The State of Cellular Agriculture in 2025: 75 Key Statistics

The landscape of food production is undergoing a radical transformation. Cellular agriculture is no longer a fringe innovation - it’s shaping the future of protein, sustainability, and global food security.

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Backed by billions in investment, growing regulatory frameworks, and accelerating technological breakthroughs, the cellular agriculture sector is poised for exponential growth.

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In this article, we’ve compiled 75 of the most compelling statistics on cultivated meat and precision fermentation as two major classes of cellular agriculture. These statistics offer a data-driven snapshot of where these technologies stand today - and where they’re heading.

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Cellular Agriculture

Market Size & Growth Projections

1. In 2021, the global cellular agriculture market was valued at 133.4 billion USD. By 2030, it is projected to reach 515.24 billion USD, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 16.2% during the period of 2022 to 2030 (Straits Research, 2022).
2. By 2033 the global cellular agriculture market is expected to exceed 786.74 billion USD, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 16.2% from 2023 to 2033 (Spherical Insights, 2024).
3. As of 2023, the number of companies that had a commercial interest in cellular agriculture exceeded 200 (USDA, 2024).

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Funding & Investment

4. Upside Foods, formerly known as Memphis Meats, is a U.S.-based company dedicated to producing cultivated meat products. In 2022, it secured over $400 million in its Series C funding round (Strategic Market Research, 2024).
5. In 2022, the Dutch government announced a total of €60 million in public funding to support the formation of an ecosystem around cellular agriculture (Good Food Institute, 2022).
   
   1. The proposal for this funding was made by 12 organisations called ‘Cellular Agriculture Netherlands’ (Good Food Institute, 2022).
   2. On a larger scale the growth plan is projected to produce €10-14 billion in Dutch GDP growth per year by 2050 with the current climate (Good Food Institute, 2022).
6. Integriculture, a cellular agriculture startup, raised approximately $7.4 million USD in its Series A round (The Spoon, 2020).
7. In 2024, the Bezos Centre for Sustainable Proteins launched at Imperial College London and received £24 million in funding from the Bezos Earth Fund (Good Food Institute, 2024).
8. Since 2021, UK public investment in alternative proteins was £75 million which is 60% of the total recommended by the National Food Strategy (Good Food Institute, 2025).

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Economic Impact

9. By 2030, according to moderate projections, Canada’s cellular agriculture industry would generate $1.5 billion a year and up to 17,000 jobs (Ontario Genomics, 2021).
10. By 2030, optimistic projections show Canada’s cellular agriculture industry could generate $7.5 billion and create up to 86,000 jobs (Ontario Genomics, 2021).
11. For Canada, the most long-term aspirational scenario could suggest a $12.5 billion a year industry and create up to 142,000 jobs (Ontario Genomics, 2021).

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Regulation

12. The UK’s Food Standards Agency currently takes about 2.5 years to approve the process for cellular agriculture products, and planned reforms are aiming to reduce this by up to six months (Good Food Institute, 2024).

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Sustainability & Environmental Impact

13. The Dutch growth plan to support the formation of an ecosystem around cellular agriculture is projected to avoid ~12mt of CO2-eq emissions and 100-130kt of ammonia per year in 2050 (Good Food Institute, 2022)

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With a transition to cellular agriculture by 2050:

14. Annual greenhouse gas emissions could be reduced by 52% (Nature- Communications, Earth & Environment, 2024).
15. The demand for phosphorus could be reduced by 53% (Nature- Communications, Earth & Environment, 2024).
16. 83% less land could be used compared to traditional agriculture (Nature- Communications, Earth & Environment, 2024).
17. The reduction of land requirements by 83% by 2050 would release approximately 9.6 million km² of agricultural land (Nature- Communications, Earth & Environment, 2024).
18. Up to 72% of livestock products could be replaced by cellular agriculture powered by renewable energy, given projected 2050 regional green energy capacities (Nature- Communications, Earth & Environment, 2024).
19. 33% of global green energy capacities in 2050 will be required to reach full transition to cellular agriculture (Nature- Communications, Earth & Environment, 2024).

