Cultivated (lab-grown) meat
Meat grown from animal cells in bioreactors; sale is approved in Singapore, the US and Australia–New Zealand (Upside, GOOD Meat/Eat Just, Vow, Mosa Meat, Aleph Farms)
5 leading companies in cultivated (lab-grown) meat, one segment of alternative protein — Plant-based, fermented and cultivated meat and dairy: a $28.9B global retail market, now shrinking in the US
new market segment · researched 2026-11-14
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Leading cultivated (lab-grown) meat companies
5 companies, with the scale each source states. Scale is the whole company's unless the row says otherwise.
| Company | Where | What they do | Scale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upside Foods ↗ | Berkeley, United States since 2015 | Cultivated chicken; received USDA approval in June 2023; dropped its planned Glenview plant in February 2024 and cut staff again in March 2025 | — |
| Eat Just (Just Egg, GOOD Meat) ↗ | Alameda, United States since 2011 | Just Egg (mung-bean egg), Just Meat plant-based chicken (from 2025), and GOOD Meat cultivated chicken, the world's first to get regulatory approval (Singapore, 2020) | — |
| Vow ↗ | Sydney, Australia since 2019 | Cultivated quail products sold in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong | capacity: 35,000 litres total bioreactor capacity at its Sydney facility (production run at 20,000 L; GFI calls it the world's largest cultivated meat facility) (2025) ↗ |
| Mosa Meat ↗ | Maastricht, Netherlands since 2016 | Cultivated beef; raised $17.6M in 2025 | — |
| Aleph Farms ↗ | Rehovot, Israel since 2017 | Cultivated beef; raised $29M in 2025, the largest cultivated meat deal that year | employees: 150 employees (2023) ↗ |
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The alternative protein market
The whole market this segment sits in.
global revenue (retail sales: plant-based meat, seafood, milk, yogurt, ice cream, cheese) · world28.9
↗USD billions · 2025
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Quick answers
- What is cultivated (lab-grown) meat?
- Meat grown from animal cells in bioreactors; sale is approved in Singapore, the US and Australia–New Zealand (Upside, GOOD Meat/Eat Just, Vow, Mosa Meat, Aleph Farms). It is one segment of the alternative protein market.
- Who are the leading cultivated (lab-grown) meat companies?
- Upside Foods (United States), Eat Just (Just Egg, GOOD Meat) (United States), Vow (Australia), Mosa Meat (Netherlands), Aleph Farms (Israel).
- How big is the alternative protein market?
- For the whole alternative protein market, not this segment alone: global revenue (retail sales: plant-based meat, seafood, milk, yogurt, ice cream, cheese) (world) 28.9 USD billions, 2025 — The Good Food Institute.