Aleph Farms

Aleph Farms is an Israeli cultivated-meat company founded in 2017 by Didier Toubia and Shulamit Levenberg. The company is headquartered in Rehovot, Israel. It is a private company backed by investors including Strauss Group and others. Aleph Farms focuses on growing beef steaks directly from bovine cells, without slaughtering animals, using tissue-engineering techniques.

Aleph Farms' primary activity is the development and production of cultivated beef — real animal meat grown from cells in a controlled environment rather than raised and slaughtered livestock. The scientific foundation draws on tissue-engineering research, with co-founder Shulamit Levenberg being a prominent Israeli biomedical engineer at the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology, whose academic work on 3D tissue scaffolding is central to the company's approach. The company targets the conventional beef market and positions its product as addressing both animal welfare and environmental sustainability concerns associated with traditional cattle farming.

Aleph Farms has developed thin-cut cultivated beef steaks, which it has demonstrated publicly in several proof-of-concept tastings. The company also conducted a notable experiment in 2019, producing a small piece of cultivated meat aboard the International Space Station in collaboration with 3D Bioprinting Solutions, making it the first instance of meat cultivation attempted in space.

The company operates out of Rehovot, with its R&D rooted in the Technion ecosystem in Haifa, reflecting the academic lineage of co-founder Levenberg. Aleph Farms is one of the more prominent Israeli companies in the cultivated-meat space, which has drawn attention from Israeli agri-food investors and strategic food-industry partners.