Owner @owner

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A few weeks ago we launched a new brand for @owner — an evolution that much better represents the incredible mission and technology that we're building. This was one of the first initiatives I lead as CDO here and was an amazing process in collaboration with @thenickpattison and his talented team at Primary. We couldn't be more proud of how we now show up in the world. Owner has now driven over $1,000,000,000 in sales for local restaurants, and that growth is compounding every week. We've been on a hiring streak and have welcomed some insane talent to the design team in the last few months, and we're looking to bring on a few more builders — designers who sweat the details and can bring their ideas to life. Apply through our careers page if this sounds like you!

Proud to announce that we've now driven a billion in sales for local restaurant owners 🥳

Adam Guild @adamguild

a month ago

Introducing Grader: the world's first AI CMO for restaurants. It’s helped us drive over $1 BILLION in sales for our customers. Grader outperforms human marketing teams. See how:

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Nothing like epic investor updates on 1/1/26. First up is @Owner: 👩‍🍳 One of the best companies I've ever invested in is @Owner — AI for restaurants. A great example of AI Vertical B2B. They dramatically accelerated in 2025: • Growing almost ~3x YoY, accelerating towards $100M ARR. • 83% of growth comes from their AI products.  • Truly S-tier team and jaw-dropping velocity.  The key is massive ROI from AI. Massive & nearly instant. Great work on a great 2025, Team @Owner @AdamGuild @DeanBloembergen. Proud to have led the seed round at @SaaStrfund.

AI is completely changing the restaurant industry, at a pace and scale many may not realize. It's a $1T+industry that desperately needs AI to deal with a lack of humans and automation. And @owner is the break-out leader of the next generation. I'm proud to have led to the seed round. They have a S-tier team full of ex-founders crushing it and would love to make 1-2 small acquihires of top technical teams. More here:

Adam Guild @adamguild

6 months ago

If you're a technical founder or product-driven team and haven't found PMF, Owner is open to small acquihires. We’re growing extremely fast, have dozens of former founders across our team, and have so much still to build. Ping me to discuss.

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Adam Guild started @owner as a 17-year old high school dropout. This is the piece of company-building advice he’d give his younger self:

Congrats to Team @owner on one of those months that makes everyone that invested in the last round … feel like they got a smokin’ deal!

A huge congrats to team @owner for another record-setting month of Double Double growth! Double digit growth at double digit millions in ARR! #joinawinner What’s the secret? In the Age of AI, you have to do >everything< for the customer. Everything. Effortlessly, and with near instant and true ROI. Own it. Don’t ask them to.

I couldn’t be more proud of this investment. @adamguild has grown as both an individual and business leader. Once a shy young man I met during Covid, to a disrupter with owner.com @owner

Adam Guild @adamguild

a year ago

I’m feeling blessed to share: Owner raised $120M Series C and is now at a $1B valuation 🦄 Mom-and-pop restaurant owners are being crushed by huge corporations. We’re using this cash to arm them to fight back. • This round was co-led by 2 perfect partners for us: Alex

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Excited by everything @adamguild and team are building at @owner! Proud to be an angel in this incredible company

Adam Guild @adamguild

a year ago

I’m feeling blessed to share: Owner raised $120M Series C and is now at a $1B valuation 🦄 Mom-and-pop restaurant owners are being crushed by huge corporations. We’re using this cash to arm them to fight back. • This round was co-led by 2 perfect partners for us: Alex

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Congrats! Love the mission of Owner.com. Honored to be on board as an indie investor and among such great company.

