Branded Hospitality
Branded Hospitality is a New York-based platform that drives growth and transformation in the food service and hospitality industries through three integrated lines: venture investments, solutions, and media. With more than 25 years of industry experience, it connects emerging brands, cutting-edge technologies, and capital to accelerate success. Its venture investments back innovative technologies and scalable concepts reshaping hospitality, providing capital and strategic guidance to entrepreneurs and startups. In its solutions business, Branded Hospitality develops tailored programs with corporate partners to improve operational efficiency, broaden brand visibility, and open new markets, including influencer marketing, digital storytelling, and B2B partnerships. As a media company, it creates and distributes content through channels such as its award-winning podcast The Hospitality Hangout, reaching decision-makers and industry leaders to foster dialogue and share insights. The firm emphasizes practical support and strategic guidance to portfolio companies and partners to drive growth and industry-wide change.
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Mr Bing Foods
Series A in 2024
Mr Bing Foods is a producer of sauces and condiments inspired by East Asian and northern Chinese street flavors. Originating in 2012 as a Hong Kong street food kiosk concept, the company expanded into bottled sauces after customers requested retail availability, launching chili crisp and related products in grocery stores. Its non-GMO, gluten-free, vegan and kosher-certified offerings include chili crisp and sriracha sauces crafted to deliver bold, authentic flavors for eggs, rice, noodles, pizzas, and more. The brand distributes to thousands of outlets, including grocery stores, restaurants, colleges, office campuses, and stadiums, and aims to make traditional street-food flavors accessible to home cooks and operators while emphasizing health-conscious and sustainable choices.
ARI Venture Studio
Pre Seed Round in 2024
ARI Venture Studio is a pioneering venture studio established in 2024 and located in Dallas, Texas. It specializes in developing innovative technology solutions tailored specifically for the restaurant industry. As the first of its kind in this niche, ARI Venture Studio aims to address the unique challenges faced by restaurants through strategic investment and development of cutting-edge technologies. By combining industry expertise with a focus on technological advancement, ARI Venture Studio seeks to enhance operational efficiency and improve customer experiences within the restaurant sector.
Fishbowl
Venture Round in 2024
Fishbowl is a social networking platform designed for professionals to engage in open discussions about workplace topics. It facilitates candid conversations on industry news and career advice among peers and senior leaders, fostering a positive and supportive environment. The platform is free for all users and has gained substantial traction across various industries, including law, consulting, finance, advertising, healthcare, technology, sales, and accounting. In addition, Fishbowl is recognized as a leading provider of guest marketing products and services specifically tailored for the restaurant sector.
LDV Hospitality
Venture Round in 2024
LDV Hospitality is a boutique firm specializing in creating authentic dining and cocktail experiences. It designs, operates, and manages signature restaurant brands and tailored hospitality services for iconic hotels, ensuring guests enjoy unique and memorable experiences.
Big Chicken
Series A in 2024
Big Chicken is a restaurant chain specializing in chicken dishes, including popcorn chicken, crispy chicken sandwiches, tenders, macaroni and cheese, and hand-crafted ice cream shakes. They also offer kid's meals and desserts.
JUICER
Venture Round in 2022
JUICER automates pricing strategies for restaurants using machine learning algorithms. By analyzing historical sales data, it optimizes menu prices in real-time to maximize revenue during peak periods, boost volume during slower times, and enhance customer experience by offering deals to price-sensitive customers while maintaining demand patterns.
Ovation
Seed Round in 2022
Ovation Up, Inc is a technology company based in Orem, Utah, founded in 2017, that specializes in online review and customer feedback analysis. The company offers a platform that enables businesses, particularly in the restaurant sector, to enhance customer experience and manage their online reputation. By leveraging kiosks, QR codes, and web/mobile applications, Ovation allows business owners to gather customer insights and facilitate engagement with dissatisfied customers. The platform supports text marketing strategies to invite customers back, helping to convert them into loyal advocates. Ovation's services are designed to improve customer retention and increase revenue by driving higher engagement rates and fostering positive online reviews, making it significantly more effective than traditional feedback methods.
Ottonomy
Seed Round in 2022
Ottonomy IO is a technology startup that specializes in autonomous delivery services using fully automated robot fleets. The company focuses on providing contactless delivery solutions for various industries, including e-commerce, logistics, and retail. Ottonomy's robots utilize advanced mapping and perception technologies to navigate complex indoor and outdoor environments. Their systems incorporate behavior-based contextual navigation and fuse multi-sensor data to accurately understand and respond to their surroundings. Additionally, Ottonomy offers a cloud-based monitoring console, allowing businesses to automate their delivery processes, thereby enhancing user experience and significantly reducing operational costs.
