Accelerating Cultured Food to Market

THE CULTURED HUB collaborates with a global network of start-ups to find answers to the food industry’s most pressing questions in order to define the food of the future. We enable startups to reach industrial manufacturing faster and cheaper. The goal of our bio-tech and food-tech company is to accelerate the development of sustainable proteins, specifically cultured meat, fish, seafood, and precision fermentation products by providing the appropriate state of the art scale-up facilities, technologies, expertise, and network. 

«With The Cultured Hub, we aim to accelerate the ecosystem for cultured food and innovation.»

Fabio Campanile, Givaudan

«We see Switzerland as the gateway to Europe when it comes to the development of cultured foods. The location of The Cultured Hub is ideal for this exciting pioneering venture.»

Matthew Robin, ELSA Group at Migros Industries

«The Hub can enable start-ups to eliminate funding rounds to build small-scale facilities, thus avoiding equity dilution.»

Ian Roberts, Bühler Group

«With our launch date in 2023 coming closer we are excited to make an important contribution towards a more sustainable food system within our planetary boundaries.»

Yannick Gaechter, The Cultured Hub

Why work with us

Scale up from bench top to industrial production

Our facility in Kemptthal, Switzerland enables startups to scale up from bench top to industrial production as a service. This means you do not need to invest into your own pilot facility and can bridge from bench top scale  to industrial manufacturing cheaper and faster. Reduce your technical & financial risks and increase your speed to market by using a facility and team specialised on supporting this go-to-market phase. Our facility will allow you to create regulatory batches with analysis and food safety procedures, test new products, work on optimising your processes and produce for small market launches.

Increase flexibility & speed to market

Given the pressure on global supply chains, we can provide a ready-made solution that becomes delivery-time independent. Utilise The Cultured Hub to gain a significant market advantage to launch your products. 

Ecosystem Enabler

We bring together the different players in the industry to support you to market, specifically this means working with enablers of the industry around cell lines, media, technology etc. to you where required and enabling these to be ready for industrial manufacturing.

NEWS from the HUB

Launch of The Cultured Hub in Kemptthal

Vernier, Uzwil, and Zurich (Switzerland), June 28, 2022 – The next milestone of The Cultured Hub located in The Valley in Kemptthal near Zurich is complete. The joint venture was agreed by Swiss companies Givaudan, Bühler, and Migros in 2021 with the aim of supporting and accelerating the large-scale development of fermentation and cultivated food products. Cultured meat offers slaughter-free meat with a significantly reduced climate and land use footprint.

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