Building the operating system restaurants deserve.
Nova Platform Inc. is an AI-native operating system that runs real-time restaurant operations with intelligence built into every decision. Founded by operators who built vertical operating systems at Tesla and Tekion.
Our mission
Restaurants don't need another POS. They need an operating system.
Every category-defining business of the last decade - Tesla, Amazon, Apple - won by building the vertically integrated operating system, not by selling the best individual tool. Restaurants are the same bet, and the industry hasn't seen the winner yet.
Most restaurants today run on 10-18 disconnected systems. AI can't optimize what it can't see. We started Nova to change that - by building, from day one, the single platform every restaurant module reads and writes to.
Why now
The next decade of restaurant software is AI-native.
Voice AI takes drive-thru orders. Vision AI watches the kitchen. Reporting AI answers questions in plain English. None of this is possible on a stack of bolt-on integrations - it requires a unified data layer that legacy systems structurally can't produce.
Nova was architected around AI from day one. Every module reads and writes to the same data layer, and AI runs on that data continuously. Intelligence improves with every transaction, across every location.
By the numbers
Where we are today.
1,800+
Restaurants live on Nova
7-10+
Vendors typically replaced per deployment
5
AI capabilities, one operating system
100%
Of modules on one unified data layer
Team
Built by operators who built Tesla.
Our founding team and advisors have shipped enterprise platform software at unicorn scale and run global restaurant operations at category-defining scale.
Anand Ramakotti
Founder & CEO
Co-founder of Tekion, where he built the core platform behind a unicorn company. Previously led enterprise systems architecture at Tesla. Has shipped vertical operating systems at every previous stop.
Nagesh Saldi
Chairman
Former CIO of Tesla, reporting to Elon Musk for 12 years - built Tesla's vertically integrated global OS across manufacturing, supply chain, service and retail. Former VP at HP. Deep enterprise platform expertise.
Technology leader who built scalable platforms across retail, hospitality, payments, and automotive. Focused on creating technology that streamlines operations and improves customer experiences.
Tobias Duschi
COO
Scaled Tesla's customer operations from 1K to 500K+ customers. Operational leader across Tesla and BMW. Brings the operational playbook for scaling a vertical operating system globally.
Matthew Gephart
Director of Operations
Operations leader who led strategic initiatives at Tesla, optimizing business processes, digital channels, and operating models for scalable growth.
Strategic advisors
Operators who've run the industry.
Katie Young
Strategic Advisor
Former SVP at Starbucks. Ex-McKinsey. Deep operating experience scaling consumer brands and restaurant operations at global scale. Advises on consumer brand growth and operations.
Ronald Dorsten
Strategic Advisor
Former CTO at Steak 'n Shake. Operator and technologist with decades of experience running restaurant technology at multi-thousand-location scale. Advises on enterprise restaurant technology.
Chakri Somisetti
Strategic Advisor
VP of IT at Restaurant Brands International (Tim Hortons, Burger King, Popeyes, Firehouse Subs). Enterprise restaurant IT leadership at the largest global scale. Advises on multi-brand enterprise deployments.
We're hiring
Join us.
We're looking for engineers, designers, marketers, customer success leads, and operations folks who want to build the AI-native operating system the restaurant industry has been waiting for.
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