Tablz
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Tablz develops a three-dimensional hospitality platform that enables diners to select and upgrade to preferred tables or sections, enhancing the dining experience. The platform helps hospitality brands improve guest satisfaction by solving the challenge of seating choice and allows venues to monetize dining space through supply and demand pricing of coveted real estate. By aligning pricing with chair and table value, it supports reduced costs, streamlined workflows, and better guest service for restaurants.
Ecotrak
Convertible Note in 2022
Ecotrak, LLC is a software company based in Anaheim, California, that specializes in developing a mobile-first, web-based asset management platform. This software as a service (SaaS) solution enables organizations to effectively track and manage their fixed assets, facilitating informed decisions regarding asset acquisition and utilization. Ecotrak's platform is equipped with an array of features, including work order management, preventative maintenance, vendor and project management, as well as comprehensive reporting and analytics. The company primarily serves clients in the healthcare, grocery, retail, restaurant, and automotive industries, allowing them to monitor assets in real-time and manage aspects such as warranties, total expenditure, and repair or replacement scenarios.
Hone
Venture Round in 2022
Hone is a software developer that creates restaurant management solutions designed to improve operational efficiency and profitability. Its platform helps operators set and track weekly business goals, integrates bookkeeping and reporting, and provides operational insights. It also monitors managers’ logs and automatically assigns tasks, helping restaurant teams stay organized and focused on guest experience. By combining financial and operational data in one system, Hone supports operators in optimizing performance, labor management, and processes without losing the emphasis on hospitality.
Valyant AI
Seed Round in 2022
Valyant AI, Inc. is a Denver-based company that specializes in developing artificial intelligence-based software aimed at enhancing customer service solutions. Founded in 2017, the company focuses on creating a conversational AI platform that facilitates natural communication between humans and computers. Valyant AI's technology integrates with existing retail hardware, including mobile applications, web interfaces, call-ahead phone systems, kiosks, and drive-throughs, catering primarily to the restaurant, retail, and service industries. By leveraging natural language processing and computer-generated characters, Valyant AI helps clients streamline customer orders, reduce operational costs, and improve overall profitability.
LeaseCake
Series A in 2022
LeaseCake is a software company that develops a lease portfolio and location management platform for real estate and location-based businesses. The platform serves as a single source of truth for lease and location information, supporting lease management, rent collections, renewals, and lease accounting, as well as licenses, permits, assets, franchise agreements, contact information, and other critical data. It enables tenants, brokers, and landlords to coordinate across distributed teams, helping reduce risk and support growth by streamlining location-related operations, including franchise operations and insurance-related agreements. The system aims to prevent missed renewals and incorrect payments and to improve accounting compliance. Headquartered in Winter Park, Florida, the company was founded in 2017-2018 and targets restaurant and service-based retail industries.
Blanket
Venture Round in 2022
Blanket, Inc. is a task management and compliance software company based in Brooklyn, New York, founded in 2018. It specializes in providing solutions tailored for multi-unit restaurant operators, focusing on various aspects of operational efficiency including employee engagement, communication, facility maintenance, food safety and quality assurance. Blanket also offers tools for team building and talent development, aiming to enhance overall workplace productivity and compliance within the restaurant industry.
Spendgo
Convertible Note in 2022
Founded in 2010, Spendgo offers an omnichannel marketing platform designed to help businesses engage, retain, and incentivize customers. Its tools automate campaign management, integrate with various POS systems and online platforms, and provide behavioral data insights.
Incentivio
Seed Round in 2022
Incentivio is a developer of an intelligent guest engagement platform tailored for the restaurant industry, aiming to enhance the dining experience in the digital age. The platform supports restaurants in acquiring new customers, boosting visit frequency and spending, and fostering loyalty among both first-time visitors and repeat patrons. By leveraging a combination of online ordering, white-label apps, loyalty programs, analytics, and guest journey management, Incentivio provides a comprehensive system that helps restaurants improve customer retention while also reducing operational costs. Its focus on data-driven marketing and machine learning upsell strategies enables restaurants to maximize revenue and establish lasting connections with their guests.
TapRm
Convertible Note in 2022
TapRm is a company that specializes in developing an omnichannel platform for launching and scaling innovative beer, cider, and hard seltzer brands. By integrating traditional beer distribution with direct-to-consumer e-commerce, TapRm disrupts outdated laws that restrict breweries from selling their products online without local distributors. This platform simplifies the process of brand launch and expansion, allowing beverage companies to reach consumers in a variety of settings, including bars, restaurants, markets, offices, and homes. By facilitating access to their products, TapRm enables brands to grow without incurring the significant costs and risks typically associated with geographic expansion.
