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Kora

Dining · 1 location · Queens: Sunnyside

Kora started as a doughnut pop-up run out of a Woodside, Queens apartment kitchen by two friends laid off from NYC hospitality jobs in 2020. The same two co-founders still run its single Sunnyside storefront, opened in March 2025 — self-funded, no outside investors.

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Genuinely Independent

Kora is owned and run by the two co-founders who started it as a 2020 doughnut pop-up in a Woodside apartment and self-funded the Sunnyside storefront they opened in March 2025. Camara runs the kitchen, Borja runs operations, and no investor or parent company sits above them.

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Company data last updated September 2026

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