Zume
Food TechUSAClosed 2023
Total Raised
$445M
Peak Valuation
$2.25B
Employees
—
Year Collapsed
2023
Business model
Robotic pizza-making and delivery trucks, later pivoted to sustainable packaging.
In brief
Set out to automate pizza-making with robots cooking pies inside delivery trucks en route to customers, backed by nearly $450M from SoftBank. Persistent technical problems with the robotics, combined with a costly pivot to sustainable food packaging that never found its footing e…
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Key facts
- Founded
- 2015
- Closed
- 2023
- Headquarters
- Mountain View, USA
- Industry
- Food Tech
- Employees
- —
- Revenue
- Undisclosed
- Founders
- Julia Collins, Alex Garden
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Often compared with: Domino's, Sweetgreen, Nuro.