Kaffe Bueno
- Type
- Food & Ingredient Manufacturer
- Location
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Industries
- Food ingredients & products, Animal feed, Waste efficiency, Bio-energy & biomaterials
- Domains
- Ingredients, Nutraceuticals, Processed food products, Antioxidants, Proteins, Fibres, Oils & fats, Spent grain (brewers / distillers)
- Technologies
- Biorefining, Extraction, Nanotechnology, Food-waste technology, Resource-recovery technology, Biotechnology & sustainable inputs, Processing, Advanced Materials
About Kaffe Bueno
Kaffe Bueno is a Danish sustainable biotech company founded in 2016 by three Colombian entrepreneurs. It was created to unlock the untapped potential of coffee by-products and turn spent coffee grounds into valuable ingredients for everyday products.
The company positions coffee as more than a beverage: it treats it as a bioactive raw material that can support healthier people and a more sustainable planet. Through its own coffee biorefinery and ingredient development work, Kaffe Bueno serves industries responsible for society’s wellbeing, with a particular focus on personal care today and future applications in soil and crop health and animal health.
Core Values
- Upcycling: Kaffe Bueno’s core idea is to transform coffee by-products that are traditionally treated as waste into high-value ingredients. This extends the life of the coffee bean and reduces the need for virgin resources.
- Sustainability: The company emphasizes environmentally friendly production, lower CO2 emissions, reduced deforestation, and less reliance on unsustainable ingredients in everyday products.
- Innovation: Kaffe Bueno presents itself as a biotech innovator using green chemistry, biotech, and nanotechnology to create next-generation natural ingredients without compromising performance, quality, or margins.
- Health and wellbeing: Its messaging consistently links coffee-derived ingredients to healthier people, healthier products, and broader societal wellbeing.
Unique Aspects
- World’s first coffee biorefinery: Kaffe Bueno says it has built the world’s first coffee biorefinery in Copenhagen, serving as its R&D and production centre.
- Coffee-by-product specialization: The company focuses specifically on upcycling spent coffee grounds and other coffee by-products into active, functional, and multifunctional ingredients.
- Cross-industry platform: Its ingredient platform is designed to serve multiple industries, with current personal care offerings and stated expansion into soil & crop health and animal health.
- Circular partnerships: Kaffe Bueno works with circular partners to collect coffee by-products and repurpose them into new ingredients, and it highlights partnerships with brands, distributors, and investors as part of its model.