As runners-up of WE Innovate 2015, FA Bio was awarded £17,500 from the UK Research and Innovation Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Innovation Grant Scheme.
In 2022, CEO Angela de Manzanos was invited by the Prime Minister to attend a Downing Street Spring Showcase celebrating the best of British business. In 2023, they secured £4 million in Series A (fourth round) venture funding from Plug and Play Tech Center and earlier this year raised a further £5.3 million to further develop and commercialise its soil microbe mapping technology.