Startup · $23.3m raised
Sydney-based innovator in sustainable agriculture technologies reducing livestock methane emissions
Sydney, NSW
Programs: UNSW (SynBio 10X Accelerator)
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Number 8 Bio raised.
| Investor | Rounds | Invested |
|---|---|---|
| Main Sequence Ventures | Series A · Seed · Seed · Pre-seed | - |
| Breakthrough Victoria | Grant · Seed · Seed | $3,400,000 |
| The March Group | Seed · Seed | - |
| NSW Government | Grant | - |
| Industry Growth Program | Grant | - |
| Icehouse Ventures | Series A | - |
| One Innovators | Series A | - |
| Bioplatforms Australia | Pre-seed | - |
| Possible Ventures | Pre-seed | - |
| UNSW Founders | Pre-seed | - |
| UNSW | Accelerator | - |
Companies Number 8 Bio acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
Stories naming Number 8 Bio. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Eight Australian companies make Forbes Asia's annual 100 To Watch list; the piece profiles each and recaps recent raises across climate tech, health and software.
Victoria has folded LaunchVic and its Breakthrough Victoria investment fund into a new body, Innovation Victoria, naming its chair, deputy chair and leader, while recapping agrifood startups the fund has backed.
Breakthrough Victoria announces it made follow-on investments in four portfolio companies during 2025-26 — Number 8 Bio, Navi Medical Technologies, Liquid Instruments and Type One Energy — to support their growth and commercialisation.
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.
NSW's government is lending startups money to commercialise research via a new repayable fund, and names biotech and RNA grant recipients while reopening a ventures grants round.
NSW has launched a $20m fund to help startups commercialise emerging tech and named All G, HydGene Renewables, Number 8 Bio and Swan Genomics as recipients of Biosciences Fund grants.
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Breakthrough Victoria highlights portfolio achievements including Amber Electric's forty-five million dollar raise, Bygen and Diag-Nose grants, and Quantum Brilliance series A funding.
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Weekly roundup of eight raises totalling $572.12 million, led by Firmus's $500 million round; RAGE Biotech, SunDrive, Number 8 Bio, Fabra, Keeyu, MyGig and Drone-Hand also funded, plus two RAGE Biotech executive appointments.
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Weekly agtech and foodtech roundup: multiple venture raises, Carbon Direct's purchase of Pachama, two food-focused funds closing, board and C-suite appointments, and an Australian delivery firm shutting down.
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.
The maker of methane-cutting cattle feed supplements is readying a possible 2026 stockmarket float after a deal to supply Europe, with celebrity and institutional names among its backers.
The fund's authors recap two climate-investment events, weighing the massive global capital needs, mixed public-private funding models, and its clean-economy portfolio activity in Victoria.
Breakthrough Victoria showcases nine climate-focused portfolio companies across clean energy and agrifood, describing each technology and its contribution to the energy transition and circular economy.
Weekly roundup: European climate and food startup raises, an Australian biotech's funding, Rappi buying Fountain9, Motif FoodWorks shutting down, a new Certis CEO, and a letter pressing banks over livestock lending.
Sydney agtech Number 8 Bio has banked $7 million in seed capital to develop yeast-based feed additives that cut livestock methane, with Main Sequence leading and Breakthrough Victoria putting in $1.7 million.
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Breakthrough Victoria has put $1.7 million into Number 8 Bio as part of a Main Sequence-led seed round alongside The March Group, backing feed technology that cuts livestock methane.
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A data review of 2023's ten largest Australian agrifoodtech raises, topped by Loam Bio's US$73.2 million Series B, showing funding down 33% as capital concentrated in upstream climate-mitigation startups.
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.
Weekly roundup of six Australian startup raises: Lyka's Series B extension, plus new funding for HydGene, JDoodle, One Future Football, Aquila and Number 8 Bio, with investors and founder comment.
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Weekly agrifoodtech digest: several venture raises including Uncommon's Series A, Bunge's agreed Viterra purchase, FreshRealm taking over Blue Apron, Nextbite sold, Meatless Farm ceasing trade, and American label approvals for cultivated chicken.
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A biotech startup making a methane-cutting cattle feed additive has raised pre-seed capital from four backers, with the piece also recalling recent emissions-focused raises by two other Perth ventures.
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