# Seated

> Seated is a New York restaurant discovery and rewards marketplace that gives diners as much as 30% back while helping restaurants fill otherwise empty tables. Restaurants choose when and where to stimulate demand, Seated verifies the visit through a linked payment card, and the diner redeems rewards with brands such as Amazon, Target, Uber and Starbucks. The model sits between restaurant marketing, card-linked offers and yield management: no upfront fee for operators, a measurable acquisition cost when a guest actually dines, and an incentive large enough to make a consumer try somewhere new.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Brice Gumpel (CEO and Co-Founder), Atallah Atallah (Co-Founder), Bo Peabody (Co-Founder and Executive Chairman)
- **Team size:** Approximately 85 employees in the supplied company record; LinkedIn lists 51-200 employees.
- **Products:** Seated consumer app, Restaurant demand platform, Seated at Home, Seated Events / VenueBook, Card-linked restaurant offers
- **Notable:** Filled more than 900,000 restaurant seats and generated a reported $37 million in restaurant revenue and $7 million in staff tips by August 2020., Raised $30 million in combined Series A and B financing in 2020., Acquired VenueBook and its network of roughly 120,000 event planners in 2020.

## Products & services

- **Seated consumer app** — A restaurant discovery and rewards app. Diners link a payment card, activate a restaurant offer, pay with the linked card and receive rewards automatically; current listings advertise up to 30% back.
- **Restaurant demand platform** — A performance-marketing service that lets operators target slow services, walk-ins and same-day bookings with configurable rewards and no upfront or fixed fee.
- **Seated at Home** — A pickup and delivery product launched during COVID-19; at launch it charged restaurants 0% commission on orders.
- **Seated Events / VenueBook** — Private-event and group-booking demand created through the 2020 acquisition of VenueBook, whose network included about 120,000 event planners at the time.
- **Card-linked restaurant offers** — A monthly offer-activation system that verifies eligible visits from a linked card and removes receipt uploads; members can earn a base rate at restaurants and higher rewards at activated partners.
- **Publisher and fintech distribution** — Restaurant offers distributed through external card programs, fintechs and rewards publishers, including a 2026 integration with Kard.

## Achievements

- Filled more than 900,000 restaurant seats and generated a reported $37 million in restaurant revenue and $7 million in staff tips by August 2020.
- Raised $30 million in combined Series A and B financing in 2020.
- Acquired VenueBook and its network of roughly 120,000 event planners in 2020.
- Built a current restaurant network described by Seated and Kard in 2026 as more than 2,500 locations across 20 states.
- Maintains a 4.6-star rating from roughly 10,000 ratings on Apple's U.S. App Store at the time of research.
- A company case study says miss KOREA BBQ added more than 400 customers and $22,000 in monthly sales, primarily on weekdays.
- A company case study says A La Turka filled more than 85 otherwise empty seats per week and increased annualized profit by nearly $125,000.

## Latest updates

- **2024-05** — The supplied company record lists an undisclosed convertible note as Seated's latest financing.
- **2025-04** — The app introduced monthly offer activation and linked-card verification, removing the need to upload receipts, while expanding into DC, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver and Phoenix.
- **2026-04** — Kard announced a partnership distributing thousands of Seated restaurant offers through its fintech and financial-institution network; the announcement put Seated at more than 2,500 restaurants in 20 states.
- **2026-06** — Seated's help center documented the current three-step flow: link a card, activate a restaurant through the end of the month, then dine and earn automatically.

## Links

- Website: https://seatedapp.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/seatedofficial
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/seated_app
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getseated/
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/seatedofficial/

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Last updated: 2026-08-20