Loop AI

🚀 This week we invested in Loop AI, leading their $14m Series A. We’re thrilled to be partnering with founders Anand T. and Sundar Annamalai—a rare team of world-class engineers who understand that the restaurant delivery business has become a $1.5 trillion headache globally, plagued by fragmented data, operational chaos, and crushing margins. Loop AI isn't just another tech tool; its agentic AI platform is the new co-worker for the back office, automating tasks and empowering multi-location restaurants to identify revenue leakage and improve profit "flow-through." Already trusted by 300+ restaurant brands, franchisees and accountants, the future of restaurant profitability starts now. Nyca is placing Investment Partner Advisor Osama Bedier on the board, giving the company the ability to directly leverage his deep expertise from prior roles as a founder of Poynt by GoDaddy, and tech executive at GoDaddy, Google, and PayPal. We look forward to working together to usher in a new era of simplicity, automation, and transparency in the wild west of the Restaurant world.

🍔🌮🍕 Foodie, engineer, or sales monster? We first knew Anand T. as an exceptionally talented engineer out of Uber, inspired by UberEats to build a product - Loop AI - that restaurant owners actually love. That was 3 years ago. Since then he’s developed into a sales monster, so adept at closing deals and making it rain that it’s easy to forget that he’s an engineer! But the passion he brings to Loop - fast becoming the AI Coworker for restaurant owners - is because he’s a foodie at heart. Here’s to Loop’s delicious series A, another year of explosive revenue growth, and a new episode of the pre seed show! Congrats Anand T., Sundar Annamalai and the entire Loop team!

Stoked to share that Operators Studio has doubled down on Loop AI (AI for Restaurants) in a $14M Series A round led by Nyca Partners. We first invested in Loop's seed round in Mar'24 alongside Base10 Partners and Afore Capital. This is the single-largest check I have written so far to any company, so I don't need to say more about my conviction level. My first meeting with Anand T. was one of those wherein you know in the first 10 minutes that this founder is special, and that you will do whatever it takes to invest. The one founder-spike that I took away from this meeting was "intensity". And even since then, I haven't met too many founders who can match Anand's energy, clarity, and speed of execution. However, candidly, at the time of the seed round, I wasn't sure about this whole "automating the operations of restaurant chains" opportunity. Now, having learned alongside Loop in the trenches of this 5% of US GDP TAM (and the reason why Mary Meeker devoted a full slide to it in her AI report), I couldn't be more excited about how big this can become. Am grateful that Operators Studio can be a part of this journey. PS: The team is actively hiring across roles. If you are intrigued by this post, DM the Loop team.