Saudi's Kitchenara raises $380,000 to expand AI-driven food delivery platform

5 months ago, Umair and Suhaib weren’t happy with how food delivery was set up in Saudi.

These co-founders saw a gap in the market for a creative way to order food. 

🍴 Enter Kitchenara! This Saudi-based foodtech offers a food delivery platform where users can explore restaurants through video reviews and receive AI-personalised meal suggestions.

No one wants to be starving, bored and stressed when they’ve decided to get a takeaway! 

With the global food delivery market set to reach $505.5 billion by 2030, Kitchenara caters to the modern diner's demand for quick, quality eats and engaging content.

• And they’ve just raised $380,000 in seed investment.

💰 Investor lowdown: This funding round was led by angel investors from the UAE.

🧑‍🍳 Who? Founded by Umair Khalid and Suhaib Nadeem in 2023, Kitchenara is part of Flat6Labs, a regional start-up accelerator. 

🍽️ What? Aside from ordering food on the app, users can also follow food influencers, share content and write reviews of different restaurants.

🤷‍♂️ How? 

1. Scroll through video reviews and AI-recommended eateries. 
2. Choose your meal based on what looks too good to resist. 
3. Then, simply place your order and while you’re waiting, get your mouth watering with more fun videos or by creating your own content! 

🔮 Flashforward

With these fresh funds, Kitchenara is set to keep building their platform and expand through Saudi Arabia and beyond. 

🐢 Is it a FWDstart favourite?

AI finding us something to eat while we sit back and scroll? Um, yes!

And with young people globally often exceeding 7 hours of screen time daily, we think that Kitchenara could be onto something!