50 Best Tea Companies to Watch in 2026

The most prominent tea companies ranked by global prominence, funding activity, and market position. Showing the top 50 out of 524 companies tracked on Fsome.

524
Total Companies
$6.1B
Total Funding
$11.6M
Avg Funding
London
Top Location
# Company Location Employees Total Funding Last Round Last Funded
1
HeyTea
HeyTea is a Chinese tea shop that specializes in cheese-topped tea and fruit te…
Shenzhen 5K - 10K $595.1M Series D 2021-07-14
2
Starbucks
Starbucks is a restaurant chain that serves handcrafted ready-to-drink beverages…
Seattle c 10001 max $2.6B Post Ipo Debt 2025-05-06
3
Knoops
Knoops is a beverage shop that offers chocolate drinks, ice cream, and coffee.
Rye 101 - 250 $16.8M Equity Crowdfunding 2024-09-24
4
The Ryl Company
Ryl Company is a beverage company that produces and specializes in ready-to-drin…
Morristown 51 - 100 $29.2M Series B 2025-04-14
5
Owl's Brew
Owl's Brew believe that tea and botanicals is the base for extraordinary beverag…
New York 11 - 50 $13.7M Series A 2021-08-30
6
Chagee
CHAGEE is a leading premium tea drinks brand, serving healthy and delicious fres…
Chengdu c 10001 max $4.5M Private Equity 2023-03-23
7
FreshDirect
FreshDirect delivers fresh food to residences and offices.
Bronx 5K - 10K $280.0M Private Equity 2016-09-26
8
Tea Drops
Tea Drops is an organic tea company that makes a line of bagless, dissolvable te…
Los Angeles 11 - 50 $7.0M Series Unknown 2023-10-03
9
Ume Tea
Ume Tea is a retail beverage company that sells specialty milk teas, fruit drink…
Cupertino 51 - 100 $12.2M Series A 2025-10-24
10
Loverboy
Loverboy is a gluten-free canned alcoholic beverage made from organic brewed tea…
New York 11 - 50 $4.5M Seed 2022-04-11
11
Westrock Coffee Company
Westrock Coffee Company is a wholesale supplier of coffee, tea, flavors, extract…
Little Rock 1K - 5K $794.0M Post Ipo Debt 2025-11-04
12
Chaayos
Chaayos is a Chai tea cafe chain that leverages technology to serve a personaliz…
New Delhi 501 - 1K $85.5M Series C 2022-06-13
13
Vahdam Teas
Vahdam Teas is a vertically integrated online tea brand from premium garden fres…
New Delhi 101 - 250 $41.8M Series Unknown 2025-03-25
14
Halfday Iced Tea
Halfday Iced Tea is a producer of classic iced tea beverages that provide users …
Blackwood 11 - 50 $3.0M Seed 2022-10-08
15
Chai Point
Chai Point is an omni-channel beverage brand that brings a perfectly brewed cup …
Bangalore 1K - 5K $59.2M Series C 2022-05-09
16
Botrista Technology
Our automated Robot Barista increase beverage incidents and overall profit for F…
San Francisco 101 - 250 $132.5M Series C 2025-05-23
17
LELECHA
LELECHA combines tea and soft European bags to create different brand developmen…
Shanghai 251 - 500 $193.6M Corporate Round 2024-05-29
18
Shaka Tea
Shaka Tea is a beverage company that offers herbal teas all brewed with grown an…
Hilo 1 - 10 $3.1M Series Unknown 2021-12-01
19
MISSION
Mission is a high-growth start-up that inspires the globe to achieve more than i…
London 1 - 10 $5.9M Undisclosed 2026-03-17
20
Teabox
Teabox develops an online platform that offers organic tea and tea-based product…
Darjeeling 101 - 250 $14.0M Series Unknown 2019-07-18
21
Chabaidao
Chabaidao is a tea drink brand that aims to create surprises through product dev…
Chengdu 1K - 5K $140.3M Private Equity 2023-06-09
22
Jasmine Milk White
Jasmine Milk White is a tea shop that provides fresh-made beverages.
Shenzhen 501 - 1K $15.6M Series A 2024-10-09
23
LINLEE
LINLEE is a local beverage brand specializing in making and selling handmade lem…
Guangzhou Series A 2026-01-15
24
Bawang Chaji
Bawang Chaji offers fresh milk tea with organic oolong leaves.
