Bene Meat Technologies - Cultivated with Science, Built to Scale!

At the intersection of sustainability and innovation, Bene Meat Technologies is redefining protein production. Led by CEO Mr. Roman Kříž, the company is pioneering scalable cultivated meat technology, moving beyond lab experiments to real-world solutions. With a team of 100+ experts, Bene Meat is developing the end-to-end infrastructure needed for mass production—everything from cell lines to bioreactors. Their mission? To provide cost-effective, scientifically validated technology that empowers food manufacturers, pet food companies, and traditional meat producers to transition to sustainable, cultivated meat. As a subsidiary of BTL, a global leader in medical equipment, Bene Meat brings the same precision and quality to food production as it does to healthcare. In this interview with Delivery Rank, Mr. Kříž shares his vision for the future of food, the role of biotech in scaling cultivated meat, and how Bene Meat is shaping a more sustainable world.

BeneMeat emphasizes “built for scale, not for show.” What were the biggest engineering or biological breakthroughs that allowed you to move beyond lab experiments into true industrial-scale processes?’

I don’t think there was a single breakthrough like that. Cultivated meat is the result of solving hundreds of challenges and each solution was a breakthrough in itself. It’s like a chain: if even one link is missing, the whole chain is useless.

You’ve stated that BeneMeat isn’t chasing headlines but focusing on real-world production. How do you choose the right partners, and what qualities do you look for in collaborators from the meat or food industry?

Our approach is more about negative selection. We focus on identifying who we don’t want as partners (especially the “monkey see, monkey do” types; there are plenty of those in business).

Rather than defining the perfect partner profile, we try to understand a potential partner’s motivation. That’s what matters most.

You emphasize “science without credibility is just marketing.” How do you ensure your data, methods, and safety standards go beyond industry hype and set new benchmarks for cultivated meat credibility?

By choosing the right people, people who don’t waste energy on internal self-promotion and by building the right system of work. By treating our ethical code as a rule to live by, not just a formal declaration.

In many ways we are a “turquoise organization,” in the sense described by Frederic Laloux in Reinventing Organizations.

Cultivated meat requires solving for bioreactors, cell media, and regulatory hurdles simultaneously. Which of these areas has proven to be the toughest nut to crack, and how are you tackling it?

Biology, physics, and chemistry are objective. Regulation is subjective, sometimes even emotional. We prefer to deal with the objective hurdles… while the regulatory and legislative side requires patience and a lot of education

Cultivated meat is often described as a “decades-long journey.” Where do you see BeneMeat in 10 years, and what role do you envision the company playing in shaping the global protein landscape?

As for the journey it depends on how you define the destination. Unfortunately, I see a lot of unrealistic forecasts about the fast replacement of conventional meat by cultivated meat. That’s nonsense. To cover just the increase in global meat consumption, you’d need to build about three factories every single day (!) plus invest around $100 billion annually. And that’s just to keep up with the 1% growth at a time when no equipment supply chain exists and most equipment is still at the prototype stage.

As for Bene Meat’s role in 10 years we aim to be the number one technology supplier for anyone who wants to produce cultivated meat. We want to remain both the best and the most affordable in the world.

To read more about Bene Meat Technologies, please visit https://www.benemeat.com/