Industry
The cell-based agriculture industry ecosystem is rapidly evolving. The following tables, sorted by region, give a snapshot of the global industry landscape as it currently stands, giving insight into the market niche and target markets of active cell-based agriculture companies. An up-to-date overview of the broader cellular agriculture industry, including plant-based and acellular agriculture, is available here. Note that neither of these resources are exhaustive, and may exclude companies still in stealth mode.
Note: in the tables below, “meat” refers to any cultivated product that consists primarily of muscle and connective tissue, including poultry and seafood.
Asia-Pacific
Americas
| Parent Company | Brands | Product Type | Animal Origin | Approved Markets | Status | Recent News |
| Meatleo (Canada) | – | Meat (ground) | Cow | – | Active | |
| Genuine Taste (Canada) | – | Fat | Cow | B2B | Active | The Better Butchers Teams Up With Student-Led Cultivated Fat Startup to Produce Hybrid Meat > (Dec 2024) |
| Opalia Foods (Canada) | – | Milk | Cow | – | Active; formerly BetterMilk | Opalia Lands First Sale of Cell-Based Milk Ahead of $4M Fundraise > (Aug 2025) |
| Myo Palate (Canada) | – | Meat (ground) | Pig | – | Active | CFIN invests in two cell-ag start-ups, Myo Palate and The Verschuren Centre > (Sep 2023) |
| Livestock Labs (USA) | – | Cell lines | Cow, Pig, Chicken, Sheep | B2B | Active | Livestock Labs is creating stable cell lines with desirable characteristics to advance commercial production of cultivated meat > (Jul 2024) |
| Revvity (USA) | – | Cell lines | Mouse, Rat | B2B | Active | |
| Cell Culture Company (USA) | – | Cell lines | Custom | B2B | Active | |
| Vector Labs (USA) | Kerafast | Cell lines, Growth media | Rat | B2B | Active | |
| Biftek (USA) | – | Growth media, Meat | Cow | B2B | Active | |
| Agulos Biotech (USA) | – | Growth media | N/A | B2B | Active | |
| Defined Bioscience (USA) | – | Growth media | N/A | B2B | Active | |
| CellCrine (USA) | – | Growth media | N/A | B2B | Active | |
| NouBio (USA) | – | Growth media | N/A | B2B | Active | |
| DecoLabs (USA) | – | Growth media | N/A | B2B | Active | |
| Proliant Health & Biologics (USA) | – | Growth media, Growth factors | N/A | B2B | Active | |
| Repligen (USA) | – | Growth factors | N/A | B2B | Active; acquired Tantti Laboratory Inc. | |
| Cell Guidance Systems (USA) | – | Growth factors | N/A | B2B | Active | |
| GenScript (USA) | – | Growth factors | N/A | B2B | Active | |
| Nexture Bio (USA) | – | Scaffolds, Micro-carriers | N/A | B2B | Active; acquired Matrix Food Technologies | Nexture Bio Acquires Plant-Based Edible Scaffold Producer Matrix Food Technologies > (Jan 2025) |
| CytoNest (USA) | – | Scaffolds | N/A | B2B | Active | Start-up spotlight: Cytonest > (Sep 2024) |
| TruSpin (USA) | – | Scaffolds | N/A | B2B | Active | |
| SunP Biotech (USA, China) | – | Bio-process systems | N/A | B2B | Active | |
| Molecular Devices (USA) | – | Bio-process systems | N/A | B2B | Active | |
| BICO (USA) | – | Bio-process systems | N/A | B2B | Active | |
| Stamm (USA) | – | Bio-process systems | N/A | B2B | Active | |
| Brown Foods (USA) | UnReal Milk | Milk | Cow | B2B | Active | Brown Foods formulates lab-made whole milk > (Apr 2025) |
| BIOMILQ (USA) | – | Milk | Human | – | Defunct (2025) | BIOMILQ files for bankruptcy amid IP dispute that made it ‘uninvestable and unacquirable’ > (Jan 2025) |
| Novel Farms (USA) | – | Meat | Pig, Poultry, Mouse | – | Active | FnF partners with Novel Farms to bring cultured meat pet food to market > (Oct 2024) |
