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Top 50 Cellular Agriculture
Discover the top 50 Cellular Agriculture startups. Browse funding data, key metrics, and company insights. Average funding: $35.3M.
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GALY utilizes cellular agriculture technology to produce cotton and other crops in controlled bioreactor environments, significantly reducing resource use by 80% while achieving 500 times the productivity of traditional farming. This method addresses the challenges of climate risk, deforestation, and pesticide use associated with conventional agriculture, providing a reliable and traceable supply chain.
Funding: $65.0M
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Breakthrough Energy Ventures
Breakthrough Energy Ventures
Funding: $65.0M
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This company produces real meat identical to conventional products through cellular agriculture, eliminating the need to raise and slaughter whole animals. They cultivate meat from cell samples grown in controlled environments to offer a sustainable alternative to traditional animal farming. This process also allows for the cultivation of novel and exotic meat options previously unavailable for consumption.
Funding: $610.0K
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Canadian Food Innovation Network
Canadian Food Innovation Network
Funding: $610.0K
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This food biotech company employs cellular agriculture to produce sustainable animal cell-based food ingredients, eliminating the need for traditional livestock farming. This approach significantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions and land use, contributing to enhanced food security.
Funding: $7.6M
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POSCO CAPITAL
POSCO CAPITAL
Funding: $7.6M
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Cell4Food develops cellular agriculture technologies to produce cell-based seafood biomass through cellular aquaculture. The company combines cell lines, tailored media, and bioreactor systems to create sustainable marine food products. This B2B licensing model aims to transform the food industry by offering alternatives with reduced environmental impact.
Funding: $100.0K
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Portugal Ventures
Portugal Ventures
Funding: $100.0K
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Wildtype uses cellular agriculture to grow fish muscle tissue in serum‑free bioreactors, creating fillets that match the taste, texture and nutrition of wild‑caught seafood. The closed‑loop production platform provides consistent, FDA‑compliant product at scale while reducing water use, land footprint and greenhouse‑gas emissions. It supplies seafood processors, restaurant chains and grocery retailers with a sustainable, reliable source of fish protein.
Funding: $7.5M
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SK Holdings
SK Holdings
Funding: $7.5M
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LabFarm is the first company in Poland to produce cellular meat using bioreactors that cultivate animal cells without the need for livestock. This technology addresses the environmental impact of traditional meat production by eliminating waste and reducing land use while providing a safe, antibiotic-free protein source.
Funding: $2.3M
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National Center for Research & Development
National Center for Research & Development
Funding: $2.3M
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Aleph Farms utilizes cellular agriculture techniques to cultivate high-quality animal proteins, starting with steak, to enhance food security and animal welfare. By decentralizing production, the company addresses the environmental and ethical challenges associated with conventional livestock farming.
Funding: $120.2M
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Markus Samuelsson
Markus Samuelsson
Funding: $120.2M
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This startup develops cellular agriculture technologies to produce sustainable cell-cultured seafood by cultivating fish stem cells. Their approach eliminates the need for overfishing and reduces contaminants like mercury and microplastics, providing a cruelty-free and environmentally friendly source of seafood.
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Funding: $2.7M
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Funding: $2.7M
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This startup produces cultivated meat products through cell cultivation techniques, significantly reducing land and resource use while maintaining the taste and texture of traditional meat. Their flagship offering, cultivated foie gras, honors culinary heritage while providing a sustainable alternative to conventional meat production.
Funding: $91.0M
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Earlybird Venture Capital
Earlybird Venture Capital
Funding: $91.0M
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This company accelerates biomanufacturing breakthroughs by designing cell-specific culture media using an AI-driven platform. Their MediOP™ technology integrates AI, robotics, and cell biology to create custom media solutions for advanced therapies, biologics, and cellular agriculture. Multus offers services for tailored media design, catalog formulations, and scalable supply chains globally.
Funding: $12.6M
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Mandi Ventures
Mandi Ventures
Funding: $12.6M
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This startup produces cellular cacao through a biotech process that isolates cells from cacao strains and cultivates them in bioreactors, enabling the sustainable production of high-quality chocolate. By utilizing cellular agriculture technology, the company provides the food, beverage, and cosmetics industries with a stable and climate-resilient source of cacao, addressing the challenges of traditional cacao farming.
