Qummy

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.

History

2024: 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.

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Qummy

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.[1]

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%.

Founders of Qummy

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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