| Sound Eats (USA) | – | Meat | Sealife (fish) | – | Active | |
| Eat Just (USA) | GOOD Meat (S.pore, inactive) | Meat, Egg | Poultry (chicken) | Singapore, USA | Active; formerly Beyond Eggs, Hampton Creek Foods | Eat Just pauses operations in Singapore as it reevaluates strategy in Asia > (Mar 2024) |
| Upside Foods (USA) | – | Meat (whole, ground) | Cow, Poultry (chicken, duck) | USA, B2B | Active; acquired Cultivated Decadence; formerly Memphis Meats | UPSIDE Foods Returns to Court to Challenge Florida’s Cultivated Meat Ban > (Nov 2025) |
| Friends & Family Pet Food (USA) | – | Meat | Poultry (chicken), Cow, Sealife | Singapore (for pets) | Active | Friends & Family Pet Food Company Gets Singapore Approval for Cultivated Meat > (Jul 2025) |
| Wildtype (USA) | – | Meat | Sealife (salmon) | USA | Active | Why Upside Foods & Wildtype Are Suing Texas for Its Cultivated Meat Ban > (Sep 2025) |
| BlueNalu (USA) | – | Meat | Sealife (tuna) | – | Active; USA, Singapore applications, part of UK sandbox | California’s BlueNalu Bets on Premium Sushi & Price Parity with Cultivated Bluefin Toro > (Apr 2025) |
| Atlantic Fish Co. (USA) | – | Meat | Sealife (whitefish) | – | Active; USA application | Seed Funding Round Nets Atlantic Fish Co. $1.2M for Whitefish Cultivation Tech > (Nov 2025) |
| Mission Barns (USA) | – | Meat (whole, ground), Fat | Pig, Cow | USA, B2B | Active; Singapore application | Mission Barns’ Cultivated Pork to Make Supermarket Debut at Berkeley Bowl > (Oct 2025) |
| Clever Carnivore (USA) | – | Meat (ground) | Pig, Cow, Poultry (chicken) | – | Active | Clever Carnivore Gives California A Taste of Its Cultivated Pork > (Aug 2025) |
| Fork & Good (USA) | – | Meat | Pig, Cow | B2B | Active; USA application; acquired Orbillion Bio | Fork & Good Acquires Orbillion to Take Cultivated Red Meat Platform Global > (Oct 2025) |
| Omeat (USA) | – | Growth media, Meat (ground) | Cow | – | Active; USA application | Omeat’s tumultuous year: staff cuts and leadership shake-up at startup with ‘elegant’ new approach to scaling cultivated meat > (Apr 2024) |
| BioBQ (USA) | – | Meat | Cow | – | Active | Only one restaurant in Texas sells lab-grown meat. Lawmakers banned it anyway. > (Aug 2025) |
| Ohayo Valley (USA) | – | Meat (whole, ground) | Cow | |||
| Jellatech (USA) | – | Collagen | Human | – | Active | Jellatech to Expand Bioidentical Human Collagen Production at New 9,000-Square-Foot Facility > (Nov 2024) |
| New Age Eats (USA) | – | Meat | Pig | – | Defunct (2023); formerly New Age Meats | New Age Eats shutters doors > (Mar 2023) |
| SCiFi Foods (USA) | – | Meat | Cow | – | Defunct (2024); formerly Artemys Foods | SCiFi Foods Ceases Operations Amid Funding Challenges > (Jun 2024) |
| BioCraft Pet Nutrition (USA) | – | Meat | Mouse | EU (for pets), B2B | Active; formerly Because Animals | Cultivated Ingredients by BioCraft Pet Nutrition Produce Far Fewer Emissions Than Beef Byproducts > (Jun 2025) |
| B.I.F.E. (Argentina) | – | Meat | Cow | – | Active | In Beef-Loving Argentina, The Hunt For A Lab Meat Alternative > (Dec 2019) |
| JBS Foods (Brazil) | Ethica-meat (EU) | Meat | Pig | – | Active | JBS-Owned BioTech Foods Breaks Ground on “World’s Largest Cultivated Meat Plant” in Spain > (Jun 2023) |
| Sustineri Piscis (Brazil) | – | Meat | Sealife (fish) | B2B | Active | |
| Luyef (Chile) | – | Growth media | N/A | B2B | Active | Chile’s Luyef Receives $1.25M to Develop Nutrients for Cultivated Meat Using Fermentation and Agro By-Products > (Dec 2024) |
Europe
Africa & West Asia
Other global organisations supporting the cellular agriculture industry are listed below.
