
HeyTea
HeyTea is a Chinese tea shop that specializes in cheese-topped tea and fruit tea.
HeyTea, founded in May, 2015 and headquartered in Shenzhen, is a tea brewing business. Established by Nie Yunchen and Liu Zhichao, the company has received financings from Hill House, Sequoia China, Tencent Investment and so on. Rivals that have direct and indirect competition with HeyTea globally include Starbucks, LeLeCha, Nayuki, Lily brown, etc.
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