Company

SecondBite

Melbourne, VIC

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What SecondBite bought

Companies SecondBite acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.

Company	Kind	Announced	Price	Sources
SecondBite is not recorded as having acquired anything.

People

Name	Role	Sources
Katy Barfield	Founding CEO (former)	Startup Daily (Mon 24 Nov 2025), SmartCompany (Mon 24 Nov 2025), Forbes Australia, Startup Daily (Tue 30 Jan 2024), TechCrunch Australia, Women's Agenda, SmartCompany (Fri 20 Sep 2019)

Coverage

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

Seed $2m

Yume Food collapses into liquidation after a decade of fighting food waste

The surplus-food marketplace has entered liquidation with its assets for sale; the piece recalls its 2024 seed raise led by Investible vehicles and its founder's next steps.

SmartCompany Mon 24 Nov 2025 General Mills Investible Investible Climate Tech Fund Kellanova Mars SecondBite Teneo Unilever Yume Goodrich Group Investible's Early Stage Fund 2 LaunchVic Veolia Pitzy Folk Katy Barfield Rebecca Gill

Also Startup Daily

Seed $2m

Yume's platform helps manufacturers turn potential food waste into money

Melbourne food-waste startup Yume announced a A$2 million seed round from Investible's Climate Tech Fund, Launch VIC, Goodrich Group, Veolia and angel Pitzy Folk, bringing its total funding to A$7 million.

TechCrunch Venture Mon 29 Jan 2024 Yume Accor Hotels Bardee Goterra Kellanova LaunchVic Mars Food and Nutrition Reground SecondBite Sodexo Unilever Whole Green Foods Goodrich Group Investible Veolia Pitzy Folk Charlie Ill Katy Barfield

Also SmartCompany·Startup Daily·Forbes Australia·SmartCompany·SmartCompany·SmartCompany·Startup Daily

Unnamed stage $200k

Maggots, mulch and meals: Meet four Aussie businesses committed to eliminating food waste

Profiles four ventures tackling food waste: Bring Me Home, Reground, Yume and Goterra, describing their models and noting Bring Me Home's accelerator completion and crowdfunding campaign reaching its minimum target.

SmartCompany Fri 20 Sep 2019 Bring Me Home Goterra Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre Qantas Reground SecondBite Startmate Victorian Government Yume Jane Kou Katy Barfield Ninna Larson Olympia Yarger

Also SmartCompany·Women's Agenda

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