5Y News｜Tingting Technology Raises Tens of Millions of USD in Series B, Launching the AI Digital Kitchen 2.0 Era
Continuing to lead the AI-powered digital kitchen era from its 1.0 phase into 2.0.
Recently, Tingting Technology announced the completion of its Series B funding round, raising tens of millions of dollars. The round was led by 5Y Capital, with Alphaist Partners participating, and Xingchen Capital serving as the long-term exclusive financial advisor.
This marks Tingting Technology's second funding round in six months, following its A++ round. The capital will be used to accelerate product iteration, increase investment in new technologies, and enhance global delivery capabilities.
As a pioneer in the era of AI-powered digital kitchens, Tingting Technology is currently the only company in the world capable of empowering top-tier global clients to achieve kitchen digital transformation, and it continues to lead the AI digital kitchen era from version 1.0 to 2.0.
Tingting Technology's AI Digital Kitchen Solution 1.0 centered on intelligent cooking robots, and was the first to address challenges such as global store expansion, meal consistency, chef shortages, and the difficulty of staff training. However, as brands expanded into more categories, longer operating hours, and more complex business scenarios, automation alone became insufficient to handle the intensity of operational pressures. The real challenge shifted toward the overall digital capability for "time and resource allocation" in the kitchen.
To address these pain points, Tingting Technology launched AI Digital Kitchen Solution 2.0, achieving a critical leap from automation to intelligence. This solution uses intelligent cooking robots as the execution layer, paired with the company's self-developed KMES (Kitchen Management Execution System) — the world's first intelligent scheduling system — to build an AI kitchen hub with deep integration of software and hardware, and high connectivity between front and back of house.
KMES is not merely a software system; it is a "super brain" connecting the kitchen to front-of-house operations, capable of real-time perception of order flow, staff status, and equipment resources, while making instant decisions and dynamic scheduling. Its scheduling algorithms and rhythm control mechanisms autonomously execute order consolidation, task allocation, and resource dispatch based on complex on-site scenarios, creating a new operational model of "data-driven, human-machine collaboration."
In real-world applications, KMES has helped clients achieve nearly double the table turnover efficiency during peak hours, delivering not just quantitative growth in operations but also a qualitative leap in process stability and efficiency consistency. At the same time, KMES effectively reduces operational efficiency losses caused by variations in staff experience, emotional fluctuations, or inconsistent performance, significantly improving the controllability of overall meal pacing and customer experience.
Based on this complete AI architecture — from hardware execution to underlying scheduling — Tingting Technology has evolved from a single-equipment provider to an AI technology platform building comprehensive kitchen intelligent operations capabilities, truly achieving a full upgrade of AI-empowered kitchens.
Furthermore, Tingting Technology continues to enhance its mass production delivery capabilities and supply chain control. By establishing its own 10,000-square-meter factory, the company has achieved flexible production and continuously refined its quality control system for complex products, ensuring end-to-end guarantees from development to delivery and providing strong support for large-scale global commercialization.
To date, Tingting Technology's AI digital kitchen solutions have been deployed in 24 countries and regions worldwide, partnering with world-class representative brands across chain restaurants, hotels, supermarkets, and other scenarios, continuously supporting clients' global expansion and kitchen digital transformation.
Liu Xiang, co-founder of Tingting Technology, stated: "Tingting cooking robots are embodied intelligence products with clear real-world application scenarios. Facing the increasingly severe kitchen labor gap, Tingting robots achieve high-quality meal output through precise control and digitize taste. In the future, digital kitchens will enable easy storage and sharing of culinary creations, allowing more people to enjoy healthy, convenient, delicious food. Applying technology to advance human society is a joyful endeavor. We look forward to more like-minded friends joining us to bring 'food tech' AI into every household."
The AI Digital Kitchen 2.0 era represents a revolution in the relationship between humans and food. As a pioneer on the global stage, Tingting Technology is driving the food industry into a truly intelligent era through faith in its future vision, breakthroughs in innovative technology, solid engineering execution capabilities, and a globalized commercial footprint.
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