Y├╝nnan $49.1M Series B 2021-10-18
25
BRU AG
Tea at the push of a button
Z├╝rich 1 - 10 $5.6M Seed 2025-02-10
26
Xiao Guan Tea
Xiao Guan Tea is an online tea seller.
Beijing 51 - 100 $23.9M Series C 2019-04-04
27
Bamatea
Bamatea is a large-scale tea enterprise with the integration of a tea plantation…
Shenzhen 1K - 5K $43.6M Series Unknown 2025-02-24
28
Shanghai Auntie
Shanghai Auntie is a beverage chain specializing in made-to-order drinks, includ…
Shanghai 1K - 5K $32.7M Series C 2024-02-18
29
Hoplark
Hoplark is an e-commerce platform that offers brew tea like craft beer.
Boulder 11 - 50 $5.9M Series A 2023-09-14
30
Haus!
Haus! is engaged in the F&B industry with the MTO beverage concept serving tea, …
Jakarta 101 - 250 $2.0M Series B 2022-06-17
31
Kikoko
Kikoko is a cannabis botanical wellness company for women.
Emeryville 11 - 50 $8.0M Series A 2019-11-14
32
Chai Kings
Chai Kings is a teashop and cafe restaurant chain that offers an energizing cup …
Chennai 251 - 500 $4.3M Series A 2025-03-17
33
Teakoe
Teakoe is a tea manufacturer of sustainably-sourced whole leaf, fresh-brewed, an…
Denver 1 - 10 $1.5M Series Unknown 2022-11-01
34
HanTangxu
HanTangxu is a brand that supplies Chinese-style milk tea and also offers refres…
Kunming $51.4M Series A 2023-09-18
35
Evy Tea
Evy Tea is a cold brew tea company that produces flavored organic tea.
Boston 1 - 10 $1.6M Series Unknown 2020-03-06
36
Teforia
Tea Experience for the Modern World
East Rutherford 11 - 50 $17.1M Series A 2016-11-01
37
T
Tea Yue sees the mountain
Tea Yue sees the mountain is the New Chinese tea brand provider.
Jinhua $6.2M Series A 2025-04-15
38
Harry Brompton's Ice Tea
Harry Brompton's London Ice tea is the World's first premium alcoholic Ice Tea.
London 1 - 10 $3.1M Private Equity 2025-04-24
39
CHALI
CHALI is a tea manufacturing brand and professional tea service provider.
Guangzhou 101 - 250 $20.1M Series B 2024-05-30
40
Chai Waale
Chai Waale is an Indian quick-service restaurant chain that operates a tea-focus…
Chennai 101 - 250 $907K Series Unknown 2023-01-01
41
Tiesta Tea
Tiesta Tea is a provider of tea of various flavors that blends to fit every tast…
Chicago 11 - 50 $8.2M Debt Financing 2020-08-10
42
Grandma Deng
Grandma Deng is a handmade milk tea company that specializes in tea drinking tra…
Guangzhou 51 - 100 $7.1M Series B 2025-05-26
43
Malaki
Malaki is a functional beverage brand that offers healthy flavored sparkling dri…
Mumbai 11 - 50 $669K Seed 2025-04-28
44
Goatea
Goatea is a nano-emulsion beverage company that provides iced tea based on GBD n…
Moscow $1.0M Seed 2023-02-01
45
Chayan Yuese
Chayan Yuese is a tea-based drink shop brand.
Changsha 1 - 10 $1.4M Series A 2019-08-30
46
Ning Ji
Ning Ji is a tea brand chain focusing on the production, promotion, R&D, and man…
Changshan 501 - 1K $15.9M Series A 2022-01-21
47
VitaCup
Vitamin & superfood coffee and tea company.
San Diego 11 - 50 $1.2M Seed 2019-09-27
48
Vahdam
Vahdam is an online tea brand that offers a wide variety of premium teas, gifts,…
New Delhi 101 - 250 $292K Series D 2025-03-26
49
Singyin Coffee
Singyin Coffee is a coffee brand that offers diversified and cost-effective tea …
Suzhou $27.0M Series A 2023-05-08
50
Zest Tea
Zest Tea produces high caffeine teas designed for mental clarity and energy.
Baltimore 1 - 10 $1.1M Seed 2021-05-24