Update: Mission accomplished!!!
We are happy to announce that we have reached our objectives!
Our goal was to raise awareness and bring curious people to our website.
More than 2000 coffee lovers found their way from this campaign page to
www.elqava.co and we welcomed many new subscribers! Yay!!!
Snapshot
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What is elqava? Your one-and-only opportunity to get a fresh batch of unique flavoured coffee from one of 3.000 selected roaster at your doorstep: every month!
- What else makes us unique? 700 customers, a tasting panel, multiple publications in various magazines, a straight to the point sustainability approach and finally: unique flavours from unique roasters. Every month!
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Our impact: The coffee roasters we work with directly trade with coffee farmers all over the world, paying above Fair Trade prices. So with elqava you can enjoy the best coffee, guilt free.
Coffee Can Be Complex. We Keep It Simple For You.
We realised that there is a limited range of coffees available in cafes and supermarkets. After spending countless hours on Google and visiting some local coffee roasters, we found that there are literally thousands of coffee roasters. They roast the most unique coffee flavours with beans from all around the globe. Did you know for example that your coffee can taste like dark chocolate with hints of cherry, lemon grass, and almonds? Well, now you know.
Our Products
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The Coffee subscription: It is a small box of three 100g bags of coffee. Each bag is a coffee variety from a different coffee roasters. You can choose between espresso or filter coffee beans. If you contribute to the campaign, most of the rewards include a subscription for you!
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The coffee: The coffee comes from ever changing coffee roasters that we select with a team of coffee experts. We have strict quality criteria for selecting the roasters (check the criteria in "Our Impact" below). Generally, the coffee is Fair Trade and sustainably grown and harvested.
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Web shop: This is a main feature that we want to add for you through this campaign. If you find a coffee that you really like, you can order it in our web shop directly from the coffee roaster.
Why Do You Want This?
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Get direct access: With our subscription you will have direct access to a network of over 3000 selected roasters from all over Europe and their unique coffee flavours. All delivered in your mailbox.
Some Early Achievements
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Customers: We had the pleasure to serve over 700 customers in the Netherlands until now. Seeing this number grow makes us confident that we can bring great coffee to even more people with your support!
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Partnerships: We have over 20 coffee roasters lined up to be featured in our box, and we keep on finding new roasters from all over Europe who want to join us. So rest assured, you will never be bored with our ever changing selections!
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Team: Next to Lukas and Irman as founders, we put together a tasting panel of seasoned coffee experts who are qualified to pick one coffee over the other. They assist us in selecting the best coffee and compiling absolutely delicious coffee selections.
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Great reviews: We are constantly featured in food blogs where our coffee selections are reviewed. Food magazines like "Delicious Magazine" wrote about our new service, and the Dutch newspaper "AD" featured us. We uploaded some articles for you in the photo gallery.
Our Impact
Here is what we care about deeply and why we started elqava
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Sustainable: Our packaging is fully bio degradable without aluminium or plastics, and the colours used for the stamps are water based. The coffee from our coffee roasters meets and exceeds the standards of Fair Trade and all other major sustainability labels.
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Direct trade: The coffee roasters that we work with buy coffee directly from coffee farms, where they have long lasting relationships with families in the coffee growing countries. They pay 2 - 3 times the Fair Trade market price for the coffee and the money for the coffee goes directly to the farmers.
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Quality & freshness: When you hold an elqava box in your hands, the coffee inside is never older than 2 weeks. We are setting a new freshness standard with this idea. The roasters roast the coffee freshly for us every month. The freshness is what you will taste and what makes us stand out from all the other coffee you can buy. We ship whole beans instead of ground coffee at the moment. That way the beans keep their aroma, of which more than 30% dissolve within 10 minutes after you grind the beans. Finally, all our roasters roast the coffee manually in the so called slow roast procedure, taking care of every little detail in the roasting process.
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Convenience: Coffee can be very complex. We want to keep it simple for you. Our box fits in your mailbox and our subscription is really flexible. You just subscribe and whenever you would like to cancel, you can just quit to the next month. And you can choose between espresso or filter coffee beans, exactly matching your preferred type of coffee.
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Variety: We select every coffee roaster that is being featured in our box. We build personal relationships with them and make sure they only roast according to high quality and ethical standards. Once a roaster is selected, we compile the monthly selection of the best coffee. The coffee roasters are based all over Europe, and we always have selections of roasters from different European countries for you.
The Elqava Team
- Lukas Kuhn, Co-Founder
- Irmansyah Putera, Co-Founder
- Fabian Wahlers, Product Manager
- Tom Pieter, Sales
- External Contributors
- Larissa Nietner, web development @ MIT
- Frank Lagendijk, web development @ Bold Labs
- Ali Duzenli, packaging design
- Advisors:
- Robin Slakhorst, Founder & COO @ Symbid
- Korstiaan Zandvliet, Founder & CEO @ Symbid
- Brendan Jansen Op De Haar, Founder @ Winecast
- Matthijs Leenderste (PhD), Owner @ ELM Concepts
- Grardie Akkerhuis, Owner @ Lebkov & Sons
- Marlen Basart, Founder @ Food We Love
- Accelerator Programs:
- Student Entrepreneurs Excellence Program (StEEP) of the Erasmus University Rotterdam and the ECE
- ECE Community, (Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship)
- Erasmus Honours Program for Sustainability, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Other Ways You Can Help
If you can' contribute to our campaign financially, you can still help elqava grow! Share our campaign and the link to our website and help us reaching more people and eventually new customers!