Truffle
The autonomous back-of-house for restaurants.
About Truffle
Truffle is the first AI-native operating system for the hospitality back-of-house.
Restaurants, cafes and bars still run on a patchwork of disconnected point solutions, spreadsheets, clipboards and tribal knowledge, which costs the industry billions each year in stockouts, food waste, and lost profit.
Truffle replaces that entire stack with one system. Computer vision and voice AI capture real-time inventory levels 90% faster than manual counts, ML models forecast item-level demand at 97% accuracy, and AI agents run dozens of end-to-end workflows autonomously, from procurement and invoice reconciliation to scheduling, food prep, menu engineering, and more.
Company details
Funding
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Founders
Aakar Khanna
Co-founder and CEO at Truffle (YC S26). Previously Head of Strategy & Operations at Kouper (applied AI) and an early BizOps hire at AtoB (YC S20). Started career as an Investment Banking Analyst at Goldman Sachs covering Restaurants and Food & Beverage. Grew up managing family's multi-unit restaurant business. Undergrad from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business with a minor in Computer Science.
LinkedInArjun Chaliha
Previously Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg, leading AI/ML initiatives for Electronic Trading. CFA Charterholder. BSE Computer Science from University of Michigan. While in college, founded a peer-to-peer tutoring marketplace.
Pranav Srinivasan
Joined Y Combinator S26 alongside Aakar Khanna and Arjun Chaliha to build Truffle, the AI-native back-of-house operating system for hospitality.
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.