
Chef Robotics automates food manufacturing to help food companies increase production and address labor shortages. It does this by deploying AI-enabled robotic systems delivered as…

Chef Robotics automates food manufacturing to help food companies increase production and address labor shortages. It does this by deploying AI-enabled robotic systems delivered as…
What they do: AI-enabled robotic systems (robot arms + software) to automate high-mix food preparation and meal assembly
Business model: Robotics-as-a-Service / OpEx deployments aimed at food manufacturers and commercial kitchens
Founded / HQ: Founded 2019; San Francisco, California
Funding (reported): Reported total capital ~ $65.6M–$65.6M USD (company disclosure lists $43.1M round plus prior raises; Dealroom/aggregates report ~$65.6M)
Uses machine learning (deep neural networks, transformers) and computer vision; ChefOS platform
Automation of high-mix food manufacturing and commercial kitchen meal assembly; reducing labor dependency and improving throughput/consistency.
2019
Software Development
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Reported 2021 financing of $7.7M (seed / pre-seed aggregated reporting)
14750000
Closed a $14.75M combination equity/debt round
43100000
Reported $43.1M financing composed of ~$20.6M equity and ~$22.5M equipment financing debt (company disclosure)
“Syndicate includes multiple institutional VCs and strategic investors (e.g., Kleiner Perkins, Promus Ventures, Construct Capital, Bloomberg Beta, BOLD Capital Partners, Alumni Ventures, Siddhi Capital, HCVC, and others) as reported across disclosures.”
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About Our Team Chef Robotics is on a mission to accelerate the advent of intelligent machines in the physical world. As the rise of LLMs like ChatGPT has shown, AI has the potential to drive immense change. However, we believe AI’s biggest impact will be in the physical world, given industries like manufacturing, food, and transportation represent 90% of global GDP. We're starting with food, with a goal to put an intelligent robot in every commercial kitchen in the world. We have signed multiple multi-year contracts with various large food companies and we are growing fast. We're backed by investors like Kleiner Perkins, Construct, Bloomberg BETA and Promus Ventures. We have a great team, where you will be surrounded by talented engineers and tech leaders from companies like Cruise, Zoox, Google, Verb Surgical, Tesla, Nuro, Vicarious, Amazon Robotics, Strateos, Built Robotics, Facebook, Plenty, Yelp, and Microsoft.
In this role, you'll be a partner to lead the hardware engineering team (and, depending on the candidate, perhaps also the manufacturing/supply chain team). Our next goal is to build and scale to 1,000 robot systems worldwide.
What you'll do
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Equal Opportunity Employer We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizen status, uniform service member and veteran status, marital status, age, pregnancy status, protected medical condition, genetic information, disability, or any other protected status.
Multiple studies have found that a higher percentage of women and BIPOC candidates won't apply if they don't meet every listed qualification. Chef values candidates of all backgrounds. If you find yourself excited by our mission but you don't check every box in the description, we encourage you to apply anyway!
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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