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A tech-enabled coffee chain built for Asian density.

A mobile-first coffee brand that opened hundreds of compact stores across Asia in under three years by treating each location as a logistics node, not a café.

Our role

Investor · Brand & expansion support

Stage

Seed → Series B

Geography

Southeast Asia

Period

2020 – 2023

Key figures

250+

Stores opened

7

Markets entered

<3 yrs

To regional scale

80%+

Orders via app

Figures are company-reported or publicly disclosed and reflect the most recent available data point.

Storyline

How it unfolded.

  1. 01

    The opening

    Asian urban density and mobile payment penetration made a small-format, app-led coffee format viable years before Europe.

  2. 02

    The thesis

    Win the commute: tiny footprints, pre-order ahead, high throughput per square metre and a brand that travels across borders.

  3. 03

    What we did

    Backed the brand build and supported the multi-market rollout playbook and franchise structuring.

  4. 04

    Where it stands

    A regional footprint built at unusual speed, with the app as the primary ordering channel from day one.

Outcomes

  • Multi-market rollout across seven countries
  • App-first ordering as the default customer behaviour
  • Compact-format store economics validated at scale

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