- Munich-based allO just secured a $14 million Series A to replace restaurant back-office work with AI agents.
- The round led by Zigg Capital, with participation from LifeX Ventures, Aperture, and Wecken & Cie and others.
- The startup plans to release 10 AI agents over the next 12 to 18 months.
Munich-based allO has closed a $14 million Series A round led by Zigg Capital.
Founded in 2020 by Cancan Liu, Teodor Rupi, and Benedikt von Lewinski, allO has built an end-to-end AI-driven operating system for restaurants, covering everything from point of sale and payments to reservations, kiosks, delivery integrations, and back-office tools.
“Restaurant owners are the perfect user group for AI. They want the work done. They don’t want to learn another piece of software. Most aren’t tech-savvy, and they shouldn’t have to be,” says Liu, who is the startup’s CEO.
“We leverage our all-in-one platform to build digital employees that get the job done for them, instead of teaching them how to press buttons.”
The platform now serves over 1,000 active restaurant locations across Germany, having grown its presence sixfold and increased revenue by more than three times since its 2024 seed round.
It is part of a wave of startups who are using AI agents to make restaurants and the food industry more efficient. For instance, Choice uses the technology to boost restaurants’ direct delivery orders alongside Wolt and Deliveroo; SOUS helps independent food and beverage businesses with their customer journeys; and Nori has built scheduling, inventory, and performance data tools.
AllO has so far been focused on international, non-German cuisine, which it says is under-served by legacy software given they were not built for multi-language teams, complex modifier menus, or varied payment behaviour. It will now scale to any cuisine, targeting the same issues of complicated workflows, labour shortages and tight margins.
Building back-office AI agents
The fresh funds will be used to expand across Europe as the startup accelerates the rollout of its “digital employees”, meaning AI agents that do the work. It’s a step change from traditional tooling or back office software for restaurants, which tend to be dashboards and still require restaurant owners to manage.
Alongside the raise, allO has launched a voice-powered AI agent that handles incoming calls and logs bookings and takeaway orders directly into its system. It is the first of more than 10 AI agents the startup has planned over the next 12 to 18 months; AI agents to support inventory and the menu are to come next.
LifeX Ventures, Aperture, and Wecken & Cie., also participated in the round alongside existing investors 20VC and Keen Venture Partners. It brings total VC raised to allO $20 million.
The startup makes money via multiple revenue streams, including subscription and payment processing, it tells Tech Funding News. In the future is plans to have additional usage-based and AI-driven revenue models.
Zigg Capital principal Elizabeth Chrystal, a former CFO of Momofuku, will join the board alongside Cornelius Everke, who held senior roles at Starbucks, Vapiano, and Burger King Germany, and Matt Baumgartner, previously product director at Toast.
“allO is the system I wish I had as an operator at Momofuku: not just a superior point-of-sale, but an autonomous operating system that can transform a restaurant’s business,” says Chrystal.
“While most AI tools see only a sliver of a restaurant’s data, allO sees everything – and that’s what makes truly autonomous operations possible. We believe allO will define this category in Europe and beyond.”
With the fresh funds it will grow its current team of 50 to around 80 employees over the next 18 months. The majority of this growth will be focused on sales, commercial, and customer-facing functions.
On diversity, the allO tells TFN that it has a highly international team, with employees representing 17 different nationalities. In terms of gender diversity, the male-to-female ratio is currently around 60/40.
