Biotech Foods

Biotech Foods was launched at nanoGUNE in 2017, when Mercedes Vila -at the time scientific director of nanoGUNE's startup Ctech-nano- brought the idea to grow meat at the laboratory from animal cells. In 2021, the company moved to the Technology Park in Miramon, and in 2022 the construction of a pilot plant was launched at Eskuzaitzeta in San Sebastian, which will have the capacity to produce, at a first stage, a few thousand tons of protein per year. 

In 2022, the world's largest meat processing company (by sales) entered into the capital of Biotech Foods with an investment of 36 million euros. This capital increase would allow Biotech Foods to build in San Sebastian the largest cultured-meat plant to be located in southern Europe.