Christie Lagally
Christie Lagally is the Founder and CEO of Rebellyous Foods, a startup she continues to lead.
Rebellyous Foods Raises $2.4M More to Scale Automated Plant-Based Chicken Production System
Seattle-based Rebellyous Foods raised $2.4 million to expand sales and develop its automated Mock 2 plant-based chicken production system, aiming to compete with traditional meat. The company serves about 275 school districts and has raised over $30 million since its 2017 founding.
Christie Lagally - CEO at Rebellyous Foods
Christie Lagally is the founder and CEO of Rebellyous Foods, a food production technology company working to make plant-based meat price-competitive with animal-based meat. Lagally began her career in the aerospace industry working on testing, designing, and manufacturing commercial airplanes at Boeing. Now at Rebellyous, she focuses on designing novel manufacturing equipment that addresses the two most significant obstacles facing the plant-based meat industry: cost and quality at scale. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Grin Lord, CEO of Seattle’s mpathic, Finalist for Startup CEO of the Year at 2023 GeekWire Awards for Empathy-Driven Communication Software
Grin Lord, CEO and co-founder of Seattle startup mpathic, specializes in using empathy to improve corporate communication and is a finalist for Startup CEO of the Year at the 2023 GeekWire Awards. Her company applies machine learning to analyze conversations and foster empathy across industries such as insurance, healthcare, and human resources.
GeekWire Awards Reveal 2023 Startup CEO of the Year Finalists from Rebellyous Foods, Humanly, and Others
The 2023 GeekWire Awards announced finalists for Startup CEO of the Year, including leaders from startups in plant-based foods, mental health, employee communication, DNA analysis, and candidate screening automation. Voting continues until May 1, with winners revealed at the May 18 awards event hosted by Astound Business Solutions.
Rebellyous Foods pivots to retail after COVID, readies plant-based nuggets, tenders and patties backed by $6M
Rebellyous Foods, a Seattle plant-based chicken startup, pivoted from selling to institutions to retail grocery after COVID closures and now sells products in 14 local stores while preparing a new lineup of nuggets, tenders, and patties. The shift is supported by a $6 million April investment and in-house manufacturing engineering, and the company is a finalist for GeekWire's Innovation of the Year.
GeekWire Awards Preview: Rebellyous Foods
Before the first-known U.S. coronavirus cases emerged in Rebellyous Foods’ hometown, Seattle, the startup was catering to the food services industry, targeting its its line of plant-based chicken products to cafeterias, schools, and other institutions. Rebellyous pivoted, accelerating development of a consumer product it could sell at grocery stores. Today that product is available at 14 mom-and-pop markets throughout the Seattle area. "We really started to re-strategize about who was going to be our customers and who was going to be Rebellyous in a world where we don't go to ballparks and stadiums and even to school for a very…
Rebellyous Foods raises $6 million to scale plant-based chicken-style nuggets, CEO Christie Lagally signals strategic pivot during pandemic
Seattle startup Rebellyous Foods raised $6 million to scale production of plant-based chicken-style nuggets made from wheat, soy and other plant ingredients. CEO Christie Lagally says the funding will help make plant-based meat affordable and expand sales to food-service customers, though the pandemic has prompted a rethink of near-term strategy as cafeteria demand lags.
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Rebellyous Foods Founder and CEO · current
