60 Best Meat Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Meat Startups

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There are 60 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $4.9b. The average funding per company in this subset is $81.9m.

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Funding Rounds

$1.9b

Money raised

Impossible Foods is a plant-based meat company making meat and dairy products that are made to look and feel like animal products by manufacturing heme, the oxygen binding molecule found in blood, using engineered yeast grown in bioreactors.

4

Funding Rounds

$390.0m

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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4

Funding Rounds

$119.8m

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.

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5

Funding Rounds

$256.0m

Money raised

FreshToHome is an India-based company that delivers fresh meat and fish to consumers across India and the Middle East.

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6

Funding Rounds

$138.2m

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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7

Funding Rounds

$21.2m

Money raised

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

4

Funding Rounds

$84.5m

Money raised

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

5

Funding Rounds

$20.4m

Money raised

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

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4

Funding Rounds

$119.5m

Money raised

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

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4

Funding Rounds

$18.7m

Money raised

Creator is the developer of a robotic burger maker.

5

Funding Rounds

$81.1m

Money raised

Meati Foods is a Colorado-based alternative meat company.

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2

Funding Rounds

$4.6m

Money raised

Prime Roots (formerly Terramino Foods) is a food company located in San Leandro, California, founded by Kimberlie Le and Joshua Nixon in 2017 producing a salmon meat substitute made from fungi.

2

Funding Rounds

$3.1m

Money raised

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

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2

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$10.0m

Money raised

Sunfed Meats is a company located in New Zealand making plant-based meat substitutes primarily out of pea proteins. Sunfed's Chicken Free Chicken was the companies first pea protein based product to be sold on the market; with double the protein of chicken and triple the iron of beef.

2

Funding Rounds

$270.0k

Money raised

Foods for Tomorrow is a plant-based food technology company located in Barcelona, Spain that was founded by Marc Coloma in 2017. Foods for Tomorrow makes a plant-based protein ingredient called Heura that mimics the texture of meat.

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1

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$10.0m

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Sol Cuisine is a food company manufacturing vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, organic, non-GMO, and fresh meat alternatives. The company was founded by Dror Balshine in 1980 and is located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

1

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$64.3k

Money raised

The Very Good Butchers are a food company running a restaurant and vegan butcher shop making plant-based meat-alternatives in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, that was founded by James Davidson and Tania Friesen in 2016.

7

Funding Rounds

$34.7m

Money raised

A cellular agriculture company creating meat cultured from animal cells.

4

Funding Rounds

$41.0m

Money raised

Redefine Meat is a food technology company that is making a 3D printer capable of printing plant-based alternative meat products.

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6

Funding Rounds

$125.4m

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Munchery is the operator of a recipe website where users can search recipes, find cooking tutorials, and a glossary of cooking terms. Based in San Francisco, Munchery originally opened in 2011 as a pre-made meal delivery company that closed in 2019.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.9m

Money raised

Karana is a Singapore-based company that optimizes natural SE Asian ingredients like jackfruit and banana blossoms for use in food service and other applications.

3

Funding Rounds

$25.2m

Money raised

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

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2

Funding Rounds

$7.4m

Money raised

Porter Road is an online butcher service headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee selling pasture-raised beef, pork, lamb, and chicken, delivered. Free of antibiotics, hormones, and GMOs.

5

Funding Rounds

$85.0m

Money raised

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

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9

Funding Rounds

$488.5m

Money raised

Licious is an India-based consumer fresh meat and seafood brand.

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2

Funding Rounds

$48.0m

Money raised

Daring Foods is a company making plant-based chicken products founded in 2018 by Ross Mackay.

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4

Funding Rounds

$220.2m

Money raised

v2food is an Australian company making plant-based meat.

5

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$10.0m

Money raised

Plant-based food company that makes products that are good for YOU and the planet. Empowering you to #BeOutstanding

5

Funding Rounds

$135.0m

Money raised

Simple Feast is a Denmark-based company founded in 2015.

1

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$3.2m

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A company producing plant-based jerky and pasta made from sugar kelp and mushrooms.

1

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$524.0k

Money raised

A company making plant-based meat products that are gluten-free, dairy-free, and soy-free.

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3

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$63.2m

Money raised

A company making plant-based meat alternatives made to imitate the taste and texture of animal meats.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.4m

Money raised

A specialty food company specializing in vegetable-based sausages and tofu products.

2

Funding Rounds

$9.0m

Money raised

Reverse meat grinder. We take plant protein and make steaks out of it.

2

Funding Rounds

$17.0m

Money raised

Ollie is a company founded in 2016.

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1

Funding Rounds

$8.0m

Money raised

Kettle & Fire is an Austin, Texas-based company founded in 2016 by Nick Mares.

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1

Funding Rounds

$2.3m

Money raised

Per Diem is a subscriptions for local businesses founded in 2021 by Tomer Molovinsky.

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2

Funding Rounds

$3.4m

Money raised

Food tech company creating delicious, jackfruit-based meat alternatives.

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A company offering an online e-commerce platform for sport supplements and nutrition.

1

Funding Rounds

$4.0m

Money raised

PetPlate is a company founded in 2016.

2

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$16.0k

Money raised

Meatme.ca is a Vancouver-based company founded in 2015.

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1

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$65.0m

Money raised

Open Farm is a company founded in 2014.

1

Funding Rounds

$170.0m

Money raised

1

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$15.0m

Money raised

The New Primal is a North Charleston, South Carolina-based jerky company.

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1

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$8.0m

Money raised

Biena Foods is a Boston-based meat company founded in 2012.

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4505 Meats makes all natural, meaty snacks

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$16.0m

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Realeats Meals is a Geneva, New York-based company founded in 2016.

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$6.1m

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1

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A company making jerky products in San Bernardino, California.

1

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$4.0m

Money raised

Fresh Kitchen is a company founded in 2014.

1

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$5.5m

Money raised

Bobo's is a Boulder, Colorado-based company.

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1

Funding Rounds

$8.0m

Money raised

Crowd Cow is a Seattle-based meat company.

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1

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

Country Archer Jerky Co. is a San Bernardino, California-based company founded in 1977 by Eugene Kang.

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2

Funding Rounds

$17.6m

Money raised

Crowd Cow, Inc. is a Seattle-based company founded in 2016.

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1

Funding Rounds

$13.5m

Money raised

Muscle Food is a Nottingham-based meat company founded in 2013 by Darren Beale.

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1

Funding Rounds

$6.3m

Money raised

Mason Dixie Foods is a Baltimore-based company.

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1

Funding Rounds

$58.0m

Money raised

Future Farm is a meat company.

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1

Funding Rounds

$16.5m

Money raised

Stryve Bilton is a Texas-based meat company.

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$14.0m

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