Primary Job Title Founder & CEO Primary Organization 
Four Sigmatic
Location Austin, Texas, United States Regions Southern US Gender Male
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Tero Isokauppila, the founder of Four Sigmatic, is on a mission to make medicinal mushrooms, some of the world’s most researched superfoods, more accessible to everyone. Isokauppila founded Four Sigmatic in 2012, and its products are now sold in more than 25 countries. In 2015, the company launched in the U.S. and relocated its headquarters to Los
Angeles. Four Sigmatic’s functional mushroom coffees, hot cacaos, and elixirs are sold at retailers nationwide, including Whole Foods and other natural grocers, as well as online at FourSigmatic.com and through online health websites like Thrive Market.
Born in Finland to an agronomist father and nursing-teacher mother, Isokauppila grew up on a farm his family has owned since 1619. There, he foraged for mushrooms and other wild foods while learning about the natural food space at an early age. Following his early education on the farm, Isokauppila later completed a degree in chemistry and a certificate in plant-based nutrition at Cornell University. In 2006, he won a Finnish innovation award for discovering that the sought-after Japanese culinary matsutake mushrooms also grow in Finland.
