Chef Robotics, a San Francisco, CA-based company developing an AI-enabled robotic systems for meal assembly, raised $43M in Series A funding that included $20.6M in equity and $22.5M in equipment financing debt.
The equity was led by Avataar Ventures and included investments from Construct Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Promus Ventures, MFV Partners, Interwoven Ventures, HCVC, MaC Venture Capital, Red and Blue Ventures, Tau Partners, Alumni Ventures, Siddhi Capital, and BOLD Capital Partners.
The new funding brought Chef’s total capital raised to $65.6M which consisted of $38.8M in equity and $26.75M in equipment financing, all with Silicon Valley Bank, a Division of First Citizens Bank.
The company intends to use the funds to accelerate production deployments of its robotic systems.
Led by CEO and Founder Rajat Bhageria, Chef is an AI-driven food robotics company. With over 44 million servings made in production, it leverages ChefOS, an AI platform for food manipulation, to offer a robotics-as-a-service solution that helps food companies increase production volume and meet demand.
It aims to improve humans by accelerating intelligent machines.
FinSMEs
01/04/2025