VEGAN MEAT BRAND RAISES $35 MILLION TO BRING MORE MEATLESS BURGERS TO AUSTRALIA’S FAST-FOOD INDUSTRY
純素肉類品牌公司融資3500萬美元蓄诽，助力澳大利亞快餐業(yè)打造更多植物肉漢堡
Australian brand v2food—which makes the plant-based patty featured in the Rebel Whopper at Burger King franchise brand Hungry Jack’s—will use the funds to expand its production capacity.
澳洲品牌公司“v2food”的本輪融資將用于擴大其生產能力矿微。漢堡王（Burger King）特許品牌“Hungry Jack’s”的“叛逆皇堡”（Rebel Whopper）食品亮點即為v2food公司生產的植物肉餅店印。
by ANNA STAROSTINETSKAYA
作者：ANNA STAROSTINETSKAYA
DECEMBER 3, 2019
2019年12月3日
Australia is set to get its own wave of plant-based burger options, following the recent $35 million investment secured by vegan brand v2food. The Sydney-based company is noted for developing its own plant-based beef patty, similar to those made by Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, is now available at Hungry Jack’s (a Burger King Corporation franchise) as part of the “Rebel Whopper.”?
純素品牌公司“v2food”最近成功獲得了3500萬美元融資，預示著澳大利亞即將迎來本土植物性漢堡的美食潮流瓷产。類似于超越肉類公司（Beyond Meat）和不可能食品公司（Impossible Food）站玄，這家總部位于悉尼的v2food公司也是以研發(fā)植物性牛肉餅而著稱，其產品現已供應給（漢堡王公司的特許經營店）Hungry Jack’s連鎖店用于制作“叛逆皇堡”食品濒旦。
v2food plans to use the capital from the investment—led by Main Sequence Ventures, a firm that manages the country’s national science agency—to open a new research and development facility in 2020 to increase its output.?
澳大利亞國家科學機構的基金管理公司“Main Sequence Ventures”領投了v2food公司的本輪融資株旷。v2food公司計劃將所取得資本用于建設新的研發(fā)基地，并于2020年投入運營以增加其產能尔邓。
“This is an important step towards v2food’s goal of transforming the way the world produces food,” v2food founder and CEO Nick Hazell said. “There is a big shortfall between the amount of meat we produce today and the amount needed to feed the growing global population. There will be nearly 10 billion people on Earth by 2050.”?
“v2food公司志在改革世界生產食品的方式晾剖，上述舉措是邁向我們目標的重大一步，”v2food公司創(chuàng)始人兼首席執(zhí)行官（CEO）尼克·哈澤爾（Nick Hazell）說道梯嗽〕菥。“當今世界肉類生產量與養(yǎng)活不斷增長的全球人口的肉類需求量之間仍存在著巨大的差距。到2050年灯节，地球上的人口數量將逼近100億循头。”
This year, Burger King has added a number of plant-based options at its locations globally, including the Impossible Whopper in the United States and the Rebel Whopper in Brazil and parts of Europe (with plans to expand to other regions).
今年炎疆，漢堡王在其全球各個分店積極推廣各種植物性美食產品卡骂，譬如在美國本土登場的“不可能皇堡”（Impossible Whopper）、在巴西和歐洲部分地區(qū)（有計劃擴張到其他地區(qū)）亮相的“叛逆皇堡”（Rebel Whopper）形入、等等全跨。
