Uppma Virdi

Chai Walli

Uppma Virdi is the founder and owner of “Chai Walli” a successful online tea retailer that sells Ayurvedic tea blends. Uppma’s passion for tea started out as just a hobby she picked up thanks to her grandfather.

Today, Uppma has grown Chai Walli so much so that she needed to leave her job as a lawyer to manage the growing business. Chai Walli has expanded their range to be a full serviced tea business focusing on supporting small farmers in India so they buy high quality teas from organic tea estates around India.

Chai Walli has won many awards for their masala chai and tea range, from best chai at the Royal Hobart Fine Food Awards, being a finalist for the Health Food Product of the Year at the Australian Food and Beverage Awards to Uppma being a Forbes 30 under 30 and being invited by the Australian High Commission to launch International Women’s Day all around India this year to inspire creativity and change.