Caffe Inc
- Type
- Food & Ingredient Manufacturer
- Location
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Industries
- Food ingredients & products, Waste efficiency, Bio-energy & biomaterials, Food reformulation, New food processing techniques, Sustainable packaging & plastic alternatives, Circular economy
- Domains
- Plant based primary products, Ingredients, Beverages, Processed food products
- Technologies
- Extraction, Biorefining, Processing, Biotechnology & sustainable inputs, Resource-recovery technology, Circular & resource technologies, Waste-treatment technology, Advanced Materials
About Caffe Inc
Caffe Inc. is an Amsterdam-based circular biotech company founded in 2021 by Evaluna Márquez Salazar. It upcycles spent coffee grounds into high-value ingredients and materials for cosmetics, food, biomaterials, and colorants, positioning coffee waste as a resource rather than a disposal problem.
The company serves formulators, brands, and industrial users looking for natural, circular, and lower-impact alternatives to virgin ingredients and synthetic materials. Its model is built around local collection, solvent-free or low-energy processing, and turning one waste stream into multiple product streams.
Core Values
- Innovation: The company emphasizes continuous experimentation and product development, from extraction methods to new ingredient formats and applications.
- Teamwork: Caffe Inc. highlights collaboration and open communication as essential to building and scaling its circular model.
- Positive impact: Environmental benefit is central to the business, with a focus on reducing waste, lowering CO₂ emissions, and supporting a circular economy.
- Courage: The company frames itself as willing to take bold steps and challenge conventional approaches to waste and materials.
Unique Aspects
- Coffee-waste biorefinery model: Caffe Inc. turns spent coffee grounds into multiple product families, including oils, surfactants, extracts, biomaterials, and colorants, rather than treating the residue as a single waste output.
- Local circular sourcing: It collects spent coffee grounds through local partners in Amsterdam and across the Netherlands, including offices, hospitals, and institutions.
- Low-impact processing: The company states that its extraction technologies do not require organic solvents or energy-intensive conditions, and that its process saves CO₂ compared with conventional disposal routes.
- Certified and funded scale-up: In 2026, Caffe Inc. became a Certified B Corporation™, and it has also been supported by EU-funded innovation projects to develop and scale circular ingredient technology.