Mosa Meat
Mosa Meat is a Dutch food technology company, headquartered in Maastricht creating production methods for cultured meat. It was founded in October 2015, 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. The production process took three laboratory technicians three months to grow the 20,000 individual muscle fibers that made up the burger.
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.
Mosa Meat estimates that commercial availability of cultured meat could happen around 2021 in high-end restaurants at first, at around $11 per hamburger.
