Organizations
Who builds the field without selling the product
Nonprofits, research centers, trade bodies and universities. Companies are in the directory.
The Good Food Institute
Global nonprofit working on open-access research, policy and industry support across plant-based, cultivated and fermentation proteins.Nonprofit and advocacyVisit site+The Good Food Institute Brasil
Brazilian arm of GFI. Publishes the cultivated meat glossary and the map of the Brazilian sector.Nonprofit and advocacyVisit site+New Harvest
Field-building organization advancing cellular agriculture for the public good, through open research funding.Research and think tanksVisit site+Cellular Agriculture Society
Nonprofit focused on education and on the textbook Modern Meat.EducationVisit site+Cellular Agriculture Australia
Sector body for Australia. Author of the Key Terms language guide used on this site.Nonprofit and advocacyVisit site+Cellular Agriculture Canada
Community and advocacy group for Canadian cellular agriculture.Nonprofit and advocacyVisit site+Food Frontier
Think tank speeding up alternative protein markets in Australia and New Zealand. Now joining forces with Cellular Agriculture Australia.Nonprofit and advocacyVisit site+Kind Earth Tech
Foundation behind the KET food maps of the alternative protein industry.Research and think tanksVisit site+New Protein
Collection of industry landscape maps covering alternative protein, milk, cheese, algae and fungi.Data and mapsVisit site+Modern Agriculture Foundation
Israeli nonprofit building an alternative protein ecosystem.Nonprofit and advocacyVisit site+ProVeg International
Food awareness organization working with governments and companies. Also runs the ProVeg Incubator.Nonprofit and advocacyVisit site+Plant Based Foods Association
US trade association for plant-based food companies.Trade associationsVisit site+Plant Based Foods of Canada
Trade association for Canadian plant-based food companies.Trade associationsVisit site+European Vegetable Protein Association
European trade body for vegetable protein producers.Trade associationsVisit site+FAIRR Initiative
Investor network on the risks and opportunities of intensive livestock and protein.Investor networksVisit site+World Resources Institute
Global research organization. Publishes analyses on shifting diets and sustainable food.Research and think tanksVisit site+Sentience Institute
Think tank studying moral circle expansion and the end of animal farming.Research and think tanksVisit site+Future Food Institute
Italian institute for food innovation education and research.EducationVisit site+Shojinmeat Project
Japanese citizen-science project on do-it-yourself cell culture.Research and think tanksVisit site+The Vegan Society
The original vegan organization, which also coined the word vegan.Nonprofit and advocacyVisit site+Vegan France
French organization promoting vegan food.Nonprofit and advocacyVisit site+Roślinnie Jemy
Polish campaign promoting plant-based eating.Nonprofit and advocacyVisit site+Sweet Farm
California farm sanctuary and regenerative agriculture nonprofit.Nonprofit and advocacyVisit site+Protein Report
Reporting and data on alternative protein funding.Data and mapsVisit site+Protein Directory
Online directory of protein industry players.Data and mapsVisit site+UFMG Alt Protein Project
Student group at the Federal University of Minas Gerais.EducationVisit site+Centro Nacional de Tecnología y Seguridad Alimentaria
Spanish food technology and safety research center.Research and think tanksVisit site+DIL German Institute of Food Technologies
German applied research institute on food technology, including proteins.Research and think tanksVisit site+Food Innovation Australia
Australian food and agribusiness growth center.Research and think tanksVisit site+Maastricht University
Home of Mark Post, who presented the first cultivated hamburger in 2013.UniversitiesVisit site+Wageningen University & Research
Leading agri-food university, with research on plant-based meat structure.UniversitiesVisit site+Technion
Israeli institute where Shulamit Levenberg’s tissue engineering research led to Aleph Farms.UniversitiesVisit site+Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Research by Yaakov Nahmias here led to Future Meat, now Believer.UniversitiesVisit site+Tel Aviv University
Israeli research university listed in the project spreadsheet.UniversitiesVisit site+University of Bath
UK research on tissue engineering and scaffolds for cultivated meat.UniversitiesVisit site+National University of Singapore
Research university in one of the first countries to approve cultivated meat.UniversitiesVisit site+Nanyang Technological University
Singaporean research university with food science programs.UniversitiesVisit site+University of Melbourne
Australian research university listed in the project spreadsheet.UniversitiesVisit site+University of Toronto
Canadian research university listed in the project spreadsheet.UniversitiesVisit site+North Carolina State University
US land-grant university listed in the project spreadsheet.UniversitiesVisit site+Worcester Polytechnic Institute
US institute listed in the project spreadsheet for bioengineering research.UniversitiesVisit site+Kent State University
US research university listed in the project spreadsheet.UniversitiesVisit site+CEFET-MG
Brazilian federal technology education center in Minas Gerais.UniversitiesVisit site+Nothing found.