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]
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 |
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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] | 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] | |||
Cultured Hub [35] [a] | 2021 [36] | ![]() | Meat [36] | December 2024 [37] | |||
Eat Just (formerly Hampton Creek) | 2011 | ![]() | Meat | Dec 2017 [38] | Constructing (Jan 2020) [39] | November 2020: Singapore [40] June 2023: United States [41] | Dec 2020: restaurants Singapore By Jan 2023: foodservices Singapore [42] July 2023: restaurants US [43] Commercial sales have been "paused" [44] |
Finless Foods | 2016 [45] | ![]() | Tuna | Sep 2017 [46] | Constructing (Oct 2021) [47] | ||
Forsea Foods | 2021 | ![]() | Seafood | Jan 2024 [48] | |||
Higher Steaks | 2017 | ![]() | Pork | July 2020 [49] | |||
IntegriCulture, Inc. | 2015 | ![]() | Foie gras | 2021 (June 2018 claim) [50] | 2021 (July 2020 claim) | ||
Matrix Meats[ citation needed ] | 2019 | ![]() | Scaffolding | 2020 [51] | |||
Meatable [52] | 2018 | ![]() | Pork | End 2020 [53] | Nov 2023 [54] | April 2024: public tasting in EU [54] late 2024: restaurants in Singapore (Apr 2024 claim) [54] 2025: United States (Apr 2024 claim) [41] | |
Meatleo[ citation needed ] | 2021 | ![]() | Beef | ||||
Mewery [55] | 2020 | ![]() | Pork | 2023 [56] | |||
Mirai Foods | 2020 | ![]() | Beef | June 2020 [57] | |||
Mission Barns [58] | 2018 | ![]() | Fat | 2021 [59] | Circa 2023 [58] | ||
Mosa Meat [60] (emerged from Maastricht University) | 2015 | ![]() | Beef | Aug 2013 (UM) [61] | Installing (May 2020) [62] | Mid-2026 (expected regulatory approval) (Jan 2025 claim) [63] | |
Motif FoodWorks | 2019 [64] | ![]() | Beef | End 2020 (Aug 2020 claim) [65] | Q4 2021 (beef flavouring) (Oct 2020 claim) [66] | ||
Multus Media [67] | 2019 | ![]() | Culture media | October 2019 [68] | |||
New Age Eats (New Age Meats 2018–22 [69] ) | 2018– [70] 2023 [71] | ![]() | Pork | Sep 2018 [72] | Constructing (Oct 2021) [73] | March 2023: company shutdown [71] | |
Omeat [74] [75] [76] | 2019 | ![]() | |||||
Orbillion Bio [77] | 2019 [78] | ![]() | |||||
SavorEat | 2016 [4] | ![]() | Beef | Mid-2021 (restaurants) (May 2020 claim) [4] | |||
SCiFi Foods [79] (formerly Artemys Foods) | 2019 | ![]() | Meat | Fall 2020 [80] | June 2024: company shutdown [81] | ||
Shiok Meats (acquired by Umami Bioworks 2024 [82] ) | 2018 [83] | ![]() | Beef [84] | 2019 (shrimp) [85] | 2021 (March 2020 claim) [83] [86] [87] | ||
Steakholder Foods (formerly MeaTech; subsidiary: Peace of Meat) | 2019 | ![]() ![]() | Foie gras | 4 March 2020 [88] | Constructing; 2022 (May 2021 claim) [89] | 2023 (Dec 2019 claim) [90] | |
SuperMeat | 2015 [4] | ![]() | Poultry | 2018 [91] | November 2020 [92] | By 2022 (May 2020 claim) [4] Test restaurant Nov 2020 [92] | |
Upside Foods (formerly Memphis Meats) | 2015 | ![]() | Poultry | Feb 2016 [93] | 4 November 2021 [94] [95] | June 2023: United States [41] | July 2023: restaurants US [96] Commercial sales paused January 2024 [44] [97] |
Vow [98] | 2019 [99] | ![]() | Kangaroo, Quail | Aug 2019 [100] | Oct 2022 [101] | April 2024: Singapore [54] April 2025: FSANZ [102] | Apr 2024: SG approval and launch [103] |
Wildtype | 2016 | ![]() | Salmon | June 2019 [107] | 24 June 2021 [108] | 28 May 2025: United States [109] | June 2025: U.S. market entry [109] |
Note: data in italics refer to unfinished projects or projected capacities in the future; they may shift.