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Cultivated Meat

Market Size & Growth Projections

20. In 2023, the global cultured meat market size was valued at $65.2 million (Allied Market Research, 2024).
21. As of 2024, North America and Asia-Pacific collectively account for 95% of the overall cultivated meat market size (Roots Analysis, 2024).
22. 30% of the cultivated meat providers are based in North America (Roots Analysis, 2024).
23. By 2030, cultivated meat could provide about 0.5% of the world’s meat supply (McKinsey & Company, 2021).
24. A report by BCG estimated that cultivated meat will have a 6% share of the global alternative protein market by 2035 (BCG, 2021).
25. It was projected that the Asia-Pacific region would capture 38% of the global market in 2024 (Roots Analysis, 2024).
26. The market in Europe is predicted to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 87% until 2050 (Roots Analysis, 2024).
27. From 2024 to 2025, the global cultivated meat market is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 18%, from $9.31 billion to $10.99 billion (The Business Research Company, 2025).
28. By 2034, the global cultured market size is projected to reach 36.5 billion USD (Precedence Research, 2024).
29. The global cultured meat market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 51.64% from 2024 to 2034 (Precedence Research, 2024).
30. In 2023, the cultured meat market size in North America reached 138.79 million USD (Precedence Research, 2024).
31. In 2023, 10 new cultivated meat facilities opened across Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and the Middle East (Good Food Institute, 2023).
32. Around the world, the number of publicly announced cultivated meat companies (focused primarily on cultivated meat inputs or end products) rose to 174 in 2023, up from 166 in 2022 (Good Food Institute, 2023).
33. Of 95 cell-cultured companies focusing on meat and seafood analogues, 49% report beef/veal to be in development, 36% are developing fish products, and 27% are focusing on chicken and pork, respectively. 13% are said to be developing “other” products, such as exotic animals and proteins for pet food. Less than 10% are researching mutton, lamb, turkey and duck (USDA, 2024).
34. As of 2025, Meatly, a UK-based company, claims to be the first to supply cultivated meat for sale as pet food (Petfood Industry, 2025).

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Funding & Investment

35. The United Kingdom led 2023 cultivated meat funding announcements, with an allocation of £12 million for a new research hub at the University of Bath, followed by an estimated £3.4 million for seven research projects on cultivated meat (Good Food Institute, 2023).
36. Globally, cultivated meat and seafood firms raised $225.9m in 2023, dwarfed by the $922.2m raised in 2022 (Tech.eu, 2024).
37. In Europe, cultivated meat firms raised €45m in the first six months of 2024, nearly half as much as the €116 million raised throughout 2023 (Tech.eu, 2024).
38. The largest deal raised in 2023 was Meatable’s $35 million Series B round (Good Food Institute, 2023).
39. In 2021, cultivated meat and seafood companies secured $1.4 billion in investments, three times more than the $400 million raised in 2020 (Good Food Institute, 2022).
40. The industry’s investors grew 62% from 2020 to 2021 to a total number of 458 investors (Good Food Institute, 2022).
41. According to the Good Food Institute, total invested capital in the sector grew 336%, from $410 million in 2020 to $1.38 billion in 2021 (Good Food Institute, 2021).
42. In 2022 the number of unique investors in cultivated meat and seafood reached 679 investors which was an increase of 19% (Good Food Institute, 2022).
43. Between 2015 and 2023, the total capital invested in cell-cultured meat and seafood reached $3.1 billion (USDA, 2024)
44. In 2022, California’s budget bill allocated $5 million to R&D in cultured meat and other alternative proteins (Good Food Institute, 2022).
45. As of 2025, Israeli cultivated meat producer Aleph Farms has raised $29 million in a funding round (Cultivated X, 2025).
46. In 2024, the largest deal was Mosa Meat’s €40 million funding round. As of early 2025, they have already raised €1.5 million from small investors (Protein Production Technology, 2025).

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Sustainability & Environmental Impact

47. A Life Cycle Assessment found that cultivated meat is nearly three times more efficient than chicken production, which is the most efficient form of conventional meat (Good Food Institute, 2021).
48. Cultivated meat's carbon footprint could drop to 2.8 kg CO2eq/kg if renewable energy is used throughout the supply chain (Good Food Institute, 2021).
49. According to estimates by the European Environment Agency, cultivated meat uses 45% less energy than traditionally produced European beef (BCG, 2022).
50. When cultivated meat is produced using renewable energy, it can emit up to 92% less greenhouse gases and use 95% less land and 78% less water compared to traditional beef (BCG, 2022).
51. Research shows that cultivated meat may reduce the overall environmental impact of the conventional meat industry by up to 92% (The Business Research Company, 2025).

