Private company

Counter Culture Coffee

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American coffee roasting company

Counter Culture Coffee is a Durham, North Carolina–based coffee roasting company founded in 1995. It has regional training locations in Asheville, North Carolina; Atlanta; Boston; Charleston, South Carolina; Chicago; Dallas; Durham, North Carolina; Emeryville, California; Los Angeles; Miami; New York City; and Washington, D.C. Counter Culture training centers provide education in the fundamentals of preparing and serving coffee and serve as classrooms and event spaces.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1995Founded1

Counter Culture Coffee is a Durham, North Carolina–based coffee roasting company founded in 1995. It has regional training locations in Asheville, North Carolina; Atlanta; Boston; Charleston, South Carolina; Chicago; Dallas; Durham, North Carolina; Emeryville, California; Los Angeles; Miami; New York City; and Washington, D.C. Counter Culture training centers provide education in the fundamentals of preparing and serving coffee and serve as classrooms and event spaces.2

Products and brands

  • coffee bean

Listed on Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 1995Founded Founded1

Funding

Where the company's money came from, by calendar year: private offerings filed with the SEC, federal grants, loans, contracts and other assistance from USAspending.gov, and PPP loans from the SBA. Each bar links to the records below.

Money received by year$1.3M 2020–2020
Money received by yearMoney received by year, 2020–2020: $1.3M in all. PPP loans $1.3M.$0$500K$1M$1.5M2020 · PPP loans: $1.3M2020
Figures by year
YearPPP loansTotal
2020$1.3M$1.3M

PPP loans

Paycheck Protection Program loans of $150,000 and up, approved April 2020 to July 2021, from the SBA4. Matched to this company by name and state.

  1. Apr 29, 2020$1.3M PPP loan (first draw) from First National Bank of Pennsylvania4To COUNTER CULTURE COFFEE, INC., Durham NC; $1.4M forgiven Apr 27, 2021