List of cultured meat companies
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This is a list of companies involved in the sale and development of cultured meat, along with information about them.
Because the commercial production of cultured meat is as of the 2020s still a developing industry, with unprecedented technological challenges and breakthroughs or failures, the progress of pioneers and early start-ups has received much attention in the media and the scientific community.[1] The number of cultured meat companies increased from about 10 start-ups in 2016 to "98 cultured meat companies engaged in culture-related meat production" in December 2022.[1] In addition to these companies, non-profit organisations such as New Harvest, the Good Food Institute, ProVeg International[2] and the Cellular Agriculture Society advocate for, fund and research cultured meat.[3]
Cultured meat companies
Note: dates in italics refer to projected dates of achievement in the future; they may shift.
| Name | Founded | Area | Focus | Proof of concept | Pilot plant | Regulatory approval | Market entry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aleph Farms | 2017[4] | Beef | Dec 2018[4] | Feb 2022[5] | Jan 2024: Israel[6] | ||
| Appleton Meats[7][8] | 2016 | Beef | 2022~2024 (Dec 2022 claim)[1] | ||||
| Avant Meats | 2018[9] | Fish protein | Nov 2019[10] | Nov 2023[11] | 2030 (2025 claim)[12] | ||
| BioCraft Pet Nutrition (formerly Because Animals)[13] |
2018 | Pet food | May 2019[14] | 2022 (Aug 2021 claim)[15] | |||
| Believer Meats (formerly Future Meat Technologies) |
2018 | Meat | 2019 | June 2021[16] | December 2025 company shutdown: Claimed 2022 (Oct 2019 claim)[17] | ||
| Bene Meat Technologies | 2020 | Pet food | May 2024[18] | Circa 2024 | Late 2024 or early 2025 (2024 claim) | ||
| Biftek[19] | 2018[20] | Culture media | |||||
| BioBQ[21] | 2018 | Brisket[22] | |||||
| BlueNalu[23] | 2018 | Seafood | Fall 2019[24] | 2022 | 2028 (2023 claim)[25] | ||
| BioTech Foods (acquired by JBS[26]) |
2017[27] | Pork[27] | 2020[28] | mid-2024 (Dec 2021 claim)[26] | |||
| CellX | 2020[29] | Pork | 2021[30][31] | August 2023[32] | 2025 (2023 claim)[32] | ||
| Clear Meat[33] | 2019[33] | Poultry[33] | 2022 (May 2019 claim)[34] | ||||
| Clever Carnivore[35] | 2021[36] | Pork, Beef, Lamb[37] | May 2023 | June 2024 | |||
| Cultured Hub[38][a] | 2021[39] | Meat[39] | December 2024[40] | ||||
| Eat Just (formerly Hampton Creek) |
2011 | Meat | Dec 2017[41] | Constructing (Jan 2020)[42] | November 2020: Singapore[43] June 2023: United States[44] |
Dec 2020: restaurants Singapore By Jan 2023: foodservices Singapore[45] July 2023: restaurants US[46] Commercial sales have been "paused"[47] | |
| Finless Foods | 2016[48] | Tuna | Sep 2017[49] | Constructing (Oct 2021)[50] | |||
| Forsea Foods | 2021 | Seafood | Jan 2024[51] | ||||
| Higher Steaks | 2017 | Pork | July 2020[52] | ||||
| IntegriCulture, Inc. | 2015 | Foie gras | 2021 (June 2018 claim)[53] | 2021 (July 2020 claim) | |||
| Matrix Meats[citation needed] | 2019 | Scaffolding | 2020[54] | ||||
| Meatable[55] | 2018 | Pork | End 2020[56] | Nov 2023[57] | December 2025 Company shutdown after April 2024: public tasting in EU[57] late 2024: restaurants in Singapore (Apr 2024 claim)[57] 2025: United States (Apr 2024 claim)[44] | ||
| Meatleo[citation needed] | 2021 | Beef | |||||
| Mewery[58] | 2020 | Pork | 2023[59] | ||||
| Mirai Foods | 2020 | Beef | June 2020[60] | ||||
| Mission Barns[61] | 2018 | Fat | 2021[62] | Circa 2023[61] | |||
| Mosa Meat[63] (emerged from Maastricht University) |
2015 | Beef | Aug 2013 (UM)[64] | Installing (May 2020)[65] | Mid-2026 (expected regulatory approval) (Jan 2025 claim)[66] |
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| Motif FoodWorks | 2019[67] | Beef | End 2020 (Aug 2020 claim)[68] | Q4 2021 (beef flavouring) (Oct 2020 claim)[69] | |||
| Multus Media[70] | 2019 | Culture media | October 2019[71] | ||||
| New Age Eats (New Age Meats 2018–22[72]) |
2018–[73] 2023[74] |
