Santé blog · Mar 2026
Official announcement of Santé’s $7.6M seed round, led by Bonfire Ventures, with participation from Operator Collective, Veridical Ventures, TipTop VC, and angels; also outlines product expansion plans and customer examples.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Santé (Sante Technologies, Inc.) is a New York-based vertical SaaS company building a liquor-store operating system: a POS platform for liquor and wine retailers that unifies checkout, inventory, e-commerce, delivery, marketing, and back-office automation.
Primary product
AI-powered POS and operating system for liquor and wine stores
Founded
2023
Headquarters
New York City, New York, United States
Team size
30-40 employees
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
Vertical SaaS / POS software for liquor and wine retail
Offices
360 W 31st St, New York, NY 10001
New York, NY 10004, United States
New York City, New York, United States
Business model
B2B SaaS
vertical SaaS
subscription software
payments-enabled software
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$9.6M
Latest round
Seed · Feb 2026
Latest amount
$7.6M
People & investors
Leadership
Co-Founder & CEO
Chief Technology Officer
Founding Account Executive
Director of Sales
Founders
Co-Founder & CTO
Work & culture
Small, fast-moving team; ships daily; heavy AI-assisted engineering; in-person collaboration in Flatiron with some remote roles; strong customer feedback loop with real store owners.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
Public job listings indicate some engineering roles around $120K-$180K base with 1%-2% equity, but Santé has not հրապարակly published a standardized compensation policy.
Product & market
Pricing
Custom quote / modular monthly subscription with add-on fees and payment processing
Differentiators
- —All-in-one liquor-store operating system
- —AI-powered invoice scanning and back-office automation
- —Liquor-specific logic such as break-pack pricing, bottle/keg tracking, and vintage management
- —Integrated e-commerce and delivery app sync
- —Multi-store inventory transfers and management
- —Industry-specific customer support
- —Marketing automation tied to store purchase behavior
Technology
TypeScript
React
Next.js
Node.js
Vercel
AWS
Aurora/RDS
PostgreSQL
SQS
Snowflake
GitHub Actions
tRPC
Prisma
ElastiCache
Datadog
pgvector
Tailwind CSS
OpenTelemetry
Customers
Joe Canal’s
Leiser’s Liquors
Spirits of Carmine
Liquor Market
Wine Cellar of Queens
Leary’s Liquor Cabinet
Carmine St. Beers
Wine Gems
Southbridge Wine & Market
Pop & Pour
Main Street Liquors
Discovery Wines
Old Metairie Bottle Shop
The Corkscrew
Egan’s Spring Lake Liquors
Competitors
LiquorPOS
Atlantic Systems
WinePOS
Square
Clover
Bottle POS
mPower
Scale & contact
Latest news
WebWire · Feb 2026
Press release coverage of the $7.6M raise, customer traction claims, AI features, and vertical-specific product details such as invoicing automation and delivery integrations.
Tech Startups · Feb 2026
Independent write-up summarizing Santé’s funding, traction, target market, and platform scope across POS, e-commerce, delivery, marketing, and reporting.
Santé blog
Company blog with ongoing industry and product articles, including compliance, inventory, hiring, and POS guidance; also references the $7.6M raise and founder-authored content.
Jobs and careers at Santé
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