SOSV

SOSV is a global venture capital firm that supports early-stage startups through active, founder-first development programs. Its flagship initiatives HAX and IndieBio provide facilities, engineering resources, services, and laboratory equipment to accelerate product development and prepare companies for subsequent funding rounds. SOSV focuses on deep technology across health, environmental, and cross-border software sectors, aiming to solve human and planetary health challenges. In addition to providing capital, the firm emphasizes intensive programmatic support to help portfolio companies move quickly from seed toward growth, including customer acquisition and scale. The firm operates globally with a bias toward startups targeting rapid international expansion, especially in Asia, and tends to back a small cohort of high-potential companies to accelerate their progress and attract leading investors.

Michael Aberman

Partner

Lindsay Atkenson

Analyst

William Bao Bean

General Partner

Hugh Bowen

Associate

Shawn Broderick

Venture Partner

Past deals in Restaurants

Sidework

Convertible Note in 2025
Sidework is a developer of an automated cocktail dispenser designed to enhance the efficiency and safety of bar operations. This innovative machine streamlines the bartender's workflow by minimizing direct contact between bartenders and cocktails, ensuring that drinks served to customers are safe and consistent. Equipped with advanced features such as inventory tracking and usage analytics, the cocktail dispenser enables establishments to offer customized drinks while reducing the need for additional staff. By allowing bars and restaurants to serve ready-to-drink cocktails hands-free, Sidework supports a more efficient service model, helping clients focus on providing an exceptional guest experience.

Caldo Restaurant Technologies

Seed Round in 2024
Caldo Restaurant Technologies is a robotics company focused on kitchen automation for commercial kitchens. The company develops robotic assistants and task-specific automation to streamline back-of-house operations, replacing repetitive and dangerous workflows. Its initial product, OCTO, is an automated makeline that handles the final stages of cooking and prepares ready-to-eat items while processing incoming orders. The Runner.OS software automates order control to optimize workflow and prevent overcrowding at workstations, enabling kitchen staff to operate more efficiently, with an emphasis on safety and waste reduction.

xRobotics

Seed Round in 2024
xRobotics develops a pizza-making robot for the pizza restaurant industry, offering automated production that handles common pizza sizes, adjusts speed based on order flow, and provides full automation of ingredients with API integration to support ordering and workflow systems. The company has created patented robotic solutions and is led by professionals with experience at Tesla, General Electric, SpaceX, and Boeing, including winners of robotics competitions. Its objective is to advance automation in pizza kitchens by delivering consistent, high-quality pizzas and improving productivity for operators.

Blink

Seed Round in 2023
Blink is a cloud-based enterprise ordering solution that allows restaurants, supermarkets, and cloud kitchens to launch direct-to-consumer online ordering channels. Its SaaS-based solution, which includes a branded ordering website and mobile app, assists brands in growing their orders via an advanced backend dashboard.

Bite

Series A in 2023
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.

Sidework

Venture Round in 2023
Sidework is a developer of an automated cocktail dispenser designed to enhance the efficiency and safety of bar operations. This innovative machine streamlines the bartender's workflow by minimizing direct contact between bartenders and cocktails, ensuring that drinks served to customers are safe and consistent. Equipped with advanced features such as inventory tracking and usage analytics, the cocktail dispenser enables establishments to offer customized drinks while reducing the need for additional staff. By allowing bars and restaurants to serve ready-to-drink cocktails hands-free, Sidework supports a more efficient service model, helping clients focus on providing an exceptional guest experience.

Simply Good Jars

Convertible Note in 2023
Simply Good Jars is a certified B-Corporation dedicated to promoting sustainability through its meal delivery service. The company operates smart refrigerated kiosks in offices, transit centers, universities, and healthcare facilities, offering chef-prepared, ready-to-eat meals packaged in reusable jars. These jars are designed to minimize waste, with a high return rate ensuring minimal environmental impact. For every jar returned, Simply Good Jars contributes to feeding someone in need, aligning its business model with social responsibility.

