Hoxton Farms has raised £2.7 million seed funding to cultivate animal fat and solve an urgent issue for the rapidly growing meat alternatives market.

Its approach delivers the missing ingredient necessary to make meat alternatives delicious, realistic and versatile: fat.  For decades, the food industry has faced the challenge of finding effective, low-cost and sustainable replacements for traditional animal fat, the most important sensory ingredient in meat. Fat defines how meat looks, cooks, and tastes – and it does this in a way that cannot be replicated by plant oils currently used in meat alternatives.