The drink is 100% natural with NO additives, preservatives, or added sugar, and each can contains 80mg of caffeine – as well as being 7 kcals per 100ml. Also, PerfectTed donates 1% of its sales to nonprofits.

We’re kind of in a fortunate position where we actually have a side of our business, which is our matcha powder. It’s a very profitable business. So, we’re fortunate to be able to fund a lot of our drink’s activities through our powder. The business model helps sustain us. But further funding, it’s something that we have been considering, so TBD. JD: How much of the business is selling matcha powder? This all-natural energy drink contains juicy pear, working in sweet harmony with a satisfying zing of ginger. Despite coming from fields like consulting and finance, the three friends wanted to do something that would have a real social impact, even if it was out of their comfort zones. “A lot of people, when they graduate from Penn, they're like, ‘Oh, I'll do investment banking or consulting or jobs I'm not happy with for two years,’ but two years is a really long time in your life,” Teddie says. “And it was longer than I wanted to spend doing something that I wasn't passionate about.”

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All drinks are less than 60 calories and abundant in naturally occurring amino acids, antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals. A friend mentioned that matcha was caffeinated and it had loads of other health benefits. Obviously, this sounded way too good to be true but when I did try it, it really had a almost life changing effect on me." Marisa Poster, and brothers Teddie and Levi Levenfiche met at Ivy League at the University of Pennsylvania.

This weekend, Teddie and Levi absolutely CRUSHED the Florence Marathon in just 3hrs 25mins (while I cheered them on, very comfortably, from the sidelines ☺️). PerfectTed is a canned energy drinks’ range with matcha green tea, that was founded by 3 housemates/best friends, Marisa Poster, and Teddie and Levi Levenfiche. Energy drinks start-up PerfectTed has secured high-profile investment following an appearance on Dragons’ Den. The trio (who live together in London) turned to matcha whilst they were working long hours in finance (they would batch-make big jugs to get them through the week). It didn’t take long for this newly-found passion to become a search for a high quality, on-the-go, energy solution.

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I have suffered with ADHD and anxiety for years and I used to consume loads of caffeine from coffee and energy drinks during college," she said. I thought it would help increase my mental alertness and just give me consistent energy levels throughout the day, but I often found I was just experiencing horrible side effects like jitters, crashes, exacerbated anxiety symptoms.

He inspires everything I do," he said but didn't name the company after him in case the "brand didn't work". Three short weeks ago, we launched the UK's first matcha-powered, all-natural, lightly sparkling energy drinks, available in three different flavours: (1) pineapple yuzu, (2) apple raspberry, and (3) pear ginger!

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We're so proud to pioneer this better-for-you way to fuel your day, and we can't wait for you all to try them if you haven't already! The product is Europe’s first ever matcha green tea canned energy drink, AND it’s the first ever UK based energy drink to win a Great Taste Award. It was an intense but generally incredible experience appearing on television,” Ms Poster, 25, told the JC. “Even though in the show our appearance is only 13 minutes long, we were actually there for over an hour and a half of pretty intense grilling. It’s critical to know your business inside and out. But we knew this going in and came prepared.” PerfectTed, made up of Hampstead brothers Levi and Teddie and New Yorker Marisa, to appear on Dragons' Den to pitch their matcha energy drink, already being sold in Tesco (Image: PerfectTed)

Available in three unique flavour combinations (Pear Ginger, Apple Raspberry, and Pineapple Yuzu), the team sources its single origin, organic, ceremonial grade matcha from Uji, Japan. This premium quality matcha features a sweet, umami flavour, and a bright green hue (unlike poorer substitutes – which can be bitter, grassy, and insoluble). They tried the few matcha powders and drinks on the market, but found them grassy, bitter, and full of additives and sweeteners, so they set out to discover a better solution. But we had put a ton of money down to launch the drinks at the London Coffee Festival as an alternative to coffee. We had no other option but to use the larger tank, which would produce about ten times the volume of the trial tank. So, it was pretty daunting and very overwhelming at the time but we were able to navigate it and got through it.So, we knew we wanted it to be a human name. We wanted it to be relevant to one of the founders. Teddy is my co-founder, Ted, Teddy is a gender-neutral name and everyone kind of knows a Teddy and we felt it was really a play on words for perfected and perfect ten. They describe how would batch-make big jugs to get them through a busy week but needed a high quality on-the-go solution to stay energised.