Case Study: Blank Street achieves rapid expansion to 40 locations and raises $94M with A.Team's custom coffee app

How Blank Street scaled from to 40 locations and raised $94M with a custom coffee app

Blank Street began as a single coffee cart in Williamsburg with founders Vinay Menda and Issam Freiha aiming to marry specialty coffee quality with the speed and convenience of a chain. Lacking in-house technical expertise, a limited startup budget, and the diverse skills needed for fintech, real-time services, and onboarding, they needed a custom order-ahead mobile app and a partner who could integrate tightly with operations — so they turned to A.Team to build that product.

A.Team rapidly assembled a core product team and delivered a cross-platform order-ahead app with single-click ordering, drink readiness notifications, loyalty rewards, POS integration, and scalable backend services. Over three years A.Team scaled with Blank Street, helping grow the business from one cart to 40 locations, contributing to a $94M funding round, and delivering a 4.9 App Store rating from 6,300+ reviews — all at substantially lower cost than competing agencies.

Blank Street

Issam Freiha

Founder