Why Blank Street Raised $25 Million to Disrupt Coffee Chains

By automating drink preparation and operating tiny shops, the NYC coffee upstart could be the biggest threat to Starbucks yet

Kevin LaBuz
Marker
Published in
7 min readOct 24, 2021

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Source: Blank Street on Instagram.

There are 4,000 coffee shops in New York City. Blank Street thinks they’re all doing it wrong. The company just raised $25 million from Tiger Global and…

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Kevin LaBuz
Marker

Head of IR & Corporate Development at 1stDibs. Previously finance at Etsy, Indeed, and internet equity research at Deutsche Bank. Find me on Twitter @kjlabuz.