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Zerocater
Zerocater is a San Francisco food-tech company that helps businesses build better workplaces through food. It runs three core products - corporate catering, fully managed corporate cafeterias, and event catering - in a dozen U.S. cities, blending local restaurant and caterer partnerships with onsite hospitality teams and an in-house AI platform (FoodIQ) that personalizes menus and forecasts demand. Founded in 2009 out of a Y Combinator class, it serves companies like Robinhood, Datadog, Airtable, and McKinsey and is going after a roughly $182B corporate catering and cafeteria market.
Ali Sabeti
Ali Sabeti is the CEO and cofounder of Zerocater, the San Francisco food-tech company turning corporate cafeterias and catering programs into data-driven hospitality. A UC Irvine accounting summa cum laude who came up at Salesforce while it scaled from 5,000 to 30,000 people, he now runs a 180-person company that survived losing 98% of its business in the pandemic, tripled revenue in 2022, and raised a $15M Series C in 2023 to wire the hybrid office's lunch hour with AI-personalized menus and 450+ supplier partners.