Ikawa

Connecting coffee farmers with drinkers.


Two design graduates of the RCA's IDE course have designed a system that disint ermediates most of the value in the supply chain of coffee, and links the coffee drinker directly to the coffee farmer. Green coffee beans are ordered on the web, despatched to the home and are roasted, roast and ground or roast, ground and brewed in an IKAWA's coffee maker, providing the drinker with the freshest possible coffee at the press of a button.

The team have already secured a first round of investment. Having grown up in developing countries and worked in the cocoa industry, IDSA award winner and designer-engineer Andrew Stordy conceived the overall IKAWA concept in 2006. After winning various prizes for early implementations of the concept (Dyson Bursary, Royal Commission 1851), the company IKAWA ltd was founded in 2010, backed by private equity investment, with support from Geneva based Schluter SA coffee importers and the Design London incubator. Currently IKAWA is run by Rombout Frieling as design director, Andrew Stordy as managing director and two non-executive directors.

Contact: info@ikawacoffee.com

Website: www.ikawacoffee.com

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