2024.04.20
TYPICA GUIDE 2024 Recap: A Platform for Nurturing Individuality, Not A Competition
On March 20, 2024, coffee lovers in Japan gathered at Tokyo Portcity Takeshiba for the final round of “TYPICA GUIDE,” a service dedicated to helping all coffee enthusiasts discover truly delicious coffee. After the event, COFFEEMAN good from Aomori, northern Japan, emerged as this year’s 3-Star Roaster. The final round featured seven 2-Star Roasters, each picked from a pool of 1-Star Roasters, who were chosen based on the recommendation of TYPICA community managers. During the event, each roaster took the stage for a seven-minute live brewing presentation. The fate of the 3-Star award rested in the hands of a diverse panel of Special Guests from various industries and the general…
2024.01.01
New Year Greetings from the TYPICA Team
Masashi Goto (Representative Director/Chief Executive Officer), Ayane Yamada (Representative Director/Chief Quality Officer) and Shintaro Asako (Representative Director/Chief Financial Officer) Happy New Year. As we welcome the new year, we extend our sincere gratitude for the tremendous support you have shown us throughout the past year. It is thanks to your assistance that our team is able to start this year with a sense of rejuvenation. 2023 marked a year of the most significant leaps for TYPICA since our founding. Established in the Netherlands and Japan in 2019, TYPICA set out as a global venture company with the goal of democratizing direct trade and creating the world’s best market. With successful…
2023.09.12
Join us on a sourcing trip to Acacia Hills in Tanzania
Dear Coffee Roasters, We’re thrilled to offer you an exciting opportunity! Here at TYPICA, we believe in forming deep connections with our coffee partners, and today, we invite you to join us on a special journey to the heart of Tanzanian coffee excellence – Acacia Hills. Acacia Hills Coffee Estate: Where Coffee Meets Dedication Let’s talk about Acacia Hills, a place in Tanzania that’s more than just a coffee farm – Leon and Aideen, the dynamic duo who own Acacia Hills, have been our partners for years. Their passion for crafting outstanding coffee is nothing short of inspiring. We can’t wait to share their story with you! Why Acacia Hills?…
2023.07.01
Launching Product Team
We are thrilled to announce that TYPICA will launch the Product Team in August 2023. The team will be responsible for developing our online platform, one of the key elements of TYPICA alongside high-quality coffee and the roaster-producer community. We will aim to create a marketplace that truly brings roasters and producers together and helps them more proactively and seamlessly explore their full potential. It goes without saying that the coffee industry is grappling with substantial challenges. Coffee prices can fluctuate wildly due to the whims of supply and demand as well as influxes of speculative capital. Because of that, it can be challenging to earn a steady stream of…
2023.06.01
Opening Event at Seoul Home
Over the course of four days, from April 27th to 30th, we hosted our inaugural invitation-only opening event at Seoul Home, our South Korean base, with the enthusiastic participation of 82 roasters. Attendees immersed themselves in the TYPICA experience as a global community. They engaged in cupping sessions of direct-trade new crops and enlightening talk sessions led by roasters, some of whom had traveled to coffee origins through TYPICA Lab. TYPICA launched its service in South Korea in 2021. Ever since, we have introduced the narratives of coffee producers and their uniquely crafted coffees through cupping events across the country and participation in the Cafe Show Seoul, one of the…
2023.05.19
【Rebirth】Daniele Levorato: Cuatro Caminos Coffee Estates
Hi everyone. First of all, thanks for a wonderful welcome to your country. We are Cuatro Caminos Coffee Estates, established in Panama in 2014. We are part of the AgroNosotros group which, through private equities, invests in specialty agriculture. At the moment, we own and operate 12 specialty coffee farms for a total of 177ha in Boquete, Panama, one cacao farm in the Bocas del Toro region 135ha, and four different cacao farms in Belize, 60ha in total. In addition to farming, we operate one coffee shop, soon to be two, in Panama City, and two chocolate bean-to-bar facilities in Boquete, Panama, and Punta Gorda, Belize. Our mission is to own and operate specialty…