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Invest in Young Mountain Tea

Sharing Ownership Of The Tea Trade With Farmers

$301,400

of a $405,000 goal
INVESTMENT TERMS
Priced Round
$4.5M pre-money valuation
Investor Perks:
$250, $500, $1K, $2K, $5K, $10K, $25K, $50K

Highlights

VC-Backed

Raised $250K or more from a venture firm

Profitable

Profitable for prior 3 months and expect same in future

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Launched a farmer-owned processing facility in the Himalayas w/ USAID, Acumen, and others
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Secured sales contracts with Fortune 500 companies & a national distributor
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Featured in Forbes, Food Industry Executive
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Company started with a promise: if farmers would grow tea, we'd sell it.

Featured Investors

Invested $200,000

Founded in 2001, Acumen is dedicated to tackling poverty's toughest challenges. The organization invests patient capital into pioneering companies that deliver essential services to impoverished populations.

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Christopher Wayne, Associate Director, Investing in Agriculture at Acumen

“At Acumen, we invest in impact-focused ventures that create transformative system change, and with teams that can deliver. Raj has been able to create both. In the four years we’ve been working with Raj, we’ve seen how he and his team takes on daunting tasks and rise to the challenge. From navigating the financial and legal hurdles of launching an international joint venture with farmers, to attracting high-volume customers to grow their business, they’ve already taken impressive steps forwar...”

Invested $80,000

UnTours Foundation invests 100% of its endowment into world-changing businesses providing flexible and affordable capital to businesses providing solutions to poverty, injustice, and environmental crises.

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Elizabeth Killough, Co-CEO

“In my 20 years of leading UnTours’ investing, I’ve talked to hundreds of businesses with big potential. From my first conversations with Young Mountain Tea in 2019, it was clear this is a company with the makings of the rare, true social enterprise -- a business that could make good on its mission and margin at the same time. Since then, not only have they met our expectations, they've exceeded them, all while keeping their integrity. I'm so excited to see what they do next!”

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Our Team

Founder & CEO
15+ years connecting Himalayan farmers to American markets. Rockefeller-Acumen Global Food System Fellow; Best Sustainability Initiative from World Tea Awards; Fulbright Fellow
CFO
8+ years leading finance and operations of American tea companies, including developing financial models, inventory management, and data analysis.
Creative Director
15+ years of design, marketing and brand management, including 10+ years in specialty tea.

Young Mountain Tea | Sharing Ownership Of The Tea Trade With Farmers


Kumaon Tea Farmers in Tea Fields
Young Mountain Tea | Sharing Ownership Of The Tea Trade With Farmers | Worker Owned & Worker Operated (WOWO)



The Tea Problem Solution Infographic
The farmers are stuck in a cycle of urban migration and land degradation, and climate change is making it worse. Tea creates rural jobs, revitalizes wastelands and removes CO2 from the atmosphere.


Young Mountain Tea started with a promise: if tea farmers would grow tea, we'd start a company to sell it.


Supply Chain Infographic
We solve both the market and supply problems with a simple solution: Bridging the divide between tea farmers and tea drinkers, and working with farmers to raise the quality of their tea so they can earn more while also creating a transparent supply chain that brings new, exciting and sustainable tea to the market.



Image from inside the Kumaon Tea Factory
The Kumaon Tea Factory's launch represents an evolution in our model: we are no longer tea traders, we are tea makers.


Photo of tea farmer in Kumaon, India
We are funded by Global Leaders in International Development: USAID, ACUMEN & FRONTIER CO-OP


What The Media Says About Us | “Young Mountain Tea is building something entirely new.” -Forbes


Competitive Analysis


Consumer Target Customer



Hand dunking tea bag in a glass cup
5 Attributes that make our teas unique: 1. High Quality 2. Zero-Waste 3.Organic 4.Mission-Driven 5.Minority-Owned/Run
Organizational Chart Infographic
We spent four years building a legal framework for scalable system change.


Team Members
Our experienced team is ready to grow our business and our impact.


We’re growing our revenue, transitioning from Grants to Sales.



How we calculated our $4,500,000 Valuation Infographic.


The potential for tea to be transformational is what inspires our work. This directly connects to five of the UN’s SDG goals. Today we work with 1,500 farmers, 90% of whom are women. These stewards of the land have reclaimed more than 1,000 acres through organic tea, and their growing 2MM+ tea bushes that sequestering carbon right now and everyday.





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