53 Best Cellular Agriculture Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Cellular Agriculture Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 53 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $6.8b. The average funding per company in this subset is $127.6m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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Bolt Threads logo

Bolt Threads

Bolt Threads is a biotechnology company that makes high performance fabrics and materials using biology.

8

Funding Rounds

$406.4m

Money raised

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Perfect Day Foods

Perfect Day Foods (formerly Muufri) engineered yeast capable of producing the proteins found in cows milk. They use these proteins to make their own line of animal-free dairy products.

7

Funding Rounds

$711.5m

Money raised

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DSM

A bio-based chemical manufacturer focusing on human and animal nutrition, health, and materials markets.

1

Funding Rounds

$12.5m

Money raised

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Finless Foods

Finless Foods is a biotechnology company producing cultured marine animal food products through implementing cellular agriculture and manufacturing technologies.

9

Funding Rounds

$37.5m

Money raised

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Molecular Assemblies, Inc.

Molecular Assemblies, Inc. is an enzymatic DNA synthesis technology founded in 2013 by Curt Becker, Bill Efcavitch and William Efcavitch.

7

Funding Rounds

$83.0m

Money raised

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Future Meat Technologies

An Israeli startup company that is working to make sustainable "animal-free" cell-based meat products available at the local level by adapting the distributed manufacturing model

4

Funding Rounds

$390.0m

Money raised

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Just, Inc.

Just, Inc. (formerly known as Hampton Creek) is a food technology company developing and selling plant based food products around the world.

8

Funding Rounds

$220.0m

Money raised

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Aleph Farms

Aleph Farms is an Israeli cellular agriculture start-up founded by Didier Toubia and Shulamit Levenberg in 2017 developing technologies for culturing meat products into 3D structures.

4

Funding Rounds

$119.8m

Money raised

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Upside Foods

Upside Foods is a San Francisco-based company making cultured meat products. The company was founded by Uma Valeti, Nicholas Genovese, and Will Clem.

4

Funding Rounds

$580.8m

Money raised

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Modern Meadow

Modern Meadow is a biotechnology company using cellular agriculture and biofabrication to manufacture bioleather, "Zoa", out of cultured animal free collagen mixed with natural and man made materials.

9

Funding Rounds

$331.1m

Money raised

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BlueNalu

A cellular agriculture company making fresh and frozen cultured seafood products.

5

Funding Rounds

$104.5m

Money raised

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Geltor

Geltor is a cellular agriculture company making essential proteins, such as collagen and gelatin, using microbes in their own bio-fermentation recombinant protein production facility.

7

Funding Rounds

$114.3m

Money raised

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Mosa Meat

Mosa Meat is a Dutch start-up company that makes and commercializes clean meat, meat made by growing animal cells directly rather than slaughtering animals.

6

Funding Rounds

$138.2m

Money raised

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Integriculture Inc.

Integriculture is a Japanese cellular agriculture company making lab grown foie gras and other clean meat and cellular agriculture products. The company was founded in on October 23, 2015 and is located in Tokyo, Japan.

2

Funding Rounds

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The EVERY Company

The EVERY Company (formally Clara Foods) is a biotechnology company founded by two New Harvest community members David Anchel and Arturo Elizondo in 2014. The company is based out of San Francisco, California and manufactures animal- free proteins using using yeast bio-fermentation techniques fore use in food products.

5

Funding Rounds

$191.8m

Money raised

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Spiber, Inc.

Spiber, Inc is a private biomaterials company using industrial biotechnology to develop silk.

13

Funding Rounds

$1.1b

Money raised

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Wild Earth (company)

Wild Earth is a biotechnology company using cellular agriculture to produce high-protein pet food.

7

Funding Rounds

$21.2m

Money raised

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SuperMeat

SuperMeat is an Israeli biotechnology company, founded on December 15, 2015. SuperMeat is working to develop chicken meat products cultured from extracted chicken cells.

2

Funding Rounds

$3.2m

Money raised

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Uncommon

Uncommon, formerly known as Higher Steaks, is a cellular agriculture company based in London, England founded in 2017 by Benjamina Bollag, Stephanie Wallis and David Hay working to develop pork and other meat products using cellular agriculture.

3

Funding Rounds

$60.0m

Money raised

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Shiok Meats

Shiok Meats is a Singapore-based cellular agriculture company focusing on making cultured seafood.

5

Funding Rounds

$20.4m

Money raised

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Wild Type (company)

Wild Type is a San Francisco based company producing meat products like salmon using cellular agriculture lab techniques.

4

Funding Rounds

$119.5m

Money raised

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Evolva (Pharmaceutical company)

Biotech company that develops and commercializes ingredients for use in food, nutrition, personal healthcare, agriculture, and other sectors.

3

Funding Rounds

$35.2m

Money raised

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Mission Barns

Mission Barns is a clean meat company company is headquartered in Berkeley, California producing clean meat. The company was founded in March, 2018, by Eitan Fischer (former director of cellular agriculture of JUST, Inc) and David Bowman.

5

Funding Rounds

$27.5m

Money raised

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Because Animals

Because Animals is a pet food and cellular agriculture technology company founded in 2016 by Shannon Falconer and Joshua Erret, and is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Because Animals makes 100% animal-free pet foods, treats, and supplements.

