IntegriCulture, a company aiming to commercialize cellular agriculture, announced on August 18, 2025, that it has begun test sales of a cellular agriculture starter kit targeting four universities overseas. This marks the company’s first overseas sales of the starter kit.
The starter kit was developed in collaboration with Sumitomo Riko and combines four food-grade raw materials and culture bags available on the B2B marketplace “Ocatté Base” launched last year .
The kits were delivered to the National University of Singapore for cellular agriculture research and shipped to Brown University, Johns Hopkins University, and the Polytechnic University of Turin as prizes for the winners of the international student competition “Food4Thought.” According to the company, even when producing cultivated meat in gram quantities, specialized bioreactors and advanced cultivation techniques were previously required, posing significant barriers to research and development.
With this kit, gram-level trial production is now possible in existing laboratory environments, making it easier to conduct prototyping to verify commercial viability.
“Ocatté Base” is a membership-based B2B marketplace launched in June 2024 that connects manufacturers of food-grade materials necessary for cellular agriculture with companies interested in cellular agriculture.
Aiming to “make cellular agriculture accessible to everyone,” the company launched its first product, a starter kit combining culture bags and culture materials, on “Ocatté Base” in November last year. The kit is targeted at academia including individuals, and companies. Since its launch, its use has been expanding, mainly among major companies.
IntegriCulture has developed proprietary technology called “CulNet System” for producing serum-like components at low cost, developed culture materials using only raw materials with food experience, launched a contract-based joint research and development service for cultured meat using the CulNet System called “CulNet Pipeline,” and as of November 2024, 16 companies have joined the “CulNet Consortium,” an open innovation platform launched in 2021.
In addition to these initiatives, “Ocatté Base” plays a role in further opening the door to cellular agriculture by handling not only IntegriCulture’s own products but also the outputs of companies participating in the consortium.
From Foovo’s perspective, a B2B marketplace dedicated to cellular agriculture—built on a consortium led by startups and designed to distribute its outputs—appears to be a unique initiative, with no similar examples identified overseas to date. Through this overseas sales initiative, the adoption of starter kits that make pilot production of cultured meat more accessible and convenient could accelerate.
Additionally, this month, IntegriCulture announced the registration of “CELLAMENT (CELLAMENT),” a cosmetic raw material made from cell culture supernatant derived from cultured egg cells, as a cosmetic ingredient in South Korea. This paves the way for the development of cosmetics using CELLAMENT and OEM orders in South Korea, opening up new overseas markets.
This article is an English translation of a Foovo article, published with permission from Foovo.