Bite
Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2015, Bite Inc. specializes in digital ordering solutions for the hospitality industry. Its primary offerings include bitekiosk, a kiosk ordering software for guests, and biteFLASH, a QR code-based mobile interface for contactless ordering.
Cut+Dry
Seed Round in 2022
Cut+Dry specializes in streamlining food service operations via its e-commerce platform. It offers online ordering, product discovery, delivery tracking, and payment services, connecting farms to kitchens through real-time tracking.
Ingest
Seed Round in 2022
Ingest is a data management and analytics platform designed for restaurants and food & beverage retailers. It integrates with various business tools to connect disparate data sources, providing real-time insights through interactive dashboards, PDF reports, and CSV exports. This enables better decision-making by uncovering hard-to-reach metrics.
USUAL
Series A in 2022
USUAL is a wine producer that sells through its web portal and its retail stores. They offer brut, mixed pack, grenache, and other wines. They guarantee that nothing unnatural is used in the winemaking process.
LuckyDiem
Convertible Note in 2021
LuckyDiem develops a mobile marketing and loyalty platform for traditional brick-and-mortar businesses, combining card-linked offers with an online-to-offline attribution framework. The platform enables performance-based advertising with no upfront cost, allowing brands to pay only for in-store sales. It leverages purchase-history data from tens of millions of cardholders to identify and reach likely buyers at scale, and distributes offers across a broad network of websites and apps that collectively reach hundreds of millions of monthly active users. The solution aims to simplify digital marketing for local businesses by eliminating the need for promo codes and coupons while delivering rewards. LuckyDiem was founded in 2018 and is based in New York.
Curbit
Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2020, Curbit develops an AI-powered platform that helps restaurants automate and optimize their takeout and delivery operations. Its application enables consumers to order food from local restaurants in advance, drive to the store, and wait in their car for contactless delivery.
Curbit
Convertible Note in 2021
Founded in 2020, Curbit develops an AI-powered platform that helps restaurants automate and optimize their takeout and delivery operations. Its application enables consumers to order food from local restaurants in advance, drive to the store, and wait in their car for contactless delivery.
Picnic
Series A in 2021
Picnic, founded in 2016 and based in Seattle, Washington, specializes in food production technology and robotics solutions for the food service and hospitality industries. Formerly known as Vivid Robotics Inc., the company has assembled a team of experienced professionals from both food and technology sectors. Picnic's flagship product, the Pizza Production System, represents a significant innovation in automated food preparation, enabling commercial kitchens to produce hundreds of custom pizzas per hour using chef-selected ingredients and recipes. The company's application facilitates seamless interactions and ordering processes for food companies, enhancing operational efficiency in the industry.
Galley Solutions
Seed Round in 2021
Galley Solutions, Inc. is a software company that specializes in food production management, providing tools designed to enhance the efficiency and profitability of kitchens. Its primary product, Galley, enables restaurants and corporate kitchens to create and manage recipes, compile menus, and generate shopping lists. The software also assists kitchen managers in tracking ingredient costs, managing inventories, and identifying synergies between menu items that utilize shared ingredients. By analyzing food data, Galley empowers food businesses to make informed, data-driven decisions, ultimately improving their profit margins. Founded in 2017 and based in San Diego, California, Galley Solutions aims to streamline operations for caterers and other food service providers, helping them optimize purchasing, reduce waste, and enhance overall kitchen productivity.
Minnow
Seed Round in 2021
Minnow Technologies, Inc., established in 2017 and headquartered in Portland, Maine, specializes in designing and manufacturing Internet-connected food pickup kiosks, branded as Minnow pods. These pods ensure secure and contact-free food pickup, enhancing safety and convenience for customers and operators alike. Minnow's accompanying software notifies customers of order readiness and provides passcodes for delivery. The company's solution can be integrated with existing point-of-sale, online ordering, and delivery platforms, offering versatility and ease of use.
Copia
Seed Round in 2021
Copia operates an online platform that connects businesses with surplus food to those in need. Its real-time matching system streamlines critical connections between donors like restaurants and recipients such as homeless shelters, reducing food waste while addressing hunger.
