Palo Alto is more than 2,100 miles from our headquarters in Champaign.
Two in Champaign, IL, and one in Palo Alto, CA.
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Yummy Future Bay
170 University Ave
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Yummy Future Original
609 E Green St
Champaign, IL 61820
Yummy Future Matcha House
401 E Green St, Suite B
Champaign, IL 61820
Y Combinator
S19 batch · Seed-stage
Trevor Blackwell
YC Cofounder & OpenAI Research
Soma Capital
Multi-stage venture
Asymmetry Ventures
Frontier-tech focused fund
Sequoia Scouts
A Sequoia scout, Jared Quincy Davis, invested in 2026
The beverage retail market is huge.
Hospital lobbies operate 24 hours. Airport gates operate eighteen hours a day.
Concept renders, not customer installs.
Three Live Stores. $1.7M+ in Total Sales. +137% Q2 YoY Growth
Seven years of milestones building
- 2018Our story began with a robotic coffee trailer in 2018 - a humble starting point where we validated our robotic coffee prototype and proved our innovative service concept.
- 2019In 2019, we won the Illinois Cozad New Venture Challenge, the Amazon Alexa Prize, and joined Y Combinator S19.
- 2022 · 2024 · 2025From our early prototype to our production units, we iterated rapidly, opened our first brick-and-mortar location in 2022, then the second in 2024, then the third in 2025.
A new menu is a software update away.
Coffee is a crowded category. In our case, the competition was happening between our own stores. Located just 0.2 miles apart, our first two stores began cannibalizing each other’s sales. Rather than continuously offering the same coffee menu to the same customer base, we decided to differentiate the second location by converting it into a dedicated matcha concept in Mar 2026.
With a software update, we launched the new concept within one week, without any hardware upgrades. The pivot delivered encouraging results. In April 2026, both locations posted their highest monthly sales in 2026: approximately $49,000 at 609 E Green St and $42,000 at 401 E Green St.
Customers love us.
Without paid promotion, customers actively share their visits, showcase their store experiences, and advocate for our brands.
Nationwide store expansion.
Looking ahead, we are expecting to scale revenue from one million to tens of millions of US dollars through nationwide store expansion and continuous technological iteration.
Palo Alto is more than 2,100 miles from our headquarters in Champaign. Our robotic technology has matured, and the nearly 100% uptime has proven they could operate reliably day after day. That reliability was the foundation that made it possible to open a robotic store 2,100 miles away.
This is a plan, not a promise. None of the planned markets is open, and the markets, timing and number of stores may change.
Restaurant Operations Are Repetitive, Labor-Dependent, and Hard to Scale.
The tools remain fragmented: equipment with no connectivity, work without coordination, or software with no capability in the physical world.
Behind most counters, employees still connect the dots by hand - making drinks, managing orders, adjusting recipes, and keeping equipment moving. Most importantly, baristas sometimes make mistakes.
Our vision is to create a brand-new service model in which intelligent robots handle repetitive production so people can focus on hospitality, creativity, and ownership.
One intelligent robotic platform. Infinite possibilities.
The opportunity is not how much one system can produce at a single location; it is how many locations the platform can serve. Same hardware. Same software. Different recipes for different market needs.