Technical and regulatory support
Arta Bioanalytics is an Australian consulting service offering data analytics, project guidance and regulatory advice to companies in the biotech and cellular agriculture space, as well as to investors and regulators.
Nurasa is a Singaporean company providing support to companies in the cellular agriculture space, enabling partnerships and aiding with commercialisation.
Dragon Biotechnologies is a UK biotech company that provides regulatory and technical services in the cellular agriculture space.
Extracellular is a UK biotech company providing support to cellular agriculture companies to develop their own cell lines, cell media and bioprocessing systems.
Cultivate at Scale is a Dutch company with bioreactor facilities available to allow cell culture companies to operate at scale.
Atova Consulting is a Spanish consulting firm providing scientific and regulatory advice to the alternative protein and novel foods industry, including advice specific to cell cultured products.
The Cultured Hub is a Swiss organisation supporting the scaling up of cellular agriculture and cultivated food companies through providing bioreactor facilities as well as technical and food safety expertise.
Vireo Advisors LLC is a US-based advisory firm with a focus on the commercialisation of biobased and climate technologies, experienced in developing safety and sustainability strategies for biological innovators, including innovators within the cellular agriculture space.
Investor groups
Sprout Agritech is an early-stage accelerator and investor in New Zealand agrifood and agritech companies, providing early-stage funding and enabling local industry partnerships.
Better Bite Ventures is a investor group funding food and agriculture startups in the Asia-Pacific region, including plant-based, fermented and cultivated meat startups.
NuFrontiers is a Dutch investor group investing in food solutions relevant to the parent company Nutreco, including EU alternative proteins and cultivated meat.
Good Startup is a investor group based in Singapore with the stated aims of reducing environmental destruction, global warming and animal abuse through responsible investment in future food and materials startups.
Bits x Bites is a China-based investment firm that invests in early-stage tech startups to ensure the resilience of the food system in China.
Blue Horizon is a Swiss investor group that backs companies to grow a more resilient, sustainable global food network.
Joyful Ventures is a US-based venture capital firm that funds sustainable proteins, including plant-based, fermented and cultivated meat.
Sustainable Food Ventures is a US-based investor group that funds various startups developing cell-based, fermented and plant-based products.
McWin Capital Partners is a UK private investment firm that partners with founders in the European food service and food technology space, including alternative protein and cultivated meat companies.
Siddhi Capital is a US-based food and beverage growth equity firm that funds food tech entrepreneurs, backing companies within the US cellular agriculture space.
Industry alliances
Cellular Agriculture EU is a coalition of EU cultivated meat startups advocating for cellular agriculture as a means to address sustainability challenges facing the EU. Includes Bruno Cell, Cell 4 Food, Fishway, Parima, Labfarm, Meatable, Meat Tomorrow, Mewery, Mosa Meat, Tech 4 Meat, and Vital Meat.
Cultigen Group is a UK-based collective of startup founders in the cellular agriculture space, providing advocacy and education for new founders in the European cellular agriculture space.
Future Food Aotearoa is a New Zealand collective of foodtech founders promoting the growth and impact of future food technologies in NZ and the Pacific, including Ārepa, Daisy Lab, Opo Bio, Mirüku, And Foods and Newfish.
APAC Society for Cellular Agriculture brings together cellular agriculture companies from across the Asia-Pacific region to develop strategic frameworks for innovation in the cellular agriculture space. Participating companies include Aleph Farms, Avant, Cell Agritech, DaNAGreen, Integriculture, JS Bio, Kanadevia, Parima and Seawith.
Non-profit and non-governmental organisations
New Harvest is a US-based non-profit that supports both research and commercialisation of cellular agriculture internationally.
The Good Food Institute is an international non-profit that supports both commercial and academic research and general strategic support to companies working within the alternative protein space.
Food Frontier is an independent think-tank based in Australia and New Zealand that supports the alternative protein community.
From Fauna is a US-based think tank and non-profit that supports cellular agriculture through a range of outreach activities.
Agritech NZ is a New Zealand non-governmental organisation advocating for the New Zealand agritech sector and creating connections within the NZ agritech space.
Cellular Agriculture Australia is a non-profit that advocates on behalf of Australia’s cellular agriculture sector.
Cellular Agriculture UK is a non-profit organisation promoting a more engaged cellular agriculture community within the United Kingdom.