Funding: $750.0K
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EIT Food
EIT Food
Funding: $750.0K
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Clever Carnivore utilizes cellular agriculture to produce cultivated pork products, eliminating the need for animal slaughter and significantly reducing land and water use by over 95%. This approach addresses food insecurity and environmental degradation by providing a sustainable, cruelty-free source of meat that minimizes greenhouse gas emissions and contamination risks.
Funding: $7.0M
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Lever VC
Lever VC
Funding: $7.0M
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This startup utilizes porcine stem cell technology to produce cultivated meat, focusing on sustainable methods for generating muscle, heart, liver, fat, blood, and bone tissues. By enabling meat producers to adopt a more sustainable production process, the company aims to significantly reduce the environmental impact associated with traditional meat farming.
Funding: $790.0K
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Accelerace
Accelerace
Funding: $790.0K
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This startup produces cell-cultured meat using animal cells, providing a vegan-friendly alternative to traditional meat products without the need for animal slaughter. Their technology offers a healthier and more sustainable option, contributing to environmental preservation and enhancing global food security.
This food tech company cultivates poultry products directly from chicken cells using a nutrient-rich feed, eliminating the need for antibiotics. By providing sustainably grown poultry, it enhances nutritional security while significantly lowering carbon emissions associated with traditional poultry farming.
Funding: $75.6M
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Israel Innovation Authority
Israel Innovation Authority
Funding: $75.6M
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NewForm Foods utilizes cellular agriculture technology and proprietary bioprocessing to enable food producers and retailers to efficiently scale the production of cultivated meat and sustainable food products. By reducing capital and operational costs, the platform addresses the need for environmentally friendly food systems that do not compromise on taste or animal welfare.
Funding: $490.0K
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Madica
Madica
Funding: $490.0K
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Finless Foods utilizes cellular agriculture to produce plant-based and cell-cultured seafood alternatives, starting with bluefin tuna, to address the overfishing and depletion of global fish stocks. Their technology enables the creation of sustainable seafood products that meet consumer demand while promoting ocean conservation.
Funding: $48.0M
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Funding: $48.0M
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Believer Meats utilizes cellular agriculture to cultivate meat from non-GMO animal cells, eliminating the need for traditional animal farming and slaughter. This technology provides a cruelty-free, antibiotic-free meat alternative that reduces environmental impact while delivering the taste and texture of conventional meat.
Funding: $390.4M
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Funding: $390.4M
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The startup utilizes cellular agriculture to produce authentic seafood delicacies without the need for traditional fishing or aquaculture. This approach addresses overfishing and environmental degradation by providing a sustainable alternative that reduces the impact on marine ecosystems.
Founded 2023
CF Foods Group develops myoblast-based, non-GMO, animal media-free proteins through cellular agriculture to provide sustainable alternatives to traditional meat production. This approach addresses the environmental impact and ethical concerns associated with conventional livestock farming, ensuring climate-friendly and cruelty-free food sources.
Founded 2021
This company produces clean, cultivated seafood by growing fish muscle cells, offering a highly scalable and sustainable alternative to traditional fishing. Their product is nutritious, high in Omega-3s, and free from common contaminants like mercury and microplastics. They provide a consistent, premium domestic supply of seafood to address global overfishing concerns.
Funding: $780.0K
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North Carolina Biotechnology Center
North Carolina Biotechnology Center
Funding: $780.0K
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Ivy Farm utilizes biotechnology developed at the University of Oxford to produce cultivated meat that is free from antibiotics and nitrates, offering a sustainable alternative to traditional animal farming. This approach addresses the environmental and ethical concerns associated with industrialized meat production while delivering high-protein, low-saturated fat products that maintain a desirable taste.
Funding: $55.1M
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Funding: $55.1M
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Hoxton Farms develops and releases open-source artificial intelligence models specifically for the biomanufacturing sector. These tools, such as BrightQuant and LipiQuant, aim to enhance efficiency and predictability in biological production processes. The company provides foundational AI assets to advance the capabilities of industrial biotechnology operations.
Funding: $28.2M
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Funding: $28.2M
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Meatiply develops cultivated meat products by harvesting animal cells and growing them in a lab environment, eliminating the need for traditional livestock farming. This approach addresses concerns related to animal welfare, public health, and environmental sustainability while providing a guilt-free alternative for meat lovers.
