Wize Monkey

Wize Monkey creates year-round jobs for coffee communities by upcycling coffee leaves into a healthy, lightly caffeinated and award-winning Coffee Leaf Tea.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Consumer Products
  • Location Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • Currency CAD
  • Founded July 2013
  • Employees 3
  • Incorporation Type LLC
  • Website wizemonkey.com

Company Summary

Wize Monkey creates an award-winning "Coffee Leaf tea" by upcycling arabica coffee leaves into a tea. The infusion is high in antioxidants and polyphenols, lightly caffeinated, and has a smooth taste similar to black tea with no bitterness.
It changes the revenue model of coffee farms, by allowing coffee farmers to harvest their plants for 12 months instead of 3 months with coffee beans, creating additional revenue and generating year-round jobs.

Team

  • Co-founder

    Arnaud holds two Bachelors of Science in International Business from France and the Netherlands). He also graduated from Kedge Business School in Bordeaux, France in 2013 with a Master of Science (MSc) in International Business. He spent more than two years working on coffee farms, studying coffee leaves and working on their process. He speaks fluently French, English and Spanish. Arnaud handles operations, finance, accounting and supply chain.

  • Co-founder

    Max cumulates 10 years of design and marketing experience thanks to agency and freelance work. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) in International Business from Kedge Business School in Bordeaux, France, and a Bachelor of Science from Thompson-Rivers University in Sustainable Tourism. He is fluent in Spanish and French. Max handles marketing, sales, design and communication.

  • Enrique Ferrufino
    Co-founder, Production Manager

    Enrique is the leading voice for coffee innovation in Nicaragua. Being a third-generation farmer, he studied agronomy at Purdue and received a MBA in Finance from University of Toronto. He is now running the family estate, committed to innovating the coffee industry and cultivation techniques, and is dedicating his time to developing Coffee Leaf Tea. He's in charge of scaling the production model and innovating different types of tea processes.

Advisors

  • James Tansey
    Business advisor and Mentor
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

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