Lab-Grown Meat Startup Raises Funds for Speedy Pork Sausages
- Dutch startup Meatable raises $35 million in funding round
- Company has technology to cultivate meat faster than rivals
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A decade on from the world’s first cultivated beef burger, a Dutch startup is luring a dwindling pool of investor funds with stem-cell technology that can rapidly grow slaughter-free sausages.
Meatable is betting that its use of patented technology and so-called pluripotent stem cells, which can grow a pork sausage in only eight days, will give it an edge over other cultivated meat startups. The company has just raised $35 million to scale up the process and bring products like pork dumplings to the market.