GOCacao
Empowering Everyone to Produce High-Quality Beans
GOcacao’s Cacao Fermentation Optimiser is an affordable, portable device that helps farmers turn cacao pods into premium cacao beans using smart alerts and real-time data analysis.
GOcacao Does 3 Things
Smart Fermentation
Alerts
Notifies users when to aerate cacao beans for optimised fermentation or customised conditions.
Real Time
Monitoring
Provides real time data analytics and fermentation analytics directly to user devices.
Digital Fermentation Passport
Generates downloadable fermentation data for traceability, quality control, and bean certification.
Problems
Smallholder farmers produce 80–90% of the world’s cacao, yet earn as little as 3–6% of the final chocolate value. In Thailand, thousands of smallholders face the same challenge: high effort, low reward.
The biggest bottleneck is fermentation.
Our Story
GOcacao was inspired by our founder (Finn’s) summer job in 2024 at a leading Thai craft chocolatier. Finn was looking for an opportunity to gain some work experience and learn about something we have loved since childhood – chocolate. After numerous visits to cacao farms and fermentation centers, he came to realise the significance of fermentation in determining the value and flavor of cacao.
