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Prefix
Prefix is a New York-based facility management platform for multi-site restaurant and retail operators. It acts as the connective layer between brands and local service technicians - coordinating on-demand and preventive repairs across HVAC, refrigeration, plumbing and electrical, and managing the full job lifecycle from request to invoice. With AI-powered vendor management and 24/7 support, Prefix says it delivers roughly 3x efficiency gains and 15%+ cost savings for the nearly 2,000 locations it serves.
Jared Schwartzentruber
Jared Schwartzentruber is the founder and CEO of Prefix, a New York facility management platform that keeps the ovens, freezers, and HVAC humming for multi-site restaurant and retail chains like Chipotle, Bojangles, and Famous Footwear. A mechanical engineer trained at Purdue and Columbia, he traded bio-inspired robotics and a healthcare startup for the deeply unglamorous world of broken walk-in coolers, wagering that agentic AI plus a real service layer can cut a chain's maintenance costs by more than 15%. In April 2026 Prefix raised a $7.5M seed round to push toward 10,000 locations.