With public funding for cultivated meat still strong despite a decline in private investment, Czech startup Mewery has secured €2.9 million ($3.3 million) in public grants, primarily from the EU’s Horizon Europe program. The company will use the funds to scale up its production of cultivated pork, which uses a co-cultivation technology combining pork and microalgae cells, and to launch pilot projects with European meat producers. Mewery’s approach aims to reduce production costs and improve efficiency, and the company plans to use the results from these pilot projects to support its regulatory applications in the EU and the US, which it expects to submit in 2027-2028.
Source: Mewery Secures $3.3M in Govt Grants to Expand Lab-Grown Pork Production