NowCuisine

3rd-party restaurant delivery is broken for both consumers and brands. NowCuisine’s unique software and AI-enabled autonomous kiosks allow restaurants to serve fresh, hot meals for up to 50% less than delivery and with 1/10 the wait. It’s a quick-scaling new channel that builds brand awareness while dramatically boosting same-store sales with good margins. We enable brands to offer affordable, restaurant-quality hot meals in the vast number of locations that can't support a restaurant (warehouses, student housing, smaller hotels, etc.). We can put an unattended Chipotle or CAVA in nearly any building, unlocking a turnkey competitive amenity. Our beachhead is locations that become food deserts at night (e.g., hospitals, warehouses, factories, student housing). Unit economics allow profitably selling as few as 10 meals a day per kiosk. We have a software-centric technology that leverages low-cost hardware, and an ops-light, recurring revenue model in which restaurant customers make the food. Our did-it-before team of food automation and 3D printing industry experts includes a CEO who brought the 1st 3D printer to market and founded two exited startups, and a CTO who pioneered robotic foodservice kiosks and exited to Coke. Advisors include the Founder of Chili’s and the head of MIT’s world-leading AI/robotics lab. We're raising a $1M pre-seed round to grow our installed base. Of this, we've already raised enough to deploy 3 machines, the first of which went live in January '26 and is selling meals daily.

In too many locations, quality meals are hard to find. People typically must drive to a restaurant, or resort to delivery, paying far more than in the restaurant and waiting 30-60 minutes hour for food that often arrives cold and unappetizing. Meanwhile, delivery cuts into restaurant margins, isolates them from their customers, and damages their reputations. Last but not least, many buildings have hungry people but no good way to feed them. Some indeed, become night-time food deserts, with food that's either unavailable or (in the case of hospitals) requires significant labor to provide.

• 1st kiosk (in Capital Factory, 5th floor) serving meals to paying (and repeat) customers since early January 2026 • Successful demo to a >$1B hospital services provider, with a follow-up demo scheduled shortly • Soft launch with very positive consumer response (video at https://docsend.com/view/wi649qakz4gybq74) • Raised part of our pre-seed round already, with funds received • Contracts with 1st food brand, 1st location, restocking partner; LOIs • Issued & pending patents • LOIs