India, Feb 12th: Following years of bootstrapped success, India’s homegrown restaurant tech startup – Digitory, popular for strengthening established hospitality brands, recently raised $500,000 in a Pre-Series A round. The startup will leverage the funding in scaling up its market reach and increased operational support to its existing clientele.
The product is built and tested in active restaurant environments. Founded by Shivaprakash S Mogali, Digitory has grown on the back of strong operational expertise and depth in rapid, data-backed expansion. Digitory is building the operating system for restaurant profitability.
Several leading restaurant chains are already using Digitory’s platform. Some of the brands are Toit, Bier Library, Biergarten, Pumphouse, BlrBrewing , 1522, BygBrewski, Zero40, Effingut Breweries etc, to help resolve their complex, multi-location operations. The funding round will further aid the platform to witness structured growth and wider market expansion.
Sharing about investing in Digitory, Tejas Paresh Lodaya, Angel Investor, said, “Digitory is solving a real problem in the hospitality sector — optimising complex restaurant operations at scale using tech. The product has been at the forefront in handling complex, volume-filled situations while being bootstrapped, which is quite rare to find at this stage.
Seeing it from an investing viewpoint, Digitory has been a firm which deserved the investment given their mindful approach in building a quality, tested platform first, and moving to scale up second.”
Digitory was designed as core operational infrastructure to help restaurant operations to run seamlessly at scale. A platform leveraging local prowess and central cloud-based intelligence, Digitory is aiding seamless business continuity for diverse restaurant brands in diverse locations.
Speaking about the development, Shivaprakash S Mogali, Founder & CEO, Digitory said, “We are elated for having raised the $500k funding in Series A funding round. While our product has already been operating across restaurants for years, the funding round will aid boost distribution and scale up our operations at an enterprise level.”
The company will be leveraging the capital to maximize market reach, amplify enterprise onboarding, increase R&D in automation and operational intelligence, and scale up platform infrastructure.
The platform has evolved into a full-stack restaurant operations system like complete inventory intelligence, recipe management, optimal kitchen display systems, QR-based ordering, workflow automation, and performance metrics. Through its network,it has been supporting a staggering 1.8 million+ end customers, ahead of securing the institutional capital.
