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Mickey Du Is Teaching the Office Coffee Machine Some Taste
A chance cup in a Hayes Valley alley gave Mickey Du a lifelong standard for coffee. Two decades later, BrewBird is his attempt to encode that feeling into a 60-second workplace ritual.
BrewBird
BrewBird is a San Carlos, California hardware and coffee company that reinvents office coffee. Its countertop machine brews specialty, whole-bean, pour-over-quality coffee in about 60 seconds using fully compostable pods filled with beans from local roasters like Sightglass, Verve and Equator. Each pod carries a QR code that tells the machine the exact water temperature and brew time for the beans inside. Founded in 2019 by CEO Mickey Du, BrewBird sells to offices and hospitality spaces - customers include Meta, LinkedIn and Salesforce - and has raised a $32M Series A led by investors including Sequoia Capital.