As Meatable shuts down, Mosa Meat lands €15M; achieves 99.999% value lower from its €250k first burger

Maastricht-based cultivated meat startup Mosa Meat has secured a further €15 million in funding to gas its subsequent section of regulatory market approvals and first vital income technology. 

This financing spherical was supported by Make investments-NL (backed by a assure from InvestEU), LIOF, PHW Group, and Jitse Groen, founder and CEO of Simply Eat Takeaway.com.

Victor Meijer, funding principal at InvestNL, stated, “Cultivated meat is a vital element within the protein transition wanted to scale back the influence of livestock farming. As in any rising sector, investing in cultivated meat is difficult and requires stamina. Mosa Meat has constructed a robust basis and is taking clear steps towards commercialisation.”

This extension follows a €40 million spherical raised in 2024 and a crowdfunding marketing campaign that each exceeded targets. This brings the full capital raised by the corporate over the previous two years to €58 million.

Aside from securing the capital, Mosa Meat talked about that it has achieved one other main milestone. 

Again in 2013, the Dutch startup launched the world’s first cultivated beef burger in London with a hefty price ticket of €250k. It was a proof of idea meant to indicate the world that rising meat from cells was potential. The corporate claims that it has achieved a 99.999% value discount in comparison with that first burger.

Maarten Bosch, CEO of Mosa Meat, stated, “Once we launched the primary cultivated burger, it was a €250k proof of idea. In the present day, via basic scientific breakthroughs and scaling efficiencies, we’re producing burgers at a worth level prepared for restaurant menus. 

“With the backing of our world-class traders, now we have efficiently turned a science challenge right into a tasty and reasonably priced product with out compromising on our authentic imaginative and prescient.”

This information comes only a few days after it was introduced that Leiden-based Meatable will shut down after failing to safe recent funding.

Based in 2016 by Mark Put up and Peter Verstrate, Mosa Meat is a FoodTech firm engaged on a cleaner, kinder method of creating actual beef. The corporate at the moment has regulatory dossiers below evaluate in the UK, the European Union, Switzerland and Singapore. It was additionally just lately chosen for the UK’s regulatory “Sandbox” programme, supported by the Division for Science, Innovation and Expertise. 

“Working alongside the Mobile Agriculture Netherlands (CAN) basis, Mosa Meat was just lately outlined as a taking part associate in a strategic local weather know-how challenge within the influential Dutch ‘Wennink Report.’ Consequently, Mosa Meat’s work is positioned to learn from nationwide supporting mechanisms that align public-private financing and regulatory reform to speed up the Netherlands’ transition to sustainable progress,” the corporate talked about within the press launch. 

Mosa Meat is backed by traders, together with Lowercarbon Capital, M Ventures, Bell Meals Group, Nutreco, PHW Group, Mitsubishi Company, Collateral Good Ventures, Leonardo DiCaprio and others. The Academy Award-winning actor joined Mosa Meat as an advisor and investor again in 2021.