Seva Coffee
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Seva Coffee was a Y Combinator Summer 2015 consumer electronics startup founded by Deepak Boggavarapu in San Francisco. Its insight: coffee starts losing flavor the moment beans are roasted, yet almost all home and office coffee is made with pre-roasted beans. The company invented a machine that takes pods of unroasted green coffee beans, automatically roasts and grinds them to taste, and pours a fresh cup — 'the entire coffee roastery experience on your kitchen countertop.' The machine sold for thousands of dollars, with $1 bean pods at a reported 75% gross margin. It started with the corporate office market, with ambitions to reach home kitchens. Seva Coffee raised a $120,000 seed round on August 19, 2015, backed by Y Combinator.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded and funded
Deepak Boggavarapu founds Seva Coffee; it enters Y Combinator's Summer 2015 batch and raises a $120,000 seed round backed by YC, launching a countertop robot that roasts, grinds and brews coffee from green-bean pods.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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