About

One platform to operate
and manage your restaurants.
AI-native. Enterprise-ready.

Nova brings ordering, in-store technology, AI, loyalty, customer engagement, and back-office operations together on one connected platform, built for enterprise restaurant chains.
Built by operators who built Tesla Enterprise Platform.
Our mission

Restaurants don't need another POS. They need a platform for operations.

Every category-defining business of the last decade - Tesla, Amazon, Apple - won by building the vertically integrated platform, 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.

Artificial intelligence isn't another feature to add to restaurant software. It changes how restaurant platforms must be built. Legacy systems were designed around disconnected products and integrations, limiting what AI can understand, automate, and improve because the data is fragmented across multiple systems.
Nova was built differently. From day one, every product has shared a single, unified data platform, giving AI complete operational context across every order, every employee, every guest, and every restaurant. The result is software that continuously learns, recommends, automates, and improves every location with every transaction.

One Platform. Every Operation. Connected.

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One Connected Platform for Restaurants
Bring digital ordering, in-store systems, AI, loyalty, customer engagement, and back-office operations together. Start with the solutions your business needs today and expand as you grow.
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Works with your existing infrastructure
Nova integrates with your current technology environment and reuses compatible hardware wherever possible, helping protect existing investments while reducing deployment costs and operational disruption.
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Modernize Operations at Your Own Pace
Solve immediate operational challenges and introduce new capabilities in phases, with the flexibility to scale across hundreds or thousands of locations as your business grows.
By design

How Nova is put together.

Nova is one platform on a single data model. Every part of the restaurant, digital, front of house, back office, and AI, runs on the same core, so the platform expands with your operation instead of boxing it in.
Unified
Guest to back office on one platform and one data model.
7-10+
Vendors replaced per deployment, and counting.
AI
Built into every part of the operation, not bolted on.
Open
REST APIs across the platform, so Nova extends to what you already run.
Offline
Edge computing keeps stores taking orders even when the connection drops, then syncs on reconnect.
Cloud Native
On AWS, built for high availability and continuous operation.
Scale
From one location to thousands on one tenant model.
Formats
Quick service, full service, cafés, and enterprise on one platform.
Guest
One guest profile across app, web, kiosk, POS, and drive-thru.
Team

Built by operators who built Tesla Enterprise Platform.

Our founding team and advisors have shipped enterprise platform software at unicorn scale and run global restaurant operations at category-defining scale.
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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 platforms at every previous stop.
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Tobias Duschl
Chief Operating Officer
Scaled Tesla's customer operations from 1K to 500K+ customers. Operational leader across Tesla and BMW. Brings the operational playbook for scaling a vertical platforms globally.
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Mukesh Balaji Gopal
VP, India Operations & Cloud Infrastructure
Leads Nova's Chennai engineering organization and cloud infrastructure. Built product and engineering teams, owning real-time multi-location restaurant systems.
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Renatta L. Fairbanks
Controller - Finance & Accounting
Responsible for the integrity of the company's financial record reporting, technical accounting, internal controls, tax, and audit readiness. Previously a Manager at Armanino and Manager of Accounting at Modsy, acquired by Lennar.
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Matthew Gephart
VP, Operations
Program management leader from Tesla, where he ran service program management inside the global service organization. Previously VP of Business Intelligence at Motivate and a manager at PwC. MBA in finance and strategy from SMU Cox.
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Anand Gopalakrishnan
Sr. Director, Software Engineering
Leads platform engineering from Chennai. Previously at Tekion, building the automotive retail OS, Zuora, Tech Mahindra, and Aspire Systems, spanning three decades of enterprise software.
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Ryan Pimlott
Sr. Director, Enterprise Sales
Enterprise GTM leader landing and expanding Fortune 500 accounts across several high-growth companies, including a unicorn, with roles at OLOID, Apttus (now Conga), and MindTickle.
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Christian Wray
Director, Enterprise Solutions
Leads enterprise solution design at Nova, translating multi-location operator requirements into platform configuration and rollout. 10+ years of experience in multi-site restaurant operations leadership.
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Patrice Harper
General counsel
A Harvard-trained lawyer, she brings extensive corporate law experience, having advised on investigations, compliance, contracts, and litigation matters.
Strategic advisors

Operators who've run the industry.

Board & executive advisors
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Jessie Dosanjh
President of California Automotive Retailing Group, a Bay Area dealer group spanning 17 manufacturers. Brings the operator's view of running a large multi-location, multi-brand retail business on integrated technology.
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Nagesh Saldi
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.
Technology advisors
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Raj Jegannathan
Spent over 13 years at Tesla, most recently as VP of IT, AI infrastructure, business applications and information security, reporting directly to Elon Musk. Led the teams that designed and operated one of the world's largest GPU clusters. Now CTO at ChronoScale.
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Maha Virudhagiri
First CTO at Coalition, leading engineering, IT, infosec, data, and AI. Spent nearly seven years at Tesla running the Global Digital Experience organization across web, mobile, and kiosk. Earlier at Ancestry, Walmart Labs, and Cognizant.
Strategic advisors
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Katie Young
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.
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Ronald Dorsten
Former CTO at Steak 'n Shake and Global Innovation Director at McDonald's. Operator and technologist with decades of experience running restaurant technology at multi-thousand-location scale.
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Chakri Somisetti
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.

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