allO, a Munich-based AI-native operating system for restaurants, has raised €12 million ($14 million) in Series A funding to expand across Europe and accelerate the rollout of its AI-powered digital employees.
The round was led by Zigg Capital, with participation from new investors LifeX Ventures, Aperture, and Wecken & Cie., alongside continued support from 20VC, which led the company’s 2024 Seed round, and from existing investor Keen Venture Partners, which first backed allO at the pre-Seed stage and has doubled down in three consecutive rounds.
Angels in the round include Fabian Siegel (co-founder of Marley Spoon), Mark Ransford, and Ludwig Fuchs (founder of Realtime Technology AG). Joining the board and advisory board are Elizabeth Chrystal (Principal at Zigg Capital, former CFO of Momofuku), Cornelius Everke (former management at Starbucks, Vapiano, and Burger King Germany), and Matt Baumgartner (former Product Director at Toast).
“Restaurant owners are the perfect user group for AI. They want the work done. They don’t want to learn another piece of software. Most aren’t tech-savvy, and they shouldn’t have to be. We leverage our all-in-one platform to build digital employees that get the job done for them, instead of teaching them how to press buttons,” said Cancan Liu, Founder and CEO of allO.
Founded in late 2020 by Liu, Teodor Rupi, and Benedikt v. Lewinski, allO unifies POS, integrated payments, reservations, kiosks, delivery, webshop, and back office into a single platform, with a suite of AI-powered digital employees on top.
Initially launched as a scan-to-order system during the pandemic, the founders soon realised that the core issue wasn’t the ordering process itself, but rather the outdated and inefficient underlying technology stack. Incumbents had little reason to fix it because independent restaurants were too small to matter to them.
The team rebuilt allO as a POS and payments platform with scan-to-order built in. In 2024, they extended it across the front-of-house and back office. Setup takes less than 30 minutes on allO, whereas legacy POS systems required two weeks. Owners who previously reconciled revenue across five different systems now have everything accessible in a single dashboard.
“allO started with ethnic cuisine, which makes up roughly 70% of Germany’s restaurants and has been the most underserved by legacy software. Off-the-shelf systems were never built for multi-language teams, complex modifier menus, mixed dine-in and delivery channels, or varied payment behaviour. allO is now expanding to any cuisine with the same operating realities: complex workflows, chronic labour shortages and tight margins,” the company mentioned.
The company is also launching its Reservation and Ordering Agent, the first of more than ten digital employees planned over the next 12 to 18 months. The voice agent answers every incoming call and pushes reservations and takeaway orders directly into allO’s system.
Today, allO serves over 1,000 active restaurant locations across Germany, including neighbourhood spots to multi-location local chains. The company reported that, since its Seed round, locations are up 6x and revenue 3.5x year-on-year, with 30% of new customers now coming through referrals.
Next on the roadmap is The Inventory Agent, which autonomously places supplier orders and tracks consumption, work that most independent restaurants give up on today. It’s also planning to launch The Menu Agent, which updates menus across every channel in seconds while continuously testing for margin and sell-through.
Read the orginal article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/05/munichs-allo-raises-e12-million-series-a-to-expand-its-ai-operating-system-for-restaurants-across-europe/
