Micro Meat

Name

Micro Meat

Website

https://micromeat.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Micro Meat is a Mexico-based biotechnology company founded in 2021 that develops technology enabling cultivated meat producers to scale up their production, serving the cellular agriculture infrastructure market.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cultivated Meat Technology

NAICS

Food Product Machinery Manufacturing (333241), Food Manufacturing (311)

SIC

Food And Kindred Products (2000)

akta.pro primary industry

Bioprocessing & Fermentation Manufacturing (Bioreactors, Scale-Up, Toll/CMO) (AFANAKAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Cultivated Meat Producers (Cell-Cultured Meat & Seafood) (AFANAKAC), Cell Line Development & Banking (Food/AG Cell Lines) (AFANAKAE)

Keywords

• Cultivated meat technology
• Cell-based meat production
• Bioprocess scaling
• Alternative protein tech
• Cellular agriculture

Headquarters

HQ city

Monterrey

HQ country

Mexico

HQ region

Latin America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations

Core offering

Micro Meat develops technology that enables cultivated meat producers to scale up their production. The company's offering is targeted at cellular agriculture companies seeking solutions to industrialize cell-based meat manufacturing processes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Cultivated Meat Production Scaling Technology A developed technology that allows cultivated meat producers to scale up their production, enabling cellular agriculture companies to industrialize cell-based meat manufacturing.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Broad incumbents

• JBT Marel: JBT Marel is a global food processing and protein solutions provider offering equipment and technologies for protein manufacturers, including further processing and value-added protein applications. Comparable as a broad incumbent in food/bio processing scale-up technology.
• Cytiva (Danaher): Cytiva, a Danaher operating company, is the dominant incumbent in bioprocessing single-use bioreactors, cell culture media, and scale-up services for cell-based therapies and food applications. It represents the established supplier Micro Meat would compete with for cultivated meat bioreactor contracts.
• GEA Group: GEA is a large industrial equipment supplier providing separators, homogenizers, and bioprocessing systems used in food and alternative protein manufacturing. The closest fit as a broad incumbent serving the same scale-up infrastructure layer that Micro Meat targets.
• Bühler Group: Bühler is a major Swiss incumbent in food processing equipment and industrial biotechnology, including fermentation and cell-culture technology for alternative proteins. It competes in the same enablement layer Micro Meat targets, though as a much larger incumbent serving many other food categories.

Emerging players

• Upside Foods: Upside Foods is one of the most well-funded cultivated meat producers and operates its own large-scale bioreactor facility — a reference architecture Micro Meat would benchmark against and a potential customer pilot partner. Comparable as a cultivated-meat scale-up player in the same end-market.
• Mosa Meat: Mosa Meat is a pioneering cultivated beef producer working on its own scale-up technology stack. Comparable to Micro Meat in the sense that Mosa is also tackling bioprocess scale-up economically, though from the producer side rather than as an enabler.
• Aleph Farms: Aleph Farms is a leading cultivated meat producer that represents a potential Micro Meat customer — and shares the cultivated meat end market. Comparable because both operate inside the cultivated meat value chain, with Aleph on the producer side and Micro Meat on the scale-up enabler side.
• Sunflower Therapeutics: Sunflower Therapeutics (a Sunflower Bio subsidiary) provides distributed biomanufacturing technology and modular bioreactor systems for cell-based production. Directly comparable to Micro Meat as a smaller-scale enabler offering scale-up technology to cell-based producers.

Direct peers

• Culture Biosciences: Culture Biosciences provides fermentation and cell-culture process development as a service, with bioreactor-as-a-service infrastructure targeting industrial bioprocess scale-up. Comparable to Micro Meat as both sell scale-up workflow capabilities to cultivated-meat and bioprocess customers.
• ABEC: ABEC is a leading global supplier of custom bioreactors and process solutions for the cell-culture and fermentation industry, including cultivated meat and alternative protein producers. Directly comparable to Micro Meat as both target the same scale-up technology bottleneck for cell-based protein manufacturers.

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Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments

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