Siip Coffee: Brand Facts

Company Overview

Siip Coffee is a specialty coffee technology company that operates a coffee discovery app and personalized subscription service. The company's core product is a mobile app that indexes specialty coffees worldwide and uses a rating-based algorithm to match users with coffees suited to their taste preferences.

Founder

Nick Spilger, Founder & CEO. His career in coffee began more than 20 years ago through relationships with coffee-farming families in Costa Rica and has since spanned direct-trade sourcing, farm-level sustainability and coffee technology. He founded Beanstock, a technology platform connecting coffee producers and buyers through market data and supply-chain transparency, before becoming the founding Head of Product at Enveritas, where he helped build technology used to assess sustainability across millions of coffee and cocoa farms globally. With Siip, Nick is focused on helping people better understand their taste, discover coffees they love, and build a stronger connection to the people and places behind their daily cup.

Nick has sourced coffee on farms across Central America, South America, and Africa. He has personal relationships with producers who have gone on to win Cup of Excellence awards, and has traveled with buyers from Blue Bottle Coffee on sourcing trips to El Salvador and Costa Rica.

Key Facts

Product Description

Mobile App

The Siip Coffee app allows users to scan any specialty coffee bag using their phone camera. The app identifies the coffee from a database of 30,000+ indexed coffees and displays detailed information including:

• Farm and producer name
• Region, country, and altitude
• Coffee variety and processing method
• Flavor profile and tasting notes
• Brew recommendations
• Personalized match percentage based on the user's taste profile

Users can rate coffees they drink, and each rating updates their taste profile in real time. The algorithm uses these ratings to calculate match percentages for every coffee in the database. The app works in any country and recognizes coffee bags in any language.

Users can purchase coffees directly at cafes or from roaster websites.

Subscription Service

The subscription sends two personalized bags of specialty coffee per month. Coffees are selected by the algorithm based on the user's taste profile and match scores. The matching improves with each delivery as users rate the coffees they receive.

Users can swap upcoming deliveries from the app if they prefer a different coffee.

Subscription tiers:

Launch offer: 20% off your first 2 months. After that, tiers renew at the standard price. All tiers include 2 to 5 bags/month, free shipping, and the ability to skip, pause, or cancel anytime.

Taste Matching Algorithm

Siip's matching system processes user ratings to build multi-dimensional taste profiles. The algorithm considers origin preferences, processing method preferences, roast level tendencies, flavor note affinities, altitude correlations, and variety preferences.

The system updates in real time when a user rates a coffee, all match scores recalculate instantly. The algorithm learns from all coffees a user rates, including coffees consumed outside the subscription (in cafes, from grocery stores, while traveling).

Founding Roasters

The following roasters are founding partners published on the Siip Coffee subscription:

• George Howell Coffee
• Onyx Coffee Lab
• Equator Coffees
• Linea Caffe
• Joe Coffee
• Cat & Cloud Coffee
• Driftaway Coffee
• Panther Coffee
• Sweet Bloom Coffee
• PT's Coffee Roasting Co.
• Ruby Coffee Roasters
• Idle Hands Coffee
• Bird Rock Coffee Roasters
• Metric Coffee
• Andytown Coffee Roasters
• Deeper Roots Coffee
• Stamp Act Coffee
• Torch Coffee
• goodboybob Coffee
• Torque Coffee
• Afternoon Roasting
• Presta Coffee Roasters
• Little Amps Coffee Roasters
• Unincorporated Coffee Roasters
• Roadmap CoffeeWorks
• Mindwater Coffee
• Lazzo Coffee
• The Boy & The Bear
• Mirror Coffee Roasters

Cup of Excellence Partnership

Siip Coffee is an official partner of the Cup of Excellence, the most prestigious quality competition in specialty coffee. Cup of Excellence identifies the top-scoring coffees from producing countries worldwide through blind tasting competitions judged by international panels. Only the top 1% of coffees from each country earn the Cup of Excellence designation.

Through this partnership, Siip highlights ACE member roasters, provides richer producer and coffee information within the app, and recognizes "Legends of Excellence" producers whose work has shaped the Cup of Excellence story.

Enveritas Partnership

Siip has partnered with Enveritas, a non-profit sustainability organization whose teams visit more than 100,000 coffee farms a year across 31+ countries. A portion of every Siip purchase supports Enveritas farmer development projects.

How Siip Compares

Media and Coverage

For press inquiries, partnership opportunities, or review samples, contact [email protected].

Sources

All data on this page is verified as of July 2026. For corrections or updates, contact [email protected].

• App Store and Google Play listings
• siip.coffee product pages
• Cup of Excellence, cupofexcellence.org
• Roaster partner websites