We Are Live! Momentum Coffee Launches Community Capital Raise to Keep Chicago’s Neighborhoods Brewing

Momentum Coffee — Chicago’s mission-driven, community-rooted coffee shop — has officially launched our capital raise, now LIVE for community investors. This raise is designed to keep dollars local, protect jobs, and fuel the future of neighborhood-based small business.

For five years, Momentum Coffee has stood for more than great coffee. We’ve been a training ground for young workers, a hub for entrepreneurs, and a welcoming space where community, creativity, and opportunity are brewed daily. Through multiple Chicago locations and dozens of local hires, Momentum has become a model for what community-centered retail can look like.

Today, we’re inviting our community to help us preserve and expand that mission by investing in our Honeycomb Credit capital raise — now officially live — an initiative that directly supports Chicago’s neighborhoods and the small business ecosystem we serve.

Why Momentum Coffee Is Raising Capital Now

Chicago small businesses are facing unprecedented pressure — rising commercial rents, increasing labor costs, and higher prices from suppliers. Like so many community-based operators, Momentum Coffee is navigating these realities while staying committed to our mission: local hiring, workforce development, community impact, and access to real economic opportunity.

To continue providing jobs, stabilizing storefronts, and serving as a launchpad for future entrepreneurs, we are raising capital to:

• Protect and sustain our current Momentum Coffee locations
• Expand Momentum Coffee at Home, including roasting, packaged beans, pods, and gift products
• Strengthen the Build Momentum Food Incubator, supporting emerging small businesses
• Build more stable pathways for young workers entering the hospitality field
• Keep dollars circulating within Chicago’s neighborhoods

This raise allows supporters to invest directly in a small business they believe in — not through donations, but through an interest-bearing investment with a clear community return.

What This Raise Means for Chicago

Momentum Coffee is more than a café — it’s an example of what’s possible when a business is built with intention, purpose, and people at the center. Over the years, we’ve:

• Created hundreds of jobs for local residents
• Served as a first employer for many Chicago youth
• Offered space and support for small entrepreneurs
• Launched the Build Momentum Food Incubator
• Demonstrated the real value of a mission-first business model

This raise ensures that these programs not only continue but expand.

By investing in Momentum, supporters help:

• Keep community spaces open
• Strengthen workforce pathways
• Support neighborhood economic stability
• Ensure a Black-owned, mission-driven business remains a pillar in Chicago

How the Community Can Invest

The Momentum Coffee capital raise is hosted through Honeycomb Credit, a platform designed for everyday community investors. You don’t need to be wealthy or accredited — anyone can join.

This structure allows supporters to:

• Invest directly in Momentum Coffee
• Earn a competitive return
• Know that their dollars stay local and fuel real impact

Unlike traditional crowdfunding, this is not a donation campaign. It is a community-powered investment that keeps ownership local and strengthens Chicago’s small business ecosystem.

Why People Are Investing in Momentum Coffee

Investors are supporting Momentum because:

• We are proven operators with multiple successful locations
• Our mission is tied directly to economic justice and community development
• We build workforce pipelines for young people
• Our business model reaches underserved neighborhoods
• We are committed to uplifting small business owners through our incubator and partnerships
• Momentum Coffee represents the future of purpose-driven retail

When you invest in Momentum, you’re investing in:

• More jobs
• More entrepreneurs
• More community partnerships
• Stronger neighborhood economies
• A Chicago brand that stands for people, purpose, and possibility

Join Us: We Are Live — Invest in Momentum Coffee Today

Momentum Coffee has always been rooted in community. Now, community members have the opportunity to become part of the story in a deeper way.

If you believe in local business…
If you want your dollars to make a difference…
If you want to help Chicago’s neighborhoods thrive…

We Are Live — and this is your moment.

Invest in the Momentum Coffee Honeycomb campaign here: https://invest.honeycombcredit.com/campaigns/Momentum-Coffee

Together, we’ll keep brewing opportunity — one cup, one job, and one neighborhood at a time

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