Lead With Your Mission
Stephen Rapoport is a serial entrepreneur – having previously founded crashpadder.com (which was sold to Airbnb). Pact Coffee, a London-based startup aiming to revolutionise the coffee industry, was founded in 2012.
Pact Coffee makes it easy to access fresh roasted coffee. Its coffee is shipped within 7 days of roasting – and is ground at the last moment – to make it easier to drink fresh coffee everyday. Through its Direct Trade relationships with farmers, it pays a higher price than Fairtrade for better quality coffee, and encourages the farmers it works with to invest in coffee quality and its people.
Pact Coffee recently hit headlines after cancelling a crowdfunding campaign after raising £190,000 of a £1m target, but counts Robin Klein and MMC Ventures among its backers. It now aims to become a global brand and grow quickly, and will be financing again later in 2016.
Sponsored by Mishcon de Reya
Mishcon de Reya is a law firm with offices in London and New York, offering a wide range of legal services to companies and individuals. The firm acts for businesses, wealth owners and dealmakers to help them make the right choices for their private capital and ventures and then offer the practical support to populate, grow and protect their assets.
Mishcon de Reya is committed to helping nurture UK entrepreneurship. Earlier this year, the firm teamed up with City A.M., The Entrepreneurs Network and The Supper Club to create the Leap 100 list, which offers a window into the working life – and identifies the challenges facing – some of the UK’s most exciting, fast-growing companies.
Mishcon de Reya is an enthusiastic sponsor of the Leap 100 Power Breakfasts: it is vital for entrepreneurs and business leaders – from across the UK – to discuss the current trends and challenges of successful growth.
To enquire about how to attend Leap 100 Power Breakfasts, please email philip@tenentrepreneurs.org