# Botrista, Inc.

> Botrista is a San Francisco-based food-and-beverage technology company that builds an AI-driven automated beverage platform. Its flagship BotristaPro machine lets restaurants, campuses, hospitals, theme parks and other venues serve a wide range of craft cold drinks - boba teas, smoothies, refreshers, cold brew, lemonades and more - from a single compact, self-cleaning unit in seconds, without specialized baristas. Founded in 2017 by former Tesla automation engineer Sean Hsu, the company pairs patented multi-ingredient dispensing hardware with cloud-based analytics and demand forecasting, and has raised roughly $126 million to date, including a Series C led by Jollibee Foods Corporation.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Sean Hsu (Co-Founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~220 employees
- **Products:** BotristaPro (DrinkBot), Cloud beverage-management & analytics platform, AI beverage-menu tools, Ingredient supply program
- **Notable:** Grew to 6,000+ locations across 42 U.S. states, Raised roughly $126M in total funding across Seed through Series C-II, Secured Series C led by Jollibee Foods Corporation, a global multi-brand restaurant giant

## Products & services

- **BotristaPro (DrinkBot)** — An AI-driven automated beverage machine that dispenses 2,000+ craft drink recipes - boba, smoothies, shakes, refreshers, cold brew, lemonades, agua fresca and more - in under ~20 seconds. Features 14 dispensing nozzles to prevent cross-contamination, a honeycomb blender that simulates a shaker for proper foam and texture, refrigerated and ambient bag-in-box ingredient storage, self-cleaning with an integrated blender rinser, a touch interface and a compact footprint.
- **Cloud beverage-management & analytics platform** — Cloud-connected software that collects beverage transaction data across locations, forecasts demand by time and place, optimizes menus and staffing, and pushes recipe updates remotely.
- **AI beverage-menu tools** — Data-driven menu creation and trend-forecasting tools that match trending flavors to operational efficiency for brand partners, developed with Series C capital.
- **Ingredient supply program** — Sourcing of natural, real-ingredient beverage bases from global suppliers, packaged in bag-in-box format for the machine.

## Achievements

- Grew to 6,000+ locations across 42 U.S. states
- Raised roughly $126M in total funding across Seed through Series C-II
- Secured Series C led by Jollibee Foods Corporation, a global multi-brand restaurant giant
- Landed named deployments with The Halal Guys, Jollibee, Yoshinoya America, Shipley Do-Nuts and Porkworks
- Built a machine serving 2,000+ craft drink recipes with ~99% uptime
- Won supply contracts with F&B partners holding over 50% market share in universities, hospitals, office cafeterias and theme parks

## Latest updates

- **2025-05** — Closed a Series C-II extension with Dunamu & Partners investing ~$6.57M (KRW 9.2B), extending the Series C round.
- **2024-07** — Reached $120M in total fundraising and announced enhanced AI beverage-menu and forecasting tools.
- **2024** — Series C led by Jollibee Foods Corporation, which also became a deployment partner.

## Links

- Website: https://botrista.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/botrista
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/botrista
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Botrista
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drinkbotrista/
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/botrista-technology-inc-167518830724682

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Last updated: 2026-07-22