- In May 2025, California Cultured, in partnership with CULT Food Science, advanced from laboratory experiments to full-scale, food-grade bioreactor production of both cocoa and coffee at Pow.Bio’s 25,000 sq ft fermentation facility in Alameda, California. This scale-up showcases technological maturity in key areas such as media optimization, oxygen regulation, and downstream processing. This development signals a pivotal step toward mass-market readiness of cell-cultured coffee
- In April 2025, Another Food, a Singapore-based company, announced its plan to launch large-scale cell-cultured coffee across Asia, using bioreactor farms capable of producing crops every 14 days—20 times faster than traditional farming methods. The company targets rapid scalability across Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and later into China and Japan to overcome supply chain constraints. This move marks one of the most ambitious expansions in the Asian cell-cultured coffee landscape
- In March 2024, Pluri Inc., based in Israel, introduced its proprietary lab-grown coffee through the PluriAgtech vertical, emphasizing a 98% reduction in water use and 95% less land usage compared to conventional farming methods. The innovation seeks to address environmental and pricing volatility in the global coffee market. This launch demonstrates how cellular agriculture can tackle the climate crisis while meeting global demand
- In December 2023, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland published its full method for lab-grown coffee in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry, including cultivation from Coffea arabica leaves, bioreactor expansion, freeze-drying, and roasting processes. The resulting brew closely mirrored the aroma and flavor of traditionally grown coffee. This achievement validates the sensory potential of cell-based coffee alternatives
- In 2023, researchers at Coffeesai, a Belgium-based lab, unveiled a breakthrough 3D cell-expansion system capable of generating biomass equal to 1,000 coffee trees in just three weeks. The technology emphasizes rapid biomass production and efficient scalability in controlled environments. This innovation paves the way for industrial-level production of lab-grown coffee with reduced ecological impact
