Unbottled: A Startup Podcast by Kadeya
Building the Future of Beverage — one sip, one story at a time.
Hosted by Manuela Zoninsein, founder & CEO of Kadeya, Unbottled takes you behind the scenes of building the world’s first closed-loop beverage system—a reusable, refillable, zero-waste alternative to single-use bottles.
In this limited first season, you’ll hear raw, unfiltered conversations with the people rethinking everything we know about water, plastic, and sustainability:
• Founders rewriting the rules of reuse
• Experts exposing myths about recycling and microplastics
• Investors betting on climate hardware
• Workers and operators fueling change from the ground up
From fighting plastic pollution to re-engineering the beverage supply chain, each episode dives into the problems, people, and possibilities behind the bottle.
Because the future of beverage isn’t bottled —
It’s built.
New episodes every Monday.
Unbottled: A Startup Podcast by Kadeya
Part 1 - The Why Behind Kadeya: The Startup Story We Never Share
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Co-founders Manuela Zoninsein and Denis Lussault finally tell the startup story they never share in pitch decks: why Kadeya exists and how their paths—from sustainability, systems thinking, and automation—collided to tackle a $2T single-use problem.
In this episode you'll hear about:
- The spark: convenience vs. sustainability doesn’t have to be a trade-off
- Manuela’s path from China/Brazil to Palantir to water & systems
- Denis’s world of automation—and why moving pallets ≠ real efficiency
- Early Kadeya experiments, first pilots, and the moment it felt “real”
- The big mindset shift: from “just water” to a platform for beverages
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Unbottled shares raw conversations with the people rethinking everything we know about water, plastic, and sustainability. Because the future of beverage isn’t bottled—it’s built. New episodes every Monday.