Investor · 4 deals
Every published round Meat & Livestock Australia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farmbot | Series B | 14 Aug 2026 | $22m | Participant | Startup Daily (Tue 13 Oct 2026), Cut Through Venture, SmartCompany, ontargetish.com, raising.fi, Startup Daily (Thu 13 Aug 2026), inforcapital.com (Thu 13 Aug 2026), inforcapital.com (undated) | |
| GrazeMate | Pre-seed | 2 Feb 2026 | $1.2m | Participant | SmartCompany, Startup Daily, AgFunderNews (Thu 15 Jan 2026), AgFunderNews (Wed 14 Jan 2026), Forbes Australia | |
| Nbryo | Grant | Nov 2025 | $18m | Participant | Startup Daily (Sun 9 Nov 2025), SmartCompany (Fri 7 Nov 2025), Beef Central / Grain Central, SmartCompany (Wed 5 Nov 2025), Startup Daily (Tue 4 Nov 2025) | |
| MEQ Probe | Unnamed stage | Oct 2018 | $500k | Participant | Startup Daily (Tue 16 Dec 2025), Startup Daily (Thu 24 Jan 2019) |
Companies Meat & Livestock Australia has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.
Fund closes reported for Meat & Livestock Australia, as distinct from the investments it has made.
Companies Meat & Livestock Australia has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Meat & Livestock Australia did.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Jason Strong | Chief Executive (former) | SmartCompany, Beef Central / Grain Central |
| John Marten | Food Innovation Program Manager | mla.com.au |
Stories naming Meat & Livestock Australia. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Queensland feedlot cattle are being swabbed for BRD bacteria to support AgriCureX's phage and genomics research into antibiotic alternatives, a project MLA co-funds, with a first trial planned for mid-2027.
Australian startups raised funds including Alloy Robotics, Farmbot and Atmo Biosciences. Firmus Technologies acquired Benmax while Tabcorp bought BetMakers. SafetyCulture rebranded to Mitti.
Eight Australian and New Zealand startups secured a combined $67.4 million in funding across various sectors including agtech, medtech, robotics, and fintech.
Also ontargetish.com
Livestock water monitoring company Farmbot, founded in Sydney, has raised a $22 million Series B led by Lewis & Clark Partners to fund US expansion and a corporate restructuring into a Delaware parent.
Also inforcapital.com·inforcapital.com·SmartCompany·raising.fi·ontargetish.com·Cut Through Venture·Startup Daily
MLA profiles Chief Nutrition, a maker of beef-based snack bars and supplements built from leftover meat cuts, now sold across 12 overseas markets; co-founder and CEO Brock Hatton credits consumer trust in Australian beef.
Breakthrough Victoria rounds up April–May 2026 portfolio news, including grants for Number 8 Bio and Xefco, Liquid Instruments' Series C, program selections, partnerships, regulatory clearances and two new Aravax directors.
GrazeMate, a cattle-mustering drone startup founded by 19-year-old Sam Rogers, has raised $1.2m in a pre-seed round led by Y Combinator, with NextGen Ventures, Antler and Meat & Livestock Australia also taking part.
Sydney synthetic-biology venture Number 8 Bio has banked an $11m Series A with Icehouse Ventures leading, to advance cattle trials of its methane-cutting supplement; its 2024 seed and accelerator stint are recalled.
Roundup of eight funding deals: Synchron's Series D, plus raises by Lumonus AI, Hullbot, Nbryo, Cytophenix, Giftbee, Understanding Zoe and Zeligate, spanning medtech, robotics, agtech and AI.
Also Startup Daily·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·Startup Daily
Cattle genetics startup Nbryo has landed $10 million co-led by Tenacious Ventures and AgriZeroNZ, plus an $18 million research grant, to commercialise its embryo technology.
Also Beef Central / Grain Central·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·nbryo.com·nbryo.com
Queensland cattle-breeding biotech Nbryo has secured $10m in seed backing co-led by Tenacious Ventures and AgriZeroNZ, alongside an $18m research grant from the Gates Foundation and Meat and Livestock Australia.
