Steeped Coffee Innovation
What problem does Steeped Coffee solve?
Steeped Coffee was created to solve several problems, with a strong focus on increasing the convenience and accessibility of specialty coffee while also eliminating the eco-waste of single-serve coffee. Steeped’s goal was, and is, to provide a convenient single-serve vehicle worthy of the specialty coffee market while also reimagining the wasteful single-serve options that our world has been stuck with for some time now.
- Quality: Steeped delivers ultra-premium specialty coffee that is ethically sourced, freshly roasted, precision ground, and then triple nitro-sealed for freshness.
- Convenience: Brewed similarly to tea, the Steeped Brewing Method delivers specialty coffee in sustainable single-serve coffee bags – no pods or plug required.
- Accessibility: Steeped requires no barrier to entry by avoiding all upfront equipment.
- Eliminating Eco-Waste: With fully compostable packaging, Steeped Bags + Packs serve as a convenient unplugged alternative to wasteful pods and plastics.
Steeped is changing the industry by delivering unmatched convenience, accessibility, quality, and sustainability to become the new standard in coffee.
Steeped Coffee’s Founder Entrepreneur
What is the “Founder story”? How did you come up with the idea?
Steeped Coffee was born out of a deep passion for the ethics and quality behind specialty coffee. In 2010, seven years before launching Steeped, I created a minimum viable product (MVP) of Steeped Coffee after attempting to solve the problem of how to have good coffee at the in-laws’ over Thanksgiving without bringing a whole suitcase of clunky equipment. I believe that making great coffee shouldn’t be so difficult, and convenience shouldn’t come at such an environmental cost.
A few years later, I journaled the entire Steeped Coffee business plan during a flight to visit my grandparents in between projects, and it was all just sitting there waiting to come to life. I really wrestled with the decision to start a coffee company. I asked myself if I could really use coffee to make a difference in the world. It literally took answered prayer, which inspired me to begin the Steeped story. We would be a business on a mission to redeem the waste of single-serve coffee, to highlight ethical sourcing, to enable specialty coffee companies to be more accessible for consumers, to be a light on a hill to promote Business Without Compromise, to model business for good, and to see what journey it would all take us on. It has been a crazy ride so far.
How can this transform the world?
The climate crisis is one of the greatest foundational challenges we face as a society, and pods are a major environmental violator. From 2009 — the present, enough pods have been used to wrap around the planet over 175 times. Those pods are now mostly in landfills — not to mention the millions of machines used and discarded.
It is leading the sustainable single-serve coffee revolution to stop the world’s dependency on non-recyclable, single-serve coffee pods by offering the first fully sustainable single-serve brewing method. The entire Steeped Brewing Method is certified compostable and is made from plant-based renewable materials, ensuring that our sacred coffee rituals go unnoticed by the next generation.
To fully address the single-serve industry’s environmental toll and increase consumers’ adoption, we decided to be more than a coffee brand but also a proprietary brewing method supporting hundreds of roasters. We license our patent-pending Steeped Brewing Method to over 400 of the nation’s top roasters, including names like La Colombe, Counter Culture, Mr. Espresso, and BLK & Bold. These partnerships and our own Steeped Coffee are a key part of our mission to reimagine the single-serve coffee industry.
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What do customers love most about the product? What are they saying?
Consumers love the unplugged convenience of enjoying a premium cup of coffee anywhere they go.
Our unparalleled attention to detail from bean to bag and beyond results in a simple yet delicious cup of craft-roasted coffee. The number one thing we hear from consumers is, “Wow! That’s incredible. I can’t believe how good it is.”
Our consumers also note how Steeped is the simplest way to make great coffee anywhere. For many of our consumers, Steeped has become the ultimate travel companion – whether they’re on a flight, in the woods, at a hotel, or want a simple cup at home. Our customers constantly remark how easy it is to have a delicious cup of specialty coffee now.
Steeped in accomplishing what we initially set out to do – we’re revolutionizing the coffee industry, one cup at a time, and consumers are helping us pave the way.
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Where can people get this product?
Steeped Coffee is available online at steepedcoffee.com, on Amazon with Prime Free Delivery, and nationwide at thousands of US supermarkets.
Steeped Coffee Packs can also be found directly through our partnership with 400+ top coffee roasters, each with their own branded Steeped Packs featuring various of the best coffees in the world.
