Wake up and smell the funding. Pact Coffee, the UK coffee subscription service that delivers freshly roasted beans to your door, has closed a £2 million Series A round led by MMC Ventures.
Previous investor Connect Ventures has also participated, as well as Songkick founder Ian Hogarth, Robin Klein of Index Ventures, and Naked Wines founder Rowan Gormley. The double million shot of funding adds to the £500,000 Pact Coffee raised back in June 2013.
Founded by Stephen Rapoport, who previously built and sold the apartment-sharing site Crashpadder to Airbnb, Pact Coffee can be thought of as a sort of ‘Zappos of coffee‘ by attempting to make specialty coffee accessible to the mass market. Customers subscribe to the service — a classic e-commerce subscription play — and get freshly roasted coffee from around the world via next day delivery.
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