Adaptogenic Mushroom Coffee Brand Peak State Wins Pitch Slam 2023

Naturally Boulder, a 501(c)(6) non-profit founded in 2005 to promote natural and organic businesses,
recently held its eighteenth annual Pitch Slam. Five companies competed in the Shark Tank-esque event by presenting their sale pitch for a panel of judges, and first prize went to Peak State Coffee, a Boulder-based business that infuses coffee with adaptogenic mushrooms.

Founded in 2020, Peak State sources fair trade, sustainably grown coffee and uses a patent-pending process to infuse whole beans with functional mushrooms like reishi, lion’s mane, chaga and cordyceps.

Co-founder and CEO Danny Walsh started Peak State to make the health benefits of mushrooms more accessible. As a coffee lover, he found that while many mushroom coffees offered on the market delivered health benefits,…