生产纯素鸡块的初创公司融资600万美元打造“防流行病”的食品体系

原文：https://vegnews.com/2020/4/vegan-chicken-nugget-startup-raises-6-million-to-build-pandemic-proof-food-system

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VEGAN CHICKEN NUGGET STARTUP RAISES $6 MILLION TO BUILD “PANDEMIC-PROOF” FOOD SYSTEM

生产纯素鸡块的初创公司融资600万美元打造“防流行病”的食品体系

Seattle-based Rebellyous Foods will use the funding to advance its equipment manufacturing, making cheaper, more abundant vegan meat with the urgent goal of wiping out disease-ridden factory farms.

总部位于美国西雅图的Rebellyous食品公司将利用本轮融资发展其设备制造技术，创造更廉价、丰富多样的纯素肉类，以实现淘汰疾病盛行的工厂化农场的紧迫目标。

by ANNA STAROSTINETSKAYA

作者：ANNA STAROSTINETSKAYA

APRIL 13, 2020

2020年4月13日

This month, Seattle-based vegan meat company Rebellyous Foods announced that it closed a $6 million investment round led by investment firms Clear Current Capital, Fifty Years, and Liquid 2 Ventures. In 2019, Rebellyous debuted its flagship crispy vegan nuggets—made using its novel manufacturing techniques from textured wheat, chicken-less flavoring, cornstarch, oil, and corn breading—at Seattle-based hospital Swedish Medical Center and aims to expand its products into the foodservice sector.

总部位于美国西雅图的纯素肉类公司Rebellyous Foods于本月宣布已完成600万美元融资；本轮融资由投资公司Clear Current Capital、Fifty Years和Liquid 2 Ventures领投。2019年，Rebellyous食品公司在总部也位于西雅图的瑞典医疗中心（Swedish Medical Center）医院首次推出了本公司的旗舰产品──采用其研发的新颖制造技术并使用组织化小麦蛋白、无鸡调味料、玉米淀粉、油和玉米面包糠生产的香脆纯素鸡块；此外，Rebellyous食品公司还打算将其产品进一步推广到餐饮服务业。

In addition to vegan chicken nuggets, the company aims to produce equipment meant to create plant-based meat at a larger scale. It will use this funding round to accelerate the development of such machinery—which can be replicated by other plant-based meat companies to help them grow—scale its manufacturing, and hire equipment and mechanical engineers at its Seattle research facility.

除了生产纯素鸡块产品之外，Rebellyous食品公司还制造先进设备以便更大规模地制作植物肉产品。Rebellyous食品公司将利用本轮融资去加快开发这类机器（可供其他植物肉公司复制以促进植物肉公司的增长），进一步扩大本公司的生产规模，并为其西雅图研究设施雇佣设备和机械工程师。

“We need a pandemic-proof food system that can meet the nutritional needs of our growing human family,” Fifty Years Founding Partner Ela Madej, and new board member at Rebellyous, said. “We’re also happy to support job creation in a time when many other businesses are having to lay off workers.”

“我们需要一个能满足不断增长的人类大家庭的营养需求并且防流行病的食品体系，”Fifty Years投资公司创始合伙人兼Rebellyous食品公司董事会新成员埃拉·马德伊（Ela Madej）说道。“在当前其他许多企业被迫解雇员工的情况下，我们也很乐意为创造就业机会提供支持。”

Rebellyous will also use the funding to broaden its product portfolio with the overall, and urgent, goal of producing affordable and abundant vegan alternatives that spare animals such as chickens from lives of extreme confinement. “Bird flu, swine flu, and now COVID-19 demonstrate that keeping large numbers of animals in close contact with one another presents a tremendous risk for global health,” Rebellyous Founder and CEO Christie Lagally said.

Rebellyous食品公司还将利用本轮融资去扩充其产品组合。该公司总体的紧迫目标是通过生产人们可负担的、丰富多样的纯素肉类替代品，使鸡等动物摆脱极端禁锢的（工厂化养殖）生活。Rebellyous食品公司创始人兼首席执行官（CEO）克里斯蒂·拉格利（Christie Lagally）说道：“禽流感、猪流感以及现在的COVID-19（新型冠状病毒疾病）证明了，让大量动物保持相互紧密接触为全球卫生带来了巨大的风险。”

“However, to transition away from our heavy dependence on meat, it’s critical that we make plant-based meat affordable and widely available through innovative production technology. At Rebellyous, our mission is to make plant-based meat that is better than animal meat in every way, from price and convenience to taste and nutrition.”

“为了使人类不再严重依赖于动物肉类，至关重要的是采用创新生产技术制造人们可负担和广泛易得的植物肉类。我们Rebellyous食品公司的使命是创造从价格和便利性到味道和营养等各个方面均优于动物肉类的植物肉产品。”