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The product spurs more impulse orders and enables every transaction to happen, whether the server is available or not. 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Quickly review applications, schedule interviews, manage job board postings, and fill out employee paperwork from anywhere on any device. \r\n\r\nCreated by a former multi-unit franchisee, HigherMe reduces the time and cost of hiring using a mobile-first applicant tracking system, Text-To-Apply technology, one-click interview scheduling, video cover letters, and more. With over three million applications submitted using our cloud-based software, say goodbye to the stack of paper résumés and easily fill open jobs anywhere, anytime.", "one_liner": "Helping restaurant employers find & hire better employees faster", "team_size": 45, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Recruiting and Talent", "launched_at": 1416220401, "tags": [ "SaaS", "HR Tech", "Restaurant Tech" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2015", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "B2B", "Recruiting and Talent" ], "regions": [ "Canada", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/higherme", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2015/higherme.json" }, { "id": 784, "name": "Shift Messenger", "slug": "shift-messenger", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://shiftmessenger.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Messaging solution that retail employees use every day\n\nReduce employee turnover and save managers time", "one_liner": "Real-time communication solution for retail and restaurant employees.", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1416221649, "tags": [ "Restaurant Tech", "Retail" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2015", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/shift-messenger", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2015/shift-messenger.json" }, { "id": 11928, "name": "ZeroStorefront", "slug": "zerostorefront", "former_names": [ "Eatgeek" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4357f0a162df6ba4c80277c8b4d44fd48049a52c.png", "website": "http://www.zerostorefront.com", "all_locations": "San Mateo, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "We connect applications to drive more orders and better customer experiences for restaurants. The typical restaurant now uses more than two dozen different applications to run their business. Specifically, we connect, warehouse and route the data to improve analytics, marketing, operations and finance. Our customers include brands like Frank Pepe’s, Halal Guys, Wings Over and more.", "one_liner": "#1 Data platform for restaurants. 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Superorder has a robust network of restaurant partners that include Marco's Pizza, KFC, Pizza Hut, Wow Bao, and Del Taco.", "one_liner": "AI customer reputation & performance management for restaurant chains.", "team_size": 30, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1662139261, "tags": [ "Artificial Intelligence", "SaaS", "B2B", "Restaurant Tech", "Food Tech" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2019", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/superorder", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2019/superorder.json" }, { "id": 12849, "name": "Mipos.dev", "slug": "mipos-dev", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f81e9ed95099fa46b49a8c05bae318afc1e2944e.png", "website": "http://www.mipos.dev", "all_locations": "Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico", "long_description": "", "one_liner": "Api that let you connect all the restaurant tech services in Latam ", "team_size": 0, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Retail", "launched_at": 1559266572, "tags": [ "Restaurant Tech", "API", "Latin America" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2019", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Retail" ], "regions": [ "Mexico", "Latin America" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mipos-dev", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2019/mipos-dev.json" }, { "id": 22717, "name": "Avocado", "slug": "avocado", "former_names": [ "Instamenu", "Avocado", "Avocado (prev Instamenu)", "Avocado", "Avocado (prev Instamenu)", "Avocado", "Avocado (prev Instamenu)" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ee598c4bd559ee64f6fb65373d9e54f75eda4260.png", "website": "https://avocadopos.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Avocado is a modern point-of-sale system for restaurants, powered by a built-in AI agent. More than just a POS, Avocado combines order management, KDS, kiosks, and online ordering in one platform - and lets restaurants control everything with simple voice or text commands. Want to change your menu, check your sales, or optimize pricing? Just ask. Avocado’s AI understands your business and takes action instantly, freeing up owners and staff to focus on what matters most: great food and service.", "one_liner": "AI-Native Restaurant POS", "team_size": 4, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Retail", "launched_at": 1614625915, "tags": [ "Fintech", "Generative AI", "Restaurant Tech", "AI", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2021", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Retail" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/avocado", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2021/avocado.json" }, { "id": 24746, "name": "Atlas", "slug": "atlas", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b5fbe6f0988ece99d1e7fc4b4ccb58b5d8ab3808.png", "website": "https://atlas.kitchen", "all_locations": "Singapore, Singapore", "long_description": "Atlas is building the operating system for restaurants. Atlas is the easiest way to start, run and grow any restaurant online and offline. We are the team that previously built Grain, a venture-backed online restaurant, to millions in revenue. Team and investors are from Grain, Accenture, Microsoft, Udacity, McKinsey, Salesforce, Y Combinator and others. https://atlas.kitchen", "one_liner": "Operating system for restaurants, focusing on Southeast Asia", "team_size": 12, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1628404726, "tags": [ "Restaurant Tech" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2021", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "Singapore", "Southeast Asia", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": true, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/atlas", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2021/atlas.json" }, { "id": 27815, "name": "OfOne", "slug": "ofone", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6f20cb0518a4682de040512f68325cefe65fca72.png", "website": "https://www.of.one", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "OfOne is building software to automate order taking at fast-food drive-thrus. Using conversational AI, we help restaurant chains operate more efficiently and level-up their customer experience.\r\n\r\nOfOne can answer questions, intelligently upsell - like suggesting ice cream on a hot day - and always says please and thank you.\r\n\r\nThere are 200,000 drive-thrus in the US and they are the industry's largest order channel.