Syra Coffee

syra.coffee ↗ ·Barcelona ·Seed

Syra Coffee is a Spanish specialty coffee company that operates a chain of small, design-led take-away coffee shops (~40-45 locations across Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Seville, Málaga, Bilbao, Girona and San Sebastián) plus Spain's largest specialty roastery and a D2C/e-commerce beans business. Founded in Barcelona in 2015 by architect Yassir Raïs, it grew without franchising and raised roughly €1.5M across three rounds from itnig, Inveready, Turtle Capital and angels including Factorial's Jordi Romero and Bernat Farrero, Glovo's Oscar Pierre, Kantox's Philippe Gelis and footballers such as Alexia Putellas and Sergi Roberto. In August-September 2025 Colombia's Grupo Lux (Organización Ardila Lülle, via Mérica Foods) took majority control by buying out the Catalan family offices and injecting capital; Pedro Bouza became chairman while Raïs stayed on as CEO, targeting 100 stores within three years.

Founded

2015

Founders

Total funds raised

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SectorsFoodtech & Agtech, Consumer, Retail, Specialty Coffee, E-commerce Start-up MapFoodtech & Agtech › Consumer food & beverage brands

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Founders

Yassir Raïs

Founder & CEO

Global models 5

Luckin Coffee

China · www.luckincoffee.com ↗

A VC-funded chain of mostly small take-away coffee shops that it owns itself, grown fast with in-house supply and roasting, like Syra's owned take-away model.

~$550MComparable

Kopi Kenangan

Indonesia · kopikenangan.com ↗

A VC-backed chain of small, self-operated grab-and-go coffee kiosks scaled across cities, the same small-format take-away model as Syra.

~$230MComparable

Blue Bottle Coffee

United States · bluebottlecoffee.com ↗

A specialty coffee brand combining design-led cafés it owns itself, its own roastery and a D2C beans and subscription business, raised with VC before Nestlé bought a majority stake.

~$120MComparable

Blank Street

United States · www.blankstreet.com ↗

A VC-backed chain of small-footprint take-away coffee shops it runs itself, expanding quickly across cities in the US and UK, the model closest to Syra's.

~$110MComparable