4

Funding Rounds

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Integrated DNA Technologies

Integrated DNA Technologies is a Coralville, Iowa-based company founded in 1987.

1

Funding Rounds

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Bond Pet Foods

Bond Pet Foods is a biotechnology company located in Nederland, Colorado, founded in 2015 by Rich Kelleman. Bond Pet Foods is making "cruelty free" real animal protein pet foods using cellular agriculture.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.2m

Money raised

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Natures Fynd

Nature's Fynd is a biotechnology company growing edible proteins founded in 2012.

8

Funding Rounds

$851.0m

Money raised

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Calysta

Calysta is a biotechnology company seeking to improve worldwide food security through making animal feed. The company is based out of Menlo Park, California and was founded in 2012 by Josh Silverman.

10

Funding Rounds

$274.2m

Money raised

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Teewinot Life Science

Pharmaceutical company that manufactures and licenses technology to make cannabinoid based therapies.

2

Funding Rounds

$24.6m

Money raised

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Biomilq

A company that cultures human mammary cells and produces custom and commercial lab-grown breastmilk. It was founded in 2020 and is located in Durham, North Carolina.

1

Funding Rounds

$21.0m

Money raised

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Culture Biosciences

Culture Biology is a synthetic biology company offering a bioreactor facility for fermentation on demand services.

4

Funding Rounds

$107.2m

Money raised

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New Age Meats

A cellular agriculture company creating meat cultured from animal cells.

7

Funding Rounds

$34.7m

Money raised

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Vitrolabs

Vitrolabs is a San Francisco based company developing lab-grown leather and pelts for fashion and interiors, with aspirations to use their platform to grow human organs.

3

Funding Rounds

$54.4m

Money raised

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Nanocellect Biomedical

Nanocellect biomedical is a life science tools company manufacturing cell sorters using proprietary technology.

1

Funding Rounds

$20.0m

Money raised

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Demetrix

Demetrix is a biotechnology company that uses genes found in natural medicines and introduces them to domesticated microbes, for example, the synthetic production of certain chemicals. Demetrix was founded by Dr Haseltine and Jay Keasling.

2

Funding Rounds

$61.0m

Money raised

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Evonetix

Evonetix is a synthetic biology company

4

Funding Rounds

$68.1m

Money raised

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Formo

Formo is a manufacturer of animal-free cheese alternative products founded in 2019 by Raffael Wohlgensinger.

2

Funding Rounds

$65.7m

Money raised

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Orbillion Bio

Orbillion Bio develops premium cultivated meat at a low cost.

8

Funding Rounds

$5.2m

Money raised

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Blue Heron Biotechnology

Blue Heron Biotechnology Inc is company that provides synthetic DNA sequences and related services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies

2

Funding Rounds

$7.4m

Money raised

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Conagen

Conagen is a metabolic engineering and biomanufacturing company founded in 2010 by Oliver Yu.

1

Funding Rounds

$30.0m

Money raised

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Atlast Food Co.

A food technology company making plant-based meat using mycelium.

2

Funding Rounds

$47.0m

Money raised

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Gourmey

Gourmey is France's first cultivated meat company. Its mission is to accelerate the world’s transition toward humane, sustainable, and healthy meat by harvesting it from animal cells.

4

Funding Rounds

$68.2m

Money raised

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Cellibre

Programming biolCellibre is a best-in-class manufacturing technology company.. Employing an organism-agnostic approach, we turn cells into specialized, sustainable factories for the manufacture of globally significant products at scale.ogy to turn cells into factories company

3

Funding Rounds

$33.2m

Money raised

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Cubiq Foods

Cubic Foods is a Barcelona-based food technology company growing cell-based specialty fats.

2

Funding Rounds

$19.6m

Money raised

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KeraFAST

A company offering a platform for access to bioresearch materials from institutions including antibodies and secondary detection reagents.

4

Funding Rounds

$3.9m

Money raised

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Mirai Foods

Mirai Foods is a plant-based company producing real meat from animal stem cells.

2

Funding Rounds

$6.7m

Money raised

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TurtleTree Labs

TurtleTree Labs is a biotech startup making lab-grown human breast milk founded in 2019.

2

Funding Rounds

$9.4m

Money raised

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Cultured Decadence

Cultured Decadence is a Wisconsin-based cellular agriculture company using cell culture and tissue engineering technologies to make lobster meat directly from the animal's cells. The company was acquired by Upside Foods in January 2022.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.6m

Money raised

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CellulaREvolution

Platform for designing and testing self-assembling peptides to enhance in vitro cell culturing.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.4m

Money raised

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CellX

Cellular agriculture startup creating cell-cultivated meat products.

1

Funding Rounds

$10.6m

Money raised

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Cellva Ingredients

Producer of bio-nutraceutical and food ingredients that offer healthier and more sustainable alternatives

1

Funding Rounds

$1.5m

Money raised

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Simulate

Simulate is a company founded by Ben Pasternak.

1

Funding Rounds

$50.0m

Money raised

1

Funding Rounds

$12.5m

Money raised