After graduating through the Kickstarting For Good Incubator in 2024, Vegan Business Circle successfully raised funding to expand the network and are now able to award a launch grant to each new chapter. The leaders attended an intense two day training session in Berlin to get them ready to launch their new chapters, where they learnt everything from how to find the best venue to hold their vegan business breakfasts meetings at, through to onboarding new chapter members. 

Kickstarting For Good Founder Sebastian Joy commented, “My role is to support all the incredible initiatives that come through our incubator. I aim to give equal support to all our graduates, but every now and then an initiative comes along that I feel compelled to take a more personal role in. Vegan Business Circle International is one of those initiatives which is why I joined as co-founder. It has a proven business model, not just in the success that they have found in Hungary over the past five years, but by following a similar model to other in-person business referral groups, such as Business Networking International (BNI) which has hundreds of thousands of members around the world.”

Following the successful first phase of expansion, Vegan Business Circle is planning a second round where they will also be targeting cities outside of Europe. Learn more about their phase one expansion on their ‘international’ website here or visit their full website at veganbusinesscircle.com.