Matchaful
Coffee · 9+ locations · NYC
Nine matcha cafés across Manhattan and Brooklyn, with early venture money behind them. Founder Hannah Habes still runs the company, and its matcha comes from a single named farm in Shizuoka, Japan that shades its tea plants under solar panels.
The Big Picture
Matchaful names the single family farm in Shizuoka, Japan behind its matcha, and is itself certified as a USDA organic handler. It publishes pay for every job, but only its most senior postings list benefits. Founder Hannah Habes still runs the company, answering to venture investors including Techstars and Blue Scorpion Investments.
The Dirty Details
Ownership
Blue Scorpion InvestmentsVenture Capital
Blue Scorpion Investments is a New York early-stage venture firm founded in March 2016 by Jamison Ernest and Gautam Ahuja, a former Credit Suisse managing director, and it launched a second fund in February 2023 aimed at up to 15 consumer product companies. Its wider portfolio includes quip, Eight Sleep, Boisson, and Material Kitchen. Its two Ferret companies sit at different ends of its history: it names Matchaful in its current portfolio, and says it was the first investor in Van Leeuwen, ahead of the equity rounds Strand Equity and NextWorld Evergreen later led. Both relationships rest on the firm's own account — no SEC filing, independent outlet, or statement from either company corroborates them.
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