We are a team of engineers and designers who love tea.

We believe that there’s a perfect cup of tea for each person and we want to help you find it. We partner with top tea suppliers and farms to provide the best ingredients to allow our customers to create their perfect cup. As a team of engineers and designers, we built a robot for offices and showrooms that want to provide this amazing experience to their staff and guests.

teaBOT allows you to create and order a custom cup of loose-leaf tea at the touch of a button. Tea lovers control every aspect of their tea on the touch screen or their smartphone, including the percentage of each ingredient, the strength and even temperature. Whether trying new flavors, reordering a favorite, or enjoying a friend’s blend, teaBOT guides you in creating a great blend using data from the thousands of blends created using our platform. Our users can also order their custom blend online to enjoy at home. We also share the most popular blends on our website for everyone to enjoy.

teaBOT was founded in 2013 by Rehman Merali and Brian Lee to make tea fun and customizable. We began with an idea to make retail tea more convenient, but by 2015 we discovered that providing teaBOT as an amenity allowed tea lovers to get more creative with their blends. This creativity has led to nearly one million cups served in countries across North America and Europe.

In our founding years, teaBOT benefited from several amazing business accelerators, including Rotman’s Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) at the University of Toronto, the MaRS JOLT incubator, the Start@UTIAS program and Y Combinator. In addition, we have benefitted from the tremendous support and investment from some incredible angel investors and institutional investors, including: Ontario Center for Excellence, MaRS IAF,  Qualcomm Ventures, Relay Ventures, Cohen Private Ventures, Lofty Ventures, iNovia Capital, Garage VC, and Y Combinator.