• Raise represents biggest ever Series B round for a European plant-based food business, following record-breaking crowdfund and Series A

• Round follows three consecutive years of triple-digit revenue growth seeing allplants win increasing share of £10bn UK plant-based food category

• Draper Esprit led the round, which included the backers of Oatly, Deliveroo and Zoopla, and former England international footballers Chris Smalling and Kieran Gibbs

London, 18^th October 2021 – allplants, the D2C plant-based food company, has secured a record-breaking £38 million Series B funding round led by Draper Esprit, backers of Revolut, Cazoo and Trustpilot. The round is the biggest ever Series B raise by a plant-based food company in Europe and follows record-breaking crowdfund and Series A rounds.

Other new investors in the round include purpose driven CPG fund The Craftory, Silicon Valley-based TriplePoint Capital, plus international England footballers Chris Smalling and Kieran Gibbs, and Cassandra Stavrou MBE, who founded the UK’s leading independent snack company PROPER Snacks.

Existing investors Felix Capital, the venture fund behind Oatly, Deliveroo and Peloton, and Octopus Ventures, early backers of Cazoo, Zoopla and Depop, also participated.

allplants’ continued growth is the result of serving the rapidly growing ‘plant-curious’, or flexitarian, consumer market already worth an annual £100 billion in developed markets and £10 billion in the UK alone. Founded by Jonathan Petrides and his brother Alex, the company’s revenues have more than doubled every year since launching in 2017. Each night, an allplants dinner is now consumed every second.

allplants will use the latest investment to increase its plant-based kitchen in Walthamstow, North London, to six times its current size, enabling it to meet an exploding direct-to-consumer UK market. It will also build scalable capacity for rapid distribution into other channels.

In addition, the funding round will enable a significant expansion of allplants’ team to bring in talent across the entire stack of the business, from additional culinary-school-trained chefs through to operations, innovation, marketing, and technology.

The record-breaking raise will also allow allplants to innovate to new levels, creating an even wider selection of meals to meet all tastes and preferences among a growing customer base, as well as developing a broader range of product categories.

allplants’ plant-based meals are hand-made 24 hours a day by 140 skilled chefs in the company’s own kitchen – Europe’s biggest plant-based kitchen running on 100% renewable energy – and delivered across the entirety of Great Britain. The model combines convenience with delicious, healthy food, and a way for environmentally aware customers to easily reduce their impact on the world through small, delightful adjustments to their eating habits.

Based on a spirit of inclusive and accessible ways to introduce more plant-based meals into your diet, allplants is unique in its judgement-free and irreverently real connection with culture, captured in its tongue-in-cheek ‘We’re allplants. You don’t have to be’ adverts. The brand’s relevance and accessibility is reflected in its market-leading retention (75% of turnover comes from repeat customers) and the fact that over two-thirds of allplants customers aren’t vegan or veggie at all, but just looking for ways to enjoy more plants.

allplants’ ever-expanding range of meals is the result of not only the experimentation and innovation of its chefs and test kitchen, but also a response to requests and recommendations from its community of customers. Already serving breakfast, lunch, snack, treat and dinner ranges, allplants will continue to expand into new eating and cooking occasions.

Introducing more plant-based meals into diets is the most impactful way people can reduce their environmental footprint. Just one additional day of plant-based eating per week reduces the average UK consumer’s total annual food carbon footprint by more than 10%. 

Jonathan Petrides, founder and CEO of allplants, said: “In the five years that we have been cooking, we’ve seen the demand for plant-based food explode. We’ve got a tonne of exciting plans to bring the movement to even more people’s kitchens, and this investment will allow us to do just that.

“Food choices are deeply personal, so quality and taste will always come first for us – it’s the driver of everything we do, and what makes it so easy for our customers to include more plants in their diets without the compromise. We can now imagine, create and serve up many more delicious recipes and products, to ultimately accelerate the transformative impact that plant-based living will have on the future of our planet.”

Nicola McClafferty, partner, Draper Esprit, said: “This is an extremely exciting investment for Draper Esprit. allplants is uniquely positioned at the intersection of some of the fastest growing areas in food consumption today: high quality, plant-based meals that deliver on taste, sustainability and nutrition in an incredibly convenient way for consumers.  

“JP and the team have established a stellar brand with very clear values, incredibly strong growth and a loyal customer base. allplants has real potential to scale its direct-to-consumer business while expanding into new channels both in the UK and beyond. We believe it can be a global brand, bringing nutrition, taste and convenience to the plant-curious consumer and we are delighted to be supporting the team as they grow and thrive.”

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About allplants

allplants is an online platform and chef-to-customer delivery service making it easy and exciting to eat more plants, with its delicious and healthy chef-made meals. allplants dishes are flash-frozen, ensuring nutrition and taste are locked in, and ready to eat in minutes. Since launching in 2017, more than 3.5 million allplants meals have been eaten. From Europe’s largest plant-based kitchen, it provides customers with cooking inspiration and recipes, and now, each evening an allplants meal is eaten every second.

For more information, visit www.allplants.com 
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