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Miso Robotics, Inc.

Pasadena, CA
LAST FUNDING
$688K
Series E

Miso’s AI-powered kitchen automation platform to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and scale restaurant operations seamlessly.

Funding history

DateRoundAmountInvestorsSource
Series E$688K

About Miso Robotics, Inc.

How much funding has Miso Robotics, Inc. raised?

Miso Robotics, Inc. has raised $688K in total funding. The most recent round was Series E.

Where is Miso Robotics, Inc. headquartered?

Miso Robotics, Inc. is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

What does Miso Robotics, Inc. do?

Miso’s AI-powered kitchen automation platform to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and scale restaurant operations seamlessly.

What problem does Miso Robotics, Inc. solve?

Commercial kitchens struggle with inconsistent food quality, labor costs, staff safety at dangerous stations like fryers, and lack of visibility into shift-level performance.

What's Miso Robotics, Inc.'s solution?

Miso provides an AI kitchen platform combining Flippy, a robotic fry-station assistant, with Zignyl (now Zippy), a digital shift manager, to automate tasks and give operators real-time data and insights.

What makes Miso Robotics, Inc. different?

Claims zero burns across live Flippy deployments, frying twice as fast as a human, and cites customers like White Castle reporting productivity gains and Pretzel Power reporting sales lift from the connected platform.

What makes Miso Robotics, Inc. notable?

Founded in 2016 by Buck Jordan (maker of the burger-flipping robot Flippy); it later acquired the technology and 300+ patents of Zume, the food-robotics startup that had raised $375M and was once backed by SoftBank.

Leadership

Richard Hull
Executive Officer, Director
Robert Lunny
Executive Officer
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Thomas Bruderman
Director
Joseph Essas
Director
James Buckly Jordan
Director
John Miller
Director
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