At Best Startup California we track over 300,000 Californian startups and over 1,500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 40 Tea companies in California, United States. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Tea Companies & Startups (California, United States)
Tea Drops
Tea Drops is an organic tea company that makes a line of bagless, dissolvable tea blends.
Founder(s): Sashee Chandran
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Organic, Tea
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Runa
Runa brings clean energy, from using ingredients to how to source & produce great-tasting energy drinks.
Founder(s): Ashok Narasimhan, Dan MacCombie, Robert J. Berger
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Clean Energy, Coffee, E-Commerce, Food Processing, Real Time, Tea
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VitaCup
Vitamin & superfood coffee and tea company.
Founder(s): Brandon Fishman
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Coffee, Food and Beverage, Tea
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Kikoko
Kikoko is a cannabis botanical wellness company for women.
Founder(s): Amanda Jones, Jennifer Chapin
Location: Emeryville, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Health Care, Tea, Wellness
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Teforia Company
Tea Experience for the Modern World
Founder(s): Allen Han, Kris Efland
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Consumer Goods, Food and Beverage, Tea
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Percolate Tea & Coffee
Percolate Tea & Coffee is a tea & coffee manufacturing company.
Founder(s): Jeremy Godsil
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Coffee, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Tea
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Numi Tea
Numi Organic Tea blends premium organic teas and herbs with only 100 percent real ingredients, allowing nature to speak for itself.
Founder(s): Ahmed Rahim, Reem Hassani
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Tea
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Pique Tea
The World’s First Premium Instant Tea. Real Flavor. Powerful Benefits. Pure Ingredients.
Founder(s): Simon Cheng
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Consumer Goods, Food and Beverage, Tea
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The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf is a Los Angeles-based company that offers coffee, tea, and tweeting – all brewed fresh daily.
Founder(s): Mona Hyman
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Coffee, Tea
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Boba Guys
Boba Guys operates cafes that offer boba milk beverages.
Founder(s): Andrew Chau, Bin Chen
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Snack Food, Tea
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Camellia Labs
Chime is the chai maker that fuses the traditional, hand-crafted process of making chai.
Founder(s): Gaurav Chawla, Samip Bhavsar
Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Industries: Tea
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Harris Freeman
Harris Freeman is a global distributor of tea, coffee, & spices to industrial food manufacturers, retailers, and foodservice suppliers.
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Location: Anaheim, California, United States
Industries: Farmers Market, Food and Beverage, Tea, Wholesale
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7 Leaves Cafe
7 Leaves Cafe is a tea room that serves coffee, tea, and goodness in every cup, every community.
Founder(s): Denny Ly, Sonny Nguyen
Location: Garden Grove, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Tea
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Javo Beverage
Javo Beverage is a innovative coffee and tea based, drink mix and dispenser system.
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Location: Vista, California, United States
Industries: Coffee, Tea
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Teas With Meaning
Teas With Meaning is an organic loose leaf and bottled tea blend company.
Founder(s): Kamilah Mitchell
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Organic, Tea
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Aiya America
Aiya America is a producer of Japanese matcha green tea.
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Location: Torrance, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Tea
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Sencha Naturals
Our mission is to go “Beyond the Tea Bag” with our Green Tea breath mints and Green Tea + C effervescent drink mix.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Tea
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IGZU
The world’s first bottled bamboo leaf tea.
Founder(s): Courtney McCoy, Zachary Anderson
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Grocery, Organic, Organic Food, Tea
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Uncle Lee’s Teas
Uncle Lee’s Teas is a tea manufacturing and distribution company.
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Location: South El Monte, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Tea
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Beyond the Grind
Beyond the Grind renders a complete coffee house services like paper cups, dairy items, coffee equipment and maintenance services.
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Location: Anaheim, California, United States
Industries: Delivery Service, Food and Beverage, Tea
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Higher Tea
Higher Tea is a small start up and the single link between tea growers and you, the tea drinker.
Founder(s): Sophie Howard
Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Tea
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Spice Traders Teas
Spice Traders & Teas offers personal blends of teas and spices.
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Location: Upland, California, United States
Industries: Consumer, E-Commerce, Tea
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Homelody
Homelody ist ein deutscher Hersteller von Sanitärprodukten.
Founder(s): Bui Thi Kim Anh, homelody ning
Location: Santee, California, United States
Industries: Home Improvement, Tea
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Barrington Tea Inc
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Location: Fremont, California, United States
Industries: Food Processing, Tea
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Silk Road Teas
Silk Road Teas is known as a purveyor of rare and artisan teas from China.
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Location: San Rafael, California, United States
Industries: Tea
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Chado Tea
Chadotea.com is the official internet order site for the Chado Tea Room.
Founder(s): Devan Shah, Reena Shah, Tekeste Mehreteab
Location: Commerce, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Tea
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KitTea
A tea house oasis for cats and cat lovers, coming soon to San Francisco!
Founder(s): Courtney Hatt
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Tea
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BREWnGO Technologies
Automatic and portable coffee and tea brewer. Aimed to replace Keurig with a personalized, high quality, and portable brewer. No waste
Founder(s): Alexander Boone, Raphael Lozano
Location: Walnut, California, United States
Industries: Coffee, Consumer Goods, Tea
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Amla Green
Amla Green provides an antioxidant tea blend utilizing Amla.
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Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Tea, Wellness
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EnjoyingTea
EnjoyingTea.com is a leading online retailer of quality tea, teabags, teapots, tea sets, and tea accessories.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Internet, Tea
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Teapop
Teapop is a tea bar and art gallery that offers hand-crafted loose leaf tea drinks and coffee services.
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Location: North Hollywood, California, United States
Industries: Coffee, Events, Tea
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Calistoga Roastery
Calistoga Roastery is a Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf firm which sells widely acclaimed, high-quality, hand-roasted coffee across the country.
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Location: Calistoga, California, United States
Industries: Coffee, Food and Beverage, Tea
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The Brick Your Neighborhood Deli
The Brick Your Neighborhood Deli offers made-to-order sandwiches & salads featuring the freshest ingredients available.
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Location: Pomona, California, United States
Industries: Coffee, Hospitality, Organic, Restaurants, Tea
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Leaves and Flowers
Leaves and Flowers is a California-based tea company offering a selection of handcrafted botanical infusions & premium small-batch teas.
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Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Tea, Wholesale
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Lattes on Location
Lattes on Location offers refined and delicious coffee beverages, baked goods, flavoured milk, and tea to meetings and events.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Catering, Coffee, Confectionery, Tea
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The TeaBook
The TeaBook offers an extensive collection of herbal and organic tea.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Retail, Tea
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AdventureTea
The Indiana Jones of tea sourcing.
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Location: Culver City, California, United States
Industries: Adventure Travel, Tea, Travel
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EnlighTea Cafe
EnlighTea Cafe manufactures and sells a broad array of tea, leaf teas, and beverages as well as offers e-commerce facilities.
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Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Tea
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International Tea Sippers Society
International Tea Sippers Society is a internet community.
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Location: Nevada City, California, United States
Industries: Communities, Internet, Tea
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Caffe D’Vita
Caffe D’Vita is a food & beverages company.
Founder(s):
Location: Chino, California, United States
Industries: Coffee, Food and Beverage, Food Delivery, Tea
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