Startup · $3m raised

Facet Amtech

Australian startup developing a multifunctional catalyst for ammonia production

Newcastle, NSW

Investors

Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Facet Amtech raised.

Investor	Rounds	Invested
CSIRO	Accelerator	-
Main Sequence Ventures	Seed	-
Uniseed	Seed	-

What Facet Amtech bought

Companies Facet Amtech 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
Facet Amtech is not recorded as having acquired anything.

Name	Role	Sources
James Bradley	Founder	Main Sequence
Peter Richardson	Founder	Main Sequence, Dealroom, AgFunderNews

Coverage

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

13 deals

Renewable Metals raises $12M Series A - Luan Atkinson, round details and contact

Profile of Australian battery-recycling company Renewable Metals, reporting its oversubscribed $12 million Series A with CEFC and Virescent Ventures leading, founder and CEO Luan Atkinson, and chair Peter Beaven.

fundedstartupsdaily.com 15 Sep 2026 Apate.ai Dreamscale Labs ENA Respiratory Facet Amtech GonGlobal Pearler Renewable-metals BHP CEFC Climate Tech Partners European Metal Recycling Virescent Ventures Luan Atkinson Peter Beaven

Funding announcement

🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #176, 30th August 2026

Weekly roundup: Blackbird confirms a record fund close and Galileo reaches a first close, Genesis merges with Proudi, IREN secures massive debt, and several startups report raises, grants and program wins.

This Week in Australian Startups 29 Aug 2026 Adams Street Partners AirTree Ventures Airwallex Amazon ARENA Artesian VC Blackbird Ventures Blue Owl Built Living Canva Coles CommBank Cuscal Diraq Droneshield Facet Amtech Firmus Technologies Fleet Space Technologies Fremantle Seaweed Future Feed Future Fund Galileo Ventures Gega Elements Genesis Group Gilmour Space GPT Group Himadri Speciality Chemical Hort Innovation Innovation Victoria IREN Maincode Main Sequence Technologies Main Sequence Ventures Morgan Stanley Investment Management NRF Corporation OpenAI Pay.com.au PIMCO Proudi Qantas Rampart Capital Salter Brothers Schroders Sicona Battery Technologies Stake Stone & Chalk Superhero Superstat Tanda TerraBlaster Thoma Bravo Uniseed Wesfarmers x15ventures Xero Zip Angus Bean Brad Feld Colin McGregor Daniel Petre Larry Diamond Matt Leibowitz Sid Kasbekar Sukhinder Singh Cassidy

undisclosed $3m

Our investment in Facet Amtech: Rethinking how the world makes ammonia

Main Sequence explains its decision to back Facet Amtech again alongside Uniseed in a $3 million round, funding the startup's water-based ammonia catalyst work and its first pilot plant.

Main Sequence Ventures portfolio 28 Aug 2026 Facet Amtech Atmosphere Diffuse Energy MGA Thermal NSW Government University of Newcastle Main Sequence Ventures Uniseed Emerald Scofield Dr Erich Kisi Grace Bird James Bradley Peter Richardson

Also AgFunderNews·Dealroom

3 deals

From lab to launch: How CSIRO ON Accelerate 9 is powering the next big deep tech startups

CSIRO's ninth ON accelerator cohort of eleven research teams has completed the program, with three members winning grants, two filing patents, and individual awards announced.

Also Business News Australia

Funding announcement

Here are the 11 deep tech startups to emerge from CSIRO's ON Accelerate

CSIRO's ON Accelerate program presents its ninth intake of eleven research startups, drawn from universities nationwide and the agency itself, spanning biotech, healthcare and sustainability, at a Melbourne showcase.

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