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This machine dispenses water AND your favorite beverages on demand and then takes bottles back for cleaning \u0026amp; reuse. Kadeya washes, sanitizes, inspects, and refills bottles right where you use them.No more plastic. No more pallets. No more waste.Single-use is broken.We all know plastic is a problem. Single-use bottles clog oceans, pollute ecosystems, and produce more greenhouse gases than the airline industry. Yet, we keep using them because they’re cheap, quick, and everywhere.Kadeya aims to change how beverages are delivered and consumed. We want to reduce waste and fix inefficiencies in an outdated industry.The beverage industry is outdated.Ever wondered what it takes to get a packaged drink into your hand? It starts with raw material extraction, then bottle production, filling, and global transport.Imagine a world where hydration is waste-free, cost-effective, and easy to access.Kadeya cuts 99.9% of plastic waste and 75% of beverage-related GHG emissions.This isn’t just about sustainability; it's a logistical challenge for companies that must hydrate their teams. We save money and reduce logistics issues for businesses needing to keep hundreds of workers hydrated.Kadeya’s closed-loop beverage stations reinvent the packaged beverage supply chain.Our kiosks provide drinks in reusable stainless steel bottles.Bottles return to any kiosk in the network. There, robots clean, sanitize, inspect, and refill them all by themselves.Our closed-loop system matches the convenience of grab-and-go without the waste or emissions.Think of us as the Liquid Railroad—your zero-waste beverage solution, everywhere.Our stainless steel bottles have a flat side. This design lets you carry your phone and bottle in one hand. The cap has a special twist mechanism to keep carbonation, so your drink stays cold and crisp.Consumer demand for convenient, flavorful, and cold drinks is at an all-time high. Yet, this comes at a huge environmental cost. Americans use over 800 disposable containers per person each year. Wasting billions that end up in landfills or oceans.At the same time, companies face pressure to cut plastic and carbon emissions. Workers and consumers want responsible options.Until now, no scalable solution has existed.New advances in robotics, cloud tech, and AI now allow for local, closed-loop bottling at scale. Kadeya is the first to combine these elements into a sustainable, profitable alternative to single-use bottles.We’re not following a trend. We’re creating a new infrastructure.Unlike other solutions Kadeya doesn't just vend water, but you can get all your favorite and branded flavored drinks now in a reuse system without the waste.Our initial market is blue-collar workplaces where hydration is crucial.Frontline workers in manufacturing, logistics, construction, and the military often can’t easily get safe, cold hydration.The current system wastes resources. It relies on single-use pallets, vending machines, and jugs. This approach leads to high labor costs and health risks.Early customers pre-ordered Kadeya to reduce plastic bottle waste. Our system also saves time, money, and labor in keeping their teams hydrated.We’ve run three pilots that prove our key benefits. These workplaces aim to cut single-use plastic. They want to save money and improve employee hydration and engagement.During our pilots, users loved us. Our power users became advocates, spreading positive experiences through word of mouth.Kadeya owns and operates the station and offers a hydration-as-a-service pricing model. Workplaces pay per drink for water, making it free for employees. Workers can upgrade to flavored drinks, like vending machines.We partner with Food \u0026amp; Beverage Service providers (e.g., Compass, Sodexo) for quick scaling. We provide a monthly lease or equipment purchase option. This is for channel partners who keep their drink revenues.Note: future projections cannot be guaranteed.Our go-to-market strategy helps us grow with food and beverage service providers. It also connects us to direct customers who have large real estate footprints. This helps us deploy our robotic beverage stations with optimal effectiveness.We currently have more demand than we can handle. We’re sold out through 2025, with our first 27 commercial stations shipping early 2026. New customers are reaching out daily to deploy our stations globally.We’re starting with a $10 billion opportunity in U.S. workplace hydration—but that’s just the start.We plan to expand to Europe and the UK in the next 3 to 5 years.The global packaged beverage