Avocado blog · Oct 2025
Company blog post framing Avocado as a tool to help restaurants pair AI-driven automation with hospitality, including analytics, SMS copilot, QR menus, table management, and kitchen coordination.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Avocado is an AI-native restaurant POS platform for food trucks, coffee shops, and restaurants, combining POS, KDS, kiosks, online ordering, and an AI assistant that can manage menus, pricing, reporting, team tasks, and marketing.
Primary product
AI-native restaurant point-of-sale platform
Founded
2020
Headquarters
Austin, Texas, United States
Team size
10-20 employees
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Restaurant POS / food tech
Offices
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Business model
Stage
Pre-seed
Total raised
$125K
Latest round
Pre-Seed / YC W21 · Apr 2021
Latest amount
$125K
Apr 2021 · Y Combinator
Leadership
Co-Founder and CEO
Co-Founder
Vice President of Business Development
Head of Growth
Founding SDR
Investors
Small, founder-led, restaurant-focused team with an AI-native product culture; public posts emphasize responsiveness, speed, and a fun team dynamic.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
No public salary bands or formal compensation policy found. Hiring posts suggest U.S.-based remote sales roles and founder-led outreach, but not disclosed pay ranges.
Pricing
No monthly fees / no merchant fees; evidence suggests a transaction-based take rate (reported as 2.5% of order total by third-party analysis).
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Approx. $440K ARR in 2025 (external estimate; roughly sub-$1M annual revenue)
Estimated monthly visits
6.7K
Traffic estimate as of Sep 2025
Avocado blog · Oct 2025
Company blog post framing Avocado as a tool to help restaurants pair AI-driven automation with hospitality, including analytics, SMS copilot, QR menus, table management, and kitchen coordination.
Avocado on LinkedIn · Sep 2025
Company post showing Avocado’s AI demo capabilities, including restaurant-specific interactions such as speaking Tagalog and discussing the AI assistant’s features in a live demo context.
Nick Evans on LinkedIn · Aug 2025
Nick Evans said early AI attempts failed in production but were rebuilt for today’s higher-quality models, and that Avocado had been rebuilt around an AI-assisted workflow.
Y Combinator on LinkedIn · Jul 2025
YC highlighted Avocado’s AI-first restaurant stack, describing Avocado as a POS plus KDS, kiosk, and online ordering system with an AI assistant that can manage menus, pricing, employees, reporting, and more.
American Bazaar · Jul 2025
External coverage of Avocado’s AI restaurant assistant, emphasizing its restaurant-native capabilities, founders Nick Evans and Shayan Guha, and the product’s context-aware menu, pricing, inventory, and staff management features.