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- Bill Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures led a $12 million seed funding round into Rumin8.
- The Perth-based startup is developing a seaweed-based feed aiming to cut methane from livestock emissions — like the burps and farts of cows.
- A byproduct of the digestion process, methane, is the most common greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide.
What do a billionaire philanthropist, a climate tech firm, and fewer cow burps have in common?