Ingest

Seed Round in 2023
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.

Simply Good Jars

Series A in 2023
Simply Good Jars is a certified B-Corporation dedicated to promoting sustainability through its meal delivery service. The company operates smart refrigerated kiosks in offices, transit centers, universities, and healthcare facilities, offering chef-prepared, ready-to-eat meals packaged in reusable jars. These jars are designed to minimize waste, with a high return rate ensuring minimal environmental impact. For every jar returned, Simply Good Jars contributes to feeding someone in need, aligning its business model with social responsibility.

Bite

Convertible Note in 2023
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.

Caldo Restaurant Technologies

Seed Round in 2023
Caldo Restaurant Technologies is a robotics company focused on kitchen automation for commercial kitchens. The company develops robotic assistants and task-specific automation to streamline back-of-house operations, replacing repetitive and dangerous workflows. Its initial product, OCTO, is an automated makeline that handles the final stages of cooking and prepares ready-to-eat items while processing incoming orders. The Runner.OS software automates order control to optimize workflow and prevent overcrowding at workstations, enabling kitchen staff to operate more efficiently, with an emphasis on safety and waste reduction.

Blink

Seed Round in 2022
Blink is a cloud-based enterprise ordering solution that allows restaurants, supermarkets, and cloud kitchens to launch direct-to-consumer online ordering channels. Its SaaS-based solution, which includes a branded ordering website and mobile app, assists brands in growing their orders via an advanced backend dashboard.

Caldo Restaurant Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
Caldo Restaurant Technologies is a robotics company focused on kitchen automation for commercial kitchens. The company develops robotic assistants and task-specific automation to streamline back-of-house operations, replacing repetitive and dangerous workflows. Its initial product, OCTO, is an automated makeline that handles the final stages of cooking and prepares ready-to-eat items while processing incoming orders. The Runner.OS software automates order control to optimize workflow and prevent overcrowding at workstations, enabling kitchen staff to operate more efficiently, with an emphasis on safety and waste reduction.

Sidework

Seed Round in 2022
Sidework is a developer of an automated cocktail dispenser designed to enhance the efficiency and safety of bar operations. This innovative machine streamlines the bartender's workflow by minimizing direct contact between bartenders and cocktails, ensuring that drinks served to customers are safe and consistent. Equipped with advanced features such as inventory tracking and usage analytics, the cocktail dispenser enables establishments to offer customized drinks while reducing the need for additional staff. By allowing bars and restaurants to serve ready-to-drink cocktails hands-free, Sidework supports a more efficient service model, helping clients focus on providing an exceptional guest experience.

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.

Simply Good Jars

Seed Round in 2022
Simply Good Jars is a certified B-Corporation dedicated to promoting sustainability through its meal delivery service. The company operates smart refrigerated kiosks in offices, transit centers, universities, and healthcare facilities, offering chef-prepared, ready-to-eat meals packaged in reusable jars. These jars are designed to minimize waste, with a high return rate ensuring minimal environmental impact. For every jar returned, Simply Good Jars contributes to feeding someone in need, aligning its business model with social responsibility.

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.

BistroChat

Seed Round in 2022
BistroChat is a technology company that specializes in providing a restaurant management application aimed at enhancing communication between food and beverage businesses and their guests. The application consolidates bookings from various platforms into a single table management system, streamlining the reservation process for restaurants. Additionally, BistroChat offers a loyalty reward system that enables restaurants to incentivize repeat visits from customers, thereby fostering customer loyalty. By simplifying booking management and enhancing guest engagement through chat functionalities, BistroChat equips restaurants with the tools needed to operate more efficiently and improve customer experiences.

