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Kitchen United on Monday announced the closing of a $10 million series A funding round led by Google Ventures, a move that will accelerate planned growth for the self-described “virtual restaurant concept."
Launched in 2017, Kitchen United is a state-of-the-art commercial kitchen facility designed primarily to meet the needs of restaurant operators looking to build off-premise business. The shared facilities, for example, offer both kitchen space and infrastructure for restaurants to launch delivery-only concepts or to test their brand in new markets without making an investment in real estate.
Also participating in the funding round are Kitchen United co-founders Harry Tsao and John Miller of the tech-focused Cali Group, below, which includes in its portfolio the Cali Burger chain and Miso Robotics, maker of the burger-flipping robotic arm called Flippy.
Google Ventures, or GV, is the venture capital arm of Google parent Alphabet Inc., which has also invested in a wide range of other businesses, from Impossible Foods and Blue Bottle Coffee to Uber, Slack and DocuSign.
As part of the deal, Adam Ghobarah, GV general partner,...