Company | Location(s) | In service | Projected capacity |
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Aleph Farms | Rehovot, Israel [110] | Feb 2022 [5] | (3,000 m2 [110] ). Fully operational by summer 2022 [5] |
Believer Meats [b] and GEA Group [111] | Rehovot, Israel [110] | June 2021 [16] | 500 kilograms per day (182,625 kg/y) [110] |
Wilson, North Carolina [111] | Constructing (Sep 2024) [111] | (12,000 tonnes annually [111] ) | |
BioTech Foods (acquired by JBS [26] ) | San Sebastián, Spain [26] (production facility) [112] | 2020 [28] mid-2024 [112] | 1,000 tonnes annually [112] (scalable to 4,000 tonnes annually) [112] |
Florianópolis, Brazil [112] | Constructing (Sep 2023) [112] | (R&D facility) [112] | |
Eat Just (Hampton Creek) | San Francisco, California [47] | Constructing (Jan 2020) [39] | (20+ 1200L bioreactors [47] ) |
Singapore [42] | Constructing plant (Jan 2023) [42] | Unknown number of 6000L bioreactors [42] | |
Finless Foods | Emeryville, California [47] | Constructing (Oct 2021) [47] | |
Meatable and DSM | Leiden, Netherlands [54] (until 2023 Delft) [52] [113] | Nov 2023 (Leiden & Singapore) [54] | 5,000 kilograms per day by 2025 [53] 200-litre bioreactors; scalable to 500-litre (Apr 2024) [54] |
Mosa Meat and NIZO food research [114] | Cultivate at Scale, Maastricht [115] | Installing (May 2020) [62] | 100 kilograms per month (1,200 kg/y) per 200L bioreactor [115] [116] (scalable to 180,000 kg/y) [115] |
Biot. Ferm. Factory, Ede [114] | Constructing (Jan 2025) [114] | Scalable to 10,000 litres, open to all Dutch start-ups [117] | |
Steakholder Foods (MeaTech / Peace of Meat) | Antwerp, Belgium [90] | 2 labs March 2020 [88] | 700 grams per production run [118] |
Antwerp, Belgium [89] | Constructing plant (May 2021) [89] | ||
SuperMeat | Ness Ziona, Israel [119] [92] | November 2020 [119] [92] | "Hundreds of kilograms" per week (June 2021) [92] |
Upside Foods (Memphis Meats) | Emeryville, California [94] | 4 November 2021 [94] | 22,680 kilograms (50,000 pounds) per year [94] [95] (scalable to 400,000 lbs/y / 181,440 kg/y) [95] |
Wildtype | San Francisco, California [47] | 24 June 2021 [108] | 50,000 pounds (22,680 kg) salmon per year [47] (scalable to 200,000 lbs/y / 90,718 kg/y) [47] |
[Aleph Farms Ltd.] is also working on a pilot plant. Companies such as BioTech Foods, SuperMeat and Eat Just have already started testing sites.
The EFSA's risk assessment of the product is expected to take around 18 months.
Shiok's proto-shrimp costs $5,000 a kilogram, which is about $2,268 a pound, mostly due to the price of the nutrient fluids needed to feed the cells. Access to more affordable nutrients has reduced the cost of Shiok's meat to $3,500 a kilogram, or about $1,588 a pound. (...) Shiok's shumai, for example, cost $300 apiece. (...) The goal is to make Shiok's shrimp 100 times cheaper by the first half of next year.