teaBOT
Canadian company offering a robotic loose-leaf tea dispenser for offices and corporate spaces, enabling custom tea blending via touchscreen or smartphone app.
teaBOT is a Canadian robotics company founded in 2013 by Rehman Merali and Brian Lee, headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The company designs and operates robotic kiosks that dispense custom-blended loose-leaf tea on demand, allowing users to select ingredients, blend ratios, steep strength, and water temperature through a touchscreen interface or smartphone. The system produces a freshly blended cup of loose-leaf tea in under 30 seconds, making it suitable for high-traffic corporate and commercial environments.
teaBOT participated in Y Combinator's Summer 2015 accelerator cohort and launched its first permanent installation at the University of Toronto following the program. The company operates on an amenity-as-a-service model: rather than selling kiosk hardware outright, teaBOT places machines in offices, showrooms, and retail environments while generating recurring revenue through the sale of tea consumables. Corporate clients including Google, HubSpot, and McKinsey have deployed teaBOT kiosks as part of workplace amenity programs designed to improve employee experience and office attendance.
The company has also expanded into Canadian grocery retail, with Organic Garage becoming the first Canadian grocer to partner with teaBOT. teaBOT has established operations in markets beyond Toronto, including Chicago and San Francisco, while maintaining its headquarters and primary operations in Canada. The machine's software platform allows users to save and share their custom tea blend recipes, creating a community element around the product.
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teaBOT
App-controlled robotic machine brewing custom loose-leaf tea cups in under 30 seconds.
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