48 Best Cultured Meat Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Cultured Meat Startups

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There are 48 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $5.4b. The average funding per company in this subset is $113.5m.

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

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Arzeda logo

Arzeda

Arzeda is a biotechnology and software company designing custom microorganisms for industrial applications through computational enzyme design, protein optimization, and metabolic engineering.

5

Funding Rounds

$72.2m

Money raised

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Pembient

Pembient uses advances in biotechnology to fabricate horn and other wildlife products to combat the threat to endangered species.

1

Funding Rounds

$50.0k

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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New Wave Foods

New Wave Foods is a biotechnology company developing plant-based shellfish food products. The company is based out of San Francisco, California and was founded in 2015 by Dominique Barnes and Michelle Wolf.

9

Funding Rounds

$20.3m

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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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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Eat Just

Eat Just is a San Francisco based food technology company founded in 2011. The company is known for its bean-based egg substitute called Just Egg. Eat Just also produces egg-free mayonnaise.

8

Funding Rounds

$551.0m

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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BlueNalu

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

5

Funding Rounds

$104.5m

Money raised

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Meatable

Meatable is a cellular agriculture company making 100 percent clean meat products.

11

Funding Rounds

$256.5m

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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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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NotCo

NotCo is a food science company located in Santiago, Chile, making plant-based Greek yogurt, milk, cheese and mayonnaise, with the help of their artificial intelligence software called Giuseppe.

6

Funding Rounds

$366.0m

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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SCiFi Foods

SCiFi Foods (formerly Artemys Foods) is a company that makes and provides meat that is animal-free

4

Funding Rounds

$84.5m

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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Motif FoodWorks

Motif Foodworks is a food ingredients company that uses biotechnology to brew proteins and nutrients, for sustainable foods.

4

Funding Rounds

$344.3m

Money raised

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Meati Foods

Meati Foods is a Colorado-based alternative meat company.

5

Funding Rounds

$81.1m

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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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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The Good Food Institute

An organization promoting clean meat, plant-based meat, and clean eggs and dairy as alternatives to traditional animal-based products.

2

Funding Rounds

$3.1m

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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New Culture

A food and beverage company using cellular agriculture to make cow cheese.

2

Funding Rounds

$28.5m

Money raised

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The Better Meat Co

The Better Meat Co is a food technology company located in Sacramento, California, and founded by Paul Shaprio and Joanna Bromley in 2018, making plant-based proteins for food service providers and meat processors.

2

Funding Rounds

$7.1m

Money raised

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MycoTechnology

MycoTechnology is a privately owned company that was founded in 2013 and based in Aurora, Colorado.

15

Funding Rounds

$297.6m

Money raised

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NovaMeat

NovaMeat produces 3D printed plant-based meat substitutes through food printing and tissue engineering technologies.

3

Funding Rounds

$25.2m

Money raised

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Planted Foods

We bring delicious plant-based proteins with a perfect texture and fibre to the table - without any additives.

5

Funding Rounds

$85.0m

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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Future Fields

Creating custom growth media solutions for the cellular agriculture industry.

2

Funding Rounds

$13.4m

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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String Bio

String Bio is a company in Bengaluru, India.

2

Funding Rounds

$200.0k

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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Avant Meats

Avant Meats is developing cell cultured fish maw (aka dried fish bladder), a delicacy in traditional Chinese cuisine. Fish maw is typically sourced from either the Chinese Bahaba (giant yellow croaker) or the Totoaba, both of which are on the brink of extinction due to such high demand for fish maw. Avant Meats will source cells from the Chinese Bahaba fish.

2

Funding Rounds

$13.9m

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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Innomy

Based on the cultivation of mushroom mycelium, is developing a range of animal protein substitute products.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.3m

Money raised

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InnovoPro

InnovoPro is a Ra'anana-based company founded in 2013 by Ascher Shmulewitz.

5

Funding Rounds

$23.8m

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

1

Funding Rounds

$170.0m

Money raised

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Luyef Biotechnologies

Luyef Biotechnologies is a Santiago-based company founded in 2021 by Andrea Villanueva, Kris Blanchard and Pamela Barroso.

1

Funding Rounds

$200.0k

Money raised