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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.
Deals recorded from FaBA's coverage. A round is listed once, however many of their articles mention it.
Companies named in FaBA's articles, most-covered first.
| Company | What it does | Articles |
|---|---|---|
| The University of Queensland | 5 | |
| My PlantCo | 3 | |
| Australian government Department of Education | 2 | |
| University of Queensland | Research university where Cortisonic's underlying phononic computing research originated | 2 |
| Airbnb | US home-sharing platform | 1 |
| All G | 1 | |
| Chief Nutrition | 1 | |
| CSIRO | Australia's national science research agency, from which Terria spun out | 1 |
| Edible Cutlery Pty Ltd | 1 | |
| Gnocchi Gnocchi Brothers | 1 | |
| GRDC | 1 | |
| High Value Nutrition | 1 | |
| Institute for Food Technologists (IFT) | 1 | |
| Microba Life Sciences | Provides clinical-grade gut microbiome testing and has a therapeutics pipeline | 1 |
| Nourish Ingredients | Brews sustainable and animal-free fats and oils for alternative protein products | 1 |
| OpenAI | AI company | 1 |
| Pollinate | 1 | |
| Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation | 1 | |
| Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries | 1 | |
| QUT | 1 | |
| Canva enterprise client | 1 | |
| SeaStock | Food tech startup developing clean-label functional ingredients from Asparagopsis algae | 1 |
| the federal government | 1 | |
| Trailblazer Universities Program | 1 | |
| UniQuest Extension Fund | 1 | |
| University of Southern Queensland | 1 | |
| UQ | 1 | |
| Yaala Sparkling | 1 |
Investors named in FaBA's articles, most-covered first.
| Investor | What it does | Articles |
|---|---|---|
| Grains Research and Development Corporation | 1 | |
| Y Combinator | 1 | |
| FaBA | 10 |