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Quickly Benicia
QuicklyBenicia.com
A Filipino-forward boba shop and community gathering place in Benicia, California.
Owned and Operated by Boba Halo Joint Ventures & Consulting
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A Bay Area Founder-Led Operating Company
We build brands people gather around.
A portfolio built around culture, community, and commerce.
Boba Halo Joint Ventures & Consulting is the parent company behind a growing portfolio of food, beverage, apparel, media, event, cultural, and digital properties created by brothers Paul Andre de Vera and Lloyd de Vera.
Paul Andre & Lloyd de Vera — Quickly Benicia
Company Quick Facts
- Trading name:
- Boba Halo Joint Ventures & Consulting
- Legal entity:
- Boba Halo LLC
- Founders:
- Paul Andre de Vera and Lloyd de Vera
- Headquarters:
- Benicia, California
- Office:
- 822 Southampton Rd, Benicia, CA 94510
- Contact:
- bobahalohalo@gmail.com
- Company type:
- Founder-led operating company and venture studio
- Core sectors:
- Food and beverage, events, apparel, retail, media, community platforms, and digital properties
- Geographic focus:
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Flagship business:
- Quickly Benicia
- Portfolio model:
- Owned businesses, brands, event properties, digital assets, and founder-legacy ventures
- Partnership interests:
- Sponsorships, vendors, licensing, media, real estate, acquisitions, strategic capital, and joint ventures
Our Businesses, Brands, Events, and Digital Properties
- Quickly Benicia
- Ilocos Empanadas
- Lumpianadas
- Boba Places
- Henny & Lumpia
- Boba and Cars
- RIP Clothing
- Filthy Dripped
- Filipino Day
- Pinays
- Vintageers
- Uberita
One company. Multiple ways to build culture into commerce.
Businesses
Physical locations, food concepts, hospitality, direct-to-consumer products, and retail built to serve real communities.
Brands
Distinct intellectual properties with cultural relevance, licensing potential, and authentic audience connections.
Experiences
Events, activations, sponsorships, community programs, and live entertainment that create lasting memories and business value.
Platforms
Media properties, directories, marketplaces, community websites, and digital assets that generate ongoing audience and revenue.
Portfolio
A portfolio built around culture, community, and commerce.
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Lumpianadas
Lumpianadas.com
A proprietary Filipino fusion food concept combining the portability of lumpia with the structure of an empanada.
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Ilocos Empanadas
IlocosEmpanadas.com
A dedicated brand and web property focused on Ilocos-style empanadas and Filipino regional food culture.
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Boba Places
BobaPlaces.com
A digital destination for discovering boba shops, drinks, reviews, trends, events, and local boba culture.
Boba Halo Joint Ventures & Consulting Digital Property
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Boba and Cars
BobaandCars.com
A Bay Area community event bringing together automotive culture, boba, food, music, creators, and local businesses.
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Filipino Day
Filipino.Day
A flexible cultural platform for Filipino celebrations, community events, festivals, content, and partnerships.
Boba Halo Joint Ventures & Consulting Event Property
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Henny and Lumpia
HennyandLumpia.com
A bold Filipino-American lifestyle brand combining humor, nightlife, food, community, and streetwear culture.
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Filthy Dripped
FilthyDripped.com
A Bay Area streetwear business built by the De Vera brothers, combining apparel, retail, e-commerce, music culture, and community.
De Vera Brothers Founder Legacy
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Pinays
Pinays.com
A premium digital platform celebrating Filipina identity, creators, entrepreneurs, stories, style, food, careers, culture, and community.
Paul Andre de Vera Owned Property
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Built by brothers. Powered by complementary strengths.
PA
Paul Andre de Vera
Corporate Strategy, Marketing, Media, and Influence
Paul Andre de Vera is a 20-year marketing veteran, Bay Area entrepreneur, creator, influencer, media producer, photographer, and licensed California Realtor. He has spent two decades building brands, audiences, search visibility, content programs, and digital growth strategies for both global technology companies and businesses he personally founded. His career includes work connected to SAP SuccessFactors, SmartRecruiters, Anaplan, Workday, Dropbox DocSend, Stripe, and other technology ventures. Paul has built a personal brand followed by tens of thousands of people across social platforms.
Key Strengths
- 20+ years of corporate and enterprise marketing experience
- Experience connected to global technology companies
- SEO, AEO, content, media, growth, and brand strategy
- Tens of thousands of personal-brand followers
- Executive, creator, marketing, and technology relationships
- Professional communications and scalable campaign development
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Lloyd de Vera
Bay Area Culture, Organizational Leadership, Operations, and Community Influence
Lloyd de Vera is a Bay Area entrepreneur, respected local street-culture influencer, and experienced organizational leader. His background combines authentic community relationships with formal leadership experience as a Facility Administrator (FA) at DaVita, where the role centers on facility operations, multidisciplinary team leadership, staffing, quality standards, regulatory compliance, financial accountability, and teammate development.
Key Strengths
- Respected within Bay Area street and local business culture
- Leadership experience as a Facility Administrator at DaVita
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams in a regulated healthcare setting
- Operational accountability involving staffing, quality standards, compliance, and financial responsibilities
- Trusted relationships across apparel, music, food, automotive, retail, and local business communities
- Hands-on event, vendor, fulfillment, hospitality, and customer-experience expertise
The Combined Advantage
“Paul brings corporate marketing strategy and boardroom credibility. Lloyd brings Bay Area cultural influence, formal organizational leadership, and operational discipline. Together, Boba Halo Joint Ventures & Consulting creates opportunities that are professionally structured, locally trusted, culturally relevant, and built to perform.”
