Impossible Foods, which is creating plant-based food meat substitutes, has emerged from stealth with $75m of funding from backers including Google.

Impossible Foods, a US-based company developing plant-based foods that look and taste like meat, has raised $75m in funding from investors including internet company Google, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

Google, which invested through its Google Ventures corporate venturing subsidiary, has been joined among the company’s investors by Khosla Ventures, Horizons Ventures and Microsoft founder Bill Gates. The company operated in stealth mode until this week.

The brunt of the cash has been used to fund a facility…