\r\n\r\nOur mission is to deliver human centric experiences that help restaurant operators prosper, deliver delight for their customers, and empower their workers.", "one_liner": "AI-powered order taker for restaurant drive-thrus", "team_size": 5, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1675101964, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "Restaurant Tech" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ofone", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2023/ofone.json" }, { "id": 28881, "name": "Chow Central Inc", "slug": "chow-central-inc", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b180100ca46fba5b88d5f7f8c9ef48ce2f462433.png", "website": "https://chowcentral.com", "all_locations": "Lagos, LA, Nigeria", "long_description": "Chow Central is building technology to disrupt the food industry in Nigeria. The goal is to profitably provide food to as many people as possible in record time. \r\n\r\nChow Central has launched its first product \"500chow\". A delivery-only quick service restaurant that serves customers in record time. 500chow has 10x lower costs than traditional brick-and-mortar restaurants, and 10x more online orders. \r\n\r\nOur customers love us for our super fast and cheaper deliveries. We are able to do this by launching hyper-locally within a 3km radius.\r\n\r\nWe are very focused on solving real problems in the food industry one scalable product at a time.", "one_liner": "Asset Light Chipotle for Africa", "team_size": null, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Food and Beverage", "launched_at": 1690480530, "tags": [ "Consumer", "Restaurant Tech", "Food", "Food & Beverage" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Food and Beverage" ], "regions": [ "Nigeria", "Africa", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/chow-central-inc", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2023/chow-central-inc.json" }, { "id": 30759, "name": "Certus AI", "slug": "certus-ai", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4913536f9defe2e375acb9a499aa2ac443e9dc95.png", "website": "https://www.certus-ai.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Certus AI is replacing the restaurant phone line with Voice AI.\r\n\r\nRestaurants lose up to $100,000 per year per location from missed calls, lost orders, and abandoned hold lines. Staff are overwhelmed. IVRs frustrate customers. Call centers are expensive and impersonal.\r\n\r\nIt’s 2025. Guests don’t leave voicemails or wait on hold. They just move on.\r\n\r\nCertus is an AI voice agent built for restaurants. It answers every call, 24/7 — taking orders, processing deliveries, booking reservations, upselling, and handling complaints in English, Spanish, French and more. Certus is built to manage the phone line end to end, from the customer call to the restaurant tech stack, with zero human intervention required. It currently integrates with industry-leading systems like Toast, Square, Clover, UberEats, DoorDash, and more.\r\n\r\nWe’re building the voice layer of the modern restaurant — the employee they’ll never fire.\r\n\r\nWe started Certus because we lived the pain. Gurveer (CEO) grew up answering phones in his family’s restaurant and helped operate them, growing from 1 to 11 locations in 7 years. Later, he and Adam (CRO) ran a restaurant growth startup to help others increase revenue, but kept watching clients bleed cash because no one picked up the phone. So we built the solution the industry always wished existed.\r\n\r\nUntil now, this problem was considered unsolvable. But Voice AI has finally crossed the conversational chasm and 72% of consumers now prefer AI over humans as long as it means faster and better service.\r\n\r\nMore importantly, the market is begging for this. The North American restaurant industry crossed $1 trillion in 2024, and it's projected to hit $1.5 trillion in 2025. Yet over $100 billion is still lost annually to missed calls, human error, and outdated tech. As the market continues to grow, so do the losses!\r\n\r\nOur customers say it best:\r\n\r\n- “Certus changed my life overnight.”\r\n- “We were losing the ability to give great in-house service — the phone was killing us.”\r\n- “70% of my business comes through the phone. That’s mine and my 16 staffs livelihood.”\r\n- “Before Certus, I used to lose 40 - 60 calls a day…. now my printer just stays printing!”\r\n- “I’ve been in the business 38 years. I’ve been waiting for this since then.”\r\n\r\nCertus is here to fix the $120B phone problem — one call at a time.\r\n\r\nAnd in doing so, we’re redefining how the restaurant industry communicates forever, starting with the phone line.", "one_liner": "Replacing the restaurant phone line with Voice AI", "team_size": 8, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1753135662, "tags": [ "Artificial Intelligence", "SaaS", "B2B", "Restaurant Tech", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/certus-ai", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2025/certus-ai.json" }, { "id": 30850, "name": "Zavo", "slug": "zavo", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9a1286c1ed0f215411585d2faaf1c76a245ee266.png", "website": "https://zavopay.com", "all_locations": "London, United Kingdom", "long_description": "Zavo is the AI-powered operating system for restaurants.\r\n\r\nWe bring payments, point of sale, and AI agents into one unified platform, so restaurants can run their entire business seamlessly.\r\n\r\nFrom reservations to payments to POS, Zavo replaces fragmented tools with a fully integrated stack built in-house. Our AI agents automate repetitive tasks, streamline operations, and help teams focus on delivering great guest experiences.", "one_liner": "AI Operating System for Restaurants ", "team_size": 8, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech -> Payments", "launched_at": 1758482945, "tags": [ "Artificial Intelligence", "Fintech", "Payments", "B2B", "Restaurant Tech" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech", "Payments" ], "regions": [ "United Kingdom", "Europe", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zavo", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/fall-2025/zavo.json" }, { "id": 32223, "name": "Truffle", "slug": "truffle", "former_names": [ "Remy" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c2506c5899c2529c2d5cc182e3a242e11f99aa02.png", "website": "https://usetruffle.ai/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Truffle is the first AI-native operating system for the hospitality back-of-house. Restaurants, cafes and bars still run on a patchwork of disconnected point solutions, spreadsheets, clipboards and tribal knowledge, which costs the industry billions each year in stockouts, food waste, and lost profit. Truffle replaces that entire stack with one system. Computer vision and voice AI capture real-time inventory levels 90% faster than manual counts, ML models forecast item-level demand at 97% accuracy, and AI agents run dozens of end-to-end workflows autonomously, from procurement and invoice reconciliation to scheduling, food prep, menu engineering, and more.", "one_liner": "The autonomous back-of-house for restaurants.", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1782079217, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Restaurant Tech", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2026", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/truffle", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2026/truffle.json" } ]