Simply Good Jars

Convertible Note in 2021
Simply Good Jars is a certified B-Corporation dedicated to promoting sustainability through its meal delivery service. The company operates smart refrigerated kiosks in offices, transit centers, universities, and healthcare facilities, offering chef-prepared, ready-to-eat meals packaged in reusable jars. These jars are designed to minimize waste, with a high return rate ensuring minimal environmental impact. For every jar returned, Simply Good Jars contributes to feeding someone in need, aligning its business model with social responsibility.

Blink

Seed Round in 2021
Blink is a cloud-based enterprise ordering solution that allows restaurants, supermarkets, and cloud kitchens to launch direct-to-consumer online ordering channels. Its SaaS-based solution, which includes a branded ordering website and mobile app, assists brands in growing their orders via an advanced backend dashboard.

Sidework

Convertible Note in 2021
Sidework is a developer of an automated cocktail dispenser designed to enhance the efficiency and safety of bar operations. This innovative machine streamlines the bartender's workflow by minimizing direct contact between bartenders and cocktails, ensuring that drinks served to customers are safe and consistent. Equipped with advanced features such as inventory tracking and usage analytics, the cocktail dispenser enables establishments to offer customized drinks while reducing the need for additional staff. By allowing bars and restaurants to serve ready-to-drink cocktails hands-free, Sidework supports a more efficient service model, helping clients focus on providing an exceptional guest experience.

Ingest

Convertible Note in 2021
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.

BistroChat

Convertible Note in 2021
BistroChat is a technology company that specializes in providing a restaurant management application aimed at enhancing communication between food and beverage businesses and their guests. The application consolidates bookings from various platforms into a single table management system, streamlining the reservation process for restaurants. Additionally, BistroChat offers a loyalty reward system that enables restaurants to incentivize repeat visits from customers, thereby fostering customer loyalty. By simplifying booking management and enhancing guest engagement through chat functionalities, BistroChat equips restaurants with the tools needed to operate more efficiently and improve customer experiences.

xRobotics

Convertible Note in 2020
xRobotics develops a pizza-making robot for the pizza restaurant industry, offering automated production that handles common pizza sizes, adjusts speed based on order flow, and provides full automation of ingredients with API integration to support ordering and workflow systems. The company has created patented robotic solutions and is led by professionals with experience at Tesla, General Electric, SpaceX, and Boeing, including winners of robotics competitions. Its objective is to advance automation in pizza kitchens by delivering consistent, high-quality pizzas and improving productivity for operators.

Bite

Seed Round in 2020
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.

Kytch

Convertible Note in 2020
Founded in 2018, Kytch is headquartered in San Francisco. It operates as a platform for smart connected quick-service restaurants (QSRs), utilizing AI-powered predictive maintenance software to provide remote control, real-time data, and analytics. This helps clients reduce downtime by evaluating machine event sequences and assessing employee training needs.

Remote Kitchen

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Remote Kitchen is a single unified platform to empower restaurants to run, manage and grow their business effectively.

byLocals

Seed Round in 2020
ByLocals is a virtual restaurant platform powered by local chefs that designs all its dishes with delivery in mind. The company prepares meals with input from local chefs, emphasizing quality ingredients and affordable pricing, and manages temperature control, portioning, order assembly, and packaging to ensure fresh, consistent dishes are delivered to customers. The model centers on chef-driven menus and efficient logistics to offer healthy options through convenient delivery.

Ingest

Convertible Note in 2020
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.

YourLocal

Convertible Note in 2020
YourLocal operates a mobile marketplace that connects food vendors—restaurants, cafés, specialty shops, and supermarkets—with local customers to sell surplus inventory at discounted prices. The app notifies users in real time about available items, allowing them to purchase and pick up meals directly from the shop. By facilitating the sale of unsold food, the platform helps vendors reduce waste, lowers consumer costs, and contributes to a smaller carbon footprint.

Blink

Seed Round in 2019
Blink is a cloud-based enterprise ordering solution that allows restaurants, supermarkets, and cloud kitchens to launch direct-to-consumer online ordering channels. Its SaaS-based solution, which includes a branded ordering website and mobile app, assists brands in growing their orders via an advanced backend dashboard.

