Thailand’s Leading Meat Company Betagro Invests in Meatable to Fuel Asian Expansion
Dutch cultivated meat company Meatable announces it has received a strategic investment from Betagro Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Betagro, a major agri-industrial and food company based in Thailand, producing and distributing meat (chicken and pork) and animal feed. The news comes six months after Meatable onboarded meat industry veteran Jeff Tripitcian, with over 25 years of experience in the American meat industry with roles including president of …
Dutch Startup Meatable Joins APAC Society for Cellular Agriculture, Set to Pioneer Cultivated Pork in Singapore
Dutch cultivated pork startup Meatable announces it has joined the APAC Society for Cellular Agriculture (APAC-SCA), becoming its newest member as of September 2024. APAC-SCA is a coalition of Asian cultivated meat and seafood companies advancing cell-based foods to meet the soaring animal protein demand in a bid to ensure food security and sustainability. The organization has opened its membership to companies based outside the APAC region, aiming to support …
Mission Barns Revamps Single-Cell Suspension Pharma Bioreactors to Scale Cultivated Meat Production
Cultivated fat startup Mission Barns has engineered a new bioreactor to optimize cultivated meat production, aiming to replace the single-cell suspension bioreactors traditionally used in the pharmaceutical industry. “We’ve invented a novel bioreactor that allows us to scale the production of cultivated meat, whether it’s pork, beef, chicken, fat, or muscle,” Mission Barns explains in conversation with Cultivated X. Founded in Berkeley by Eitan Fischer, former director of cellular agriculture at fellow …
MyriaMeat Unveils 100% Muscle Cultivated Pork Fillet
German biotech startup MyriaMeat announces that it has successfully developed a cultivated pork fillet made entirely from pig cells, without the use of scaffolds for cell support or added plant protein blends for shape. The cultivated pork fillet was showcased at an event in Berlin hosted by the startup’s supporting investor, SPRIN-D, the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation. “In our company, it’s now about implementation, no longer basic research, and we have …
Meatable Makes History as First Company to Hold a Cultivated Meat Tasting in the EU
Meatable, a Dutch producer of cell-based pork meat, has become the first company to hold an officially approved cultivated meat tasting in the European Union, and the first in the Netherlands. According to the announcement, the company held a private tasting for its cultivated pork sausages at its new headquarters in Leiden after receiving approval for product safety from the third-party committee sanctioned by the Dutch government. Important to note …
Meatable Slashes Production Time for Cultivated Pork: Cell to Sausage in Four Days
Cultivated pork producer Meatable announces a new production milestone: from cell to sausage in “only four days”. This new record surpasses the company’s previous eight-day process, making it the quickest cell-cultivating method in the world, the company claims. “This process is 60 times faster than traditional pig farming and involves nothing more than pulling a single cell once from a pig without causing harm,” says the Dutch startup. A record-speed platform …
Czech Government Supports Mewery with €200K Grant to Cultivate Pork
Mewery, a Czech biotech developing cultivated pork using microalgae, has been awarded a non-dilutive grant of almost €200,000 by the Czech government through the CzechInvest Technological Incubator. With the funds, Mewery will conduct comprehensive studies to improve the efficiency of its platform as it prepares to scale up. According to the announcement, the studies will focus on cell characterization, exploring the metabolites involved in their growth, and analyzing gene expression …
Magic Valley Unveils Cultivated Premium Pork Made with Signature FBS-Free Tech
After last year’s launch of a cultivated lamb prototype, Melbourne-based agrifood company Magic Valley announces the successful development of a cultivated premium pork product showcased in filled dumplings. Magic Valley’s lamb and pork prototypes are said to be developed “completely free” of fetal bovine serum (FBS) with the company’s signature breakthrough technology, unlocking an ethical and sustainable way of producing meat. Cultivated pork milestone In a released statement, Paul Bevan, …
Mewery Develops “World’s First” Prototype Based on Cultivated Pork and Microalgae
In October 2022, Czech cultivated pork startup Mewery announced it had obtained the proof of concept for growing mammalian cells using microalgae growth factors instead of fetal bovine serum. Just a few months later, after proving the feasibility of its cultivation process, Mewery announces the successful development of a cultivated pork prototype using its proprietary microalgae-based growth medium. An important milestone for the company, which claims that its medium saves …