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We Mate · Our Story

One Argentinian, two Spaniards, and a can of mate.

The three of us landed in Amsterdam in 2025. Mid-afternoon coffee made us jittery, and the cans already on the shelf gave us a spike and then a crash, so we decided to make our own.

We needed it, so we made it.

Long days and tight deadlines: that was our week. We wanted something to keep us focused without the jitteriness of coffee or the sugar crash of most energy drinks.

We looked everywhere. We already knew mate and what it could do. It was the answer. But what was on the European market wasn't: too sweet, too artificial, and almost always powdered extract, not leaf.

So instead of complaining about it, we decided to fill it ourselves. We Mate was born out of a real need that was our own.

Our story — We Mate founders

Why we built it here

The three of us came for work and stayed. This is where we found a co-packer, suppliers, and people from everywhere willing to try a drink they've never heard of.

The company is registered in Amsterdam and the three of us live here. We tried every version of the recipe between us before we called it finished.

We launched production in the summer of 2026.

Amsterdam — We Mate home
Our principles

What we believe

Three principles we don't compromise on

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Honest ingredients
4–5 ingredients. That's it, nothing you can't pronounce. We started with the question: what's the minimum you need to make this great?
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Made to share
You drink mate in a round, from the same gourd and the same bombilla. The can works the same way: open it, take a sip, pass it on.
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Three mates, one mission
We're not a corporation. We're three friends who couldn't find the mate we wanted, so we made it. It's still the same three of us, and we handle the recipe, the orders and the emails ourselves.
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