50 Best Alternative Protein Companies to Watch in 2026

#	Company	Location	Employees	Total Funding	Last Round	Last Funded
1	A Avenue Biosciences Avenue Biosciences is a transatlantic biotech business that specializes on innov…	Palo Alto	11 - 50	$8.2M	Seed	2026-01-12
2	B Believer Meats Believer Meats is a food technology company focused on using clean meat and cell…	Jerusalem	51 - 100	$387.8M	Series B	2021-12-17
3	M Meati Meati Foods is a consumer goods company that provides fungi-based meat alternati…	Boulder	101 - 250	$374.5M	Series C	2024-05-08
4	U UPSIDE Foods UPSIDE Foods is a food tech company that produces and grows sustainable cultured…	Berkeley	101 - 250	$581.0M	Grant	2023-06-21
5	P Prime Roots Prime Roots makes mycelium based meats products focusing on deli and charcuterie…	Berkeley	11 - 50	$48.5M	Series B	2023-05-15
6	N New Wave Biotech New Wave Biotech creates bioprocess optimization software to accelerate R&D and …	London	1 - 10	$1.4M	Grant	2025-10-07
7	M Multus Multus is a global leader in cell culture media design for cell-based biomanufac…	London	11 - 50	$14.6M	Series A	2023-01-16
8	G Green Rebel Foods Green Rebel Foods is a manufacturer of whole-cut plant-based meats.	Kedoya Selatan	51 - 100	$17.5M	Series Unknown	2026-01-21
9	T The Better Meat Co. We harness the power of fermentation to make versatile mycoprotein ingredients	West Sacramento	11 - 50	$42.0M	Series A	2025-08-19
10	R Redefine Meat Redefine Meat uses 3D printing technology, meat digital modeling, and food formu…	Tel Aviv	101 - 250	$170.0M	Series Unknown	2022-01-23
11	P Plantible Foods Plantible Foods is a food technology company that develops sustainable plant-bas…	San Marcos	11 - 50	$56.4M	Corporate Round	2025-01-15
12	S SuperYou SuperYou, a nutritional product company that provides protein wafers in differen…	Mumbai	11 - 50	$7.2M	Series B	2025-10-23
13	T THIS THIS is a plant-based product brand that provides alternative meat products.	London	51 - 100	$78.4M	Secondary Market	2024-06-17
14	K Koia Koia is a food and beverage company that specializes in the production of plant-…	Los Angeles	11 - 50	$7.5M	Convertible Note	2022-04-15
15	R Rebellyous Foods Rebellyous Foods is a food manufacturing technology and production company.	Seattle	11 - 50	$43.5M	Series B	2025-01-09
16	T Those Vegan Cowboys Those Vegan Cowboys is a dairy product producer that makes cow-less milk and che…	Zwijnaarde	11 - 50	$7.3M	Undisclosed	2025-12-18
17	N Novel Farms Novel Farms develops cruelty-free, inexpensive and tunable scaffolds for the pro…	Berkeley	1 - 10	$2.4M	Grant	2023-09-28
18	n nextProtein nextProtein develops a new large-scale technology that produces a sustainable so…	Paris	51 - 100	$38.0M	Debt Financing	2025-11-04
19	C Clever Carnivore Clever Carnivore is a cultivated meat company specializing in pork products, hea…	Chicago	11 - 50	$11.5M	Seed	2025-11-05
20	H Hungry Planet Hungry Planet is a food and beverage company providing delicious, nourishing, pl…	St Louis	1 - 10	$30.6M	Series A	2021-04-13
21	H Heura Foods Heura Foods is a plant-based startup that produces sustainable and nutritious pl…	Barcelona	101 - 250	$117.0M	Debt Financing	2025-05-12
22	T TissenBioFarm Bio and food tech company developing scalable whole-cut cultivated meat producti…	Pohang	11 - 50	$2.0M	Seed	2026-01-14
23	N Nalu Bio Nalu Bio is a biotechnology company that focuses on a science and data-driven ap…	San Francisco	11 - 50	$13.8M	Non Equity Assistance	2025-03-25
24	V Vow Vow is a meat production company specializing in producing meat from animal cell…	Sydney	51 - 100	$55.9M	Series A	2022-11-14
