- MASTERCLASS LIVE
How To Get Funding For Your Vegan Business
With Claire Smith, Vegan Impact Investor, Nick Mayhew, Vfin & Mike Hill, One Planet Pizza.
Recorded live at VegfestUK 2020, David brings together three experts in funding to answer all your questions about how to fund a vegan business. Are you wondering how to raise finance for your business? Should you launch a crowdfunding campaign, should you get a bank loan, or maybe you should try and attract an investor? Our expert panel answers all these questions and more.
Our vegan funding experts are:
Nick Mayhew
Founder of Vfin and a vegan and ethical business funding specialist. Nick explains the range of different options open for funding a vegan business, from traditional lending against assets through to crowdfunding.
Claire Smith
Vegan Impact Investor and Founder of Beyond Animal, Beyond Investing and Beyond Impact. Claire talks about what investors are looking for and how the investor / business-owner relationship works.
Mike Hill
Co-founder of One Planet Pizza. Mike talks about One Planet Pizza’s experience of crowdfunding, finding investors and building a business backed by both community and angel investment.
Panel Q&A:
The panel also takes questions from Vegan Business Tribe members covering the ethics of funding, can a business use funding to get out of financial distress, and how do you know how much money you need to raise?
