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Orderli is the platform for restaurants, we help you sell more and efficiently through our QR based ordering solution.

Positive Food is a food company.

VendEase is a marketplace that lets restaurants in Africa, order directly from farms and food manufacturers. Think of us as Instacart, but for businesses.

Byte Kitchen builds ghost kitchens that make the best dishes from the best restaurants.

SliceQ is an automated phone ordering system for restaurants that enables the team to serve orders and ensures no missed orders.

Atlas is building the operating system for restaurants, focusing on Southeast Asia. Think Shopify for restaurants -- the easiest way to start, run and grow any restaurant online and offline. The team at Atlas previously built Grain, a venture-backed online restaurant, to $20M+ in revenue. Now, Atlas is building the software that helps restaurants achieve what Grain did in 3 years in less than 3 months. Currently just launched a v1 that is already helping restaurants save >50% of cost selling online.

Bite Ninja is a remote hiring technology platform tailored for the restaurant industry. The company specializes in helping restaurants recruit staff in a safe and efficient manner. Its platform integrates virtual staffing solutions with software and artificial intelligence, allowing businesses to assemble remote teams. In addition to staffing, Bite Ninja offers training services that ensure staff are prepared to meet operational demands. This approach enables restaurants to reduce overhead costs while enhancing customer experience through on-demand access to trained employees.

VendEase is a marketplace that lets restaurants in Africa, order directly from farms and food manufacturers. Think of us as Instacart, but for businesses.

Orderli is the platform for restaurants, we help you sell more and efficiently through our QR based ordering solution.

MadEats is a cloud kitchen restaurant based in Manila, Philippines, specializing in online food delivery services. The company operates an online restaurant group that offers a diverse range of food products, including fried chicken dishes, meals, and snacks. MadEats focuses on providing a convenient ordering experience, allowing customers to easily browse menu items and utilize online payment methods for quick and efficient service.

MadEats is a cloud kitchen restaurant based in Manila, Philippines, specializing in online food delivery services. The company operates an online restaurant group that offers a diverse range of food products, including fried chicken dishes, meals, and snacks. MadEats focuses on providing a convenient ordering experience, allowing customers to easily browse menu items and utilize online payment methods for quick and efficient service.

Mezli operates a network of fully autonomous shipping-container restaurants, referred to as "auto-kitchens," that specialize in modern Mediterranean cuisine at affordable prices. Founded by three individuals during their time at Stanford, Mezli aims to address the challenge of accessing healthy, convenient meals without the high costs typically associated with takeout. The company's robotic systems are designed to efficiently handle ingredients, allowing for the preparation and packaging of meals tailored to customer preferences. This innovative approach enables Mezli to provide quality food options for takeout and delivery, making healthy eating accessible to a broader audience.

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VendEase is a marketplace that lets restaurants in Africa, order directly from farms and food manufacturers. Think of us as Instacart, but for businesses.

Voosh develops a decentralized kitchen partner model intended to bring quality and affordable food brands to customers. The company's platform provides virtual multi-cuisine restaurant chain bringing all small restaurants together to compete with any big brand, it co-brands a small restaurant under its platform and takes over all its marketing expenses, it provides the restaurant with diverse recipes and train their staffs, enabling the restaurant industry to generate enhanced revenue and carry its operations efficiently.

Taste is an online marketplace where you can order ready-to-eat dinners from great restaurants, shipped nationwide. The next time you want to have a nice dinner at home, instead of cooking for hours or getting low quality take out, you can order a nice multi-course dinner from Taste to enjoy with friends or loved ones.

Byte is focused on creating a cashless infrastructure to modernize cash-based transactions in Africa. The company aims to facilitate seamless digital payments, thereby enhancing the efficiency of financial exchanges across the region. In addition to its efforts in Africa, Byte is also engaged in the on-demand food delivery sector through virtual kitchens in Pakistan, providing a contemporary solution to the growing demand for convenient meal options. By leveraging technology, Byte seeks to address the challenges of traditional payment methods and improve access to services in both markets.

Drip is a software platform that provides POS, employee scheduling, payroll for restaurants.

Todos Comemos offers a ready-to-cook meal kit delivery service and marketplace to buy premade meal ingredients for customers in Bogota and Ciudad de Mexico. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Bogotá, Colombia.

Justo SpA, founded in 2018 and based in Providencia, Chile, specializes in developing and operating an online application that enables restaurants and stores to manage online orders effectively. The company offers custom-built e-commerce websites tailored for restaurant brands, facilitating order and delivery services while charging a maximum commission of 15 percent. Importantly, Justo allows business owners to retain valuable customer data generated through its platform, enhancing their ability to understand and engage with their clientele.

Hideout Inc. operates a delivery-only restaurant business that specializes in high-quality meals available for home delivery. Founded by Danielle Sobel in 2013, the company is based in Oak Park, California, and offers a diverse menu including Japanese katsu sandos, organic bowls, Italian subs, and bento box food products. By focusing on a portfolio of unique restaurant brands, Hideout aims to redefine the delivery meal experience, providing customers with convenient access to a variety of cuisines delivered directly to their doorsteps.

Eden Farm deliver fruit, vegetables and dry goods to restaurants in Indonesia. We work directly with local farmers and central markets all across the country.

Eden Farm deliver fruit, vegetables and dry goods to restaurants in Indonesia. We work directly with local farmers and central markets all across the country.

Eden Farm deliver fruit, vegetables and dry goods to restaurants in Indonesia. We work directly with local farmers and central markets all across the country.

