Every published round FaBA 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SeaStock | Accelerator | Oct 2025 | $740k | Lead | FaBA, Startup Daily, SmartCompany |
Companies FaBA has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.
| Company | What it does | First invested | Rounds | Led |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SeaStock | Food tech startup developing clean-label functional ingredients from Asparagopsis algae | Oct 2025, Accelerator | 1 | 1 |
Companies FaBA's own portfolio page lists that no published round yet places it in. The page is the source; the round is being looked for.
| Company | Site |
|---|---|
| 63 942 912 684 | abr.business.gov.au ↗ |
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Fund closes reported for FaBA, as distinct from the investments it has made.
Companies FaBA has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal FaBA did.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Chris Downs | Director (former) | FaBA (23 Jun 2026), FaBA (28 Oct 2025), FaBA (28 Aug 2025), FaBA (1 Feb 2023) |
| Dr Jiahua Shi | Senior Research Fellow | FaBA |
| Dr Kasra Sabermanesh | Director, Business Development and Commercialisation | FaBA |
| Louwrens Hoffman | Deputy Program Lead, Premium Food and Beverage | FaBA, FaBA team page |
| Professor Nidhi Bansal | Program Lead, FaBA Training Centre | FaBA, FaBA team page |
Stories naming FaBA. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
FaBA profiles Nourish Ingredients, a Canberra startup using precision fermentation for dairy-style fats, recounting a co-investment project with Queensland academics that readied its Creamilux ingredient for commercial dairy customers.
FaBA profiles Pollinate, a Brisbane startup founded by Adeep Mitra and Corey Berther that uses AI to automate food supply chain workflows, tracing its path from a university food challenge to Y Combinator backing.
FaBA commits $740,000 in matched funding to SeaStock, advancing its algae-derived red pigment through extraction research, co-product assessment and regulatory data for novel-food approval.
FaBA's accelerator program has handed a University of Queensland precision-fermentation dairy process to Sydney startup All G, which will scale it toward a milk supplement, with federal government support.
FaBA and UQ launch their largest research project, a $5.6m effort with oat company My PlantCo to develop new oat-based foods, with GRDC committing over $720,000 to the company's project.
Meat scientist Louwrens Hoffman joins FaBA and discusses meat quality, alternative proteins, sustainability and food waste in an interview.
FaBA introduces its newly appointed commercialisation director, who discusses his microbiome industry background and the accelerator's co-funded research projects for industry partners.
FaBA appoints Dr Chris Downs, a veteran agri-food scientist and executive from CSIRO and Queensland government, as Director of the national food and beverage accelerator.
FaBA profiles My PlantCo, Mei Yong's venture turning Australian oats into foods like Oat Rice, describing a $5.6 million FaBA project with GRDC co-investment now advancing the Real Oats range toward commercialisation.