Indigenous Chocolate™

Inventors of Chocolate™ and Owners of the Cacao Genome are repatriating cacao within their Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights (ICIPR).

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Consumer Products
  • Location Richmond, KY, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded July 2019
  • Employees 9
  • Incorporation Type Other
  • Website dearuhua.com

Company Summary

De'Aruhuä is a very unique single-origin forest-to-bar natural pure organic wild chocolate made by the Indigenous Huottuja of the Guiana Highlands, aka the De'Aruhuä, Guardians of the Forest. In 2022 we learned through 17th century missionary records the Huottuja have been harvesting cacao from their forests since before 1658 in the Orinoco Valley. De'Aruhuä are among the 33 original inventors and ancestral purveyors of cacao remaining today.

Team

  • David Wright
    Executive Officer

    Executive officer and founder of Ecology Crossroads established in 1994, successfully organized large scale public expositions with celebrities, corporations and environmental organizations. From 1994-2001 organizing reLeaf projects under the name Arbor Day involving more than 10 million trees being distributed in the US and Canada. Today working in Venezuela's Amazon with the indigenous Piaroa.

  • Nicholas Wright
    Business Engineer

    Achieving the NSF GRFP (Graduate Research Fellowship Program) in 2012 worth $120,000 to pursue research at any institution. I have recently received the NC Space Grant in 2018. I have obtained 2 Master's degrees in chemistry and nanoscience.

  • Simeon Moreno
    Entrepreneur / Founder

    Growing cacao, organizing tribal members, and making chocolate.

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