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
Investing in Supply Chain Transformation, with Co-Founders of REFASHIOND Ventures
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The beverage supply chain wasn’t built for sustainability.
It was built for scale, speed, and disposability.
In this episode of Unbottled, Manuela sits down with Brian Laung Aoaeh and Lisa Morales-Hellebo, early Kadeya investors and supply chain operators, to break down how today’s beverage infrastructure actually works — and why single-use bottles became the default.
Together, they unpack what most consumers never see: the hidden logistics, costs, and inefficiencies behind bottled beverages — from extraction and manufacturing to long-haul transport, waste, and landfill.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- Why Refashiond Ventures built a thesis around investing in early-stage companies that are refashioning global supply chains and transforming industries.
- How the traditional beverage supply chain was designed — and where it breaks down
- Why recycling was never designed to handle beverage volumes at scale
- How on-site production at point-of-service changes the economics of beverages
- Why fixing waste requires disruption and rebuilding systems — not consumer guilt
Brian and Lisa also share why they chose to invest in Kadeya — and why they believe the future of beverages will be decentralized, circular, and built closer to where people actually drink.
Because when you understand the supply chain, you realize the problem was never the bottle — it was the system around it.
💧 Unbottled is brought to you by Kadeya, building closed-loop beverage systems for a world beyond single-use.
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Follow & Support Refashiond Ventures:
Website: https://www.refashiond.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/refashiondvc/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/refashiond/
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Follow Brian Laung Aoaeh
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/industrialsystemsengineeringandtransformationandsupplychaintechnology/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brianlaungaoaeh/?hl=en
Follow Lisa Morales-Hellebo:
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/supplychainlocalization/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lisahellebo/?hl=en
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Follow Kadeya:
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kdy/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kadeya.club/
Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kadeya.club
Website: https://www.kadeya.com/
Invest in Kadeya on Wefunder: https://wefunder.com/kadeya
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Follow Manuela:
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuelasweb/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/manuelasweb/
Substack: https://manuelazoninsein.substack.com/<