Mosa Meat

Mosa Meat was founded in 2016 in Maastricht, Netherlands, by physiologist Mark Post and food technologist Peter Verstrate. Post unveiled the world's first cultivated beef burger at a 2013 London press conference, a proof-of-concept that reportedly cost around 250,000 euros to produce; Mosa Meat has since said it cut that cost by roughly 99.999 percent as it works toward commercial production. The company grows beef from a small sample of cow cells and has developed an animal-component-free growth medium to lower costs. It raised a 40 million euro round in April 2024 backed by Invest-NL, LIOF, the PHW Group and Just Eat Takeaway founder Jitse Groen, and secured a further roughly 15 million euros in late 2025 to fund regulatory progress and a European market entry, bringing total funding to over 135 million dollars.