Lab-Grown Meat Startup Raises Funds for Speedy Pork Sausages

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.

Meatable sausages.

Source: Meatable

The key for Meatable is the speed of cultivation, which should allow the ...