NowCuisine

3rd-party restaurant delivery is broken for both consumers and brands. NowCuisine’s unique software and AI-enabled autonomous kiosks allow restaurants to serve fresh, hot meals for up to 50% less than delivery and with 1/10 the wait. It’s a quick-scaling new channel that builds brand awareness while dramatically boosting same-store sales with good margins. We enable brands to offer affordable, restaurant-quality hot meals in the vast number of locations that can't support a restaurant (warehouses, student housing, smaller hotels, etc.). We can put an unattended Chipotle or CAVA in nearly any building, unlocking a turnkey competitive amenity. Our beachhead is locations that become food deserts at night (e.g., hospitals, warehouses, factories, student housing). Unit economics allow profitably selling as few as 10 meals a day per kiosk. We have a software-centric technology that leverages low-cost hardware, and an ops-light, recurring revenue model in which restaurant customers make the food. Our did-it-before team of food automation and 3D printing industry experts includes a CEO who brought the 1st 3D printer to market and founded two exited startups, and a CTO who pioneered robotic foodservice kiosks and exited to Coke. Advisors include the Founder of Chili’s and the head of MIT’s world-leading AI/robotics lab. We're raising a $1M pre-seed round to grow our installed base. Of this, we've already raised enough to deploy 3 machines, the first of which went live in January '26 and is selling meals daily.