Hellometer

Making fast food faster

hellometer.io

HQ: Los Angeles, CA, USA

1-10

B2B

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 2, 2026

Overview

Hellometer is a privately held restaurant-technology company founded in 2020 that uses AI-powered computer vision and camera footage to give quick-service restaurant and retail operators real-time visibility into service speed, bottlenecks, security, loss prevention, and kitchen operations. The company has expanded from drive-thru measurement into broader operational monitoring and natural-language video search.

Primary product

A camera-based AI operations platform for QSRs and retailers, including Drive-Thru Timer, Lobby Timer, Loss Prevention, Kitchen Monitoring, and the newer Hellometer Video Search product.

Founded

2020

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States (current company-directory/LinkedIn data); older investor and YC records list Santa Monica or Los Angeles.

Team size

1-10 (LinkedIn/company profile); third-party databases estimate approximately 9-14

Work style

Remote

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Sub-industry

Restaurant technology / B2B SaaS / AI and computer vision

Offices

Mountain View, California, United States

Santa Monica, California, United States (older listed headquarters/address)

Business model

B2B SaaS subscriptions

Enterprise software sold to restaurant and retail operators

Camera/video analytics platform with implementation and support

Custom/demo-led sales

Funding

Stage

Seed / early-stage, generating revenue

Latest round

Seed - II · Jan 2023

Seed round / Seed II

Jan 2023

Non-equity assistance

Nov 2022 · Intel Ignite

Accelerator / non-equity assistance

Nov 2022 · Intel Ignite

Seed

Aug 2020 · Bling Capital

$125K

Seed round

Aug 2020 · Bling Capital

Accelerator / Y Combinator S20

Aug 2020 · Y Combinator

$150K

People & investors

Leadership

Alexander (Alex) Popper

Founder and CEO

Alberto Rivera

Co-Founder and CTO

Rachel Collia

COO

Alex Yates

Director of Operations

John Mackey

Director of Operations

Founders

Alex Popper

Founder, CEO

Investors

The Syndicate / Launch Syndicate

Y Combinator

Zillionize

Work & culture

Public evidence emphasizes a small, founder-led, mission-oriented team focused on improving restaurant operations with AI and computer vision. Specific benefits and formal culture policies were not publicly disclosed.

Work style

Remote

Compensation

A YC listing advertises a founding sales hire and says the role is available in the US or remotely; compensation details were not publicly available.

Product & market

Pricing

Custom quote / contact sales; public pricing was not found. A 2022 report said customers could start with a two-month trial.

Differentiators

—Uses existing security-camera footage rather than requiring staff to manually measure operations
—Real-time, location-level visibility into drive-thru, lobby, kitchen, and loss-prevention events
—Combines operational analytics with remote HD video/security access
—Natural-language search across recorded video, announced in July 2026
—Connects verified camera evidence to delivery-dispute workflows through Loop
—Targets multi-location operators that cannot have an owner or manager onsite everywhere

Technology

AI/computer vision

Video analytics

Natural-language video search

Amazon Web Services

Amazon CloudFront

Amazon Route 53

Node.js

React

React Native

Laravel

PostgreSQL

Docker

Zendesk

GitHub

Python (reported by third-party stack data)

Customers

Hardee’s

Dairy Queen

Dunkin’

Subway

Church’s Chicken

Carl’s Jr. (reported in third-party product coverage)

Quick-service restaurant chains and retail operators

Competitors

Presto

Nobly

Agot AI

TRAX Retail

Restaurant365 / operations analytics tools

Video-security and computer-vision vendors serving QSRs

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

Approximately $0.9M-$1.2M annually, based on third-party estimates; no company-reported revenue found.

Estimated monthly visits

274

Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026

+1 310-428-3535

Signals & risks

Other

Aug 2026

Public records contain material inconsistencies in headquarters, employee count, and funding totals: current LinkedIn/company data indicates Mountain View and 1-10 employees, while YC and investor databases list Los Angeles/Santa Monica and 14 or fewer employees.

Source

Other

Jul 2026

A company LinkedIn post announced Hellometer Video Search, indicating active product development and expansion, but also showing the company remains very small by public employee-count data.

Source

Latest news

Hellometer Video Search announced

Hellometer LinkedIn · Jul 2026

Hellometer announced natural-language search across video footage, allowing operators to describe an event and retrieve matching clips.

Hellometer announces MCPC partnership

Hellometer LinkedIn · Jun 2026

Hellometer announced a partnership with managed-service provider MCPC.

Hellometer announces partnership with Loop AI

Hellometer LinkedIn · Jun 2026

The company publicized its Loop AI partnership for delivery-dispute and loss-recovery workflows.

We are excited to announce our recent partnership with Loop AI.

LinkedIn · Jun 2026

Official company post announcing the Loop AI partnership and its value for dispute management and restaurant operations.

Hellometer + Loop: Turning Camera Footage into Dispute Evidence

Hellometer blog · Mar 2026

Hellometer announced an integration with Loop that uses timestamped camera footage to support restaurant disputes involving missing or incorrect delivery orders.

Jobs and careers at Hellometer

47 jobs at Hellometer

Fleet Partnerships

Remote

Business

London; London, England, United Kingdom

1w ago

Remote

Full-time