About MyChefVision
Vision-first kitchens, run by chefs.
Our story
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"We're not replacing chefs. We're giving them the assistant they've never had — one that watches every plate, every shift, and never gets tired."
What we believe
Five principles guide every product decision and every line of code.
Vision-first
Cameras already see everything. We just had to teach them what matters in a kitchen.
Chefs over algorithms
AI assists. It does not replace. The hand on the pan is always the chef's.
Privacy by default
Raw video stays on the edge. Metadata in the cloud. Consent before biometrics. Always.
Deploy in days
Most kitchens are live within a week. Long pilots kill momentum. We optimize for speed.
Built by operators
Our team has run kitchens, owned restaurants, and shipped Michelin-starred menus.
Outcomes, not dashboards
If a feature doesn't make a dish more consistent, it doesn't ship.
Milestones
From a single pilot kitchen in San Francisco to a global platform — in under three years.
Founded in San Francisco
Antonio Rossi and Dr. Mei Nakamura incorporate MyChefVision after a 6-month research collaboration.
First kitchen live
4-camera pilot at a fine-dining restaurant in Napa Valley. First plating-consistency model deployed.
$4M seed round
Led by Acme Capital with participation from operators of Sweetgreen, Tatte, and Wingstop.
Edge Appliance v1
Custom edge box ships, allowing the entire vision pipeline to run on-premise.
SOC 2 Type II certified
Full enterprise readiness; first 1,000-outlet QSR brand goes live across 6 countries.
220+ kitchens, 14 countries
Verifying more than 30,000 dishes a day, helping operators serve consistent food at scale.
The team
A blend of operators, engineers, and chefs — based in San Francisco, London, and Dubai.
Antonio Rossi
Co-founder · ChefFormer exec chef at a Michelin-starred restaurant in Milan. 18 years in professional kitchens.
Dr. Mei Nakamura
Co-founder · CTOPreviously led perception at an autonomous trucking startup. PhD, computer vision, Stanford.
Sarah Bennett
Head of CustomerScaled customer success at two enterprise SaaS companies through IPO.
Karim El-Sayed
Head of HardwareBuilt edge devices for industrial IoT at Honeywell and a YC-backed energy startup.
Build the future of kitchens with us.
Whether you run two outlets or two thousand, we'd love to show you what AI vision can do for your kitchens.