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| Company type | Privately held company |
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| Industry | Food technology |
| Founded | 2018 [1] |
| Founders | Krijn de Nood, Daan Luining, Mark Kotter |
| Headquarters | , |
| Website | meatable |
Meatable is a Dutch biotechnology company aimed at cultured meat, particularly pork.
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| Company type | Privately held company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Food technology |
| Founded | 2018 [1] |
| Founders | Krijn de Nood, Daan Luining, Mark Kotter |
| Headquarters | , |
| Website | meatable |
Meatable is a Dutch biotechnology company aimed at cultured meat, particularly pork.
Meatable was co-founded by Krijn de Nood, Daan Luining, and Mark Kotter in 2018. [1] [2] It began operating on the campus of Delft University of Technology. [3] and by 2018 reported it had succeeded growing meat using pluripotent stem cells from animal umbilical cords. [4] becoming one of the first start-ups to eliminate fetal bovine serum. [5] On 26 September 2018, Luining represented Meatable at a round table discussion on cultured meat in the Dutch House of Representatives. [6] In early October 2018, Meatable attracted 3.5 million euros in funding from investors. [7]
Meatable presented at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in January 2020, [3] stating that it sought to present proof of concept by the end of the year. [8] By then, Meatable was working with scientists from Cambridge and Stanford to produce a hamburger within three weeks from a single stem cell via a process the company had patented. [3]
In 2021, Meatable obtained funding from various investors worth 40 million euros (47 million US dollars). [1] Its total capital at the time was approximately 53 million euros (60 million US dollars). [2] By April 2021, the staff of Meatable had grown to over 40 people with 15 different nationalities, representing many different fields and coming from many universities. [2] The same year, Meatable announced that it had entered into an agreement with DSM in order to 'make cultured meat affordable and accessible on a large scale.' [9]
In April 2024, Meatable was the first company in the European Union to receive regulatory approval from the EFSA for a public tasting of cultured meat, in this case sausage, amid much international and national media attention. [10] [11] [12]
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