About

Founded

2020

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Industry

Food & Beverage, Climate

Company Description

We create delicious products through fermentation. Our #1 product: Beanless coffee, crafted to conserve. Minus produces coffee using 94% less water than traditional coffee, 91% less GHG emissions, and shorter supply chains.

Quick Links

Website Jobs

Funding

Total Raised

$4.5 million

Valuation

Undisclosed

Significant Investors

SVLC, Humboldt Fund, Collaborative Fund, Maple VC, Petri Bio, Lowercarbon Capital

Company Traction

As of June 2023, Minus claims its coffee avoids 16 tons of CO2 per ton of coffee.

As of June 2023, Minus claims its coffee uses 94% less water and creates 91% less greenhouse gas emissions.

As of June 2023, Minus has 1,092 Instagram followers and 104 TikTok followers.

Leadership Team

Maricel Saenz: Founder & CEO of Minus. Former Co-Founder & CEO of Nextbiotics.

James Pearce: Head of Technology at Minus. Former Chief Scientific Officer at Boost Biomes.

Press

Fast Company (February 13, 2023): This new coffee is brewed without any beans (but all the caffeine)

FoodNavigator USA (November 16, 2022): Coffee minus the beans? Minus Coffee reverse engineers coffee to create a beanless cold brew

TechCrunch (August 31, 2021): [Minus] brews up $4.5M to make coffee without beans

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