Funding: $4.8M
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AgFunderWavemaker Partners
AgFunderWavemaker Partners
Funding: $4.8M
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Impacfat produces cell-based fish fat, offering a nutrition-customizable ingredient for plant-based and cultivated meats. This technology enhances taste and wholesomeness in alternative proteins while eliminating antibiotics and GMOs.
MassChallenge Switzerland
This company utilizes natural fermentation to cultivate premium, contaminant-free cocoa from selected cacao cells. Their process yields authentic chocolate flavor while ensuring stability and year-round production independent of traditional farming risks. The resulting cocoa is purer and supports forest-friendly, climate-clever sourcing for the food industry.
Funding: $9.0M
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Funding: $9.0M
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Phyx44 Labs creates cell-derived dairy replacements that are molecularly identical to traditional dairy products. This allows consumers to enjoy the taste and texture of dairy without the environmental impact of traditional farming.
Founded 2006
Arsenale provides a fully integrated biomanufacturing platform that combines hardware, data, and AI to enable fast, low-cost production at an industrial scale. This end-to-end system manages the entire production value chain, from organism design in the lab to large-scale industrial output. The platform utilizes proprietary micro-scale reactors and large-capacity BioYards to ensure precision, scalability, and continuous learning for economically viable biomanufacturing.
Plug and Play
Uncommon is developing a scalable production process for cultivated meat that eliminates the primary cost driver in the industry without genetic engineering. Their products, such as Uncommon Bacon and Uncommon Belly, provide a nutritious and sustainable alternative to traditional pork, significantly reducing waste and improving consumer health.
Funding: $49.2M
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Balderton CapitalLowercarbon Capital
Balderton CapitalLowercarbon Capital
Funding: $49.2M
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This startup produces cultured meat products using induced pluripotent stem cell technology to cultivate muscle protein cells. By providing raw materials for healthier and more sustainable meat alternatives, the company enables food manufacturers to create products without animal harm.
Produces cultivated meat for pets using cells sourced from a single chicken egg, enabling sustainable and ethical meat production without harming animals. This approach addresses the environmental and ethical concerns of traditional meat sourcing while providing pets with nutritious and palatable food.
Funding: $5.1M
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JamJar InvestmentsJoyful VC
JamJar InvestmentsJoyful VC
Funding: $5.1M
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This startup develops RNA technology to reduce the cost of cultivated meat and seafood production. Their technology recycles nutrient media used to grow cultured cells, enabling producers to reuse media and significantly lower production expenses.
Funding: $324.5K
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EIT Food
EIT Food
Funding: $324.5K
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Fudzs develops eco-friendly cell bioproduction processes using advanced bioreactor technology to enable the mass production of cultivated meat at lower costs. This approach addresses the growing demand for sustainable protein sources while reducing the environmental impact of traditional livestock farming.
Funding: $95.0K
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Bpifrance
Bpifrance
Funding: $95.0K
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Roslin Technologies develops pluripotent animal stem cells for the cultivated meat industry, providing scalable cell lines that can differentiate into muscle and fat tissues. This technology addresses the growing global demand for sustainable protein by enabling the production of real meat without raising animals, thereby reducing environmental impact and improving animal welfare.
Funding: $33.3M
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Funding: $33.3M
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Omeat produces real meat by growing cells outside of animals, offering a humane alternative to conventional production. This cultivated beef provides the same protein and nutrients as traditional meat but with reduced saturated fat and without GMOs, antibiotics, or hormones. The company's process focuses on efficiency to deliver a better meat product for consumers and the planet.
Funding: $40.0M
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Funding: $40.0M
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Blue Ridge Bantam produces cell-based poultry meat using cellular agriculture techniques, which cultivate animal cells in a controlled environment to create sustainable meat alternatives. This approach addresses the environmental and ethical concerns associated with traditional poultry farming by reducing land use, water consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions.
Founded 2020
Jellatech produces bio-identical complex proteins, including native Type I collagen, using advanced cellular agriculture and synthetic biology. This process eliminates reliance on animal-derived sources, ensuring high-quality, consistent, and ethical protein supply for various industries. The resulting cultivated proteins offer scalable production with guaranteed quality for biomedical, pharmaceutical, and consumer applications.
