Uncommon Cocoa
Uncommon Cocoa connects smallholder farmers to the premium chocolate market, driving double-digit income growth in cacao farming communities.
- Stage $500K in TTM Revenue
- Industry Food and Beverage
- Location Punta Gorda, Toledo, Belize
- Currency USD
- Founded November 2010
- Employees 20
- Website mayamountaincacao.com
Company Summary
The Uncommon Cocoa Group is the first impact-driven vertically integrated cocoa sourcing enterprise, allowing for groundbreaking transparency and quality control throughout the highly problematic chocolate value chain upon which more than 5 million smallholder farmers depend. Working both at origin and in our target market, we drive greater flows of capital to cacao farmers, catalyzing industry-shifting change.
Team
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Alex WhitmoreCo-founder
Founder and owner of Taza Chocolate, experience building cacao export operations in four countries, groundbreaking pioneer of transparency in the chocolate supply chain.
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Virtual CFO
Previous Investors
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Jim VillanuevaThe Eleos FoundationUnconfirmedMorgan SimonPi InvestmentsUnconfirmed
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