Dining is a transaction.
The experience is the opportunity.
amealio is an AI-powered dining, social dining, celebration and experience platform connecting people, restaurants and experiences. We use AI to make dining more personal for guests and more intelligent for restaurants.
From transactions to experiences.
We believe the next category in dining is the experience layer.
Consumers
- Too much choice.
- Too little personalization.
- Too much coordination around special occasions.
Restaurants
- More channels.
- More competition.
- Limited guest intelligence.
- Limited ability to personalize and monetize experiences.
amealio
- + Intent
- + Restaurant
- + Menu
- + Experience
- + Transaction
- + Relationship
amealio turns dining intent into personalized experiences.
Why now?
AI
AI can now understand complex preferences, intent and context.
Experience economy
Consumers increasingly value experiences, memories and social connection, not only products.
Restaurant digitization
Restaurants increasingly operate across multiple digital channels.
Open commerce
Networks such as ONDC create new distribution possibilities.
- AI
- Experience economy
- Restaurant digitization
- Open commerce
A new experience layer for dining.
A massive market hiding inside everyday dining.
We publish market sizing only with a named source, year, geography and methodology. Unsourced figures are shown as open placeholders rather than estimates presented as fact.
Dining, restaurant, hospitality and experience spending
- Source:
- To be sourced
- Year:
- To be sourced
- Geography:
- India and the United States
- Methodology:
- Published industry sizing required before this figure is displayed.
Digitally addressable dining, social dining, celebrations and restaurant experiences
- Source:
- To be sourced
- Year:
- To be sourced
- Geography:
- India and the United States
- Methodology:
- Digitally transacted share of the above, sourced from published reporting.
Initial city-by-city curated restaurant footprint
- Source:
- To be sourced
- Year:
- To be sourced
- Geography:
- Pune, then selected Indian metros
- Methodology:
- Company estimate, built bottom-up from curated restaurants per market x average booking value x activation windows. Published once pilot inputs are validated.
amealio is creating a new category.
A conceptual comparison of what each category optimizes for. It is not a capability claim about any specific company.
Food delivery
Optimizes fulfillment.
Reservation platforms
Optimize table discovery.
Restaurant SaaS
Optimizes operations.
Social platforms
Optimize attention.
amealio
Optimizes the experience around dining.
The journey we cover
- Discovery
- Personalization
- Celebration
- Dining
- Experience
- Memory
- Relationship
Source: amealio product scope
Dining has become easier to transact, but harder to personalize.
For people
- Too many choices.
- Generic recommendations.
- Fragmented celebration planning.
For restaurants
- Limited guest intelligence.
- Limited personalization.
- Dependence on discounts and paid acquisition.
For the ecosystem
- Discovery, reservation, ordering, delivery and experiences remain fragmented.
- Consumer
- Fragmented tools
- Restaurant
- Fragmented tools
- Experience
Each hand-off loses context. Nothing carries taste, occasion or relationship across the journey.
One intelligence layer across the dining journey.
Five strategic layers, not a feature list.
amealio AI
AI personalization
- Taste
- Dietary preferences
- Budget
- Location
- Companions
- Occasion
- Previous preferences
Discovery and commerce
- Restaurant discovery
- Dish discovery
- Reservations
- Ordering
- ONDC
- Delivery
Experiences and celebrations
- Celebrations
- Curated experiences
- Catering
- Add-ons
- Event services
Restaurant intelligence
- Merchant dashboard
- Guest intelligence
- Analytics
- CRM
- Campaigns
- AI business assistant
Memory and retention
- Memory experiences
- Social sharing
- Rewards
- Repeat visits
- Personalized recommendations
Every interaction makes the platform smarter.
A data flywheel, not a claimed moat. The advantage compounds only as real restaurants, menus and experiences are activated.
- Restaurant
- Menu
- Dish
- Dietary attributes
- Customer intent
- Experience
- Transaction
- Feedback
- Repeat behaviour
- Better personalization
The platform can progressively understand
- Restaurants
- Menus
- Dishes
- Dietary concepts
- Visual content
- Customer preferences
- Occasion
- Group composition
- Experience choices
- Transaction behaviour
- Repeat behaviour
Start with the restaurant.
amealio combines curated restaurant activation with broader network connectivity. Status labels below reflect what is operating today versus what is planned.
Curated restaurants
Live- Deep activation
- Rich menu data
- Photo and video menus
- Dietary enrichment
- Celebration packages
- Experience activation
- Merchant AI
Open network
Planned- ONDC
- Broader restaurant discovery
- Long-tail supply
- Commerce connectivity
Restaurant technology
Planned- Petpooja
- POS and operational connectivity
Delivery
Planned- Delivery network integrations
India first. Built for scale.
Pune first, then selected Indian metros. Curated depth before breadth.
Curated activation
Target roughly 500-1,000 high-quality restaurants per market rather than manually activating every restaurant.
Network breadth
Use ONDC and network partners to provide broader supply.
Merchant activation
Sales, operations, marketing and AI assistance working together.
Product loop
- Restaurant
- Menu
- Experience
- Guest
- Transaction
- Data
- AI
- Better experience
India-built. US-ready.
Market status is labelled explicitly. Planned markets are not operating markets.
India
- Product validation
- Restaurant activation
- AI and data development
- Operating model
United States
- Market adaptation
- Anchor restaurant partnerships
- Experience-led dining
- Premium restaurant ecosystem
Global
- Experience economy
Pune
PilotCurated restaurant activation and celebration experiences.
Selected Indian metros
NextNext curated markets after Pune.
United States
PlannedMarket adaptation and anchor restaurant partnerships.
Global experience economy
FutureLonger-term expansion.
Early validation. Real restaurants. Real transactions.
