What it sells
AI-Native Restaurant POS
Business model breakdown
Buyer: who owns the budget?
Owners of independent restaurants, cafes and food trucks, plus table-service operators.
Trigger: what makes them buy now?
UnverifiedMonthly POS subscriptions and delivery-app commissions; Avocado offers $0/month and flat-fee delivery.
Workflow: what inputs become what output?
Ring up orders on the POS, send tickets to the kitchen display with timers, take online orders from the restaurant's own site, text customers when food is ready, run loyalty and view sales/labor reports or ask the AI.
Economics: what it saves and how it charges
Payments take rate: 5% + 15 cents per card payment (processing at cost 2.6% + 15c plus Avocado 2.4%), merchant may pass the fee to the customer; hardware sold at cost.
Distribution: how it reaches customers
Short demo booking and phone/text support seven days a week; direct sales to small restaurants.
Funding history and coverage
| Round date | Stage | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Y Combinator Winter 2021 | — | Y Combinator | ycombinator.com |
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