# Good Meat

the cultivated-meat division of Eat Just that secured FDA safety clearance in March 2023 and the first USDA label approval in June 2023, and cut its production cost by 90 percent between 2018 and 2022 while deploying 250,000-litre bioreactor designs.

Source: https://en.bioecon.ru/companies/good-meat/
Updated: 2026-06-28

- Country: United States

## Verifiable facts

| Fact | Value | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding | $267 million total raised | https://c.parsers.vc/startup/goodmeat.co/, https://cultivateintel.com/companies/good-meat |
| Capacity | up to 30 million pounds of meat per year for the planned U.S. large-scale facility | https://agrospectrumindia.com/news/6/27466/good-meat-to-install-worlds-first-large-scale-cultivated-meat-facility.html, https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2022/05/25/GOOD-Meat-plans-US-cultivated-meat-facility-with-capacity-to-produce-up-to-30m-lbs-of-meat/, https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2022/06/13/GOOD-Meat-chief-Josh-Tetrick-plans-to-multiply-output-with-two-more-facilities/ |
| Regulatory approval | FDA safety clearance (March 2023) and USDA label and grant of inspection approval (June 2023) | https://cultivateintel.com/companies/good-meat, https://www.goodmeat.co/all-news/good-meat-gets-full-approval-in-the-us-for-cultivated-meat, https://www.goodmeat.co/all-news/good-meat-receives-us-fda-clearance, https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/upside-foods-good-meat-receive-final-usda-approval-sell-cultivated-meat-2023-06-21/ |
| Production site | Alameda, California (demonstration plant and headquarters) | https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2022/06/13/GOOD-Meat-chief-Josh-Tetrick-plans-to-multiply-output-with-two-more-facilities/, https://www.goodmeat.co/all-news/good-meat-gets-full-approval-in-the-us-for-cultivated-meat |
| Headcount | 51-200 employees [medium confidence] | https://c.parsers.vc/startup/goodmeat.co/, https://discovery.patsnap.com/company/good-meat/ |
| Revenue | minimal revenue; company relies on investment capital [medium confidence] | https://www.cellcorpaffairs.eu/projects-reports/macro-analysis-of-cbm |

Independent sources: agrospectrumindia.com, c.parsers.vc, cellcorpaffairs.eu, cultivateintel.com, discovery.patsnap.com, foodnavigator.com, reuters.com

## Technologies

- [Cultivated meat](https://en.bioecon.ru/technology/cultivated-meat/)