Vegan Business Talk

In this episode, I interview Jonathan Petrides – aka JP – from allplants, a plant-based frozen food subscription service in the UK. JP is a serial entrepreneur passionate about building businesses that solve major global problems. He founded Africa's first and fastest growing mobile bank, M-Shwari, which now has more than 30 million users, most of whom previously had no access to a bank account, and issues more than 100,000 new loans each day. He also founded an award-winning retail health chain, Penda Health, in Kenya, bringing a new model for affordable mass-market healthcare to East Africa. After returning to the UK, he started allplants with his brother Alex in January 2016, soft-launching the first range of frozen plant-based meals to family and friends, before rolling out the subscription-based service nationwide in January 2017. In May last year allplants secured £800,000 funding from Felix Capital. This was the first time the venture capital firm had invested in a plant-based startup and the large