Bottled coffee concentrate startup Explorer Cold Brew Company has raised $2.5 million in seed funding. Explorer Cold Brew was founded in 2020 by mountaineer Cason Crane, who is credited with being the first openly LGBTQ-identifying person to summit Mount Everest and The Seven Summits. Roasting for the brand is currently executed by Renton, Washington-based Distant Lands Coffee, while concentrate production is handled by Austin, Texas-based cold brew co-packer Brew N Bottle. The four currently available versions of Explorer Cold Brew coffee concentrates are called No Caf, Low Caf, Reg Caf and Extra Caf, indicating the relative caffeine content of the 1:4 ratio in diluted finished servings. “We worked together to taste dozens and dozens of different iterations of our concentrates,” Crane told DCN.

Source: Ethiopian News January 17, 2023 16:39 UTC