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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.
Bolt Threads is a biotechnology company that makes high performance fabrics and materials using biology.
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Funding Rounds
$406.4m
Money raised
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.
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Funding Rounds
$711.5m
Money raised
A bio-based chemical manufacturer focusing on human and animal nutrition, health, and materials markets.
1
Funding Rounds
$12.5m
Money raised
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
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
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
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$390.0m
Money raised
Just, Inc. (formerly known as Hampton Creek) is a food technology company developing and selling plant based food products around the world.
8
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$220.0m
Money raised
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
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$119.8m
Money raised
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
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$580.8m
Money raised
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
A cellular agriculture company making fresh and frozen cultured seafood products.
5
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$104.5m
Money raised
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
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$114.3m
Money raised
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.
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$138.2m
Money raised
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.
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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
Spiber, Inc is a private biomaterials company using industrial biotechnology to develop silk.
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$1.1b
Money raised
Wild Earth is a biotechnology company using cellular agriculture to produce high-protein pet food.
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$21.2m
Money raised
SuperMeat is an Israeli biotechnology company, founded on December 15, 2015. SuperMeat is working to develop chicken meat products cultured from extracted chicken cells.
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$3.2m
Money raised
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
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$60.0m
Money raised
Shiok Meats is a Singapore-based cellular agriculture company focusing on making cultured seafood.
5
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$20.4m
Money raised
Wild Type is a San Francisco based company producing meat products like salmon using cellular agriculture lab techniques.
4
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$119.5m
Money raised
Biotech company that develops and commercializes ingredients for use in food, nutrition, personal healthcare, agriculture, and other sectors.
3
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$35.2m
Money raised
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.
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$27.5m
Money raised
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.
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Integrated DNA Technologies is a Coralville, Iowa-based company founded in 1987.
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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
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$1.2m
Money raised
Nature's Fynd is a biotechnology company growing edible proteins founded in 2012.
8
Funding Rounds
$851.0m
Money raised
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
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$274.2m
Money raised
Pharmaceutical company that manufactures and licenses technology to make cannabinoid based therapies.
2
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$24.6m
Money raised
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.
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$21.0m
Money raised
Culture Biology is a synthetic biology company offering a bioreactor facility for fermentation on demand services.
4
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$107.2m
Money raised
A cellular agriculture company creating meat cultured from animal cells.
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$34.7m
Money raised
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
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$54.4m
Money raised
Nanocellect biomedical is a life science tools company manufacturing cell sorters using proprietary technology.
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$20.0m
Money raised
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
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$61.0m
Money raised
Evonetix is a synthetic biology company
4
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$68.1m
Money raised
Formo is a manufacturer of animal-free cheese alternative products founded in 2019 by Raffael Wohlgensinger.
2
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$65.7m
Money raised
Orbillion Bio develops premium cultivated meat at a low cost.
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$5.2m
Money raised
Blue Heron Biotechnology Inc is company that provides synthetic DNA sequences and related services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies
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$7.4m
Money raised
Conagen is a metabolic engineering and biomanufacturing company founded in 2010 by Oliver Yu.
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$30.0m
Money raised
A food technology company making plant-based meat using mycelium.
2
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$47.0m
Money raised
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.
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$68.2m
Money raised
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
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$33.2m
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Cubic Foods is a Barcelona-based food technology company growing cell-based specialty fats.
2
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$19.6m
Money raised
A company offering a platform for access to bioresearch materials from institutions including antibodies and secondary detection reagents.
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$3.9m
Money raised
Mirai Foods is a plant-based company producing real meat from animal stem cells.
2
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$6.7m
Money raised
TurtleTree Labs is a biotech startup making lab-grown human breast milk founded in 2019.
2
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$9.4m
Money raised
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.
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$1.6m
Money raised
Platform for designing and testing self-assembling peptides to enhance in vitro cell culturing.
1
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$1.4m
Money raised
Cellular agriculture startup creating cell-cultivated meat products.
1
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$10.6m
Money raised
Producer of bio-nutraceutical and food ingredients that offer healthier and more sustainable alternatives
1
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$1.5m
Money raised
Simulate is a company founded by Ben Pasternak.
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$50.0m
Money raised
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$12.5m
Money raised