- M-Cultivo — The software company that runs most of the world’s specialty coffee auctions — including Best of Panama — and briefly ran Cup of Excellence’s before the two parted ways in 2025.
- Nairobi Coffee Exchange — Kenya’s national coffee auction — a weekly public sale on Haile Selassie Avenue that has set the price of Kenyan coffee since the 1930s, catalogues lots by bean size rather than by farm, and pays growers through a state-mandated settlement system.
- SCAP — The Specialty Coffee Association of Panama, which runs the Best of Panama competition and auction.