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There's a moment, somewhere in the first few sips, when coffee stops being coffee. It becomes the beginning of the day. A quiet ritual — unhurried, reliable, yours.
At Meraki, we believe that moment deserves to be consistent. Not just when everything goes right, but every morning. That kind of reliability takes engineering — thoughtful, uncompromising, and invisible when it's working.
Life, to a higher standard.
We believe precision is something you feel before you can name it — the cup that makes you pause before the day begins.
Temperature, pressure, consistency: these aren’t specifications to quote. They’re what separates a cup that’s fine from one that’s worth making every morning.
We believe a well-made machine should be a pleasure to live with. The same care that shapes a precise extraction shapes a weight worth holding, a surface worth touching. Engineering and beauty aren’t a trade-off — they come from the same place.
Meraki is for people who find meaning in everyday rituals — and hold them to a higher standard.
“What would it take to make tomorrow morning's cup as good as today's?”
Dennis Chen founded Meraki in 2022, drawing on more than a decade of engineering experience in premium home appliances — including time at Dyson. He was also a practicing home barista: patient about dialing in, attentive to the small adjustments that separate a good shot from a great one, and quietly frustrated by how much the equipment could get in the way.
While searching for his own ideal espresso machine, Dennis kept finding the same gap: technically impressive hardware that still left too much to the user. Not enough to ruin the cup — but enough to make every morning feel slightly unpredictable. He believed that gap didn't need to exist.
With that conviction, he brought together engineers who shared his love of coffee and his care for the details most machines overlooked. The result was Meraki's first espresso machine — built around integrated dual scales, a commercial-grade rotary pump, and precise PID temperature control. Each one a quiet answer to the same question: what would it take to make tomorrow morning's cup as good as today's?
Coffee was where Meraki began. But the question underneath it — how do you bring the same care and precision to the things people love in everyday life? — is one we intend to keep asking.
Meraki is a Greek word for doing something with wholehearted love and creativity — putting a piece of yourself into what you make. For us, it describes both why we started and how we work: with an engineer's care for precision, and a genuine belief that everyday things deserve to be excellent.
Meraki is founded.
Four rounds of engineering prototypes completed.
Our first espresso machine launches on Kickstarter, raising nearly US$2 million from more than 1,000 supporters.
First deliveries of our espresso machine.
Awarded the iF DESIGN AWARD Gold.
Introducing Meraki Gen 2.
Over 20,000 machines sold across 40+ countries.
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