25	P Planted Foods Planted Foods is a food processing company that specializes in plant-based meals…	Kemptthal	101 - 250	$141.9M	Series Unknown	2024-12-17
26	M Mycel Mycelium powered platform that bridges bio-tech, advanced material science with …	Gunpo	11 - 50	$19.4M	Series A	2022-07-15
27	B Beta Hatch Beta Hatch industrializes the production of insects as a sustainable protein for…	Cashmere	11 - 50	$41.5M	Convertible Note	2022-12-07
28	B Beyond Meat Beyond Meat is a food processing company that specializes in providing plant-bas…	Manhattan Beach	501 - 1K	$262.6M	Post Ipo Debt	2025-05-07
29	H Hoxton Farms Based in London, UK, Hoxton Farms is growing cultivated fat as an ingredient for…	London	11 - 50	$25.9M	Series Unknown	2025-06-18
30	M MyForest Foods MyForest Foods grows meatless mycelium on vertical farms and supplies sustainabl…	Albany	11 - 50	$65.5M	Series Unknown	2024-02-15
31	F Future Fields Future Fields harnesses insect biotechnology to make sustainable recombinant pro…	Edmonton	11 - 50	$26.9M	Series A	2025-06-17
32	A Above Food Above Food is a B2B plant-based protein company specializing in the development …	Regina	11 - 50	$60.0M	Post Ipo Debt	2025-09-04
33	L Lypid Pioneering alternative fat solutions.	San Francisco	11 - 50	$8.7M	Non Equity Assistance	2023-03-28
34	N New Age Meats New Age Meats is a biotechnology company that develops healthy cultivated meat g…	Berkeley	11 - 50	$32.0M	Series A	2021-09-27
35	P PFx Biotech PFx Biotech is a disruptive startup developing human milk proteins as alternativ…	Porto	1 - 10	$15.7M	Grant	2025-06-06
36	G GOURMEY We create sustainable cultivated meat delights for an uncompromising and conscio…	Paris	11 - 50	$57.8M	Series A	2022-10-05
37	N Nutropy Nutropy produces real milk ingredients, identical to those produced by cows.	Bas ├ëvry	11 - 50	$10.2M	Seed	2025-10-23
38	A Ark Biotech Intelligent bioprocess platform	Cambridge	11 - 50	$16.9M	Grant	2025-08-14
39	P Project Eaden Project Eaden engages in the development and licensing of technologies for the p…	Berlin	11 - 50	$26.3M	Series A	2025-01-22
40	U Unibio Unibio is a leading biotechnology company pioneering sustainable protein product…	Roskilde	51 - 100	$60.0M	Corporate Round	2023-03-28
41	A Ace International ACE International manufactures and distributes dairy powders, milk proteins, and…	New Delhi	11 - 50	$34.1M	Private Equity	2025-11-27
42	S SCiFi Foods SCiFi Foods is racing to be the first to bring cultivated beef to market with an…	San Francisco	11 - 50	$38.7M	Series A	2022-11-08
43	G GOOD Meat GOOD Meat provides cultured cell-based meat instead of slaughtered livestock.	San Francisco	51 - 100	$267.0M	Grant	2023-06-21
44	B Big Akwa Big Akwa is a food-tech company that develops circular aquaculture systems by in…	H├ñrn├╢sand	1 - 10	$4.3M	Grant	2026-02-06
45	L Lasso Lasso is a food technology startup that creates alternative meats that replicate…	Somerville	11 - 50	$31.3M	Series Unknown	2025-10-14
46	B Better Nature Better Nature is a provider of plant-based protein products to source nutrition …	London	1 - 10	$11.0M	Series Unknown	2025-08-05
47	E Evergreen Evergreen develops a scalable and sustainable approach to producing cultured mea…	Los Angeles	11 - 50	$46.0M	Series A	2026-02-04
48	N NOVAMEAT NOVAMEAT develops cutting-edge technological solutions to feed the planet’s grow…	Barcelona	11 - 50	$25.6M	Series A	2024-09-12
49	M Moolec Science Moolec Science is a startup developing affordable alternative proteins using mol…	Warwick	11 - 50	$71.0M	Post Ipo Debt	2023-10-17
50	P PawCo Foods PawCo Foods is the new generation of healthy and delicious pet foods made from p…	San Francisco	11 - 50	$2.0M	Seed	2024-02-29