We grew up on Texas coffee. These days, we partner with the ones who roast it.
Texas Roasting Partners is a small, Texas-rooted group that partners with independent coffee roasters in Houston and Dallas, the ones built by hand, one bag at a time, that deserve a partner who understands the craft as much as the business.
Three things worth knowing about us.
A letter from the three of us.
All three of us come from family business backgrounds. We grew up watching our own families build their lives around something they owned and ran themselves, a shop, a restaurant, a small operation that lived or died on how well they showed up every day. That's where we get our respect for people who do the same thing, whatever the trade. Between the three of us, our careers took different paths from there: time in the oil field, years in strategy consulting, a career spent structuring deals for owner-operated businesses across the state. But the thing that keeps pulling us back is the same every time, a business built by one or two people's hands and held together by trust, taste, and real craft.
Coffee roasting is one of the last trades in Texas where all of that still shows up in the cup, from the green coffee someone chose to buy to the profile they spent years dialing in. It's the guy who ran the corner shop, the family that owned the same restaurant for three generations, the roaster who knew your order before you said it.
We started Texas Roasting Partners because we kept meeting roasters who had built something real and had nowhere good to take it next. Not a private equity shop looking to strip the name off the bag and fold it into a national brand. Not a competitor circling for market share. Just three people who understand what it takes to turn a garage roaster into a business that people drive across town for.
That's what we're trying to build here. A partner for the next chapter, not an exit dressed up as one.
Because the craft still matters here.
Coffee roasting is one of the few trades left where a single owner still controls the whole chain: which green coffee to buy, how long to develop it on the drum, which cafes are worth the relationship. There's no corporate playbook for a roast profile. That's built one batch at a time, usually by someone who's burned a few along the way.
We respect that. We're not looking to import outside management or tell you how to run a roaster. We're looking for the handful of Houston and Dallas roasters where the owner has built something worth protecting and is starting to think about what comes next, whether that's five years away or five months.
Texas has never built its reputation on chains. It built it on people who show up and do the work themselves. We want to help a few more of them keep doing that.
The three of us.
Texas Roasting Partners is small on purpose. Every roaster we talk to deals directly with one of us, not an associate or a case team.
Kouros Sazegar
PartnerKouros leads sourcing and owner relationships for Texas Roasting Partners, identifying roasters, building the relationship with each owner, and staying involved once a partnership closes. His background spans upstream oil and gas, strategy consulting, and acquisition search across owner-operated Texas businesses. He's also the one most likely to show up fifteen minutes early and order a second cup.
Jaison Thomas
PartnerJaison leads capital and deal structuring for Texas Roasting Partners, working out funding, terms, and the fine print so nothing surprises an owner later. He brings a track record of financing and closing acquisitions of owner-operated businesses across Texas, and he'll take a walk through your roastery over a conference room any day.
Asad Berani
PartnerAsad leads the operating and post-close side for Texas Roasting Partners, making sure the books, wholesale accounts, and day-to-day details hold up once a deal is signed. His background spans operations across small Texas businesses, and he's been known to notice a supply order is off before the roaster does.
Not an exit. A hand on the wheel next to yours.
Every roaster's situation is different, so this isn't a fixed playbook. It usually comes down to a few things we can bring to the table.
Room to keep roasting
Capital and a deal structure built around what you want next, whether that's staying on to run the roastery day to day or handing off the keys entirely.
Help with everything else
Bookkeeping, wholesale accounts, hiring, the parts of running a business that pull an owner away from the drum. We can take those off your plate.
A plan for what's next
Retirement, a health issue, or just wanting your evenings back. We build the transition around your timeline, not a fund's.
Texas didn't build its reputation on chains. It built it on people who show up every day and do the work themselves.
No pitch deck. Just a conversation, preferably over coffee.
Reply to the email that brought you here, or reach out directly. We'll ask about how you built the business before we talk about anything else.