Adurcup

Seed Round in 2019
Started in July 2015 by alumni's from IIT Kanpur - Adurup is India's leading restaurant procurement platform.With a vision to create automation for procurement in F&B industry, Adurcup is making a difference by helping restaurants procure well to service the consumers. Adurcup aims to improve the supply chain infrastructure of F&B industry. To address the same Adurcup offers solution in two domains : 1.B2B e-commerce platform - Adurcup offers a single point procurement solution in form of a web platform (www.adurcup.com) for standalone restaurants to shop products and services across categories ( food packaging,grocery,housekeeping materials,customized packaging ,pest control ,social wifi) and plan expenses.Clients include : Wow momo's,Devyani International,Impressario restaurants,Curefit ,Tea Halt etc. 2.Outsourcing solution - Adurcup offers three point solution for chain outlets to cater to their complete supply chain, comprising of - SOURCING, STORAGE and DISTRIBUTION through customized web dashboards having tools to manage inventory, trigger purchases and manage end-to-end supply chain.Clients include : Nazeer Hospitality , Wataburger etc With these solutions, Adurcup today impacts more than 1 million dining out experiences , half a million food deliveries and empowers more than 500+ SME's in the value chain.

xRobotics

Seed Round in 2019
xRobotics develops a pizza-making robot for the pizza restaurant industry, offering automated production that handles common pizza sizes, adjusts speed based on order flow, and provides full automation of ingredients with API integration to support ordering and workflow systems. The company has created patented robotic solutions and is led by professionals with experience at Tesla, General Electric, SpaceX, and Boeing, including winners of robotics competitions. Its objective is to advance automation in pizza kitchens by delivering consistent, high-quality pizzas and improving productivity for operators.

Simply Good Jars

Seed Round in 2019
Simply Good Jars is a certified B-Corporation dedicated to promoting sustainability through its meal delivery service. The company operates smart refrigerated kiosks in offices, transit centers, universities, and healthcare facilities, offering chef-prepared, ready-to-eat meals packaged in reusable jars. These jars are designed to minimize waste, with a high return rate ensuring minimal environmental impact. For every jar returned, Simply Good Jars contributes to feeding someone in need, aligning its business model with social responsibility.

Sidework

Seed Round in 2019
Sidework is a developer of an automated cocktail dispenser designed to enhance the efficiency and safety of bar operations. This innovative machine streamlines the bartender's workflow by minimizing direct contact between bartenders and cocktails, ensuring that drinks served to customers are safe and consistent. Equipped with advanced features such as inventory tracking and usage analytics, the cocktail dispenser enables establishments to offer customized drinks while reducing the need for additional staff. By allowing bars and restaurants to serve ready-to-drink cocktails hands-free, Sidework supports a more efficient service model, helping clients focus on providing an exceptional guest experience.

Voix Ai

Seed Round in 2019
Voix Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence voice assistant software specifically for the restaurant industry. Founded in 2018 and based in Foster City, California, Voix enables restaurants to receive orders through various voice interfaces, including Google Home, Alexa, and traditional phone calls. The company's cloud AI platform engages with customers, taking orders and making reservations while providing personalized suggestions based on machine learning to enhance sales. Voix's technology aims to streamline restaurant operations by offering customization tools such as time-based activation and welcome messages. With a founding team boasting over 50 years of combined experience in the restaurant and technology sectors, Voix has successfully deployed its solutions in hundreds of restaurants and is expanding its reach to multiple national franchises.

Simply Good Jars

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Simply Good Jars is a certified B-Corporation dedicated to promoting sustainability through its meal delivery service. The company operates smart refrigerated kiosks in offices, transit centers, universities, and healthcare facilities, offering chef-prepared, ready-to-eat meals packaged in reusable jars. These jars are designed to minimize waste, with a high return rate ensuring minimal environmental impact. For every jar returned, Simply Good Jars contributes to feeding someone in need, aligning its business model with social responsibility.

