Vow

Fact sheet

• HQ: Sydney, Australia↗ Cultivated meat: close to price parity? · 2026-07-20↗ Vow 2026 Company Profile: Valuation, Funding & Investors | PitchBook↗ Vow↗ VOW - Products, Competitors, Financials, Employees, Headquarters Locations↗ Vow (company)
• Founded: 2019↗ Vow 2026 Company Profile: Valuation, Funding & Investors | PitchBook↗ Vow↗ VOW - Products, Competitors, Financials, Employees, Headquarters Locations↗ Vow (company)
• Total funding: ~$55-56M↗ Vow 2026 Company Profile: Valuation, Funding & Investors | PitchBook↗ Vow↗ VOW - Products, Competitors, Financials, Employees, Headquarters Locations↗ Vow (company)
• Key products: Forged Parfait, cultured foie gras, edible tallow candle↗ Vow 2026 Company Profile: Valuation, Funding & Investors | PitchBook↗ Vow↗ VOW - Products, Competitors, Financials, Employees, Headquarters Locations↗ Vow (company)
• Notable partners: Department of Industry, Science and Resources (NMI)↗ Vow 2026 Company Profile: Valuation, Funding & Investors | PitchBook↗ Vow↗ VOW - Products, Competitors, Financials, Employees, Headquarters Locations↗ Vow (company)
• Hiring: Automation Engineer role filled (Joshua Schollum, 2026)↗ From grading kiwifruit to growing cells: new chapter, new city. I've joined Vow as an Automation Engineer. | Joshua Schollum · 2026-07-20
• Key personnel: Cathal O'Connell (speaker/representative at AIFST 2026 on cultured meat advances)↗ Insightful, thought-provoking, and full of practical takeaways — today’s session on advanced processing provided valuable perspectives. | The Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology - AIFST · 2026-07-27

Connections

• Gourmey — PARIMA (Gourmey's successor entity) validated cultivated duck production on VOW's 22,000-liter food-grade cell culture line.↗ Tonne-scale cultivated duck has just moved from theory to production | SynBioBeta
• PARIMA — PARIMA partnered with Vow to industrially scale cultivated duck production using Vow's 22,000-liter manufacturing line in Sydney, producing multiple tons per cycle under a shared infrastructure model.↗ Parima и Vow произвели тонны культивированной утки
• PARIMA — PARIMA collaborated with Vow on cell-based quail products in addition to their existing cultured duck partnership, using Vow's 22,000-liter Sydney manufacturing line.↗ Should this lab-grown burger really be served in restaurants?
• Vital Meat — PARIMA (Vital Meat's successor entity) utilizes Vow's 22,000L manufacturing line for large-scale cellular poultry production.↗ 仏PARIMA、Vowの22,000L製造ラインで細胞性アヒルを数トン規模生産｜共有インフラ活用で資本集約度を低減へ - Foovo -フードテックニュースの専門メディア-

Recent developments

• Cathal O'Connell of Vow Foods presented on 'Advances in Cultured Meat' at the AIFST 2026 conference session on advanced processing, highlighting Vow's continued presence in the Australian food science community.

  Read more ↗linkedin.com27 Jul

• Joshua Schollum announced he has joined Vow as an Automation Engineer, relocating to a new city, signaling continued hiring in Vow's manufacturing and engineering operations.

  Read more ↗linkedin.com20 Jul

• Vow's 22,000-liter bioreactor has been highlighted as a significant scale achievement in the cultivated meat industry, with the article noting the sector is approaching price parity with conventional meat. Vow's modular manufacturing approach is cited as a key scaling strategy.

  Read more ↗foodnavigator.com20 Jul

• FSANZ has called for submissions on a cell-cultured duck application, marking the second cell-cultured food to be assessed by the regulator, following its approval of Vow's cell-cultured quail in June 2025.

  Read more ↗apfoodonline.com14 Jul

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