Pork | Sep 2018[75] | Constructing (Oct 2021)[76] | March 2023: company shutdown[74] | ||
| Omeat[77][78][79] | 2019 | ||||||
| Orbillion Bio[80] | 2019[81] | ||||||
| Parima
(from merging of GOURMEY and VITAL MEAT in 2025) |
2019 | Duck and Chicken | 2026 | ||||
| SavorEat | 2016[4] | Beef | Mid-2021 (restaurants) (May 2020 claim)[4] | ||||
| SCiFi Foods[82] (formerly Artemys Foods) |
2019 | Meat | Fall 2020[83] | June 2024: company shutdown[84] | |||
| Shiok Meats (acquired by Umami Bioworks 2024[85]) |
2018[86] | Beef[87] |
2019 (shrimp)[88] |
2021 (March 2020 claim)[86][89][90] | |||
| Steakholder Foods (formerly MeaTech; subsidiary: Peace of Meat) |
2019 | Foie gras | 4 March 2020[91] | Constructing; 2022 (May 2021 claim)[92] | 2023 (Dec 2019 claim)[93] | ||
| SuperMeat | 2015[4] | Poultry | 2018[94] | November 2020[95] | By 2022 (May 2020 claim)[4] Test restaurant Nov 2020[95] | ||
| Upside Foods (formerly Memphis Meats) |
2015 | Poultry | Feb 2016[96] | 4 November 2021[97][98] | June 2023: United States[44] | July 2023: restaurants US[99] Commercial sales paused January 2024[47][100] | |
| Vow[101] | 2019[102] | Kangaroo, Quail | Aug 2019[103] | Oct 2022[104] | April 2024: Singapore[57] April 2025: FSANZ[105] |
Apr 2024: SG approval and launch[106] | |
| Wildtype | 2016 | Salmon | June 2019[110] | 24 June 2021[111] | 28 May 2025: United States[112] | June 2025: U.S. market entry[112] |
Pilot plants
Note: data in italics refer to unfinished projects or projected capacities in the future; they may shift.
| Company | Location(s) | In service | Projected capacity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aleph Farms | Rehovot, Israel[113] | Feb 2022[5] | (3,000 m2[113]). Fully operational by summer 2022[5] |
| Believer Meats[b] and GEA Group[114] |
Rehovot, Israel[113] | June 2021[16] | 500 kilograms per day (182,625 kg/y)[113] |
| Wilson, North Carolina[114] | Constructing (Sep 2024)[114] | (12,000 tonnes annually[114]) | |
| BioTech Foods (acquired by JBS[26]) |
San Sebastián, Spain[26] (production facility)[115] |
2020[28] mid-2024[115] |
1,000 tonnes annually[115] (scalable to 4,000 tonnes annually)[115] |
| Florianópolis, Brazil[115] | Constructing (Sep 2023)[115] | (R&D facility)[115] | |
| Clever Carnivore | Chicago, USA[116] | June 2024[116] | 2 x 500L bioreactors[116] |
| Eat Just (Hampton Creek) |
San Francisco, California[50] | Constructing (Jan 2020)[42] | (20+ 1200L bioreactors[50]) |
| Singapore[45] | Constructing plant (Jan 2023)[45] | Unknown number of 6000L bioreactors[45] | |
| Finless Foods | Emeryville, California[50] | Constructing (Oct 2021)[50] | |
| Meatable and DSM | Leiden, Netherlands[57] (until 2023 Delft)[55][117] |
Nov 2023 (Leiden & Singapore)[57] |
5,000 kilograms per day by 2025[56] 200-litre bioreactors; scalable to 500-litre (Apr 2024)[57] |
| Mosa Meat and NIZO food research[118] |
Cultivate at Scale, Maastricht[119] |
Installing (May 2020)[65] | 100 kilograms per month (1,200 kg/y) per 200L bioreactor[119][120] (scalable to 180,000 kg/y)[119] |
| Biot. Ferm. Factory, Ede[118] | Constructing (Jan 2025)[118] | Scalable to 10,000 litres, open to all Dutch start-ups[121] | |
| Steakholder Foods (MeaTech / Peace of Meat) |
Antwerp, Belgium[93] | 2 labs March 2020[91] | 700 grams per production run[122] |
| Antwerp, Belgium[92] | Constructing plant (May 2021)[92] | ||
| SuperMeat | Ness Ziona, Israel[123][95] | November 2020[123][95] | "Hundreds of kilograms" per week (June 2021)[95] |
| Upside Foods (Memphis Meats) |
Emeryville, California[97] | 4 November 2021[97] | 22,680 kilograms (50,000 pounds) per year[97][98] (scalable to 400,000 lbs/y / 181,440 kg/y)[98] |
| Wildtype | San Francisco, California[50] | 24 June 2021[111] | 50,000 pounds (22,680 kg) salmon per year[50] (scalable to 200,000 lbs/y / 90,718 kg/y)[50] |
See also
Notes
- The Cultured Hub, or Cultured Food Innovation Hub, located near Kemptthal railway station in Lindau, Canton of Zürich, is a joint ventrue of Migros, Givaudan and Bühler.[39]
- 2018–2022: Future Meat Technologies.