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Kea

Kea

Private
San Jose, CaliforniaAI, Data & Cloud Infrastructurehttps://kea.ai/

Last Round

Early Stage

VC

Aug 3, 2026

Total Funding Raised

$12.8M

Momentum

Top 5%

of companies Caplight tracks

Company Overview

Kea is a restaurant technology company that provides an AI-powered conversational platform to automate phone and text ordering for restaurant chains.

Sector

AI, Data & Cloud Infrastructure

Verticals

NLP & Conversational AI, Retail Technology, Vertical SaaS, Customer Experience

Business Model

B2B

Customer Profile

Subscription SaaS

AI Layer

Application

Keywords

voice AIAI orderingconversational AIrestaurant automationQSR automationvoice botPOS integrationdrive-thru automationvertical SaaSAI agentNLPrestaurant techAI employeeautomated orderingSaaS platform

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Kea Comparables

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ConverseNow
92%

Kea Funding Rounds

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Data table
RoundDateAmount RaisedValuationInvestorsSources
Early Stage VCAug 3, 2026
Series ANov 20, 2020
SeedMay 15, 2019

Key People

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Adam Ahmad

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Founding Team

Kea Investors

Notable investors and investment history

Kea investors
InvestorRounds
SuperangelSeed
Heartland VenturesSeries A
DEEPCORE Inc.Seed, Series A
Streamlined VenturesSeed, Series A
Alumni VenturesSeries A
XfundSeed, Series A
Barrel VenturesSeries A

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  • Aug 3, 2026

    $16M raised in early stage VC round.

  • Feb 18, 2025

    Launched a self-service voice AI tool for smaller chains.

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Firmographic Details

HeadquartersSan Jose, California
Employee Range81
Year Founded2017
Last FundingAug 3, 2026

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