About
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Founded
January 1995
Founded By
Russell McDonnell, Brooke McDonnell
Headquarters
Marin County, California
Team Size
20-25 employees
Equator Coffees is a specialty coffee roaster, tea purveyor, and coffee farm owner. Equator sources and grows boutique-grade Estate, Organic, Fair Trade, and Rainforest Alliance Certified coffees around the globe.
Coffee can be Better.
That realization inspired our founders to roast and sell coffee themselves from a Marin County garage in 1995. Coffee can be roasted better, brewed better and, most importantly, it can be sourced in a way that makes lives better. That garage became Equator Coffees and marked the beginning of a high-impact coffee company focused on quality, sustainability and social responsibility. Long before anyone thought coffee could embody any of those qualities.
After two decades, eight cafes and thousands of cups served, our impact has grown but our values remain the same.