Paul brings:
Corporate credibility, strategic marketing, executive communication, digital reach, media, and scalable growth.
Lloyd brings:
Street-culture credibility, local trust, healthcare leadership, team development, compliance-minded operations, and community relationships.
The Network
A Bay Area network built through real businesses and real community participation.
Our relationships span entrepreneurs, local businesses, restaurants, boba shops, automotive communities, Filipino organizations, artists, DJs, creators, marketers, technology leaders, photographers, vendors, property owners, and event producers.
We do not simply market to communities. We build with them.
Bay Area Business
Filipino Community
Food & Beverage
Automotive Culture
Music & Nightlife
Creators
Technology
Events
Real Estate
Retail & Apparel
Media & Marketing
Why Companies Work With Us
Corporate credibility meets Bay Area street-culture influence.
Corporate-to-Culture Bridge
Paul's enterprise and corporate experience, combined with Lloyd's Bay Area street-culture credibility, allows Boba Halo Joint Ventures & Consulting to translate between executives, brands, creators, operators, and communities without losing professionalism or authenticity.
Community Credibility
We have authentic relationships with the communities our businesses serve. This trust cannot be manufactured — it is built through years of real participation and local business ownership.
Brand Building
We create names, stories, identities, content, audiences, and customer demand. Our portfolio spans food, apparel, events, media, and digital properties.
Leadership and Accountability
Lloyd's Facility Administrator experience at DaVita strengthens Boba Halo Joint Ventures & Consulting's ability to lead teams, manage operating standards, work within regulated environments, and maintain accountability across complex initiatives.
Events and Activations
We create physical experiences that connect sponsors with customers — from BOBA & CARS Championship Showdowns to Filipino cultural events and apparel launches.
Media and Distribution
We produce photography, video, interviews, livestreams, social content, and digital campaigns. Paul's personal brand reaches tens of thousands of followers across platforms.
Operations
We understand staffing, vendors, service, inventory, logistics, and real-world execution — because we run actual businesses and events.
Portfolio Opportunities
Partners can work with one brand or activate across multiple Boba Halo Joint Ventures & Consulting properties, audiences, and physical touchpoints.
In the News
Recent coverage, launches, and company announcements
Boba Halo Joint Ventures & Consulting's newsroom includes independent media mentions as well as company-issued press releases distributed through third-party news networks. Each entry is labeled by source type.
Press Release
The best Filipino streetwear brand just dropped its Spring/Summer 2026 collection, and it's built on culture, not trends
Henny & Lumpia introduced a seven-design Spring/Summer 2026 collection rooted in Filipino-American humor, history, identity, and Bay Area production, with a launch event at Quickly Benicia.
AP News
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Quickly Benicia Hosts BOBA & CARS Championship Showdown With 20-Inch Best of Show Trophy
The announcement introduced the bi-annual BOBA & CARS Championship Showdown, combining a community-voted car show, Filipino-fusion food, a 20-inch trophy, and a lumpia eating contest.
NewsBlaze
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SEO veteran Paul Andre de Vera launches SearchQualityRater.com, a free content quality checker built on Google's own Search Quality Rater Guidelines
Paul Andre de Vera launched a free tool that evaluates content against Google's Search Quality Rater Guidelines and provides recommendations related to quality, trust, E-E-A-T, SEO, and AI-search readiness.
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Read on WordsJournalSponsorships + Event Growth
Put your brand inside the culture — not outside looking in.
Boba Halo Joint Ventures & Consulting helps companies reach Bay Area audiences through event sponsorships, owned media, email and mobile outreach, social content, creator relationships, physical locations, community partnerships, and on-site brand experiences.
Across the founders' businesses, customer communities, personal brands, and event properties, Boba Halo Joint Ventures & Consulting can promote campaigns through a collective audience that includes tens of thousands of email and mobile contacts, followers, customers, creators, and community relationships.
Sponsors and clients receive audience access through Boba Halo Joint Ventures & Consulting-managed campaigns. Boba Halo Joint Ventures & Consulting does not sell or hand over raw customer email or phone lists. All outreach must follow applicable consent, opt-out, privacy, and messaging requirements.
Path 1
Sponsor Our Events
Reach culturally engaged Bay Area audiences through events such as BOBA & CARS, Quickly Benicia activations, Filipino cultural programming, apparel launches, and future Boba Halo properties.
View Sponsorship OpportunitiesPath 2
Hire Us to Market Your Event
Bring Boba Halo Joint Ventures & Consulting into an external event as a marketing, promotion, media, and content partner. From strategy to same-day coverage to post-event reporting.
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Ways to work with Boba Halo LLC
We welcome conversations across every vertical we touch — from a single event sponsorship to a multi-property partnership or strategic venture.
Start a ConversationStrategic brand partnerships
Event sponsorships
Vendor opportunities
Food and beverage collaborations
Apparel collaborations
Licensing
Media partnerships
Creator campaigns
Venue partnerships
Real estate opportunities
Acquisition opportunities
Strategic collaborations
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Boba Halo LLC
Boba Halo Joint Ventures & Consulting is a Bay Area founder-led operating company and venture studio owned by brothers Paul Andre de Vera and Lloyd de Vera. It develops and operates businesses, brands, events, media properties, and digital assets across food, beverage, apparel, retail, culture, and technology.
Bring us the opportunity. We will bring the brand, audience, operations, and network.
Reach Bay Area communities authentically. Work with a team that bridges corporate strategy and cultural credibility.