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Vanessa Palestino

Vanessa Palestino

Vanessa Palestino

Founder/Owner, Hola Coffee

Vanessa Palestino is a second-generation Mexican-American, born and raised in Minnesota. She recently moved back to Minneapolis in 2021 after living in the southwest USA for a decade. She returned to Minneapolis and spent her first two years in the finance technology industry before taking the leap of faith and founding Hola Coffee in 2023.
It started with a conversation among friends and will remain rooted in the idea that we are better when we work together. With this in mind, Hola Coffee was born—a brand whose purpose is to do meaningful work and remain community-centric while supporting fellow women and Latinos worldwide by way of coffee.
Hola Coffee is a Latina and woman-owned, triple-pronged company that stands out in the specialty coffee industry. It sells high-quality, ethically sourced beans from Latino América, both online and in-store. Additionally, it offers a mobile coffee cart service for event rentals and has a brick-and-mortar location in the heart of Northeast Minneapolis that recently opened its doors.
The mission is simple: share stories and bring awareness to the legacy families and organizations in Latino América that have been growing coffee for generations.
Vanessa and the Hola team work closely with like-minded local and international brand partners to ensure that they can uphold this mission from importation to roasting to distribution, down to your first sip.

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