Twiggy Forrest: Ledger

Role	Organisation	Sources
Founder	Harvest Road Group	Beef Central / Grain Central (Thu 21 Jan 2021), Beef Central / Grain Central (Fri 21 Aug 2020)
Owner	Tattarang Agrifood	Beef Central / Grain Central

Company	Stage	Announced	Amount	Role	Alongside	Sources
SunCable	Unnamed stage	21 Nov 2019	$50m	Participant	Mike Cannon-Brookes Grok Ventures Squadron Energy	Startup Daily (Mon 11 Sep 2023), @AuManufacturing (Mon 14 Mar 2022), @AuManufacturing (Wed 29 Jul 2020), Startup Daily (Thu 21 Nov 2019), @AuManufacturing (Thu 21 Nov 2019), RenewEconomy

Company	What it does	First invested	Rounds	Led
SunCable		21 Nov 2019	1	0

Fund	Announced	Committed	Target	Close	Sources
No fund closes recorded for Twiggy Forrest yet.

Company	Bought by	Kind	Announced	Price
SunCable	Helietta Holdings	Acquisition	Sep 2023	-
SunCable	Grok Ventures	Acquisition	May 2023	-

11 deals

AgriFood Signals: Danone buys protein maker Huel, Miraterra Soil bags $16m, Grab buys Food Panda Taiwan

AgFunderNews roundup of agrifood deal news: eleven startup funding rounds, Generate Capital selling Equinox Growers, executive appointments including a new FFAR board member, and other industry items.

AgFunderNews Thu 26 Mar 2026 Cauldron Ferm Foreverland Rumin8 Scanabull Volta Greentech AgFunder Brightseed Danone Foodpanda Taiwan Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR)Grab Impossible Foods McCormick Unilever Upside Foods Wonder Twiggy Forrest

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2 deals

Livestock methane reduction startup swallows $11 million Series A

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.

Startup Daily Wed 12 Nov 2025 Number 8 Bio CSIRO Future Feed James Cook University Meat & Livestock Australia Rumin8 Sea Forest UNSW Sydney Breakthrough Victoria Icehouse Ventures Main Sequence Ventures One Innovators The March Group Dr Alex Carpenter Bill Gates Dr Tom Williams Twiggy Forrest

Also AgFunderNews·Startup Daily·SmartCompany

Fund close $200k

Startmate’s top 20 most valuable investments

A profile of Startmate ranking the twenty most valuable companies it has backed, noting their valuations, past raises and founders, plus Bugcrowd's newly announced purchase of Informer and its climate focus.

Key hire

Harvest Road CEO depart suddenly

Paul Slaughter has abruptly left his role as chief executive of WA meat processor Harvest Road, becoming the latest in a series of senior departures from Twiggy Forrest's Tattarang group.

Beef Central / Grain Central Tue 29 Aug 2023 Fortescue Harvest Road Group Mrs Mac's Pies Tattarang Felicity Golding Fiona Hick Paul Slaughter Twiggy Forrest

Exit / M&A

Huon Aquaculture dismisses Twiggy's animal welfare comments as corporate 'noise'

Huon Aquaculture's board rejects Twiggy Forrest's animal welfare criticisms of its agreed takeover by JBS, while Forrest's Tattarang, holding an 18.5 percent stake, says environmental concerns stopped it matching the offer.

Beef Central / Grain Central Tue 24 Aug 2021 Harvey Beef Huon Aquaculture JBS Tattarang Agrifood Brent Eastwood Neil Kearney Twiggy Forrest

Unnamed stage

Methane-reducing red seaweed farming venture seeks investors

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.

Beef Central / Grain Central Thu 21 Jan 2021 Future Feed CH4 Global James Cook University Meat & Livestock Australia South Australian Research and Development Institute AGP Sustainable Real Assets–Sparklabs Cultiv8 Joint Venture CSIRO GrainCorp Harvest Road Group Woolworths Twiggy Forrest

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

Unnamed stage ~$50m

Sun Cable electricity export gets major project status

Canberra grants Major Project Status to Sun Cable's planned Australia-Singapore electricity link; the article also recalls an oversubscribed roughly $50 million capital raise backed by Forrest and Cannon-Brookes.

@AuManufacturing Wed 29 Jul 2020 SunCable the federal government Mike Cannon-Brookes Twiggy Forrest David Griffin Karen Andrews

Also RenewEconomy·Startup Daily·@AuManufacturing·Startup Daily·@AuManufacturing

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