Ryan Cheney founded Raaka to explore low-temperature chocolate making and create a more equitable global society in which communities have opportunity to improve their quality of life. After spending a year learning bean-to-bar chocolate making, Ryan teamed up with Nate Hodge to develop a new approach to chocolate making that would become Virgin Chocolate. In 2011, Raaka built its first factory in Clinton Hill with help from their friend Tim Skehan.
USA (Brooklyn, New York)
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