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Karakuri
AI-powered made-to-order healthy food
- 21-100 employees
- B2B
- Artificial Intelligence
- Sustainability
- Food
- Robotics
- SaaS
- Environmental
- Hammersmith, London, UK
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Company mission
Committed to changing the way the world prepares, offers, and experiences convenience food.
Our take
Consumers are demanding more personalized, higher quality meals, and so restaurants are under pressure to keep pace. Restaurants must also almost balance the rising staffing costs driven by increasingly individualised menus. Karakuri’s automation systems makes choice and meal personalisation a reality for every diner, regardless of price point.
It takes a multi-pronged approach, accounting for sustainability, personalisation, and collaboration, all with a focus on real food. It is designed to provide accurate portion control to avoid waste and wants to make the hospitality industry a more attractive workplace by supporting employees. Karakuri is also continually find innovative ways to create fresh food; its healthy ethos stands against ready, frozen meals.
The company's main innovation is in the combination of robotics and AI, and it has been significantly investing into this as it continually looks to new avenues that can help streamline restaurant operations. Karakuri has recently launched ‘Karakuri – Robot Ready’, its new certification programme for third-party restaurant software, products and services, which seamlessly integrates with existing software.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- We have one of the largest stock option pools in UK Tech and every member of the team gets options
- Every week we have a team lunch where everyone comes together to enjoy some local food. We also plan regular evening social events, from cocktails to crazy golf
- We provide a generous pension plan for everyone in our team
- Few things are more important than health, so we provide everyone in the team with Vitality Health Insurance
- We believe in finding the solutions to help you balance work/life, this includes options to work remotely
Company values
- We are curiously creative
- We deliver quality
- We cultivate growth
- We are human
- We respect honesty
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Feb 2022
$0.5m
GRANT
Dec 2020
$8m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $17.4m
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Leadership
Barney Wragg
(CEO)CEO of Really Useful Group (global theatrical production of titles including Phantom of the Opera and Cats). Previously Head of Digital for EMI Music and Senior VP for Universal Music