BERKELEY — Ripple Meals, a maker of plant-based dairy merchandise produced from peas, introduced a $60 million Collection E funding spherical led by Rage Capital, Ajax Methods, and S2G Ventures, in addition to further key buyers together with OurCrowd, GV, Prelude Ventures, Euclidean, Fall Line Capital, and Tao Capital Companions.
It’s no secret that the plant-based meals class is rising quickly; the business noticed surges of as much as $7 billion in 2020 alone. In accordance with present business stories, SPINS and Nielsen present unprecedented progress within the dairy different market with Ripple (+20%) outpacing the class (+6%) by 3x, a robust indication that Ripple’s protein-packed merchandise are most popular by shoppers. Touting the best loyalty within the plant-based milk class, the model has seen its new innovation, Ripple Children, obtain super success because the primary new product within the class at retailers together with Complete Meals Market and Goal.
“Ripple’s progress is outpacing the class by 3x, and we’re well-positioned to additional speed up that progress,” mentioned Laura Flanagan, CEO of Ripple Meals. “This capital elevate will allow us to speed up innovation and progress throughout product classes, and broaden into new channels and international markets. It permits us to additional obtain our mission of creating plant-based meals which are higher for folks, and higher for the planet, on a good bigger scale.”
Different dairy choices together with almond, cashew, and oat boast vitamin panels that pale compared to the protein-packed choices from Ripple. Setting the next commonplace past grams of protein, Ripple additionally has half the sugar of dairy milk and 50% extra calcium. Greater than only a vitamin label, sustainability is on the forefront of Ripple’s mission. It requires almost 6x extra water to get the identical quantity of protein from almond milk than it does from Ripple. Whereas opponents depend on manufacturing strategies that negatively affect the atmosphere, Ripple continues to place the planet first with eco-conscious manufacturing and manufacturing practices.
“Our funding with Ripple helps its continued progress and success within the milk aisle and its upcoming innovation in new product classes,” mentioned Chuck Templeton, Managing Director of S2G Ventures. “Ripple is a transparent chief in plant-based dairy options, and we’re excited to assist this staff of confirmed business veterans as they proceed to scale the enterprise.”
“There are only a few merchandise within the plant-based enviornment that provide shoppers a no-compromise proposition like Ripple: nice style, nice vitamin and nice for the atmosphere,” mentioned Gabriel Ruimy, Rage Capital’s Managing Companion. “There’s a large demand for high-quality Ripple merchandise world wide, and we sit up for serving to Ripple enter new markets as they develop into the go-to different to dairy for shoppers in all places.”
Ripple’s portfolio of merchandise consists of Plant-Based mostly Milk, Children Milk, Protein Shakes, Frozen Desserts, and extra.
