KAIA was born from a love for the Amazon and a conviction that its ingredients deserve a place on the world’s finest shelves. Our founders spent years traveling through riverside communities, learning from local harvesters, and tasting fruits that most of the world had never heard of.

What started as curiosity became a mission: to build a company that respects the forest, empowers its people, and delivers unmatched quality to global partners.

One of those journeys took us deep into Maués, Amazonas — the ancestral home of guaraná — where we met Luca, a chocolatier and son of the river. For years he had been coaxing wild cacao, native guaraná and forest fruits into bars, powders and shots that tasted like the Amazon itself. His obsession with purity, his respect for the harvesters, and his refusal to compromise became the DNA of KAIA.

Today, Luca’s craft lives inside KAIA. So does the work of the families who harvest our castanha-do-Brasil, the freeze-dry lab that locks in every anthocyanin, and the cooperatives that steward the forest. Different rivers, one estuary. Under KAIA, they move as one company — one story, one standard, one origin.

In 2026, that story crosses a new border. KAIA is coming to Canada — carrying every hand, every harvest and every heartbeat of the Amazon with it.