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Qummy is a Krasnodar food tech startup that prepares dishes for restaurants and freezes them using its own smart ice technology, which allows you to preserve the healthy and organoleptic properties of the dish (taste and smell). All dishes have certificates of conformity and a permitted shelf life of 180 days. The company also sells Qummy smart ovens, which recognize the dish by the QR code depicted on the package, and chooses the program for preparing this particular dish. According to the developers, the technology completely eliminates such "human errors" as incorrect defrostation, overheating or underheating of the dish. The average cooking time is 4-6 minutes.
Performance indicators
2024
According to SPARK-Interfax, the revenue of Kyumi LLC in 2024 amounted to ₽385,1 million with a loss of ₽142 million. The total volume of attracted investments for the entire period of work exceeded ₽1 billion, taking into account the last round.
History
2025
Attracting ₽1 billion investments
Russian foodtech startup Qummy has attracted more than ₽1 billion investments over six years of operation and plans to hold an initial public offering in 2028. The company expects to increase its estimate from the current ₽2,4 billion to ₽20 billion - 30 billion by the time it goes public, said co-founder of the food tech startup Artem Simonyants in July 2025.
According to Forbes, the startup has about 600 partners and 1,100 locations with food and robopeches Qummy. The company specializes in the production of ready meals and pastries for various formats of trade and catering.
Qummy's revenue structure is distributed as follows: 40% brings darkstores, including networks "Scooter" and VkusVill"." Just over 30% is the HoReCa segment - hotels, recreation centers and cafes. 10% of revenue comes from retail, represented by networks "Crossroads" and, "Ribbon" as well as gas stations Lukoil and "."Gazprom
The remaining 10% of revenue is shared by vending machines under the Qummy brand, distributors Alidi and Global Foods, which supply the company's products to catering establishments. This category also includes the Russian Railways and the Doubleby coffee chain.
Artem Simonyants called Russian Railways and Doubleby key clients, since he sees them as the greatest potential for growth. The company's strategy is focused on scaling within existing partners, rather than attracting new customers.
Dmitry Kalaev, partner of the IIDF Foundation and director of the IIDF Accelerator, considers the choice of a niche and Qummy business model successful. The startup partners with companies that are expensive to build a full-fledged kitchen, but there is a request from visitors for food.
The founder of the analytical company Dsight Arseny Dabbach noted that thanks to Qummy, customers close the issue of catering to their customers without the need to build a kitchen, hire cooks, write off products and solve possible problems with regulatory authorities.[1]
Attracting ₽440 million investments
The investment of ₽440 million was attracted by the food tech company Qummy following a new round of financing, in which the venture capital fund Rising"" and banking structures participated. After the completion of the transaction, the market valuation of the startup reached ₽2,4 billion. This was announced by co-founder of the company Artyom Simonyants on June 26, 2025. According to Forbes, the investors were the Voskhod fund and the joint pre-IPO fund Voskhod, Alfa Bank and T-Bank. Investor shares were 1.7% and 16.5%, respectively. The pre-IPO fund was launched in May 2024.
Qummy specializes in cooking and freezing ready meals using its own Smart Ice technology. Development allows to preserve taste, aroma and nutritional properties of products for 360 days.
Among the partners of the startup are the delivery services "Samokat" and "VkusVill," railway trains and railway stations of Russian Railways, roadside gas stations. The technology is also used by hotels, cafes and office complexes.
The geography of Qummy's presence covers over 30 Russian cities, including Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sochi and Yekaterinburg. The company also operates in the cities of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan.
Over the next two and a half years, the startup plans to increase the number of locations to 5,000 units. Scaling will take place both in existing cities of presence and in new tourist regions of Russia.
Qummy is considering expansion opportunities in Altai, Karelia, Adygea and other destinations with a developed tourist infrastructure. The expansion of geography should ensure the growth of the client base and an increase in turnover.[2]
2024
Six top managers of Qummy received shares in the company
Top managers of Qummy (Kyumi LLC) received shares in the company as part of an option program. This became known on September 9, 2024.
According to the publication RB.ru, for the first time, general director Sergei Muskhanov received shares in the Krasnodar startup - 1.11%, as well as Oleg Galitsky - 0.42%. Top managers Ruslan Abdullaev and Artem Komissarov, Yaroslav Listratenko and Anna Matsak began to own 0.33% each.
 | We initially understood that it was important to make key people from the team shareholders of the company. Previously, relationships were structured at Qummy Inc., where an option pool was allocated with a vesting for 4 years. Then they moved all the agreements to Kyumi LLC. The option program was recorded orally, - the founder of the startup Yevgeny Pisarev explained to the publication. |  |
Attracting 93 million rubles of investments
In early June 2024, it became known that the Krasnodar food tech startup Qummy had a new round of funding. For further development, the manufacturer of equipment for launching cafes without cooks and kitchens received 93 million rubles.
According to RB.ru, referring to information received from the founder of Qummy Yevgeny Pisarev, the investors were the Voskhod Foundation, Alexander Eronin, Moscow Seed Fund and Dauren Toktamysov, who provided 40 million, 30 million, 22 million and 1 million rubles, respectively. The company did not disclose its estimate after the funding round was completed, but noted that it was "significantly larger" than the estimated analysts. FG Finam specialist Leonid Delitsyn believes that the cost of Qummy may exceed 1 billion rubles.
| | If you estimate the cost of Qummy on such analogues as DoorDash, then the estimate will be 0.9-1.3 billion rubles. DoorDash is not exactly a good counterpart because it deals with delivery, not cooking, and does not use a robot oven. Probably the most accurate analogue would be Blue Apron, but its history on the stock exchange (2017 -2023) was unsuccessful, says Delitsyn. | |
Qummy previously carried out several investment rounds. So, in 2021, the company raised $1.6 million from a pool of investors: the funds were planned to be directed to development in the UAE and US markets, but later these projects were suspended. In 2022, Qummy received $3.6 million from the Voskhod Foundation, Sergey Dashkov's Joint Journey and business angel Rinat Salikhov. The company entered the B2C market and launched food delivery with a robot heating oven. According to Qummy, she was able to digitize food preparation by 70% in order to exclude the human factor and its consequences.
| | We're proposing a new life format where you only spend time on what's really important. Thanks to Qummy, you delegate cooking to the latest technology, the company notes.[3] | |
2020: Attracting 57 million rubles of investments
On November 9, 2020, it became known that Qummy had attracted about 57 million rubles of investments. The company of private investor Rinat Salikhov has invested in a food tech startup. In June, an investor for 22 million rubles received 15% in Qummy, in September - for 35 million rubles 10%.
According to Qummy co-founder Yevgeny Pisarev, his company helps customers launch cafes on 2 square meters of space without the use of cooks and kitchens. Such establishments are equipped with stoves and a freezer with frozen food. The cafe requires one person to take orders, put frozen food in a smart Qummy oven, take the finished dish out of the oven after 4-7 minutes and serve it, he said.
Qummy has its own enterprise in Krasnodar, a workshop for the production of equipment for cafes and a laboratory for research and development. Pisarev claims that the cost of his company by November 2020 is about 350 million rubles.
By November 9, 2020, Qummy operates in 10 cities of Russia. The company is planning an international expansion and is set to launch a business in the United States and Europe. The timing of the start of the development of the international arena is not specified.
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