Tailor-made meals for pets
“Spot & Tango” official website
According to Foreign media reports that recently, D2C pet food brand” Spot & Tango Announced Completed a $ 4.2 million seed round of financing , which was led by Guild Capital. In addition, it also announced that the company will launch a new series of pet food called “UnKibble”.
“Spot & Tango” launched a series of innovative dog food profiles in 2018. By fully considering the weight, age, breed and mobility of different dogs, the company uses fresh ingredients suitable for human consumption and tailors it for pets. meal.
Founder and CEO Russell Breuer said that “Spot & Tango” hopes to become a pet health and wellness platform, aiming to provide fresh, nutritious, healthy and environment-friendly pet food.
So far, this startup has provided pets with more than one million meals. In the past six months, the business size of “Spot & Tango” has quadrupled.
Spot & Tango said that “UnKibble” is a brand new pet meal that provides pet owners with a more portable pet food on the premise of ensuring quality.
Most dry pet foods are made from processed meat powder and artificial additives, but “UnKibble” is different from them. It uses a unique “Fresh Dry” process, which only retains the nutrients of the entire food, but not Add any artificial additives or pigments.
“UnKibblThe production process of “e” is as follows. First, “Spot & Tango” mixes all food ingredients in to make them a bite-sized piece. Then place it in a vacuum chamber and heat it slowly to maintain freshness. This process can remove moisture from food, as well as potential pathogens and bacteria, without affecting nutritional value. Finally, seal the food with a bag to remove oxygen, and keep “UnKibble” fresh under vacuum.
The company said that the subscription price for “UnKibble” starts at $ 9 per week, and the selling price will vary depending on the nutritional requirements of the dog. Consumers have three different set options: beef with barley, chicken with brown rice, and duck with salmon. “Spot & Tango” will control the amount of each meal to ensure that the owner will not feed the puppy too much or not enough.
In addition, “Spot & Tango” also hopes to make a certain contribution to the environmental protection cause. The company uses recyclable and compostable materials to process and package food, and packs its waste to the recycling station.
“Spot & Tango” official website
In the field of pet food, in addition to “Spot & Tango”, there are some other startups, such as Farmer’s Dog, which is a company that provides pet fresh food customization services. It has completed a $ 39 million Series B financing in 2019.
For this new funding, “Spot & Tango” intends to use them to expand its product portfolio, provide new products of higher quality, and to improve the company’s research and development capabilities and expand the team size.