TapRm
Seed Round in 2021
TapRm is a company that specializes in developing an omnichannel platform for launching and scaling innovative beer, cider, and hard seltzer brands. By integrating traditional beer distribution with direct-to-consumer e-commerce, TapRm disrupts outdated laws that restrict breweries from selling their products online without local distributors. This platform simplifies the process of brand launch and expansion, allowing beverage companies to reach consumers in a variety of settings, including bars, restaurants, markets, offices, and homes. By facilitating access to their products, TapRm enables brands to grow without incurring the significant costs and risks typically associated with geographic expansion.
GoTab
Convertible Note in 2021
GoTab is a hospitality commerce platform designed to assist large and mid-sized restaurants, breweries, bars, hotels, and other venues in operating efficiently and profitably. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of services, including ordering, point-of-sale, and kitchen management, while allowing for seamless integration with existing systems. Patrons can place orders and make payments through waitstaff or directly from their mobile devices, providing flexibility in the dining experience. By leveraging GoTab's technology, hospitality organizations can access essential features and actionable data tailored to their specific needs, ultimately leading to reduced operational costs and enhanced guest experiences.
Agot
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Agot is an all-in-one computer vision platform for quick-service and other food service brands. It digitizes restaurant activities and translates observations into real-time team interactions and actionable analytics, helping to reduce online order errors, increase order volume and ratings, and improve pickup time estimates while providing operations insights across locations.
Simple
Convertible Note in 2021
Simple is a digital marketplace and restaurant-management platform that connects restaurants, manufacturers, distributors, and suppliers on a single platform to streamline ordering, purchasing, and pricing insights, enabling efficient communication and transactions across the supply chain.
Dispatch Goods
Seed Round in 2021
Dispatch Goods designs and provides reusable packaging for the food service and delivery ecosystem. It manufactures reusable steel containers and operates a reverse logistics platform that collects, sanitizes, and returns containers, enabling restaurants, food trucks, and meal-delivery services to replace disposable packaging. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company aims to deliver immediate cost savings for enterprise customers while reducing waste and carbon footprint by eliminating single-use packaging.
Humanly.io
Seed Round in 2021
Humanly.io is a hiring platform that specializes in screening and scheduling job candidates through an AI-based system. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, Humanly engages with candidates visiting a company’s job pages and social media, facilitating their qualification and addressing their inquiries. This innovative technology allows organizations to enhance candidate conversion rates across various recruitment channels while significantly reducing the time spent by human resources on each open role. With its focus on efficiency and automation, Humanly streamlines the hiring process for businesses, making it easier to manage candidate interactions at scale.
Mighty Quinn's Barbeque
Series A in 2021
Mighty Quinn's Barbeque operates a chain of restaurants that provide an authentic barbeque experience in a fast-casual setting. The establishment is known for its menu featuring all-natural meats, poultry, and a variety of sides, all prepared using quality ingredients and smoked over oak, apple, and cherry wood. In addition to its restaurant operations, Mighty Quinn's Barbeque offers franchising opportunities and catering services, allowing it to extend its reach and share its distinct barbeque offerings with a broader audience.
Picnic
Series A in 2021
Picnic, founded in 2016 and based in Seattle, Washington, specializes in food production technology and robotics solutions for the food service and hospitality industries. Formerly known as Vivid Robotics Inc., the company has assembled a team of experienced professionals from both food and technology sectors. Picnic's flagship product, the Pizza Production System, represents a significant innovation in automated food preparation, enabling commercial kitchens to produce hundreds of custom pizzas per hour using chef-selected ingredients and recipes. The company's application facilitates seamless interactions and ordering processes for food companies, enhancing operational efficiency in the industry.
Spendgo
Convertible Note in 2021
Founded in 2010, Spendgo offers an omnichannel marketing platform designed to help businesses engage, retain, and incentivize customers. Its tools automate campaign management, integrate with various POS systems and online platforms, and provide behavioral data insights.
Chowly
Venture Round in 2021
Chowly develops software that connects restaurant point-of-sale systems with third-party online ordering platforms. The solution automates the transfer of orders from online channels into the POS, eliminating manual entry by staff. Founded in 2015 and based in Chicago, the company aims to streamline restaurant operations, reduce staffing costs, lower errors, improve order controls, and expand revenue by enabling seamless online orders.
Brizo Data
Seed Round in 2021
Brizo FoodMetrics is a leading data and analytics provider for the foodservice industry. Brizo helps the most competitive restauranteurs and restaurant vendors make better informed decisions and win their market.