LineLeap provides mobile fast pass entry for popular bars and nightclubs allowing customers to skip long lines at their favorite venues.

Explorex offers an app that people use when they are dining out at a restaurant. Explorex enables people to view the menu, place their orders, and pay their bills easily through the app, without depending on the restaurant staff thus reducing service-related problems that customers face.

Positive Food is a food company.

Qwest is a fast pass to skip lines at popular clubs, bars, festivals, restaurants, etc.

á la couch is a delivery-focused restaurant group. We deliver thoughtful experiences through chef-driven food brands.

Habitat Logistics powers delivery for restaurants. We provide a turnkey delivery system and can fulfill orders from customers who call-in, as well as from 3rd-party online ordering services such as Grubhub, Zuppler (Conshohocken-based), Snackpass, and others. The company only delivers to restaurants that are within 10 minutes of a customer’s home, saving them time on long deliveries. Restaurants ping Habitat when they have delivery needs and the company sends a driver to complete the delivery. Habitat says they are growing 17 percent month over month, currently collecting $110,000 monthly revenue by charging restaurants per delivery.

Meitre LLC is a technology company headquartered in Montevideo, Uruguay, that specializes in developing an online revenue management platform for restaurants. Founded in 2016, Meitre offers a comprehensive guest management system that facilitates table bookings based on demand trends. Its platform employs dynamic pricing techniques to optimize table allocation and enhance operational efficiency. Meitre's services are utilized by many high-profile restaurants in Latin America, including several on the Latin America Top 50 list, helping them increase profits by as much as 30%. The platform addresses common challenges faced by restaurants, such as limiting low-margin bookings during peak hours, managing reservations more effectively, and reducing no-shows through ticketing, deposits, and credit card guarantees.

OurMenu is a California-based company that offers an online food ordering service designed to enhance the dining experience by allowing customers to order directly from their smartphones without the need for an app. By scanning a QR code at their table, users can browse the menu, place their orders, and make payments electronically, streamlining the process of ordering food. The service aims to replace traditional waiter interactions with a more efficient digital alternative. OurMenu intends to charge restaurants a monthly fee for its technology while also aggregating menu choice data to provide insights back to the restaurants, thus creating additional value for their partners.

CocuSocial is a marketplace for cooking classes that are hosted at restaurants and hotels. Traditional cooking classes are expensive and intensive, but we want to make them affordable, easy to access and fun. In just one year, CocuSocial has become the largest cooking class provider in their home city New York.

Haywheel is an artisan food marketplace for restaurants and specialty food stores.

Bistrobot makes robots that make sandwiches. No more long lines and no more wrong orders, just good food fast. And the coolest part is you get to watch a robot make you lunch.

Yumbin is compact corner store to that offer snacks and beverages in an office. It offers a wide range of curated food and beverage choices.

Zesty provides regular office catering to companies in San Francisco and the Peninsula. Curated by in-house dietitians, Zesty works with hundreds of high quality Bay Area restaurants such as Nopalito, Dosa, Souvla, Woodhouse Fish Co., Little Star Pizza, Wise Sons, providing nutrition facts on every dish. Every meal is delivered by Zesty's own Catering Captains, offering all the reliability and service quality of an in-house caterer as well as the variety of dozens of cuisines. Zesty works with hundreds of companies including Salesforce, Twitch, Uber, Lyft, Github, Everlane and TechCrunch, serving breakfasts, lunches, dinners, happy hours and special events. Zesty is aiming to make a real impact on the world by significantly improving the health of employees. They start by empowering their own own team to live healthfully by offering a gym membership of your choice, on-site sports massage, bi-annual retreats, an open vacation policy...and a kombucha kegerator! They are proud to not just have a work hard, play hard attitude, but strive for first class execution in everything they do. They have raised over $20M in funding top Silicon Valley investors including Index Ventures, Founders Fund, Forerunner Ventures, SV Angel and Y Combinator. Their office building is located in the sunny Potrero Hill district of San Francisco.

Butter Systems (part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2013 class) wants to put a tablet at your table. The tablet would supplant (or augment) a restaurant’s paper menu, allowing customers to order food and drinks, or request their check without having to flag down a server. They’re not trying to replace the server — they’re just trying to make the server’s life easier, while bumping up the amount that restaurants pull in per table.

OrderAhead powers mobile ordering for pickup at thousands of restaurants and local merchants

Caviar is the easiest way for consumers and businesses to order food from favorite local eateries with the ability to live-track the order on a map. Browse a picture menu, place the order, and we'll deliver within 1 hour. Caviar offers restaurants a delivery solution in just a few minutes without any infrastructure, logistical, or operational costs.

OrderAhead powers mobile ordering for pickup at thousands of restaurants and local merchants

Presto is transforming the restaurant industry by offering innovative, enterprise-grade technologies. Its platform enables operational efficiency and data-driven insights while enhancing guest experience. The highly customizable platform includes powerful solutions for guests (pay-at-table, kiosk, mobile SDK), staff (server handheld, line buster), and managers (computer vision, wearable, A.I. & analytics). Founded in 2008 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and now based in Silicon Valley, California, Presto is currently used by the majority of the top 20 restaurant chains in the U.S. including Applebee’s, Chili’s Grill & Bar, Denny’s, and Outback Steakhouse.

InstantQ is an online platform that enables restaurants to distribute JIT promotions to its customers. It was launched in 2009 by Dana Levine and is based in California.

YumDots wants to be the go-to mobile application for finding places to eat when out on the town. Its emphasis on using interactive maps to display information about local restaurants makes it more efficient than other mobile review services like Yelp's. The service is launching soon.