We believe that community, fun, and innovation are essential to the future of work.
Our tea-making robot helps transform offices and showrooms into hubs of creativity, collaboration, and well-being. We offer this Amenity-as-a-Service to offices across North America to help their workspaces thrive.
Whether you are recruiting new employees, retaining existing staff, or welcoming team members back into the office, teaBOT is a fun way to build community. Our users tell us how they love starting their day with this ritual, exploring new blends, and sharing their favorites with their colleagues. teaBOT can also help attract valued customers to your showroom or lounge by serving as a captivating focal point, sparking discussions and signaling your company’s commitment to innovation.
teaBOT was founded in 2013 to make loose-leaf tea fun, convenient, and customizable.
We began with an idea to make retail tea more convenient.
By 2015, we discovered that providing teaBOT as an amenity for offices and showrooms allowed tea lovers to get more creative with their blends and tapped into teaBOT’s ability to bring people together. In 2015, Chris Deutsch joined the team, first as an investor and then as a re-founder to help guide the company’s strategic direction.
After receiving strong interest from offices, we decided to fully dive into the office market with this Amenity-as-a-Service, and have been bringing people together over a cup of tea ever since! Our journey has led us to see nearly one million cups served in countries across North America and Europe.
In our founding years, teaBOT benefited from several amazing business accelerators, including the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), the MaRS JOLT incubator, the Start@UTIAS program and Y Combinator. We have been thankful to have the valuable support and investment of 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.
Rehman has a background in robotics (a PhD in Aerospace Robotics from the University of Toronto and a Mechatronics Engineering degree from the University of Waterloo) that enabled him to build the original teaBOTs and build the team that brought our product to market. Rehman now oversees product and business development at teaBOT.
Chris Deutsch has spent over 25 years starting up, investing in and working with early-stage, venture-backed startups in ecommerce, web and mobile applications, enterprise software, and consumer products. Chris invested in teaBOT in 2015 and has been the company’s biggest fan ever since. Chris has since joined as our Re-Founder to help guide the company’s strategic direction.