Enveritas

Enveritas offers a new approach to sustainability assurance for companies and farmers. We are building sustainability solutions for smallholder coffee farming communities that are currently beyond the reach of existing certification and verification approaches. YC S18. 

Do you want to work for a mission-driven non-profit, working to improve the livelihoods of coffee farmers around the world? Enveritas is looking to hire. View our open positions on Greenhouse.

Feel free to contact us at [email protected] should you have any questions about a position or our interview process — we’d love to hear from you. Note that Enveritas has been made aware of fake job postings by individuals pretending to hire persons seeking employment. These individuals are looking to collect personal information for the purpose of perpetrating fraud or stealing your identity. All emails from Enveritas team members will come from @enveritas.org.

Enveritas provides sustainability assurance for the coffee industry. We visit smallholder coffee farms around the world to understand their social, economic, and environmental practices. In 2024, we will visit nearly 100,000 farms across more than 25 countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. We work with leading coffee roasters to understand the sustainability issues in their supply chain based on our sustainability standards.

We value impact, innovation, integrity, collegiality, and humility. Everything we work on is in service of our mission: gaining a deeper understanding of today’s most pressing sustainability challenges and helping the poorest coffee farmers out of poverty. Having such a clear mission makes the work we do meaningful and rewarding, and that makes being a part of the team immensely satisfying.

We work with leading coffee roasters to understand the sustainability issues in their supply chain, based on our sustainability standards. Coffee roasters pay for these assessments, not coffee farmers. This provides a more inclusive approach that allows smallholder farmers to participate in sustainability-based export markets that they may otherwise be shut out from.

Coffee companies receive a responsible sourcing claim from Enveritas if they fulfill three steps: undertake an independent assessment of their supply chain on an annual basis for sustainability issues, work on these issues proportionally to the coffee purchases of the company, and conduct an independent evaluation of their efforts to create impact.

We believe this represents a pragmatic approach with integrity that offers a path to protect the environment and improve the livelihoods of coffee farmers.