Startup · $3.5m raised
Sydney, NSW
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round LLEAF raised.
| Investor | Rounds | Invested |
|---|---|---|
| UNSW Sydney | Bridge / extension | - |
| Cicada Innovations | Bridge / extension | - |
| ALFA Ventures | Bridge / extension | - |
| 2 Degrees | Bridge / extension | - |
Companies LLEAF 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Chris Wilkins | Commercialisation Director | Forbes Australia, Startup Daily |
| Dr Alexander Falber | Founder | Forbes Australia, SmartCompany, Startup Daily |
| Dr Alexander Soeriyadi | Founder | Forbes Australia, SmartCompany, Startup Daily |
Stories naming LLEAF. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Profile of four agtech founders tackling food security: Invertigro's modular vertical farms, Regrow Ag's satellite soil-carbon measurement, Lleaf's light-altering greenhouse film, and Sea Forest's methane-reducing seaweed cattle supplement.
Techboard's September 2022 roundup reports Australian raises led by Morse Micro's $140m Series B, several acquisitions including ResApp Health to Pfizer, fund closes by Telstra Ventures, OIF and Main Sequence, and open raises.
UNSW Founders honoured eight winners at its inaugural awards, with Forage taking Startup of the Year; the piece also notes Psylo's $5 million seed raise and this year's 10x Demo Day cohort.
A weekly roundup covering five funding rounds: HealthMatch's Series C, Monday Distillery's crowdfunding, Sonder's Series B, Lleaf's bridge round, and Spice AI's seed raise.
Danish investors ALFA Ventures and 2 Degrees led a $3.5 million bridge round into Sydney agtech Lleaf, joined by UNSW and Cicada Innovations, ahead of a planned Series A.
AgFunder-backed accelerator GROW announces twelve Asia-Pacific startups joining its Singapore Food Bowl program, supporting Singapore's food resilience goals with backing from Enterprise Singapore and Dole Packaged Foods.