Cultivated meat has many advantages to traditionally-obtained meat, as we learned from Aryé Elfenbein, co-founder at Wildtype, such as the fact that we can create meat from animal cells, instead of slaughtering animals, as well as this type of food being safer to eat.

Tech Crunch reports that researchers at Wanda Fish are developing whole-cut bluefin tuna fillets from muscle and fat cells, which can replicate the taste, texture and nutritional value of sea-grown fish.

Daphna Heffetz, company co-founder and CEO, said that "we are one of the very few companies that succeeded, without any prior knowledge, in making bluefin, which is highly demanded and one of the tastiest fish."

However, she also addressed the importance of this product, since bluefin tuna, as well as other fish on the market, are highly contaminated and can pose a serious threat to humans, especially to those who consume it regularly.

Founded in 2021, Wanda Fish is still in the early stages of such a food tech startup, although Heffetz argues that the team made significant progress towards developing a whole-cut prototype fillet structure using bluefin tuna cells.

With the new capital, Wanda Fish can start developing from the prototype in order to scale it to large scale production.

By 2025, Daphna Heffetz hopes to obtain regulatory approvals from US' FDA and other regulatory agencies, while the product could reach restaurants in 2026.