Cultured meat startup Vow raises $73 million and launches its first high-end culinary brand

Australian cultured meat startup, Vow, has landed US$49.2 million ($73.4 million) in Series A funding led by Blackbird and Prosperity7 Ventures. And part of the cash injection is going towards launching the world’s first cultured meat dining experience in Singapore.

Vow is Australia’s first cell-based meat company and it is on a mission to replace animal agriculture with sustainable cell-based meat. For the company, it’s a matter of global urgency.

“Meat production is deeply problematic. From land clearing to water use, to the rising zoonotic disease outbreaks, to the repeated mass culling of diseased animals, our growing appetite for meat is creating increasingly dire problems,” co-founder and CEO of Vow George Peppou wrote