Deano🧙‍♂️ @deanbloembergen

a year ago

THRILLED to share that Owner.com has raised a $120M Series C at a $1B valuation! 🚀🦄 5 years ago, we set out on a mission to level the playing field for local restaurant owners. Why? Because we believe local businesses are sacred. Each one reflects the unique

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THRILLED to share that Owner.com has raised a $120M Series C at a $1B valuation! 🚀🦄 5 years ago, we set out on a mission to level the playing field for local restaurant owners. Why? Because we believe local businesses are sacred. Each one reflects the unique DNA of its owner: their story, their spirit, their craft. They bring life and connection to our neighborhoods. Brightness and color to our world. But they’re being crushed by massive corporations with billions to spend on tech, engineers, and marketing. Today, running a local business is like being David facing an army of Goliaths. That's why Owner exists and it's the reason we raised this massive round of capital - to arm local business owners with the tools they need to take on these Goliaths. The round was co-led by 2 perfect partners for us: 1. @atkurland from @MeritechCapital, who led DoorDash’s Series B, and 2. Shalini Rao from @HeadlineVC, who led Toast’s Series C. They were joined by a really special group of new supporters, including: @dharmesh, @fidjissimo, @JonnyNemo, @glangley, @joshuareeves, @ShaanVP, @m_franceschetti, @APompliano, @SahilBloom We’ll use the capital to serve our customers and continue building an amazing company. · · · Special shoutout to the best cofounder on planet earth, @adamguild. Eternally grateful that God put you in my life. Being in your proximity is a privilege. You inspire me every day. Shoutout to the outstanding @owner team. You deserve all of the credit for getting us here. It is an absolute joy to build alongside each of you. Special thanks to our earliest believers: @alexbard, @jason, @jaltma, @joshuabrowder, @cory, @jaentwistle, @mashadrokova And finally, to our customers: You’re the reason I get up every day excited to build. It is a privilege to serve you. ❤️

someone I trust told me "this is the best founder I've ever invested in" you only get 1 hard vouch like that. So I invested too. watch the video

Adam Guild @adamguild

a year ago

I’m feeling blessed to share: Owner raised $120M Series C and is now at a $1B valuation 🦄 Mom-and-pop restaurant owners are being crushed by huge corporations. We’re using this cash to arm them to fight back. • This round was co-led by 2 perfect partners for us: Alex

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@adamguild, @deanbloembergen and the whole @owner team earned this milestone the hard way — by obsessing over their customers and sweating every detail. Even better, they truly understand that the hard part of building the company begins now. Congrats to Owner! 🚀 📈

Adam Guild @adamguild

a year ago

I’m feeling blessed to share: Owner raised $120M Series C and is now at a $1B valuation 🦄 Mom-and-pop restaurant owners are being crushed by huge corporations. We’re using this cash to arm them to fight back. • This round was co-led by 2 perfect partners for us: Alex

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i haven’t shared this before, but i once nearly called an ambulance for adam in a crucial moment for owner, i saw him work 20+ hours a day, back to back to back to back. barely sleeping, zero breaks, pushing himself harder than i thought a human could take he had been working for so long that he collapsed, came to, took a cold shower to wake up, and kept working fortunately, he nailed it… and soon after, went back to his typical regimen of extreme discipline around sleep, fitness, etc today’s a chance to appreciate the unbelievable momentum @adamguild and team @owner have built it’s also a chance to recognize 7 years of insane commitment — fridays at midnight — sundays at 5 a.m. — christmas — new year’s day — every birthday — every. single. weekend. …. when all adam did was grind, day in, day out. it’s been 7 years of focus. 7 years of customer obsession and no sign of letting up. congratulations to team owner and adam on building something incredibly special! ❤️

Adam Guild @adamguild

a year ago

I’m feeling blessed to share: Owner raised $120M Series C and is now at a $1B valuation 🦄 Mom-and-pop restaurant owners are being crushed by huge corporations. We’re using this cash to arm them to fight back. • This round was co-led by 2 perfect partners for us: Alex

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And shoutout to @StephenPastis for his great article on Owner this morning, in Forbes: forbes.com/sites/stephenp…

Super, sincerely proud of Team @owner and to have led their seed round Epic founders really can bend and remake a market Also join their CRO @kylecnorton and me at SaaStr AI on Thursday at 9am where we will do a deep dive on how they scaled their S-tier sales team with AI and more!!