Bowl

Seed Round in 2018
Bowl is an online platform established in 2017 and headquartered in the United States, specializing in the delivery of fresh food, particularly salads. The company offers a food ordering application that allows customers to select from a variety of food items and customize their orders with a range of toppings from various listed restaurants. By providing an accessible way to enjoy healthy meals, Bowl aims to deliver delicious food options at competitive prices.

ChefCharger

Seed Round in 2018
ChefCharger designs and sells integrated charging devices for hospitality venues, pairing wireless charging hardware with a cloud-connected platform and digital advertising displays. The tabletop chargers are built into decor items such as candleholders, coasters, salt-and-pepper holders, and customizable displays, enabling patrons to charge mobile devices while businesses present targeted video ads. The company serves restaurants, bars, and cafes and offers mass-production capabilities for scalable deployment. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, ChefCharger evolved from an MIT-based startup into a mature provider of smart charging solutions for the hospitality sector.

Misk

Seed Round in 2018
Misk is a company that operates a mobile platform focused on enhancing the dining experience through social connections. The platform allows users to discover restaurant recommendations from their friends, facilitating informed decisions about where to dine or have a drink. Additionally, Misk provides tools for brands to reach specific audiences, increase brand awareness, and boost revenues by connecting with food enthusiasts.

Ingest

Pre Seed Round in 2018
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.

NoshPos

Seed Round in 2018
NoshPos is a developer of an integrated electronic point-of-sale (E-POS) system tailored for food and beverage delivery businesses. The company offers a comprehensive solution that encompasses online ordering, delivery management, point-of-sale operations, kitchen coordination, and back-office functions. NoshPos's system facilitates essential features such as confirmation emails, printable receipts, and content management, while also allowing for customizable delivery time slots and fees. Additionally, it supports discounts and loyalty programs, ensuring that businesses can effectively manage their online orders. The system is designed to maintain synchronization between the front-end POS and back-office operations, enabling clients to enhance customer satisfaction and streamline their delivery processes.

Freshchefs

Seed Round in 2017
FreshChefs operates an online corporate catering platform aimed at simplifying the food ordering process for corporate events. The company offers a diverse selection of signature dishes from various restaurants, ensuring that customers have access to quality, convenient, and safe dining options. Through its user-friendly WeChat app, clients can order meals effortlessly, benefiting from features such as a unified delivery system, streamlined billing, volume discounts, and a rewards program. FreshChefs is committed to delivering meals that arrive fresh and well-presented, supported by a dedicated team of drivers and client managers who prioritize customer satisfaction.

Heartland Brothers

Seed Round in 2017
Heartland Brothers specializes in high-quality pork from free-range family farms in the United States. The company raises Berkshire pigs, known for their rich flavor, deep coloring, and fine intramuscular marbling, which enhances the eating experience. Heartland Brothers offers its artisanal pork products to Chinese consumers through 20 supermarkets and 50 high-end restaurants, as well as via wholesale distribution through three national distributors. By focusing on quality and fair pricing, the company aims to provide a premium pork option that caters to discerning customers seeking superior meat products.

Urbem

Seed Round in 2016
Urbem is an online platform established in early 2015, focused on enhancing the dining experience by providing personalized culinary recommendations and exclusive offers to its members. The company aims to support quality restaurants by encouraging frequent dining out and fostering new customer engagement. Through its unique marketing strategies, Urbem enhances restaurant visibility, ultimately increasing new bookings and customer traffic. By offering a subscription-based service, Urbem connects users with tailored dining options, ensuring they receive exceptional value and recommendations for their culinary adventures.