Minnow
Seed Round in 2021
Minnow is a video streaming aggregator and discovery platform that consolidates the libraries of popular streaming services into a single accessible interface. Designed to enhance content accessibility, its platform allows users to easily navigate and browse a wide range of movies and series from various entertainment subscription services with a simple one-click streaming feature. This innovative approach aims to simplify the viewing experience for consumers by improving content discovery and making it more convenient to access diverse entertainment options.
Minnow
Seed Round in 2021
Minnow Technologies, Inc., established in 2017 and headquartered in Portland, Maine, specializes in designing and manufacturing Internet-connected food pickup kiosks, branded as Minnow pods. These pods ensure secure and contact-free food pickup, enhancing safety and convenience for customers and operators alike. Minnow's accompanying software notifies customers of order readiness and provides passcodes for delivery. The company's solution can be integrated with existing point-of-sale, online ordering, and delivery platforms, offering versatility and ease of use.
NBTV Studios
Series A in 2021
NBTV Studios is a direct-to-consumer video commerce and personalization platform that specializes in creating engaging media experiences. The company offers streaming channels that serve as 'see-now-buy-now' entertainment environments accessible on various devices. Through its content studio, NBTV produces both short and long-form video content, including documentaries, scripted series, and commercials, tailored to meet the needs of enthusiast consumers. These offerings allow clients to provide a personalized luxury experience within niche categories, facilitating easy discovery, instant purchasing, subscription options, and content sharing for users at home and on the go.
Meez Culinary Solutions
Convertible Note in 2021
Meez Culinary Solutions is a software-as-a-service company that converts recipe content, including videos and images, into an interactive database. The solution supports ideation, organization, search, collaboration, sharing and execution of culinary ideas. It provides a collaborative and shareable recipe database with features such as precise ingredient costing, automated scaling and unit conversions, customized training, and allergen identification. By organizing recipes as a searchable, scalable repository, Meez helps chefs, culinary teams and food businesses manage recipe development from concept through execution, streamline workflows, and accelerate menu innovation. The platform emphasizes accessibility and consistency, enabling users to reuse and adapt recipes across kitchens while maintaining accuracy and compliance.
Lavit
Series A in 2021
Lavit LLC, founded in 2011 and based in New York City, specializes in manufacturing and distributing innovative beverage dispensing technology. The company's primary product is a water cooler that offers still or sparkling water, along with 23 different flavor options. Lavit also produces EcoCaps™, aluminum capsules that can be inserted into the water cooler to adjust flavor intensity and carbonation levels. Additionally, Lavit provides chilled and filtered water, ensuring healthy hydration through its eco-friendly technology.
Jetson
Convertible Note in 2021
Jetson exists to solve the inherent design problems that plague voice applications today. With its patent-pending voice commerce platform and voice-first assistant Jetson, end-users will be able to hold a multi-step conversation with any IoT device or app powered by next level AI technology. From an end-user perspective, the buying experience is very human-like. During each conversation with Jetson, the user’s input facilitates automated searching, seamless transactions and hyper-personalized recommendations; making Jetson a true digital assistant for the next generation.
Mighty Quinn's Barbeque
Seed Round in 2021
Mighty Quinn's Barbeque operates a chain of restaurants that provide an authentic barbeque experience in a fast-casual setting. The establishment is known for its menu featuring all-natural meats, poultry, and a variety of sides, all prepared using quality ingredients and smoked over oak, apple, and cherry wood. In addition to its restaurant operations, Mighty Quinn's Barbeque offers franchising opportunities and catering services, allowing it to extend its reach and share its distinct barbeque offerings with a broader audience.
DriveKindness
Seed Round in 2021
DriveKindness is an online platform that facilitates home meal deliveries from restaurants. It offers services such as driver tracking, marketing tools like coupons and rewards programs, aiming to enhance customer experience while maintaining transparency.
Jetson
Convertible Note in 2020
Jetson exists to solve the inherent design problems that plague voice applications today. With its patent-pending voice commerce platform and voice-first assistant Jetson, end-users will be able to hold a multi-step conversation with any IoT device or app powered by next level AI technology. From an end-user perspective, the buying experience is very human-like. During each conversation with Jetson, the user’s input facilitates automated searching, seamless transactions and hyper-personalized recommendations; making Jetson a true digital assistant for the next generation.
Spendgo
Seed Round in 2020
Founded in 2010, Spendgo offers an omnichannel marketing platform designed to help businesses engage, retain, and incentivize customers. Its tools automate campaign management, integrate with various POS systems and online platforms, and provide behavioral data insights.