Adam Guild @adamguild

a year ago

I’m feeling blessed to share: Owner raised $120M Series C and is now at a $1B valuation 🦄 Mom-and-pop restaurant owners are being crushed by huge corporations. We’re using this cash to arm them to fight back. • This round was co-led by 2 perfect partners for us: Alex

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Congrats @adamguild and the entire @owner team! 🔥 Truly a world-class team and exceptional product. Excited to see where you all continue to take things. They’re hiring!

Adam Guild @adamguild

a year ago

I’m feeling blessed to share: Owner raised $120M Series C and is now at a $1B valuation 🦄 Mom-and-pop restaurant owners are being crushed by huge corporations. We’re using this cash to arm them to fight back. • This round was co-led by 2 perfect partners for us: Alex

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I’m feeling blessed to share: Owner raised $120M Series C and is now at a $1B valuation 🦄 Mom-and-pop restaurant owners are being crushed by huge corporations. We’re using this cash to arm them to fight back. • This round was co-led by 2 perfect partners for us: Alex Kurland from Meritech, who led DoorDash’s Series B, and Shalini Rao from Headline, who led Toast’s Series C. They were also joined by an inspiring group of new investors: Fidji Simo (CEO Instacart), Jonathan Neman (CEO Sweetgreen), Garrett Langley (CEO Flock Safety). & still more inspiring new investors... Dharmesh Shah (CTO HubSpot), Josh Reeves (CEO Gusto), Shaan Puri (MFM), Matteo Franceschetti (CEO Eight Sleep), Anthony Pompliano, Sahil Bloom, Christina Cacioppo (CEO Vanta), Brett Schulman (CEO Cava), Matt Maloney (Founder & CEO GrubHub). … just to name a few. :) • Today, technology is being weaponized against small business owners. Corporations like Domino’s dominate. Why? Because they spend billions on tech, engineers, and marketers. • Small business owners are forced to compete with corporations that have massive war chests. But with Owner, they can do more than compete. They can win. We’re building the platform that gives them the power. We serve the people who serve our communities. • I started Owner 7 years ago, after dropping out of high school halfway through 10th grade. The first version of Owner wasn’t built for venture capital. It was built for my mom. She’s a small business owner who just needed a shot at success in the digital world. • I remember watching her worry that we’d lose her business and our house. In a moment of desperation, she asked her weird :) nerdy 17-year-old son to help her. I built a solution for her. That was Owner V1. When it started to work, I saw my mom transform. She went from being constantly stressed about money to feeling hopeful and excited about her future. The Owner team has now seen that same transformation happen for thousands of small business owners like her. That’s what drives us. • You can think of Owner as Shopify for restaurants—and, eventually, all local business owners. It gives them everything they need to succeed in the online future, in one place. Owner is their website, online ordering, mobile app, CRM. It all works together as one system. • Owner is also continuously optimized with what we learn from the thousands of restaurants and the more than 57 million consumers who have used our platform. It’s the only system designed for one outcome: growing sales profitably. It gives independent owners enough firepower to take on the big corporations, and win. • Shoutout to the great team at @Owner — You deserve the credit for getting us here. I thank God every morning that I get to build Owner with each of you. We wouldn’t be here without you. We have a special team. Each of you represents greatness. • And shoutout to the best cofounder and CTO I could ever ask for, @DeanBloembergen. His work ethic and genius are as impressive as his character. I view partnering with Dean as one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. • I’m proud of Owner today. But I also feel scared that people will see our unicorn valuation and think “we’ve made it.” So let me be brutally clear. We HAVE NOT made it. And if we start to believe we have, we never will. When investors value us at $1B, it’s because they see potential. Our investors see the POTENTIAL for us to build a company worth tens of billions. We have to prove them right. And we must also prove right the thousands of restaurant owners who’ve bet their futures on us. • We’re still underdogs. We still have a long way to go. We didn’t come this far just to come this far. It’s time to move faster, build better, and fight harder! We have millions of small business owners counting on us.

A huge congrats to team @owner on their biggest month ever -- by far!! 🚀🚀🚀 ▶️Another "Double Double" -- double-digit revenue growth at double-digit millions ▶️Record NRR! ▶️Record GPV (+24% in one month!) ▶️Doubled demo book rates! Boom!!