Mosa Meat

Mosa Meat
Privately held company
Industry Food technology
Founders Peter Verstrate, Mark Post
Headquarters Maastricht, the Netherlands, The Netherlands
Website mosameat.com

Mosa Meat is a Dutch food technology company, headquartered in Maastricht (the Netherlands) creating production methods for cultured meat.[1] It was founded in October 2015[2][3][4], by Mark Post and Peter Verstrate. Post is a Professor of Vascular Physiology at Maastricht University and serves as Chief Scientific Officer of Mosa Meat. Verstrate is CEO at Mosa Meat and has a background in the processed meat industry, holding different positions at Sara Lee Corporation, Ahold, Smithfield Foods, Campofrío Food Group, Jack Links, and Hulshof Protein Technologies.

Post and Verstrate have developed the world's first cultured meat hamburger in 2013, which cost $325,000 to produce and was funded by Google co-founder Sergey Brin.[5] The production process took three laboratory technicians three months to grow the 20,000 individual muscle fibers that made up the burger.[6]

In July 2018 Mosa Meat announced that it had raised a €7.5 million Series A funding round. The round was led by M Ventures and Bell Food Group.[7]

Mosa Meat estimates that commercial availability of cultured meat could happen around 2021[8] in high-end restaurants at first[9], at around $11 per hamburger.[10][11]


References

  1. ↑ "Lab-Grown 'Mosa Meat' To Hit High-End Restaurants Within 2 Years". Green Matters. Retrieved 2018-06-29.
  2. ↑ Pallab Ghosh (15 October 2015). "Team wants to sell lab grown meat in five years". BBC News. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
  3. ↑ "Start-up wil binnen vijf jaar betaalbaar kweekvlees". NOS. 25 January 2016. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  4. ↑ De Limburger (20 October 2015). "Commerciële productie van kweekvlees dichterbij". 1Limburg. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  5. ↑ Henry Fountain (5 August 2013). "A Lab-Grown Burger Gets a Taste Test". New York Times. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  6. ↑ Erin Kim (5 July 2016). "A Closer Look at Cellular Agriculture and the Processes Defining It". AgFunder News. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  7. ↑ Jacob Bunge (16 July 2018). "Startup Producing Cell-Grown Meat Raises New Funding". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  8. ↑ Steven Musch (10 January 2018). "'Met 150 koeien de wereld voeden'". AD. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
  9. ↑ Rick Morgan (23 March 2018). "Bill Gates and Richard Branson are betting lab-grown meat might be the food of the future". CNBC. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
  10. ↑ Charlotte Hawks (8 March 2018). "How close are we to a hamburger grown in a lab?". CNN. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  11. ↑ Jessica Leber (20 October 2015). "A Lab-Made Burger Could Be On Sale In 5 Years". FastCompany. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
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