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Rebellyous Foods Raises $9.5M for Plant-Based Chicken’s “Next-Gen Meat Machine”

Rebellyous Foods, the Seattle startup working to make plant-based chicken affordable, has announced a $9.5 million equity round to build its novel production technology. Founded in late 2017 by former aerospace engineer Christie Lagally, Rebellyous focuses on making plant-based meat better, faster, and cheaper through tech-backed solutions. “Next-gen meat machine” “During a tough economic slump, we are thrilled by this testament to investors’ belief in Rebellyous and price parity as a solution to sustained growth of plant-based meat in the marketplace,” said Lagally, who is also the company’s CEO. Rebellyous will use the significant investment to deploy its breakthrough equipment and build its Mock 2 — “next-gen meat machine”— capable of producing 10K lbs per hour, with one production line controlled by one person to bring …

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Skinny Butcher Accelerates US Retail Growth to Costco and Safeway Stores

Plant-based poultry brand Skinny Butcher announces its line of Crazy Crispy Chick’n products are now available in hundreds of US Costco and Safeway locations, in addition to Walmart locations nationwide.  Shoppers can now find Skinny Butcher’s Chick’n in the following stores: Costco – Northern California, Midwestern United States and select Utah locations Walmart – all US locations Safeway – Mid-Atlantic, Seattle and Intermountain Love at first bite According to Skinny Butchers, its breaded chicken products are consistently wowing key decision-makers at major retailers, who are excited to learn about and sample the brand’s proprietary recipes. “Major chains were eager to learn about our proprietary formula of plant-based products that are virtually indistinguishable from their animal-based comparables,” explains Dave Zilko, CEO of Skinny Butcher. “Once they …

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Rebellyous Foods Arrives On East Coast, Wins KeHE On Trend Frozen Award

Rebellyous Foods recently announced it has expanded its award winning plant-based nuggets and tenders into 66 Albertsons locations in the Mid-Atlantic region including Safeway and Acme stores. Rebellyous, whose investors include Clear Current Capital, CPT Capital, Agronomics, Vulcan Capital, and KBW Ventures,  also announces it has received the  KeHE On Trend® Frozen Award. The company reports that over 200 brands applied for the award and a team of judges chose Rebellyous’ plant-based nuggets as best in the frozen category after considering ingredients, innovation, taste, price, packaging, people, and purpose.  “Not only are they kid tested and mom approved, but industry tastemakers agree that our plant-based nuggets are a stand out in the industry,” said Christie Lagally, founder and CEO of Rebellyous Foods. “To boot, Rebellyous …

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Rebellyous Foods Rolls Out Award-Winning Chicken Range in over 200 Safeway Stores

Seattle startup Rebellyous Foods has announced the expanded availability of its award-winning plant-based nuggets, as well as patties and tenders. As of this week, the products will be available at more than 200 Safeway stores in the Pacific Northwest.  “We look forward to bringing the Rebellyion to all four corners of the U.S. and beyond in the months to come.”  Founded by former Boeing engineer Christie Lagally, and backed by the vegan Saudi Prince Khaled amongst other high profile investors, the brand recently pivoted into retail as the consequences of the pandemic took their toll on the foodservice sector. Last month, Rebellyous Nuggets were awarded the New Product Award in the Plant-Based Protein category as part of the Specialty Food Association’s (SFA) 2021 sofi™ Awards. …

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