Meez Culinary Solutions
Seed Round in 2020
Meez Culinary Solutions is a software-as-a-service company that converts recipe content, including videos and images, into an interactive database. The solution supports ideation, organization, search, collaboration, sharing and execution of culinary ideas. It provides a collaborative and shareable recipe database with features such as precise ingredient costing, automated scaling and unit conversions, customized training, and allergen identification. By organizing recipes as a searchable, scalable repository, Meez helps chefs, culinary teams and food businesses manage recipe development from concept through execution, streamline workflows, and accelerate menu innovation. The platform emphasizes accessibility and consistency, enabling users to reuse and adapt recipes across kitchens while maintaining accuracy and compliance.
MarginEdge
Series A in 2020
MarginEdge Co. is a technology company that specializes in developing food and beverage tracking and analytics software specifically for the restaurant industry. Founded in 2015 and based in Falls Church, Virginia, the company offers a comprehensive software solution that facilitates invoice management, recipe and product pricing, and food cost optimization. MarginEdge's software automates critical processes and integrates various systems to streamline essential activities such as inventory management, cost tracking, ordering, and recipe management. By automating data entry for invoices and providing real-time insights into kitchen operations, MarginEdge helps restaurants reduce food costs, alleviate invoice-related challenges, and enhance overall operational efficiency.
Ovation
Seed Round in 2020
Ovation Up, Inc is a technology company based in Orem, Utah, founded in 2017, that specializes in online review and customer feedback analysis. The company offers a platform that enables businesses, particularly in the restaurant sector, to enhance customer experience and manage their online reputation. By leveraging kiosks, QR codes, and web/mobile applications, Ovation allows business owners to gather customer insights and facilitate engagement with dissatisfied customers. The platform supports text marketing strategies to invite customers back, helping to convert them into loyal advocates. Ovation's services are designed to improve customer retention and increase revenue by driving higher engagement rates and fostering positive online reviews, making it significantly more effective than traditional feedback methods.
PourMeABeer
Venture Round in 2020
PourMeABeer empowers creative collaborations between vendors, breweries, and designers, resulting in unique and personalized merchandise. Our online marketplace offers a seamless way to showcase and sell this swag, both online and in-store. Additionally, we provide vendors and breweries with the opportunity to enhance their storefronts with employee swag and wholesale pricing.
Blanket
Seed Round in 2020
Blanket, Inc. is a task management and compliance software company based in Brooklyn, New York, founded in 2018. It specializes in providing solutions tailored for multi-unit restaurant operators, focusing on various aspects of operational efficiency including employee engagement, communication, facility maintenance, food safety and quality assurance. Blanket also offers tools for team building and talent development, aiming to enhance overall workplace productivity and compliance within the restaurant industry.
LuckyDiem
Convertible Note in 2020
LuckyDiem develops a mobile marketing and loyalty platform for traditional brick-and-mortar businesses, combining card-linked offers with an online-to-offline attribution framework. The platform enables performance-based advertising with no upfront cost, allowing brands to pay only for in-store sales. It leverages purchase-history data from tens of millions of cardholders to identify and reach likely buyers at scale, and distributes offers across a broad network of websites and apps that collectively reach hundreds of millions of monthly active users. The solution aims to simplify digital marketing for local businesses by eliminating the need for promo codes and coupons while delivering rewards. LuckyDiem was founded in 2018 and is based in New York.
Jetson
Seed Round in 2020
Jetson exists to solve the inherent design problems that plague voice applications today. With its patent-pending voice commerce platform and voice-first assistant Jetson, end-users will be able to hold a multi-step conversation with any IoT device or app powered by next level AI technology. From an end-user perspective, the buying experience is very human-like. During each conversation with Jetson, the user’s input facilitates automated searching, seamless transactions and hyper-personalized recommendations; making Jetson a true digital assistant for the next generation.
ClockedIn
Series A in 2020
ClockedIn is a staffing and labor marketplace platform based in Chicago that designs and develops workforce management solutions for on-demand labor. The platform connects hourly workers, job candidates, and managers across the recruiting and scheduling lifecycle, enabling profiles, shifts, and scheduling, while giving managers access to a ready pool of workers to fulfill temporary, part-time, and full-time openings. The service aims to reduce hiring costs by linking workers with brand-specific skills to open roles and supporting a streamlined workflow through a centralized, on-demand labor network.
Targetable
Series A in 2020
Targetable is a specialized product development agency dedicated to enhancing consumer engagement for restaurants through innovative digital marketing tools. With a proven track record of successful campaigns generating tens of millions in incremental revenue for its clients, Targetable leverages insights from thousands of individual restaurants, advanced technology, and customer-focused support to deliver affordable, localized marketing solutions tailored to the restaurant industry.
