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Incept AI
Incept AI is a New York-based voice AI company building order-taking systems for quick-service restaurants, starting with the two hardest environments in the business: the drive-thru and the phone. Founded in 2024 by former Amazon and Presto Automation engineers, Incept pairs a proprietary neural audio engine that strips out background noise, echo and crosstalk with foundation models and POS integrations, so the AI can complete restaurant orders end-to-end without a human stepping in. The company says its system reaches 95%+ order completion without human intervention, well above the roughly 83% where most competitors escalate to a person, and raised a $3 million pre-seed round led by Rally Ventures in early 2025.
Umut Isik
Umut Isik is the co-founder and CEO of Incept AI, a New York voice-AI company that takes drive-thru and phone orders in the noisiest places on earth. A former algebraic geometer turned Principal Applied Scientist at AWS, he spent years building neural networks that pull a single human voice out of acoustic chaos. He also makes mathematical art from simple functions. Incept AI raised a $3M pre-seed led by Rally Ventures in February 2025 and claims 95-97%+ order accuracy with no human in the loop.