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Krystle Mobayeni gave restaurants a front door of their own
A designer who loved restaurants, Krystle Mobayeni built BentoBox around the things their owners kept asking for. Her story runs from freelance websites and personal debt to Fiserv, Female Founders Fund and a new seat at the restaurant technology table.
Alex Sambvani
Alex Sambvani is the co-founder and CEO of Slang.ai, a New York voice-AI company that answers the phone for restaurants so staff don't have to. A Stanford-trained mechanical engineer with a Harvard MBA, he met co-founder Gabriel Duncan on Spotify's data science team, where the two won a company-wide hackathon with a personality-forward voice app. He turned a childhood love of cooking and robotics into a company that has handled more than 25 million guest calls for over 2,000 restaurant locations. Slang.ai has raised roughly $68 million across its rounds, including a $36 million Series B, with backers ranging from Homebrew and Underscore VC to chef Tom Colicchio.