LinkedIn / TIBAS Ventures · Dec 2025
TIBAS Ventures announced an investment in Zavo and framed the company as transforming payments and operations for businesses.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
Zavo is a London-based hospitality fintech/software company building an AI operating system for restaurants and broader enterprise hospitality: one integrated stack for POS, payments, reservations, marketing, and AI voice/ops automation. The company says it started in 2022, while public YC-era profiles reflect a 2025 launch/pivot of the current product.
Primary product
AI operating system for modern hospitality/restaurants combining POS, payments, reservations, marketing, and AI agents
Founded
2022
Headquarters
London, England, United Kingdom
Team size
1-10
Industry
Financial Services
Sub-industry
Restaurant POS, payments, and hospitality software
Offices
3 Orchard Pl, Broadway, London SW1H 0BF
71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JQ
Business model
B2B SaaS
payment processing
hardware-enabled fintech
implementation and support services
transaction-fee revenue
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Seed · Sep 2025
Latest amount
$500K
Sep 2025 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Leadership
Co-Founder
Co-Founder
Head of Partnerships
Founding Account Executive
Work & culture
Publicly stated values emphasize speed of execution, customer priority, ambition and agency, and delivering reliability.
Product & market
Pricing
Custom, quote-based pricing with transparent fees; software + payments pricing, plus transaction and other service fees where applicable.
Differentiators
- —Unified POS, payments, reservations, marketing, and AI in one platform
- —AI voice and AI intelligence built into day-to-day restaurant operations
- —Offline-first connectivity with automatic sync across devices and locations
- —Powered by Adyen for payments infrastructure
- —Custom workflows tailored to each operator
- —Fast onboarding with AI-driven migration and go-live in as little as 24 hours
- —24/7 support plus on-site technical/product support
Technology
React Native
React
TypeScript
Python
Django
PostgreSQL
CSS
Adyen
Customers
restaurants
coffee shops
full-service restaurants
retail businesses
enterprise hospitality operators
Competitors
Toast
Lightspeed
Square
ICR Touch
Nexi Switzerland
MallBox
Oracle Simphony
TouchBistro
SumUp
Scale & contact
Latest news
LinkedIn / Treeo VC · Nov 2025
Treeo VC announced an investment in Zavo and said the company had launched in London and joined the YC F25 batch.
LinkedIn / Y Combinator · Oct 2025
Y Combinator highlighted Zavo’s launch as an agentic POS for restaurants and retail, emphasizing payments, POS, and AI agents in one platform.
LinkedIn · Sep 2025
Can Zehebi announced Zavo’s acceptance into Y Combinator F25 and described the product’s shift toward an AI-native operating system for in-person commerce.
Jobs and careers at Zavo
1 job at Zavo
Front-End Engineer
On-site
Engineering
Hybrid (London, England, GB)
8mo ago
On-site
Full-time