Tyler Youngblood

Tyler Youngblood is the co-founder of Azahar, a Colombia-based coffee company committed to reimagining and redefining the way coffee is grown, processed and distributed globally. Azahar is now a line of single-origin coffees traceable to individual farmers across Colombia. He organized local and international financing to build a roasting facility in Colombia, allowing Azahar to keep the majority of the coffee’s final value in the country where it was grown. Today, Azahar and its 20 full-time employees purchase more than 400 tons of coffee per year from more than 500 producers, boosting their incomes by 50 to 70 percent while providing technical assistance to continue improving their farms’ operations.