Owner has raised $240 million in a Series D financing that values the restaurant technology company at $2.3 billion, giving it substantially more capital to pursue an ambitious goal: becoming the technology and marketing platform that effectively runs the digital side of an independent restaurant. Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives led the financing, with existing …
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Owner has raised $240M, reached a $2.3B valuation, and crossed $100M ARR.
Owner has raised $240M, reached a $2.3B valuation, and crossed $100M ARR. Goldman Sachs Alternatives led the round, joined by Meritech, Redpoint, Headline, & Jack Altman. The world is racing to build AI to replace people’s jobs. Owner is building AI to do the opposite:To do the jobs for small business owners they’ve never been able …
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Owner.com Sharing Customer Data
From LinkedIn: Owner.com‘s whole pitch is “own your customers, not DoorDash.” but someone just got emailed by six Owner.com restaurants they’ve never ordered from. same promo code. same day. same “BIGGAME26” offer. could be a bug. could be a one-time Super Bowl campaign that cast too wide a net. i’ll give them the benefit of …
ANTITRUST—N.D. Cal.: ChowNow sufficiently alleged its competitor published inaccurate comparative advertising, (Jan 20, 2026)
Law Firms Mentioned:Baker & McKenzie LLP | Polsinelli LLP Organizations Mentioned:ChowNow, Inc. | Owner.com By Patricia K. Ruiz, J.D. The complaint alleged Owner.com engaged in a pattern of unfair, false, and misleading business practices to divert customers away from ChowNow. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California denied in part Owner.com’s motion to dismiss ChowNow’s seven-count …
DoorDash’s New Commerce Platform Opening Customer Data
Good LinkedIn post: just got off a call with a restaurant that’s moving to DoorDash’s new commerce platform. at first i wondered why and questioned it DoorDash is shipping an Owner.com-style stack: branded website + 1p online ordering + crm + email/sms + a cross-channel loyalty program all built on their marketplace rails the big …
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A GenX chef says he’s weaning off delivery apps like DoorDash and Uber Eats because of 2 big downsides. Here’s what he’s doing instead.
By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. You can opt-out at any time by visiting our Preferences page or by clicking “unsubscribe” at the bottom of the email. Tony Marciante has run Chef Tony’s Seafood in Bethesda, Maryland, since 2007. When the food-delivery apps like DoorDash, UberEats, and Grubhub came out, he signed …
This startup wants to help mom-and-pop restaurants drop Grubhub
A startup called Owner wants to help mom-and-pop restaurants thrive online. Digital ordering and online marketing have become more essential to a restaurant’s survival than ever. While that shift online can be a relatively easy one for chain establishments, Owner cofounder and CEO Adam Guild says independent restaurants can easily end up spending a lot of time …
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How a 21-year-old CEO landed $3.5 million for software that he originally built to help his mom’s struggling dog grooming business keep repeat customers
Profitboss CEO Adam Guild has boundless energy. The 21-year-old founder can speak several paragraphs worth of information in a minute. That animated style and depth of knowledge is one reason venture capitalists decided to invest in his startup, which he founded at 18. The company recently wrapped up a $3.5 million seed round led by Redpoint …
How This 22-Year-Old High School Dropout Is Helping Independent Restaurants Fight Back Against GrubHub
Right now, in the U.S., 40% of the restaurant industry are independent restaurant owners and mom-and-pop shops. The pandemic hit these businesses hard, and many of them are still reeling from the past two years. While we’ve seen a rise in food delivery as of late, this consumer behavior is actually quite detrimental to small-and-mid-sized …
Owner.com serves up $10.7M so that independent restaurants can get cooking
Independent restaurants don’t typically have the luxury to create their own online food ordering and delivery capabilities or negotiate for lower rates from legacy ordering platforms like the large restaurant chains do. Here’s where Owner.com comes in. The Palo Alto-based company provides a free online ordering, delivery and marketing platform for independent restaurants that puts them on …
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