{"id":1352,"date":"2023-11-20T18:07:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T10:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2023-11-20T18:07:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T10:07:31","slug":"ai%e9%a9%b1%e5%8a%a8%e7%9a%84%e9%a4%90%e5%8e%85%e5%b9%b3%e5%8f%b0%e5%88%9d%e5%88%9b%e5%85%ac%e5%8f%b8-malou-%e8%8e%b7%e5%be%971000%e4%b8%87%e7%be%8e%e5%85%83%e8%9e%8d%e8%b5%84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/1352.html","title":{"rendered":"AI-driven restaurant platform startup Malou raises $10 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI-driven<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e9%a4%90%e5%8e%85%e5%b9%b3%e5%8f%b0\" title=\"[Sees articles with tags]\" target=\"_blank\" >Restaurant Platform<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e5%88%9d%e5%88%9b%e5%85%ac%e5%8f%b8\" title=\"[Sees articles with labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >Startups<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/malou\" title=\"[See article with [Malou] label]\" target=\"_blank\" >Malou<\/a> Today announced $10 million in new<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%9e%8d%e8%b5%84\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [financing]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Financing<\/a>, to accelerate growth in France, enhance product functionality and expand internationally, particularly in the United States and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2021, Malou offers an AI-based platform designed to enhance a restaurant\u2019s digital presence. The platform provides a range of features to help restaurants improve online buzz, visibility, and customer engagement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-content__img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1353\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/6383609821613166153614361.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The platform provides a centralized hub that integrates a restaurant\u2019s Google Pages, social media profiles, and ordering platforms. It then uses AI and automation to analyze and generate responses to customer reviews, generate social media posts, and maintain a consistent message to enhance a restaurant\u2019s online presence, SEO, visibility, and social media engagement.<\/p>\n<p>Malou claims that its platform\u2019s integrated approach manages and improves the entire relationship between restaurants and customers, from discovery and conversion to customer satisfaction monitoring and loyalty building. The company also provides personalized support designed to adapt to a restaurant\u2019s needs and stage of development.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Malou has 2,000 restaurants in 12 countries, including independent restaurants, chain restaurants, famous chefs and high-profile restaurant groups. Among its clients are well-known companies such as Bagatelle Group and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Investors in this round include henQ Inc., Bleu Capital Management LP, The Fork founder Bertrand Jelensperger, and Jim Texier, former chief product officer of Lightspeed Management Co. LLC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMalou\u2019s team was able to translate their in-depth understanding of restaurant marketing into a \u2018supervertical\u2019 solution that automatically optimizes the various aspects of the restaurant\u2019s online existence,\u201d said Mick Mackaay, the investor's partner who won the henQ. This would attract more visitors without the need for the restaurant owner to become a marketing expert. We were further impressed by the team, which was able to make this solution available to many restaurants, a target group that is known to be difficult to sell.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malou, the artificial intelligence-powered restaurant platform startup, today announced $10 million in new funding to accelerate its growth in France, enhance its product capabilities and expand internationally, particularly in the U.S. and Middle East. Founded in 2021, Malou offers an artificial intelligence-based platform designed to enhance the digital presence of restaurants. The platform offers a range of features to help restaurants improve online word-of-mouth, visibility and customer engagement. The platform provides a centralized hub that integrates a restaurant's Google page, social media profiles and ordering platforms. Artificial intelligence and automation technologies are then used to analyze and generate responses to customer reviews, generate social media posts, and maintain consistent messaging to enhance the restaurant's online presence, search engine optimization,<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[453,309,421,452],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-malou","tag-309","tag-421","tag-452"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}