Company Profile | September 23, 2020
Sells a connected water bottle along with flavor and nutrient pods and has an associated app to personalize the dispersion of the pod's contents into the water; lead investor is Keurig Dr Pepper Bottle holds three pods; offers 14 pods across two categories: Daily, which includes energy, ... To read more, click here.
Company Snapshot | May 10, 2021
The company was started by José Manuel Moller in 2013 to reduce the costs of CPG products in low‑income neighborhoods by eliminating packaging, sometimes the single largest cost component in small formats. To date, the company has raised approximately $2.4 million from Closed Loop Partners and the ... To read more, click here.
Company Snapshot | May 10, 2021
The company was started by Catherine Hutchings and Aniyo Raihebi in January 2020 to develop an alternative to single‑use coffee cups. The company develops an "all‑natural" and "vegan" material to form into coffee cups as an alternative to plastic cups; the material is made of oats, grains, flour, ... Not part of subscription
by Drishti Masand
CupClub and Muuse both have "smart" reusable cup systems to replace and reduce single-use cup waste. The pilot tests will be in local coffee shops in San Francisco and Palo Alto, California, U.S. – cities where other reusable cup models are being tested/adopted/piloted. Consumer behavior changes are unreliable, and so these reusable cup models need to establish a proof of concept, more so than other material alternatives. Clients looking for single-use cup alternatives should closely monitor these pilot tests to see if these startups can succeed with a reusable cup model; coffee shops globally have attempted the rental mugs and BYO cup models, but consumer adoption remains low.
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