pre-Series A with Mandalay Venture Partners leading and Breakthrough Victoria contributing $2 million, alongside a $2.2 million federal grant and a 2021 seed round.
Breakthrough Victoria is putting $2 million into protein technology company Harvest B, joining a $5.6 million pre-Series A round with Mandalay VC leading and several other backers.
Investible's 2024 review letter highlights its early-stage and climate-tech investing, Club Investible's tenth anniversary event with Canva and Deputy founders, and pitches from Harvest B and Syenta.
Alberts' annual review records its venture arm closing its portfolio at 22 companies, topping up six holdings, co-launching a gender-equity drive, and navigating board changes after Sam Mostyn became Governor-General.
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SmartCompany profiles Gentoo.earth, a carbon-removal intelligence platform founded by Juliet Kirby, now scaling from San Francisco; the piece recalls an angel round and undisclosed pre-seed backing including Admiralty Capital Group.
Report of an Alberts-hosted panel on impact investing, featuring seaweed-based plastics maker Uluu and food-tech firm Harvest B, covering climate capital, family offices and diversity initiatives.
Grain-grading AI startup Cropify has landed $2 million, anchored by Brisbane agrifood VC Mandalay Venture Partners with Singapore's Hatcher+ — their first joint deal — while Mandalay's own fund has drawn roughly $27 million in commitments.
Alberts Impact Ventures profiles Harvest B, tracing how its blended plant-and-meat proteins cut cost, fat and emissions, and recalling its own backing of the food tech company.
Manufacturing briefs: milk company results, a biotech shelving US studies, a rare earths R&D incentive, wind zone consultations, land tax anger, a big battery, a food tech centre launch, and a CEO appointment.
Publisher's manufacturing roundup: Anagenics completes a $1.3m placement, Harvest B hires an NPD lead, Great Wrap launches a compostable wrap product, AICRAFT and GoMicro partner on agtech, and Transmutation wins a Telstra business award.
Investor's own year in review: five new portfolio companies, a follow-on into ULUU, the Verve Super exit, the Equity Clear gender-reporting initiative, a first founders' retreat, and a sweep of awards for portfolio companies.
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All G Foods spins its Love Buds plant-based range into a merger with Fenn Foods' vEEF, forming a new entity; All G pivots to fermented dairy, with both companies' earlier raises recapped.
Feature arguing Australia needs more scaleup manufacturers, featuring interviews with Gilmour Space, Breakthrough Victoria and Harvest B, set against the nation's declining economic complexity ranking.
Six Australian manufacturers received more than $2.1 million in federal grants from AMGC's Commercialisation Fund, with individual awards going to Hygiene Co, Laronix, Provectus Algae, Process Plants International, Vypex and OptoTech.
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A roundup of climate-focused startups that secured investment during 2021, led by Loam Bio's $40 million carbon sequestration round, spanning clean energy, waste, lithium, and plant-based protein companies across Australia and New Zealand.
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Aura Ventures' thesis post explains its plant-based protein outlook and announces co-leading Harvest B's pre-seed round alongside Woolworths' venture arm W23.
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A venture making real milk proteins by fermentation has launched with backing from a national science agency, a dairy co-op and a venture fund, and two rival protein startups' fresh raises are noted.
Queensland's government backed Gilmour Space's $61 million Series C, while Woolworths put $4 million into Seedlab Australia and its W23 arm joined Harvest B's $3.5 million raise, which also drew a $1 million grant.
Plant-based ingredient maker Harvest B has raised $4.5 million in venture capital and grant funding, led by Aura Ventures and Woolworths' W23, to scale production of its animal-free ingredients.
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