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Chef Robotics Announces $43M Series A Round Led by Avataar Ventures to Scale the Deployment of AI-Enabled Robotics

On March 31, 2025, Chef Robotics, a San Francisco-based startup founded in 2019 by CEO Rajat Bhageria, announced it raised $43.1 million in Series A funding led by Avataar Ventures to scale its AI-driven food robotics solution.
The food industry's labor shortage, with 1.1 million unfilled jobs, and the increasing potential of AI for robotics, spurred the need for Chef's Robotics-as-a-Service solution which empowers humans to do what they do best.
The Series A funding includes $20.6 million in equity from investors like Construct Capital and Bloomberg Beta, and $22.5 million in equipment financing debt to cover Chef's robotic systems, allowing customers to avoid upfront capital expenditure, while the company collects data to improve its AI models.
With the new funding, Chef's total capital raised is $65.6 million, comprised of $38.8 million in equity and $26.75 million in equipment financing with Silicon Valley Bank, a division of First Citizens Bank, enabling it to accelerate production deployments and expand its customer base.
Chef Robotics, leveraging its ChefOS AI platform, has already produced over 44 million servings for brands like Amy's Kitchen and Sunbasket, and plans to expand from the U.S. And Canada to the U.K. Market in 2025, capitalizing on the growing $5.94 billion robotic kitchen market by 2028.

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