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Kea
Automating voice commerce for businesses
About Kea
Kea.ai, founded in 2018 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, is revolutionizing the restaurant industry with its AI-driven voice ordering system. The company serves restaurants looking to streamline their operations and improve customer interactions. Operating in the digital transformation market, Kea.ai empowers restaurants to operate more intelligently and own their relationship with customers. The business model revolves around providing a voice ordering system that uses artificial intelligence to understand accents and special requests, ensuring a smooth order process. The AI also identifies upsell opportunities based on previous order history and commonly ordered items. Kea.ai generates revenue through subscription fees and service charges for its AI-driven solutions. The company has raised $29 million from Tier 1 Silicon Valley investors and continues to grow rapidly.
Source: Dealroom company dataAt a glance
- Status
- Operational
- Founded
- 2017
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto, United States
- Employees
- 81
- Open positions
- None listed
- Dealroom signal
- 76.0/100
- Industry
- Food, Telecom
- Sub-industry
- In-store Retail & Restaurant Tech
- Sector
- Food, Core AI, AI Applications, AI Agents
- Technology
- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Client focus
- b2b
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Funding history
Company financing events and reported valuations.
| Deal type | Date | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SERIES A✓Equity / VC | Nov 2020 | $10M | $40M | Streamlined Ventures · Alumni Ventures · Jonathan Kelly · Raj Kapoor | — |
| SEED✓Equity / VC | May 2019 | $2.8M | $11M | Streamlined Ventures · Xfund · Deepcore | — |
Growth signals
Latest recorded traffic for Kea is 8.8K monthly website visits, up 1.1% over the last three months. Kea's team grew 1.3% over the past year.
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Investors
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Seed3 investors entered at this stage
Streamlined Ventures
Xfund
Deepcore
Series A9 investors entered at this stage
- WVWasabi Ventures
Marbruck
Alumni Ventures- JKJonathan Kelly
Raj Kapoor
Heartland Ventures
Craig Flom
Barrel Ventures
Tony Lam
Other known investors8 additional known investors
Edward Lando
Jon Oringer
Nadav Ben-Chanoch
Plug and Play
SchindlerAM Ventures
Superangel
Thiel Fellowship
Western Technology Investment
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