Also SmartCompany·Beef Central / Grain Central·AgFunderNews·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·nbryo.com
Nbryo closed a A$10 million round co-led by Tenacious Ventures with AgriZeroNZ, QIC, the Murdoch family and Mandalay, and has drawn over $18 million in grants from Gates Foundation and Meat and Livestock Australia.
Profile of Provenir, which slaughters cattle on-farm with a mobile unit and sells meat direct to consumers; recaps its evolution, pricing, rules and expansion plans, recalling backing from SproutX and Meat and Livestock Australia.
Queensland seaweed producer Provectus Algae raised a $10.1m Series A led by At One Ventures plus a $2.5m government grant to scale indoor Asparagopsis production for livestock methane reduction.
Weekly roundup tallying three Australian raises: legal tech firm Plexus ($6m), cattle-probiotics startup Bovotica ($3.4m seed), and beauty group York St Brands ($2m Series C plus a $4m NAB credit line).
CRDC announces the launch of Agricultural Innovation Australia's Environmental Accounting Platform, giving farm sectors a standardised way to measure carbon; nine rural research and development corporations invested in building it.
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.
Tenacious Ventures' investment note explains its backing of Nbryo, an Australian startup speeding genetic improvement in beef and dairy via embryo technologies, and notes research funding from MLA and the Gates Foundation.
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.
Sponsored feature surveying three Australian soil-carbon startups — AgriProve, Agrimix and FarmLab — their measurement technology and research partners, plus openings listed on AgriFutures growAG., noting AgriProve's 2022 government grant.
Weekly agrifoodtech roundup: Paine Schwartz closes its $1.7bn food-and-ag fund; several seed and Series A rounds; Tangelo acquires Diet ID; Infarm declared bankrupt; layoffs and partnerships across the sector.
Startupbootcamp Australia unveils the ten startups chosen for its 2023 FoodTech Tasmania program, spanning seven countries, and acknowledges its government, corporate and long-term partners.
Soil carbon company AgriProve received a Meat & Livestock Australia grant for a six-year research project, with three partnering producers hosting demonstration sites in Queensland, NSW and Tasmania.
SparkLabs Cultiv8 has picked ten cleantech startups for the first intake of its new accelerator, run from Orange with backing from Cultiv8 Funds Management and several agricultural research bodies.
Eight projects share 28.9 million dollars in Australian government grants under the National Soil Carbon Innovation Challenge, funding cheaper technologies for measuring soil organic carbon, with ministers Bowen and Watt announcing the recipients.
Also AgFunderNews
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.
Six research projects share four million dollars in federal MERiL grants to test seaweed, legume and synthetic feed additives that could cut methane from cattle and sheep.
Beef Central's R&D series reports AMPC's two-year funding of MEQ Probe nearing commercial payoff, with Gundagai Meat Processors now using the carcase probe commercially and beef marbling development underway.
Twenty-two CRC Projects share $47 million in grants, backed by $133 million in total investment, funding work on hydrogen storage, electric air transport, plant-based protein, orthotics and other industry research collaborations.
Also @AuManufacturing
Livestock tracking firm Ceres Tag launched commercially at Rockhampton and sold a five percent stake to satellite company Pivotel for a reported 2.5 million dollars, with Pivotel's chief executive joining its board.
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.
Also AgFunderNews·Startup Daily·@AuManufacturing·Beef Central / Grain Central·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·@AuManufacturing·Beef Central / Grain Central·AgFunderNews
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.
Also AgFunderNews·Startup Daily·@AuManufacturing·Beef Central / Grain Central·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·@AuManufacturing·Beef Central / Grain Central·AgFunderNews
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
CSIRO and partners launch FutureFeed, raising A$13 million to commercialize a seaweed livestock feed additive that cuts cattle methane emissions by up to 80%.
Also Startup Daily·@AuManufacturing·Beef Central / Grain Central·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·@AuManufacturing·Beef Central / Grain Central·Beef Central / Grain Central·AgFunderNews
TERRA's accelerator announces its fourth intake of 13 agri-foodtech companies from seven countries, chosen from over 300 applicants, to work with six corporate partners on food safety and sustainability themes.
A University of Sydney research spin-off making farm robots has raised seed money from three backers to commercialise its equipment, and the piece also recalls other agtech funding wins from early 2019.
Also @AuManufacturing·@AuManufacturing·SmartCompany·@AuManufacturing