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The Swiss Company That Bet Everything on One Cup of Coffee
JURA quit irons, radios and toasters to make one thing - a machine that turns whole beans into a fresh cup on demand. It worked: a Swiss village factory is now a premium name in about 50 countries.
The Chemical Engineer Who Roasted Her Way From a Kitchen in Rural Virginia to a National First
Candy Schibli left engineering and international development to build Southeastern Roastery - now the first Black-woman-owned certified organic coffee co-packer in the country. The method is part chemistry, part conservation.
The Curvy Bottle That Convinced America to Pour Almonds in Its Coffee
Founded by the man who once sold Odwalla to Coca-Cola, Califia Farms turned a citrus packinghouse and a strangely shaped bottle into a plant-milk empire pouring in about 30 countries.
Dutch Bros Coffee
The Oregon drive-thru that turned a pushcart, a windmill logo and a blue energy drink into a $1.6 billion coffee company - one Rebel at a time.
Botrista, Inc.
Botrista is a San Francisco-based food-and-beverage technology company that builds an AI-driven automated beverage platform. Its flagship BotristaPro machine lets restaurants, campuses, hospitals, theme parks and other venues serve a wide range of craft cold drinks - boba teas, smoothies, refreshers, cold brew, lemonades and more - from a single compact, self-cleaning unit in seconds, without specialized baristas. Founded in 2017 by former Tesla automation engineer Sean Hsu, the company pairs patented multi-ingredient dispensing hardware with cloud-based analytics and demand forecasting, and has raised roughly $126 million to date, including a Series C led by Jollibee Foods Corporation.