industry is worth $2 trillion. Kadeya’s closed-loop system can eliminate single-use containers across the industry.The single-use market is 40 times bigger than reusables. Plus, it is growing faster, so reusables can’t keep up.Reusables are not a scaleable solution to the global plastic waste crisis.Kadeya replaces single-use bottled water and flavored drinks, not reusables.Every single-use plastic bottle sheds microplastics and nanoplastics—tiny fragments that end up in your water, your body, and the air around you. And when bottles sit in hot warehouses, trucks, or job sites for days (or weeks), the leaching gets worse.Recent studies have shown that:Bottled water can contain hundreds of thousands of microplastics per literHeat and time significantly increase plastic leachingEven aluminum cans and Tetra Paks often have plastic liners insideKadeya eliminates this risk at the source.We use:Stainless steel bottles—no plastic, no liner, no leachingFresh, on-demand bottling—your drink is dispensed seconds before you sip itNo storage in heat, no long transport times, no degradation of qualityThis means:No invisible contaminantsNo chemical breakdown from temperature or UV exposureSafer, cleaner, trusted hydration—every single timeKadeya gives you peace of mind—not just about the planet, but about what’s actually in your drink.We begin in workplaces where hydration budgets already exist. But our long-term vision? Places where people get drinks including: universities, hospitals, airports, sports and entertainment venues, retail, and more.Future-looking projections cannot be guaranteed.2023/24: Initial pilots2025: Go-to-market validated2026: Operations \u0026amp; manufacturing ready to scale2027: Expand beyond Midwest2028: ProfitableOur team is a key part of Kadeya’s success:Manuela Zoninsein, our CEO and founder, has led two ag-tech startups globally. She has an MBA from MIT and attended Harvard.Denis Lussault, our CPO, has led two robotics companies from Series A to IPO. He has strong skills in hardware-software integration.Ali Rose, our Marketing Director, previously founded a circular economy company. She has experience in both consumer and B2B marketing.Luis Toriz, our Machine Testing Technician has worked various roles in hospitality and food \u0026amp; beverage for over 14 years as a barista, supervisor, and trainer.We have reduced key risks in product development, customer acquisition, and financial planning.Kadeya’s ecosystem has more than just the kiosk. It features our stainless steel infinite bottle, a user app, and a corporate dashboard. These tools help track hydration and impact metrics. Partners and beverage companies also have advertising opportunities.Future looking projections cannot be guaranteedWe're providing more than drinks. We're also offering valuable data insights. This will enhance the whole beverage ecosystem and open new revenue streams.Kadeya’s hardware sets us apart. We collect unique data on hydration and beverage retail.In the future, AI agents will help personalize shopping experiences. They will also optimize sales and consumption at every unique kiosk.As we grow our network of stations, we can plug in to existing d-OOH advertising networks. This will generate hundreds of millions of annual impressions and digital OOH opportunities.Kadeya is changing the out-of-home beverage market. It's doing it like the biggest disruptors today. Kadeya makes it easy to enjoy high-quality, cost-effective grab-and-go drinks. Plus, there’s no plastic waste!Backed by 30+ climate tech investors, with deep experience in industrial deployment, hardware scaling, and venture growth - Supply Change Capital, MOVE Ventures, Oxonian Ventures, Tarrson Capital (University of Chicago Venture Fund), SBXI (MIT Student Venture Fund), Exelon Foundation, Evergreen Climate Innovations, and notable angels Zachary Smith (Ex-Equinix, Ex-Packet, Ex-Voxel), Brendan Wallace (Fifth Wall), Erik Allebest (Founder of Chess.com), Andy Dunn (Bonobos \u0026amp; Pie), Hugo Barra (ex-Google, ex-Meta, ex-Xiaomi).Join us in reshaping the beverage industry! We invite our community to invest with our lead investors Refashiond Ventures, a NYC-based venture capital firm investing at the forefront of technologies transforming legacy industries, particularly through supply chain innovation.Kadeya is tackling more than workplace hydration. We’re addressing the waste crisis in beverage distribution. 