Forkyoo

Convertible Note in 2016
Forkyoo Inc. is an online marketplace based in Miller Place, New York, that specializes in offering pre-prepped and ready-to-cook meal kits sourced from local restaurants. Established in 2013, Forkyoo operates as a business-to-consumer platform where users can buy and sell recipe kits in a fixed-price format. The company facilitates transactions between buyers and sellers but does not directly participate in these transactions, which limits its control over the quality, safety, and legality of the items listed. By providing access to chef-prepped ingredients, Forkyoo enables customers to enjoy healthy and fresh meals at reasonable prices, although it does not pre-screen users or the content they provide.

Bite

Pre Seed Round in 2016
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.

Forkyoo

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Forkyoo Inc. is an online marketplace based in Miller Place, New York, that specializes in offering pre-prepped and ready-to-cook meal kits sourced from local restaurants. Established in 2013, Forkyoo operates as a business-to-consumer platform where users can buy and sell recipe kits in a fixed-price format. The company facilitates transactions between buyers and sellers but does not directly participate in these transactions, which limits its control over the quality, safety, and legality of the items listed. By providing access to chef-prepped ingredients, Forkyoo enables customers to enjoy healthy and fresh meals at reasonable prices, although it does not pre-screen users or the content they provide.

Urbem

Venture Round in 2015
Urbem is an online platform established in early 2015, focused on enhancing the dining experience by providing personalized culinary recommendations and exclusive offers to its members. The company aims to support quality restaurants by encouraging frequent dining out and fostering new customer engagement. Through its unique marketing strategies, Urbem enhances restaurant visibility, ultimately increasing new bookings and customer traffic. By offering a subscription-based service, Urbem connects users with tailored dining options, ensuring they receive exceptional value and recommendations for their culinary adventures.

Bestaurant

Seed Round in 2015
Bestaurant is a mobile application that facilitates private sharing of restaurant recommendations among trusted friends. It allows users to discover and share tips and photos about specific dishes they enjoy, creating a personalized repository of culinary experiences. Users can compile Gold Lists, which feature their favorite restaurants categorized by cuisine or ambiance in various cities, making it easier for friends to make informed dining choices. This feature is particularly beneficial for travelers seeking reliable dining options based on their friends' recommendations. Bestaurant is focused on fostering a close-knit community of food enthusiasts, emphasizing privacy and trust among its users.

Servy

Seed Round in 2015
Servy is a company that offers a next-generation mystery shopping platform designed to enhance the restaurant industry through private evaluations. It enables a community of frequent diners to participate in confidential assessments of restaurants in exchange for rewards and charitable contributions. By leveraging the insights gathered from these evaluations, Servy assists numerous leading restaurants in measuring their performance, improving guest satisfaction, and driving sales growth. Through its innovative approach, Servy aims to empower both food enthusiasts and hospitality professionals to contribute positively to the dining experience.

Tasting Collective

Convertible Note in 2015
Tasting Collective, Inc. is an online platform that connects food enthusiasts with exclusive dining experiences at top independent restaurants. Established in 2015 and based in New York, the company offers members access to privately curated events led by acclaimed chefs, fostering meaningful interactions around communal dining tables. This platform not only allows diners to enjoy unique culinary creations but also provides chefs with the opportunity to experiment with their dishes and gather feedback from participants. Additionally, Tasting Collective partners with various merchants and vendors to offer members special privileges and discounts, enhancing the overall dining experience. Through its innovative approach, Tasting Collective aims to enrich the connection between diners and restaurants, creating memorable culinary adventures.

Madada

Venture Round in 2015
Madada is the operator of a luxury boutique hotel chain that provides hospitality and lodging services. The company owns and operates luxury hotels and apartments with leisure facilities, as well as traditional coffee shops, allowing clients to enjoy a stay with a local neighborhood ambiance.

Tasting Collective

Seed Round in 2015
Tasting Collective, Inc. is an online platform that connects food enthusiasts with exclusive dining experiences at top independent restaurants. Established in 2015 and based in New York, the company offers members access to privately curated events led by acclaimed chefs, fostering meaningful interactions around communal dining tables. This platform not only allows diners to enjoy unique culinary creations but also provides chefs with the opportunity to experiment with their dishes and gather feedback from participants. Additionally, Tasting Collective partners with various merchants and vendors to offer members special privileges and discounts, enhancing the overall dining experience. Through its innovative approach, Tasting Collective aims to enrich the connection between diners and restaurants, creating memorable culinary adventures.

