Impossible Foods raises $200 million in fresh funding
(Reuters) – Plant-based burger maker Impossible Foods said on Thursday it secured $200 million in funding, less than six months after it raised the largest investment ever for a food tech startup, bringing total funds raised since its founding in 2011 to $1.5 billion.
The company, which counts Jay-Z, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and singer Katy Perry among others as its investors, said it would use the money to expand research, develop new products and for internal operations.
Among the first to introduce burgers made from plants that taste and cook like meat, Impossible has been rapidly expanding its retail footprint, selling its products in thousands of grocery and retail U.S. stores, including about 2,000 Walmart Inc stores.
“Our growth in retail has certainly been a big part of the story… For us, throughout this current (pandemic) period, we’ve just tried to adjust the way the meat eater is increasingly purchasing the product,” Chief Financial Officer David Lee said in an interview.
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