Mosa Meat

Mosa Meat is a food technology company that grows beef from animal cells, starting with a beef burger. In 2013, our Chief Scientific Officer Professor Mark Post unveiled the world’s first cultured meat hamburger to a packed press conference in London. The burger was harvested directly from cow cells, rather than raising and slaughtering a whole animal. It was the result of years of research at Maastricht University, and cost €250,000 to make. The effort was funded by Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google.

Our motivation was to find a new method to make real meat to feed our fast-growing population in a sustainable, healthy and animal-friendly way. Following the success of the first hamburger, we created Mosa Meat to commercialise cultured meat (also known as clean meat, cultivated meat or cell-based meat) and bring it to plates everywhere. The company grows its beef by harnessing the same natural processes that drive muscle growth in a cow, starting with a sample of cells about the size of a sesame seed. Up to 80,000 burgers can be made from that one sample without harming an animal. The company describes its burgers as real beef with real fats and juices, rather than a product that imitates the taste of meat.

In the past few years we’ve made significant scientific breakthroughs, and brought the price down considerably. We’re now focussed on scaling up the production process, and getting our first products to market. Mosa Meat offers partnerships to businesses that want to use its technology or put its burger on their menus.