Corey Waldron, a barista and roaster, and Aric Forbing, a machine pattern engineer, set out to build an espresso machine that sits beneath the counter. La Marzocco's then CEO, Kent Bakke, made a small investment in 2007 to fund development, and Modbar LLC was formed on 1 March 2012.
Serial production began in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 2013 and moved to Florence, Italy, in 2017.
