Bengaluru-based restaurant technology startup Digitory has raised $500,000 in a pre-Series A funding round from angel investor Tejas Paresh Lodaya.
Founded in 2016 by Shivaprakash S Mogali, Digitory builds what it describes as an operating system for restaurant profitability. The startup provides AI/ML-driven automation, POS systems and inventory management solutions for the food and beverage industry. Its integrated platform is designed for restaurants, cafes, breweries, bars and cloud kitchens seeking to optimise complex, multi-location operations.
It willuse the fresh capital to maximise market reach, accelerate enterprise onboarding, increase research and development in automation and operational intelligence, and scale platform infrastructure. The funding is also expected to support structured growth and wider market expansion.
Digitory’s product has been built and tested in active restaurant environments. It has evolved into a full-stack restaurant operations system that includes inventory intelligence, recipe management, kitchen display systems, QR-based ordering, workflow automation and performance metrics. The platform combines on-ground operational understanding with centralised cloud-based intelligence to enable business continuity across locations.
According to the company, its network currently supports more than 1.8 million end customers. Several established hospitality brands use the platform, including Toit, Bier Library, Biergarten, Pumphouse, BlrBrewing, 1522, BygBrewski, Zero40 and Effingut Breweries.
Tejas Paresh Lodaya said, “Digitory is solving a real problem in the hospitality sector — optimising complex restaurant operations at scale using tech. The product has been at the forefront in handling complex, volume-filled situations while being bootstrapped, which is quite rare to find at this stage. Seeing it from an investing viewpoint, Digitory has been a firm which deserved the investment given their mindful approach in building a quality, tested platform first, and moving to scale up second.”
Shivaprakash S Mogali, Founder and CEO of Digitory, said, “We are elated for having raised the $500k funding in Series A funding round. While our product has already been operating across restaurants for years, the funding round will aid boost distribution and scale up our operations at an enterprise level.”
Source: www.indianstartupnews.com