{"id":31989,"date":"2020-05-14T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T04:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/?p=31989"},"modified":"2020-05-14T13:49:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T11:49:54","slug":"claire-smith-of-beyond-investing-and-beyond-animal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/plantbased-business-hour\/claire-smith-of-beyond-investing-and-beyond-animal\/","title":{"rendered":"Claire Smith of Beyond Investing and Beyond Animal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"v1v1v1msonormal\">CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beyondinvesting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beyond Investing<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondanimal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beyond Animal<\/a>, Claire Smith joins Elysabeth Alfano on the Plantbased Business Hour to discuss the pitfalls for plant-based businesses such as securing bank loans for small vegan businesses and the structural changes that will need to take place to accommodate new business models.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"v1v1v1msonormal\">She is currently raising funds to add FinTech to her <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/companies-and-portraits\/beyond-meat-obtains-150-million-credit-facility-to-facilitate-global-growth\/\">Beyond Animal<\/a> platform, in the form of a dealroom for qualified investors globally and crowdlending for retail investors in Switzerland initially.&nbsp; The intention is to help companies that provide kinder, cleaner and healthier products grow and so benefit humans and nature whilst democratising impact by making these investments available to a wider range of people.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PBH: Claire Smith of Beyond Investing and Beyond Animal\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zx3Cv2DON_U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"v1v1v1msonormal\">Qualified and interested investors who wish to review Claire&#8217;s pitch deck for <a href=\"https:\/\/t.sidekickopen77.com\/s1t\/c\/5\/f18dQhb0S7lM8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJN7t5XWPdSD1CW63K0-g63JWJqV1-nXb2qs6_v103?te=W3R5hFj26QkHmW4mKDsT3KcL38W3H3b413_R5q6f3Fbt5S04&amp;si=8000000000586058&amp;pi=214d2123-a179-44b4-b245-009cc6465648\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beyond Animal<\/a>, the Humanity app and vegan FinTech platform, can reach Claire at Admin@BeyondAnimal.com.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v1v1v1msonormal\">Vegconomist will be featuring The Plantbased Business Hour interviews every Tuesday and Thursday, so stay tuned for more.&nbsp; To learn more about The Plantbased Business Hour, click<span class=\"v1v1v1apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210225005747\/https:\/\/elysabethalfano.com\/awesome-vegans-podcast-vlog\/the-plantbased-business-hour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. Follow Elysabeth on LinkedIn&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/elysabeth-alfano-8b370b7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><span class=\"v1v1v1apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>and PBH<span class=\"v1v1v1apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/42335932\/admin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. &nbsp;This interview was recorded live on the JaneUnChained News Network.<span class=\"v1v1v1apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"v1v1v1msonormal\">For inquiries regarding sponsorship of The Plantbased Business Hour, contact &nbsp;Emma Clarkson at <a href=\"mailto:Emma.Clarkson@vegconomist.com\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Emma.Clarkson@vegconomist.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CEO of Beyond Investing and Beyond Animal, Claire Smith joins Elysabeth Alfano on the Plantbased Business Hour to discuss the pitfalls for plant-based businesses such as securing bank loans for small vegan businesses and the structural changes that will need to take place to accommodate new business models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53514],"tags":[55803],"class_list":["post-31989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plantbased-business-hour","tag-etf","infinite-scroll-item"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/PBH-YT-claire.jpg",2000,1362,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/PBH-YT-claire-150x102.jpg",150,102,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/PBH-YT-claire-300x204.jpg",300,204,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/PBH-YT-claire-768x523.jpg",768,523,true],"large":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/PBH-YT-claire-1024x697.jpg",1024,697,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/PBH-YT-claire.jpg",1536,1046,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/PBH-YT-claire.jpg",2000,1362,false],"mailpoet_newsletter_max":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/PBH-YT-claire-1320x899.jpg",1320,899,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Emma Clarkson","author_link":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/author\/emma\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"CEO of Beyond Investing and Beyond Animal, Claire Smith joins Elysabeth Alfano on the Plantbased Business Hour to discuss the pitfalls for plant-based businesses such as securing bank loans for small vegan businesses and the structural changes that will need to take place to accommodate new business models.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127134,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31989\/revisions\/127134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}