Founded 2024. Baltimore + Manhattan. 14 people. Backed by people who've run kitchens, not just written about them.
US restaurants do $1 trillion in revenue every year. They lose 6–8% to inconsistency, waste, and silent compliance failures. CheffyIQ exists to close that gap.
In late 2023, Adam (our CEO) was advising his uncle's chain of 8 restaurants in Charleston. Quality was inconsistent across outlets. Spot audits caught 4% of issues. Customers were leaving Yelp reviews like "the same dish tastes different every time."
He realized the problem wasn't training, recipes, or even talent. It was continuous observation at scale. No human can watch every dish in every kitchen at every shift. But AI cameras can.
CheffyIQ launched in March 2024 with one customer (Hearth & Stone). 14 months later: 38 customers, 214 cameras, 92 edge devices, 3.2 million dishes verified.
$8.5M raised across Seed and Series A. Led by operators, not just spreadsheets.
Vertical food & restaurant tech fund. Previously: Toast (IPO), Sweetgreen.
Pre-seed and seed AI infrastructure fund. Portfolio: Hugging Face, Modal, Replicate.
Founders & operators from Toast, Sweetgreen, Chipotle, DoorDash, and Square.
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We never build features that surveil chefs without giving them the same data. Their app shows their score, their coaching, their progress.
Video stays on the edge box. Faces blurred. Only metadata leaves the kitchen. We're SOC 2 candidates.
Every quarter we ask customers what their compliance rate looks like. If it's not improving, we rebuild.
We're hiring across engineering, sales, and CS. If kitchens excite you, we'd love to talk.
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