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; he grabbed ice trays out of his freezer and got 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 cofounder and CTO, Doug Hoon, an MIT-trained engineer, and with the help of coffee experts and chemists, Cometeer was born.