Lambda Tea
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Lambda Tea was a San Francisco-based hardware startup (Y Combinator Winter 2018 batch, co-founded by Cat Zeng) that built self-serve bubble tea dispensers - on-demand boba machines intended to give customers affordable bubble tea through intensive vetting of ingredients. It raised $150,000 and ran a seed round in December 2017 before going through the accelerator in December 2018.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded and YC
Lambda Tea entered the Y Combinator Winter 2018 batch with its self-serve bubble tea dispenser concept.
- Out of business
Lambda Tea went out of business (July 2020); Y Combinator lists the company as inactive.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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