Cultimate Foods winds down as funding dries up
“The company didn’t become what we hoped it would become. That hurts,” Cultimate co-founder and CTO Jordi Morales-Dalmau said in a LinkedIn post, as reported by Green Queen. He added that the experience taught him valuable lessons about technology, team building, running a company, fundraising, and the realities of building a business with no guarantee of success.
Founded in 2022, Cultimate Foods sought to commercialize CultiSense, a cell-cultured fat designed to improve the flavor of plant-based meat.
The closure comes as funding for cultivated meat continues to tighten. According to the Good Food Institute, cultivated meat companies raised $73.9 million in 2025, nearly half the $144 million raised in 2024. Cultimate joins a growing list of companies to shut down, including Believer Meats, Meatable, Upstream Foods, and CellRev.
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