Funding: $7.0M
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Funding: $7.0M
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Cultimate develops next-generation natural meat flavoring ingredients for the food industry. They utilize cultivated pork cells as a single-component flavor precursor to create authentic, complex meat flavors. This innovative approach offers high-performance flavoring compounds ready for seamless integration into food production.
Funding: $3.4M
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HTGF | High-Tech Gruenderfonds
HTGF | High-Tech Gruenderfonds
Funding: $3.4M
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Red Tail produces cultivated meat products through a decentralized network of farms, enabling simultaneous mass rewilding and land restoration. This approach offers farmers a dual-revenue model from cultivated meat sales and natural capital credits, creating a more environmentally conscious and resilient food supply chain.
Cellivate provides proprietary cell-based technologies that enhance the growth of animal cells for applications in cultivated meat, skincare, and leather production. By offering cost-effective solutions that integrate into existing workflows, Cellivate addresses the need for sustainable alternatives to traditional animal-derived products.
Funding: $1.0M
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Antler
Antler
Funding: $1.0M
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ReactWise provides a machine learning-based software platform for optimizing chemical reactions by rapidly identifying ideal process parameters without requiring coding expertise. This solution accelerates process development by up to 30 times, enabling researchers to efficiently analyze and optimize reactions while conserving time and resources in the laboratory.
Funding: $500.0K
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Y Combinator
Y Combinator
Funding: $500.0K
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New Age Meats is a biotechnology company that cultivates meat from animal cells, eliminating the need for animal slaughter. This method addresses ethical concerns and aims to provide a healthier, sustainable alternative to traditional meat production.
Founded 2018
Qkine develops and manufactures high-quality, animal-free growth factor proteins specifically for stem cell, organoid, and cellular agriculture applications, ensuring consistent bioactivity through rigorous quality control. Their products address the need for reproducible and reliable biological materials in research and industry, enhancing scientific outcomes across various fields.
Funding: $8.0M
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Downing VenturesParkwalk Advisors
Downing VenturesParkwalk Advisors
Funding: $8.0M
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Cultured Decadence utilizes cell culture and tissue engineering techniques to produce crustacean products without the need to raise and slaughter animals. This approach addresses the ethical and environmental concerns associated with traditional seafood production by offering a humane and sustainable alternative.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Mosa Meat cultivates real beef by growing animal cells in a controlled environment, eliminating the need for traditional livestock farming and reducing animal harm. This method allows for the production of up to 80,000 burgers from a single cell sample, addressing the environmental impact of meat production while maintaining the taste and quality of conventional beef.
Funding: $147.6M
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Lowercarbon CapitalM Ventures
Lowercarbon CapitalM Ventures
Funding: $147.6M
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The startup develops machine-learning tools to design cell factories capable of producing a wide range of products, including food, fabrics, and medicines. By simplifying the complex process of cellular manufacturing, the company aims to replace traditional farms and factories, promoting a more sustainable production model.
Funding: $102.5M
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IVP
IVP
Funding: $102.5M
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Opo Bio specializes in cell line development for the cultivated meat industry, providing a multi-species and multi-cell type bank that supports large-scale cell culture. By supplying optimized livestock cells, Opo Bio enables producers to enhance cultivation efficiency and reduce production costs for cultivated meat products.
Funding: $940.0K
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Matū Group
Matū Group
Funding: $940.0K
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CellX produces cultivated meat products—including seafood, chicken, beef, and Wagyu—by growing animal muscle cells in a 2,000‑liter bioreactor using serum‑free media and scaffold engineering. The process reduces water and land use by up to 80 % and cuts carbon emissions up to 92 % versus conventional livestock, while delivering protein‑rich, hormone‑free meat at a target price below $100 per pound. Products are aimed at foodservice, retail and brand customers seeking sustainable protein.
Funding: $6.5M
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Funding: $6.5M
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SCiFi Foods is developing cultivated beef using a synthetic biology platform that employs CRISPR technology for cellular agriculture. This approach aims to provide a sustainable alternative to traditional beef production, addressing environmental concerns and animal welfare issues.
Funding: $36.9M
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Funding: $36.9M
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This startup produces frozen meals using artificial intelligence and cellular agriculture to create environmentally friendly food options. Their ready-to-eat products, such as breaded chicken and veggie cutlets, provide customers with convenient, responsibly sourced meals that are easy to store.
Funding: $5.0M
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Funding: $5.0M
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