Coffee Freaks began with two friends - and two different experiences

One of us kept asking the same question after buying a new bag of beans: What exactly did I just get? Buying coffee often felt like a leap of faith, as the label rarely told the whole story.

The other spent far too much time searching for a great specialty coffee shop whenever they were somewhere new. Because when you're craving a really good coffee, you usually want to find it now — not spend your time browsing maps, trying to figure out which places actually serve specialty coffee.

Those conversations eventually turned into Coffee Freaks - an app built to make specialty coffee easier to discover: from finding the right café to understanding the beans in your cup.

Coffee Freaks is starting with an app, but our vision goes far beyond it: to build a specialty coffee media company that informs, inspires, and connects the global coffee community — Coffee Freaks Media.