NBTV Studios
Venture Round in 2020
NBTV Studios is a direct-to-consumer video commerce and personalization platform that specializes in creating engaging media experiences. The company offers streaming channels that serve as 'see-now-buy-now' entertainment environments accessible on various devices. Through its content studio, NBTV produces both short and long-form video content, including documentaries, scripted series, and commercials, tailored to meet the needs of enthusiast consumers. These offerings allow clients to provide a personalized luxury experience within niche categories, facilitating easy discovery, instant purchasing, subscription options, and content sharing for users at home and on the go.
Ovation
Seed Round in 2020
Ovation Up, Inc is a technology company based in Orem, Utah, founded in 2017, that specializes in online review and customer feedback analysis. The company offers a platform that enables businesses, particularly in the restaurant sector, to enhance customer experience and manage their online reputation. By leveraging kiosks, QR codes, and web/mobile applications, Ovation allows business owners to gather customer insights and facilitate engagement with dissatisfied customers. The platform supports text marketing strategies to invite customers back, helping to convert them into loyal advocates. Ovation's services are designed to improve customer retention and increase revenue by driving higher engagement rates and fostering positive online reviews, making it significantly more effective than traditional feedback methods.
Targetable
Seed Round in 2020
Targetable is a specialized product development agency dedicated to enhancing consumer engagement for restaurants through innovative digital marketing tools. With a proven track record of successful campaigns generating tens of millions in incremental revenue for its clients, Targetable leverages insights from thousands of individual restaurants, advanced technology, and customer-focused support to deliver affordable, localized marketing solutions tailored to the restaurant industry.
NBTV Studios
Seed Round in 2020
NBTV Studios is a direct-to-consumer video commerce and personalization platform that specializes in creating engaging media experiences. The company offers streaming channels that serve as 'see-now-buy-now' entertainment environments accessible on various devices. Through its content studio, NBTV produces both short and long-form video content, including documentaries, scripted series, and commercials, tailored to meet the needs of enthusiast consumers. These offerings allow clients to provide a personalized luxury experience within niche categories, facilitating easy discovery, instant purchasing, subscription options, and content sharing for users at home and on the go.
GoParrot
Series A in 2020
GoParrot is a technology company that offers a platform for restaurant operators, integrating point‑of‑sale systems with AI‑driven ordering, loyalty, and marketing tools. The solution connects to multiple delivery networks and provides data‑driven insights that help restaurants streamline operations, enhance customer engagement, and increase revenue. Clients include Dos Toros, Westville, Doughnut Plant, and Juice Press. The company was founded by Ariel David.
Yumpingo
Series A in 2020
Yumpingo is a hospitality analytics and SaaS provider that helps restaurants capture and understand guest feedback in real time. The platform records sentiment across venues, shifts, dishes, and servers, delivering live Net Promoter Scores and actionable insights. Diners interact with a dedicated tablet to complete reviews, while the system aggregates feedback to reveal location-, server-, and dish-level patterns. Restaurateurs can use these insights to inform menu development, operational improvements, and guest engagement strategies. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in London, with an office in New York, Yumpingo focuses on turning customer sentiment into practical recommendations for restaurant operators.
VROMO
Series A in 2020
VROMO is a developer of delivery management software focused on enhancing the operational efficiency of restaurant brands. The company's platform is designed to streamline delivery processes, improve fulfillment, and reduce both labor and delivery times. By enabling restaurants to optimize their delivery channels, VROMO aims to enhance customer engagement and retention while ultimately increasing profitability for these businesses. The software provides tools that help brands connect with their customers in targeted and strategic ways, contributing to a better overall brand experience and greater customer satisfaction.
VROMO
Seed Round in 2019
VROMO is a developer of delivery management software focused on enhancing the operational efficiency of restaurant brands. The company's platform is designed to streamline delivery processes, improve fulfillment, and reduce both labor and delivery times. By enabling restaurants to optimize their delivery channels, VROMO aims to enhance customer engagement and retention while ultimately increasing profitability for these businesses. The software provides tools that help brands connect with their customers in targeted and strategic ways, contributing to a better overall brand experience and greater customer satisfaction.
TapRm
Seed Round in 2019
TapRm is a company that specializes in developing an omnichannel platform for launching and scaling innovative beer, cider, and hard seltzer brands. By integrating traditional beer distribution with direct-to-consumer e-commerce, TapRm disrupts outdated laws that restrict breweries from selling their products online without local distributors. This platform simplifies the process of brand launch and expansion, allowing beverage companies to reach consumers in a variety of settings, including bars, restaurants, markets, offices, and homes. By facilitating access to their products, TapRm enables brands to grow without incurring the significant costs and risks typically associated with geographic expansion.