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Precision Fermentation

Market Size & Growth Projections

52. In 2025, the global precision fermentation market is estimated to be valued at $5.93 billion and is projected to reach $65.07 billion by 2032, with a compound annual growth rate of 40.8% in this period (Coherent Market Insights, 2025).
53. Another source predicts that from 2024 to 2033 the US precision fermentation market is expected to have a compound annual growth rate of 28.1% (Custom Market Insights, 2025).
54. In 2024 the US precision fermentation market was anticipated to reach a value of $924.2 million, with the value by 2033 reaching $8.5847 billion (Custom Market Insights, 2025).
55. It was predicted that by 2025 precision fermentation products would have reached price parity, and that cultivated meat and seafood products will reach price parity by 2032 (Ontario Genomics, 2021).
56. By 2035, products produced by precision fermentation, cultivated meat and seafood could capture 22% of the market (Ontario Genomics, 2021).
57. In 2023, the Good Food Institutes ‘Company Database’ listed 73 companies with a focus on the precision fermentation of alternative proteins (Good Food Institute, 2023).
58. In 2023, Europe held a market share of 49.53% in the precision fermentation industry (Fortune Business Insights, 2025).
59. In 2023, the European precision fermentation industry reportedly amounted to a value of $1.06 billion (Fortune Business Insights, 2025).
60. By 2024, it was predicted that the global precision fermentation market size would reach $3.2 billion and is estimated to reach $104.13 billion by 2034 (Precedence Research, 2024).
61. Between 2024 and 2034, one report estimates that the global precision fermentation market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 46% (Precedence Research, 2024).
62. In 2022, the dairy alternative section in precision fermentation accounted for more than 58.65% of the revenue share (Precedence Research, 2024).
63. In 2022, whey and casein protein collectively accounted for 40% of the revenue share as an ingredient section (Precedence Research, 2024).

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Funding & Investment

64. In 2023, the South African Government gave a grant of ZAR 11 million ($700,000) to De Novo FoodLabs, a South African precision fermentation startup (Good Food Institute, 2023)
65. In 2023, the European Union put forward a €50 million commitment for the support of scaling up precision fermentation (Good Food Institute, 2023).
66. In 2023, fermentation had a total of invested capital of $515 million (Good Food Institute, 2023).
67. The United States held around 75% of capital investment in precision fermentation between 2014 and 2023, this was seconded by Australia at about 6% (USDA, 2024).
68. From 2015 to 2023, the total capital invested in precision fermentation was $2.1 billion (USDA, 2024).
69. In 2023, a precision fermentation company in the U.S. known as Liberation Labs received a $25 million loan guarantee from the USDA to accelerate construction of a facility in Indiana (Good Food Institute, 2023).
70. In March 2025, the UK government invested £1.4 million in a new innovation hub, enabling the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to expand its expertise in new technologies, including precision fermentation (Good Food Institute, 2025).
71. In 2023, the regional government of Catalonia in Spain invested €7 million in the Centre for Innovation in Alternative Proteins (CiPA), which will help alternative protein businesses in plant-based and fermentation-derived foods scale up production (Good Food Institute, 2023).

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Policy & Regulation

72. In 2023, the Precision Fermentation Alliance was cofounded by nine precision fermentation companies with the aim to prioritise regulatory engagement and consumer messaging (Good Food Institute, 2023).  
73. Once approved by EU regulators - a process expected to take at least 18 months - a new fermentation product can be sold across all 27 member states following a rigorous safety and nutrition review (Good Food Institute, 2023).

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Sustainability & Environmental

74. A Life Cycle assessment showed that dairy proteins produced by precision fermentation demonstrated an 81% decrease in water usage, 99% reduction in arable land use in comparison to conventional production and a 72% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (Protein Production Technology, 2024).
75. One source predicts that precision fermentation will require 74-99% less water, 77-91% less land use and will emit approximately 37-87% less greenhouse gases (Fortune Business Insights, 2025).

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Whether it’s market expansion, climate impact, or consumer adoption, the numbers tell a clear story: cellular agriculture, cultivated meat, and precision fermentation are investable, scalable, and increasingly inevitable.

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As governments, investors, and innovators align around a more sustainable food system, these technologies will continue to redefine what’s possible. For businesses and policymakers alike, understanding these data points is essential to staying ahead of the curve in the coming decade.

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