Our Story and Mission

Our mission is to create massive positive change in the coffee-verse. From farm to roaster to consumer. More fair, more delicious, more sustainable, more future-forward.

How it all began

Cometeer cofounder Matt Roberts was a sugar-and-cream, hold-the-coffee kind of guy. That is until one day when he experienced coffee so artfully brewed that he could enjoy it black. He put down his drive-through coffee and never looked back.

Experimenting in his kitchen

Roberts knew he wanted to find a way for anyone to make an exceptional cup of coffee at home, and that the key to success is in the freshness of the brew. That's when the idea for flash-freezing coffee sparked. So he began experimenting in his kitchen, grabbing ice trays out of his freezer and getting to work.

Cometeer was born

In 2014, Roberts presented his prototype to the "godfather of specialty coffee," George Howell. The result was almost what he'd hoped—Howell admitted he was onto something revolutionary, but not before first spitting out the undrinkable brew Roberts had offered him. Together with CTO Doug Hoon and VP of Engineering Karl Winkler—engineers trained at MIT and Northeastern—Cometeer was founded, drawing on the expertise of leading coffee professionals and chemists.

Get STarted

Sustainability built in

100% COMPOSTED
GROUNDS

We send all the spent grounds to a local composting company. In 2022 alone we sent ONE MILLION pounds to local composting farms.

LESS FOOD
WASTE

36 month frozen shelf life. No waste from poor brewing. Never make too much.

NO GROUNDS IN
OUR CAPSULES

Our capsules don't contain grounds, so no additional separation is needed

RECYCLABLE
MATERIAL

Our aluminum capsule is fully recyclable — just rinse & toss in recycling

Partners who share our values

Responsible and Thoughtful Sourcing

Knowing that the coffee could only be as good as the beans it came from, Roberts set out to share his invention with the country's best specialty coffee roasters...

Therefore...

We only partner with roasters who embrace direct trade sourcing. This means cutting out the intermediary and working directly with coffee producers. Doing so ensures farmers and their teams are paid higher prices. Oftentimes, the pay is even higher than what they might earn through Fair Trade certification programs.

Meet our roasters

A Behind the Scenes Sneak Peak

The best specialty roasters

We partner with award-winning small batch roasters — who wouldn't trust their beans to just anyone.

Sustainability built in

100% COMPOSTEDGROUNDS

LESS FOODWASTE

NO GROUNDS INOUR CAPSULES

RECYCLABLEMATERIAL