Yumpingo
Series A in 2019
Yumpingo is a hospitality analytics and SaaS provider that helps restaurants capture and understand guest feedback in real time. The platform records sentiment across venues, shifts, dishes, and servers, delivering live Net Promoter Scores and actionable insights. Diners interact with a dedicated tablet to complete reviews, while the system aggregates feedback to reveal location-, server-, and dish-level patterns. Restaurateurs can use these insights to inform menu development, operational improvements, and guest engagement strategies. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in London, with an office in New York, Yumpingo focuses on turning customer sentiment into practical recommendations for restaurant operators.
GoParrot
Seed Round in 2019
GoParrot is a technology company that offers a platform for restaurant operators, integrating point‑of‑sale systems with AI‑driven ordering, loyalty, and marketing tools. The solution connects to multiple delivery networks and provides data‑driven insights that help restaurants streamline operations, enhance customer engagement, and increase revenue. Clients include Dos Toros, Westville, Doughnut Plant, and Juice Press. The company was founded by Ariel David.
Bbot
Convertible Note in 2019
Bbot, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in order and payment solutions tailored for the hospitality industry, including bars, restaurants, hotels, breweries, food halls, and multi-vendor setups. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Astoria, New York. Bbot's platform enables these establishments to create digital menus and offers guest-controlled, contactless ordering and payment options. This configurable solution is designed to streamline food and beverage operations, enhance customer experience, and help businesses increase revenue while reducing staffing costs. The platform features secure payment processing, integration with existing point-of-sale systems, and tailored customer support, making it a valuable asset for hospitality organizations looking to improve efficiency and service quality.
Innovative Tap Solutions
Convertible Note in 2017
Innovative Tap Solutions, LLC, operating as PourMyBeer, specializes in self-pour beverage systems designed for various establishments, including bars, restaurants, casinos, hotels, grocery stores, and co-working spaces. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Wheeling, Illinois, the company offers technology that enables consumers to pour their own drinks, such as beer, wine, cocktails, cold brew, and kombucha, while paying by the ounce. This system enhances the customer experience by allowing guests to quickly access a diverse selection of beverages using a registered RFID card or wristband. Once recognized by the system, customers can easily check in and start pouring in under 30 seconds, ensuring they only pay for what they consume. Innovative Tap Solutions aims to help business owners globally increase sales and reduce waste and staffing challenges through its innovative self-pour technology.
Chowly
Series A in 2017
Chowly develops software that connects restaurant point-of-sale systems with third-party online ordering platforms. The solution automates the transfer of orders from online channels into the POS, eliminating manual entry by staff. Founded in 2015 and based in Chicago, the company aims to streamline restaurant operations, reduce staffing costs, lower errors, improve order controls, and expand revenue by enabling seamless online orders.
Innovative Tap Solutions
Convertible Note in 2017
Innovative Tap Solutions, LLC, operating as PourMyBeer, specializes in self-pour beverage systems designed for various establishments, including bars, restaurants, casinos, hotels, grocery stores, and co-working spaces. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Wheeling, Illinois, the company offers technology that enables consumers to pour their own drinks, such as beer, wine, cocktails, cold brew, and kombucha, while paying by the ounce. This system enhances the customer experience by allowing guests to quickly access a diverse selection of beverages using a registered RFID card or wristband. Once recognized by the system, customers can easily check in and start pouring in under 30 seconds, ensuring they only pay for what they consume. Innovative Tap Solutions aims to help business owners globally increase sales and reduce waste and staffing challenges through its innovative self-pour technology.
Innovative Tap Solutions
Convertible Note in 2017
Innovative Tap Solutions, LLC, operating as PourMyBeer, specializes in self-pour beverage systems designed for various establishments, including bars, restaurants, casinos, hotels, grocery stores, and co-working spaces. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Wheeling, Illinois, the company offers technology that enables consumers to pour their own drinks, such as beer, wine, cocktails, cold brew, and kombucha, while paying by the ounce. This system enhances the customer experience by allowing guests to quickly access a diverse selection of beverages using a registered RFID card or wristband. Once recognized by the system, customers can easily check in and start pouring in under 30 seconds, ensuring they only pay for what they consume. Innovative Tap Solutions aims to help business owners globally increase sales and reduce waste and staffing challenges through its innovative self-pour technology.
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