Coffee town meets its matcha: Robots help power ex-Axon leader’s Seattle beverage startup Vale

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Luke Larson is buzzing about matcha and his plans to build Vale into a Seattle-born beverage empire — think Starbucks, but make it matcha — scaling from a handful of local cafes and mobile bars to a nationwide network of thousands of automated machines. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/coffee-town-meets-its-matcha-robots-help-power-ex-axon-leaders-seattle-beverage-startup-vale/">Read More