Fooze

Seed Round in 2015
Fooze, Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in a mobile application designed for the delivery of late-night meals. Launched in 2015, Fooze offers a convenient service for customers seeking quality late-night dining options. The application features a nightly rotating selection of three meals from signature local restaurants, focusing on delivering piping hot food in as little as 20 minutes. By providing an accessible platform for ordering, Fooze aims to offer better alternatives to typical processed late-night food options, enhancing the late-night dining experience for consumers. The company also supports local establishments through advertising and marketing services, creating a mutually beneficial ecosystem.

Agrilicious.com

Seed Round in 2014
Agrilicious.com is an online platform that serves as a marketplace connecting consumers with local food producers, including farmers, restaurants, and grocery delivery services. Established in 2013 and based in Bothell, Washington, Agrilicious facilitates the buying and selling of organic and handmade goods, promoting a closer connection between families and farmers. The platform encourages collaboration and communication among various stakeholders in the food industry, including educators and advocates, to share ideas and support local agriculture. By increasing visibility for farmers and providing consumers with access to fresh, all-natural foods, Agrilicious contributes to the growing movement for sustainable and local food sourcing.

Foodie For All

Seed Round in 2014
Founded in 2014, Foodie For All specializes in corporate food delivery services. It connects businesses with diverse restaurants in New York City, offering concierge assistance, access to trendy eateries, and reliable delivery for weekday lunches and dinners.

Greenease

Seed Round in 2014
Greenease LLC is a mobile application developer based in Washington, D.C., established in 2013. The application connects consumers with restaurants, cafes, and grocers that prioritize sourcing from local and sustainable farms. Currently available on iOS in Washington, D.C., and New York City, Greenease provides users with access to various food offerings, including free-range, vegetarian, organic, drug-free, and sustainably harvested seafood. Listings on the app are free for businesses, which are encouraged to share their farm sourcing information, allowing consumers to make informed decisions about where their food comes from while dining out.

Local Food Lab

Seed Round in 2014
Local Food Lab, Inc. is a venture builder and startup academy based in Stanford, California, founded in 2012. The company specializes in providing online classes that focus on business plan development and investor pitch preparation specifically for food and agricultural startups. Additionally, Local Food Lab offers a one-day boot camp program designed for food entrepreneurs, catering to a diverse range of clients including artisan food makers, urban agriculturists, food tech innovators, food photographers, food truck operators, farmers, restaurateurs, food bloggers, package designers, and recipe box creators. The company's mission is to foster a healthier, more equitable, and resilient food system through education and community support for aspiring food entrepreneurs.

Servy

Seed Round in 2014
Servy is a company that offers a next-generation mystery shopping platform designed to enhance the restaurant industry through private evaluations. It enables a community of frequent diners to participate in confidential assessments of restaurants in exchange for rewards and charitable contributions. By leveraging the insights gathered from these evaluations, Servy assists numerous leading restaurants in measuring their performance, improving guest satisfaction, and driving sales growth. Through its innovative approach, Servy aims to empower both food enthusiasts and hospitality professionals to contribute positively to the dining experience.

LuRenJia

Venture Round in 2011
Spiced duck and chicken chain brand based in Nanjing.

Eat Mubarak

Eat Mubarak is a company that specializes in empowering restaurants by providing a digital platform for food ordering and marketing. It has developed a food delivery application that facilitates online restaurant discovery, allowing users to search for and find nearby restaurants. The application features a user-friendly interface where individuals can browse through restaurant menus, view photos, and read user reviews and ratings. This comprehensive approach enables users to easily explore dining options and streamline the food ordering process, enhancing the overall customer experience while supporting restaurants in building their digital presence.
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