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there, I love this concept. Could you provide more information about the durability of the bottles? Specifically, construction, how they hold up cosmetically after repeated use, how long bottles typically stay in circulation, and what condition they were in at the end of yo...","answer":"Hi Kelsey, great questions! Re: Bottle Durability Kadeya bottles are constructed from durable stainless steel with a matte finish to minimize visible wear and tear. Because they’re used, returned, and sanitized in under two hours—rather than carried around all day—they experience significantly less cosmetic degradation than typical personal reusable bottles. Each bottle is designed for long-term circulation and tracked to ensure quality. In our pilot programs, bottles achieved a 99%+ return r..."},{"question":"Good stuff. I see your orders for 27 stations, that is amazing along with the revenue per station. Do you see you guys doing anything with nude food market? I can see something there. How much does it cost to make each station? Can you only make 1 station at a time? Where you ...","answer":"Hi John, Our initial go to market strategy is focused on workplaces (mostly industrial, manufacturing, fulfillment, and construction), but in the future when we expand to more retail and public facing environments, Nude Food Market is a great example that shares a lot of our same values. Theme parks are definitely on our radar for the future too. Currently each initial station costs $60k, with a plan to decrease to $26k. We plan on scaling progressively to 2 stations per week in 2026, and the..."},{"question":"me again lol. yesterday I spoke to several huge companies. we provide a service to some of them. they order pallets of water every month along with vending machines. one I don't think really has a budget, they way they order stuff has me speechless. they have pallets of water ...","answer":"Hi James, The Kadeya station dispenses not just water but flavored and branded drinks you already know \u0026amp; love - think coke, pepsi, dr. pepper, gatorade, snapple etc. Anything you'd typically see in a soda fountain can be carried in a Kadeya station. Gatorade is definitely a popular product for our manufacturing \u0026amp; construction customers \u0026amp; something we will be carrying in the stations. Our forecasted # of stations and revenue is available to view on our overview page if you scroll d..."},{"question":"50k investment, courtside to watch the Chicago sky. Why are you trying to punishing people? Is there anything else instead? Where you get the product made what is their capacity? You have 44 machine with 27 of those being sold cause of pre orders lets say you sell 20 more, how...","answer":"Hey John, In terms of the investor perks, happy to discuss an alternative if you would not be interested in a Chicago Sky game, although we find the games quite fun \u0026amp; good bonding! Plus the real reward is joining Kadeya as an investor and sharing in our journey and the upside of building the future of beverage. :) With the recent tariff changes, our first stations will now be built with our engineering team in Europe (our team is already hard at work on the first stations being deployed i..."},{"question":"Hi Kadeya, really appreciated your first video and sharing the journey that sparked the idea. Love the co-creation perspective that you have embraced and excited to see what the next year holds for you. Excellent chosen target market. Obviously will learn more about usage rate...","answer":"Hi Stu, thanks so much for showing interest in the future of beverage we're building at Kadeya and for sharing our enthusiasm for our target market. Basic maintenance (restocking bag-in-box, pressing a button for automated weekly cleaning) is performed by customer employees, with more advanced issues handled by Food and Beverage Service (FBS) partners. Kadeya's service team will address more complex problems​​ or repairs. 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In this episode of Unbottled, Manuela sits down with Kadeya’s cofounder and Chief Product Officer, Denis Lussault, to unpack his personal journey from Formula 1 dreams and warehouse robotics to building the world’s first closed-loop beverage system. Denis explains how decades of experience across industries shaped the way Kadeya is designing smarter, circular systems — and why solving climate problems starts...","published_at":"2026-03-17T15:22:50Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/277349"},{"id":272203,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:272203","title":"Join Our Final Investor Webinar","preview":"Kadeya’s community round continues to gain incredible momentum. 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