Pilot figures from internal company data. Nothing on this page is projected or modelled.
11,000+
Celebration bookings
Source: Internal company data · Pilot to date, as of August 2026
$2.8M+
Gross merchandise value
Source: Internal company data · Pilot to date, as of August 2026
10
Restaurant outlets activated
Source: Internal company data · As of August 2026
5 months
Pilot duration
Source: Internal company data · As of August 2026
Demand
People engage with personalized dining and celebration experiences, not just a table or a delivery slot.
Merchant adoption
Restaurants are willing to activate experiences and operate them alongside their existing service.
Commerce
Experience discovery converts into real bookings and measurable GMV.
Repeatability
The activation model can be repeated across restaurants and occasion windows.
Retention and repeat-behaviour claims are intentionally excluded until supported by measured data.
One occasion. One activation window. Real demand.
2,700+
Experience menu views
2,000+
People engaged
600+
Curated celebration experiences delivered
Hundreds
Pre-bookings and walk-ins
Source: Internal company data · Single Father's Day activation window, as of August 2026
What it proved
- Awareness
- Engagement
- Experience discovery
- Booking
- Restaurant activation
From hospitality legacy to experience innovation.
Hotel Shreyas
Pune · 60-year legacy
amealio worked with the restaurant to introduce an experience-oriented celebration activation, including a Celebration Memory Wall built into the guest journey.
Why it matters
Legacy restaurants can use technology to create differentiated experiences without losing their hospitality identity.
Source: Internal company data · As of August 2026
Multiple monetization layers. One platform.
Revenue lines are labelled by maturity so no future stream reads as an operating one.
Current
Transaction revenue
Commissions on restaurant bookings, celebrations and experiences.
Expanding
Software revenue
Merchant subscriptions, dashboard and AI tools.
Experience revenue
Celebration services, add-ons and marketplace revenue.
Future
Marketing
Merchant campaigns and promoted experiences.
Analytics
Guest and demand intelligence products.
Enterprise
Hospitality groups and multi-outlet operators.
AI business assistant
Assisted merchant operations and growth.
The model is designed to compound.
These inputs are being measured through the pilot. We publish none of them until they are validated.
Restaurant acquisition cost
To be validated
Merchant activation cost
To be validated
Average booking value
To be validated
Commission
To be validated
Gross margin
To be validated
Merchant subscription
To be validated
Customer acquisition cost
To be validated
Repeat rate
To be validated
Lifetime value
To be validated
Payback period
To be validated
Compounding, restaurant by restaurant.
- 01More restaurants
- 02More choice
- 03Better personalization
- 04More experiences
- 05More bookings
- 06More merchant value
- 07More restaurant adoption
- 08More data
- 09Better AI
- 10More demand
amealio AI
Positioning, not point scoring.
We describe where amealio sits rather than what other companies lack.
Food delivery
Reservations
Restaurant SaaS
Experience platforms
Social discovery
amealio
The experience layer across all of them.
amealio sits at the intersection of
- AI personalization
- Dining discovery
- Commerce
- Experiences
- Restaurant intelligence
- Social dining
Built for the experience economy.
AI
- Personalization
- Recommendation
- Restaurant intelligence
- AI business assistant
Customer platform
- Discovery
- Reservations
- Ordering
- Experiences
- Social dining
Merchant platform
- Dashboard
- CRM
- Analytics
- Campaigns
- AI tools
Integrations
ONDC
PlannedOpen network commerce connectivity
Petpooja
PlannedPOS and operational connectivity
Delivery networks
PlannedFulfilment partners
Payments
LiveUPI and card rails
Messaging
LiveWhatsApp and notifications
- Guest intent
- amealio AI
- Restaurant
- Experience
- Memory
The next 12 to 24 months.
Now
Pilot- Pune
- Restaurant activation
- AI personalization
- Experience platform
Next
Next- India expansion
- 500-1,000 curated restaurants per market
- AI-assisted merchant activation
- Experience marketplace
- Merchant growth tools
Then
Planned- US market expansion
- Anchor restaurant partnerships
- Localized experience marketplace
Beyond
Future- Global experience economy
- AI marketplace
- Enterprise hospitality
Capital to scale the flywheel.
Current round details are shared directly with qualified investors.
Raise
Not disclosed
Product and AI
AI infrastructure, personalization, restaurant intelligence.
Market expansion
Restaurant acquisition, merchant activation, consumer growth.
Operations
Restaurant success and experience operations.
US expansion
Market validation, anchor partnerships, localization.
Team
Engineering, product, AI, growth and operations.
Allocation percentages are shared directly with qualified investors and are not published here.
Programmes, credits and recognition.
Programme participation and cloud credits are not investment. Funding details are not disclosed on this page.
Google for Startups APAC
Top 30 startup selection.
Google Cloud
$200K in cloud credits.
NVIDIA Inception
Programme member.
Why this team. Why this market. Why now.
Why this market
- Dining is large.
- Experiences are growing.
- Restaurants need better digital relationships.
Why now
- AI enables contextual personalization.
- Commerce infrastructure is increasingly connected.
- Consumers increasingly value experiences.
Why amealio
- Restaurant, consumer and experience layer
- AI-native architecture
- Curated merchant strategy
- Network distribution
- Merchant intelligence
- Founder-market fit
Built by people who understand technology, hospitality and markets.
Shaker Dixit
Founder and CEO
- 25+ years in technology and large-scale transformation
- Operating experience across the United States and India
- Hospitality and restaurant operating exposure
- AI, product and platform engineering background
- Cross-cultural go-to-market experience
India-built. US-ready. Globally ambitious.
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amealio is building the intelligence layer between people, restaurants and experiences.
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