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me&u puts hospitality back at the table
Two QR-code rivals met for dinner and became one company. Now me&u is betting that a restaurant should remember its guests as well as it remembers their orders.
MenuSifu
MenuSifu is a New York-based restaurant technology company that builds an integrated cloud POS ecosystem for restaurants, with deep roots serving Asian-American operators across the United States. Founded in 2014, its platform spans point-of-sale, online ordering, kitchen displays, self-ordering kiosks, loyalty and marketing, payment processing, and restaurant financing, now used by more than 15,000 restaurants. Backed by a $40M Series B in 2024, the company is expanding into AI-driven kitchen automation and fintech services for restaurant owners.
Innowi Inc.
Innowi Inc. is a Santa Clara, California restaurant-technology company that builds an all-in-one point-of-sale and ordering platform. Its stack spans POS, self-service kiosks, tabletop QR ordering, online ordering and delivery, a kitchen display system, marketing and rewards, analytics, and employee management - designed to help independent and multi-location restaurants cut third-party commission fees, sync orders across channels, and run leaner operations.
Kody
Kody (formerly KodyPay) is a UK-founded, Singapore-incorporated payments and commerce platform that helps larger retail and hospitality businesses accept in-person payments, run QR-code ordering, and manage cash flow from a single system. Started by then-teenage founder Yoyo Chang in 2018, Kody combines payment hardware (KodyTerminal), digital ordering (KodyOrder), a fee-rebate card (KodyCard) and merchant analytics into one platform. By late 2024 it was processing close to $1 billion in annualised volume and had raised roughly $30 million across its rounds, including a $20M Series A.