LinkedIn / TIBAS Ventures · Dec 2025
TIBAS Ventures announced an investment in Zavo and framed the company as transforming payments and operations for businesses.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
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
1 job at Zavo
Business model
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Seed · Sep 2025
Latest amount
$500K
Sep 2025 · Y Combinator
Leadership
Co-Founder
Co-Founder
Head of Partnerships
Founding Account Executive
Investors
Publicly stated values emphasize speed of execution, customer priority, ambition and agency, and delivering reliability.
Pricing
Custom, quote-based pricing with transparent fees; software + payments pricing, plus transaction and other service fees where applicable.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
LinkedIn / TIBAS Ventures · Dec 2025
TIBAS Ventures announced an investment in Zavo and framed the company as transforming payments and operations for businesses.
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.