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the house

One name,
poured into seven

drinktea is a venture house, a single studio that conceives, builds and backs companies, then holds them to one shared bar for craft.

We started with a simple observation: the products people rely on every day, the food app, the map, the ERP, the test suite, the chat room, the voice layer, the file drive, are broken in ways that craft can fix. So instead of one product, we built a house.

Each venture in the family owns its craft end to end. Forsa rescues food, Zunu rebuilds the ERP, Navvo rethinks maps for the Middle East, QAce ships an AI QA engineer, Kemble gives teams and communities one place to talk, Vollo turns voice into an interface, and Virox gives enterprises their files back on their own terms.

What binds them is not a market, it is a method: start with what is broken, pour everything into clarity, and do not ship until it feels like glass.

7
ventures, one house
1M+
meals rescued by forsa
1M+
pull requests gated by qace
0.4s
for zunu to propagate a posting
why we exist

The mission, and where it points

mission

Make the everyday software people depend on worth depending on

We build companies, not features. Every venture starts from a job people already do, badly served by the tools they have, and the brief is always the same: take it apart, understand it properly, and put it back together until it feels obvious.

The house exists to make that repeatable. Shared craft, shared standards and shared infrastructure are what let a team of six ship at a bar that usually takes sixty.

vision

A region that exports its software, not only its engineers

The Middle East has never been short of engineers. It has been short of places where they can build something to a world standard and have it stay here.

We want drinktea to be one of those places: seven companies today, and a bar set high enough that the eighth, ninth and tenth are worth starting.

how we work

Four principles, in everything we build

i.

Clarity over features

If a screen needs a manual, it is not finished. Every venture ships less, explained better.

ii.

Craft is the strategy

Glass-smooth interactions, honest materials, no dark patterns. Quality is not a coat of paint, it is the product.

iii.

Own it end to end

Each venture runs as a real company with real accountability, backed by the house, never hidden by it.

iv.

Start where it is broken

We do not hunt for gaps in a market. We look for the part of a day people have quietly learned to tolerate.

the road so far

How the house filled up

  1. Jan 2026

    Steeped in Motion

    The house releases its own film, one continuous pour through all seven marks.

  2. Mar 2026

    Virox opens its enterprise beta

    File storage on the customer's terms, on their own hardware when they want it.

  3. Apr 2026

    Forsa passes one million meals

    A million surplus meals rescued instead of binned, sold as surprise bags at up to 95% off.

  4. May 2026

    QAce gates its millionth pull request

    An agentic QA engineer that signs off on every merge, now a million merges deep.

  5. Jun 2026

    Zunu opens private beta

    Cloud ERP on one intelligent data layer, with Arc, an AI coworker, inside every module.

  6. Jul 2026

    Navvo arrives at the door

    Street imagery and entrance-level arrival guidance switch on across the region.

  7. Aug 2026

    Seven ventures

    Kemble and Vollo join the family, and the film is re-cut to carry all seven marks.

on the record

What the house has poured so far

1M+

Meals rescued

Forsa crossed a million surplus meals sold instead of thrown away, April 2026.

1M+

Merges gated

QAce has reviewed and signed off on more than a million pull requests.

3

Betas opened in one year

Virox, Zunu and Navvo all moved from build to real customers inside 2026.

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Companies, one bar

Seven ventures, each run as a real company, each held to the same standard for craft.