Cook partnered with an influencer and podcaster named Daniella Szetela, who later became its head of socials, to design and launch the platform. On Tea, women can vet potential suitors using technology like reverse-image searching, entering in their phone number to check for “possible marriages,” and background checks.

Tea app is a platform designed for women only to share “tea” or “red flags” about men they have dated. With over a million sign-ups by women in just seven days, Tea

Tea, founded by Sean Cook, was designed as a women-only app for users to document their negative experiences with men and warn other women of potential danger. According to Tea's website, 10 percent of its profits are donated the National Domestic Violence Hotline.

A new, women-only app is turning heads, and sparking debate. Tea is now the number one lifestyle app on the App Store, with over a million women signing up in just one week. The draw? it's crowdsourced background checks for modern dating, as users post pictures of the men they’re seeing and ask for "tea"—meaning gossip, warnings and red flags.

Tea, a dating discussion app that recently suffered a high-profile cybersecurity breach, announced late Monday that some direct messages were also accessed in the incident.

The Tea app, a women-only app where they can post photos to get intel about men they’re dating, is once again stirring up controversy.