Simple Planet
🌱 Simple Planet: Leading Sustainable Food Innovation Simple Planet envisions a future where sustainability and innovation converge to protect our planet. As a leading bio-food tech company based in South Korea, we specialize in developing advanced food ingredients through cell culture technology. This pioneering approach not only contributes to reducing carbon emissions but also strengthens food …
Profile
Simple Planet is an active South Korean food-tech startup founded in 2021 and headquartered in Seoul. The company specializes in cellular agriculture, producing sustainable animal cell-based food ingredients, such as cultivated meat powders and pastes, rather than final-form meat products. Its core technology includes 3D tissue engineering, organoid research, and the development of serum-free culture media derived from probiotic metabolites.
The company operates a dual-model strategy: a B2B segment focused on supplying cell-based ingredients to food conglomerates and a B2C segment through its Balboa Kitchen brand, which sells fiber and protein-based snacks. As of 2026, the company employs approximately 28 people. It has secured funding from investors including POSCO Capital and Pulmuone, and in 2026, it was the only Korean firm selected for a global partnership program by the Bezos Earth Fund and The Earthshot Prize. Simple Planet is currently working toward regulatory approval and Halal certification to support its expansion into Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
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- Simple Planet to Establish Quality Standards for Cultivated Meat Ingredients Through Accredited Testing Verification - The Asia Business Daily — 2026-08-12
- Simple planet (EN)
- INTERVIEW: Korean startups race to bring lab-grown meat to market | Aju Press — 2025-06-26
- Simple Planet targets halal growth across B2B and B2C markets — 2025-05-29
- SIMPLE planet. 2026 Company Profile: Valuation, Funding & Investors | PitchBook
- Simple Planet Selected for Bezos Earth Fund–Earthshot Prize Global Partnership - The Asia Business Daily — 2026-02-25
- Industry
- Alternative proteins, Food ingredients, Seeds & genetics
- Topics
- Yeast, fermentation & food ingredients, Cultivated meat & seafood, Livestock & poultry production/genetics, Plant-based meat, dairy & egg
- Role
- Producer — “…cus | Alternative-protein / plant-based meat startup | Simple Planet is an active South Korean food-tech start…”
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News & status 6
- 2026-02 Latest status: The company has expanded its business focus beyond cell-cultured food to include bio-functional ingredients and has been selected for various global partnerships and research projects since 2024. ↗ ↗ ↗
- 2026-08-12 Simple Planet to Establish Quality Standards for Cultivated Meat Ingredients Through Accredited Testing Verification - The Asia Business DailySimple Planet is advancing toward commercialization of cell-cultured food by securing third-party, accredited testing to establish objective safety and quality data for its ingredients, aiming to meet regulatory and market needs and build consumer trust. The …
- 2026-02-25 Simple Planet Selected for Bezos Earth Fund–Earthshot Prize Global Partnership - The Asia Business DailySimple Planet has been selected for a global growth-acceleration program by Bezos Earth Fund and The Earthshot Prize, making it the only Korean company among 16 climate-and-nature solutions chosen to scale over three years with $4.8M in funding per year (total …
- 2025-11-21 Bright Korea, Simple Planet Partner on Bio Automation | DBRSimple Planet is expanding from a food tech company into the bio-automation space, positioning itself as a “Bio SoBuJang specialist” by collaborating with Bright Korea to automate bioreactors, develop data-driven processes, and localize production equipment …
- 2025-05-29 Simple Planet targets halal growth across B2B and B2C marketsSimple Planet is pursuing a hybrid B2B-B2C strategy to expand in the halal market, focusing on cell-based ingredients for partnerships and its Balboa Kitchen brand for consumer products, with plans to enter the Middle East and Southeast Asia and pursue Halal …
- 2025-03-20 Simple Planet Moves Closer to Halal Certification with New Serum-Free Technology - Cultivated XSimple Planet is pursuing Halal certification for its cell-based foods, aided by a collaboration with Chulalongkorn University’s Halal Science Center and a new serum-free, probiotics-derived culture medium. A Korea Muslim Federation Fatwa supports its Halal …
- 2025-06-11 ✅🥩 REGULATORY APPROVALS FOR CULTIVATED MEAT WILL BRING INVESTORS BACK, PREDICTS SIMPLE PLANET CEOSimple Planet’s CEO Dominic Jeong says regulatory approvals for cultivated meat could revive investor interest, despite funding drops and political bans. The company is pursuing regulatory dossiers in South Korea and Singapore for beef, chicken, and fish …
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Ownership & investors 2
| investor | Pulmuone |
| investor | POSCO CAPITAL |
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