Liven
Founded 2015 · 94 employees on LinkedIn · 5 known investors
Liven is a hospitality management platform for restaurants, QSRs, groceries and food venues, combining point-of-sale, self-ordering, omnichannel delivery, kitchen and inventory management, payments, loyalty and marketing in one system. It serves food and beverage operators across Australia, Southeast Asia and the USA, and is now transitioning under the Nomni brand.
Also known as Liven Group · nomni · Nomni
Investors · 5
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Liven is a hospitality technology company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, that provides an integrated platform for food and beverage venues. Its product set covers point-of-sale software for iOS, Android, mobile and grocery environments; self-service and digital ordering including kiosks and omnichannel delivery; back-of-house tools for procurement, inventory, kitchen display and equipment/employee management; payments; and customer-facing modules for loyalty, rewards, gifting, branded currency ("Brandollars"), CRM and venue-branded apps built through a "Magic App" product.
The company positions itself as a data, technology and customer-experience provider to hospitality operators ranging from quick-service restaurant chains and franchise groups to cafes, bakeries, bars, fine dining venues and hotels, and states it serves over 6,000 customers across Australia, the USA and Southeast Asia. It describes processing more than 120 million transactions annually, worth over AUD 3 billion. Alongside software, Liven sells hospitality hardware — POS terminals and stands, thermal and label printers, Android tablets, network switches, access points, cables and consumables — through an online shop that operates under the Nomni brand.
Cited customers and reference accounts include Messina, Roll'd, Shake Shack Singapore & Malaysia, Sushi Sushi Australia, Sushi Jiro and Natural Born Grillers.
Founding story
The company describes itself as created out of a background in hospitality, with a stated goal of using technology to simplify and improve the industry for operators and diners.
Business model
Liven sells software and services to hospitality operators, bundling front-of-house, back-of-house, payments and loyalty modules into a single platform, and also distributes hospitality hardware (POS terminals, printers, tablets, networking gear and consumables) through an e-commerce shop with listed prices from about $1,980 for systems and individual items ranging from tens to hundreds of dollars.
Platform software modules sold to venues and venue groups, complemented by direct hardware and consumables sales through its online store.
Traction
Over 6,000 venues/customers across Asia Pacific; more than 120 million transactions processed annually, worth over AUD 3 billion; the Nomni hardware shop cites 35,000+ venues running; approximately 190 employees.
Latest developments
Liven's hardware commerce site operates under the Nomni brand, offering POS systems, stands, printers, tablets, networking equipment and consumables with 24-hour setup, and books operator-led demos for venue groups.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Describes itself as Australia's leading hospitality loyalty and customer engagement provider and, following its 2023 acquisitions, as part of the largest end-to-end hospitality technology group in the Asia Pacific.
Positions its combination of front-of-house, back-of-house, payments and loyalty in one system as an alternative to stitching together separate vendors, citing direct delivery-service integration without third-party middleware, menu and pricing updates propagating across channels, and real-time app updates. Staff mix hospitality operators with loyalty, marketing, engineering, product, UX and data specialists.
Technology
An integrated hospitality stack combining POS applications across iOS, Android and mobile, self-ordering and kiosk software, delivery integrations, kitchen display and equipment management systems, procurement and inventory management, payments, CRM, loyalty and rewards, and rapid venue app creation. The company states it applies AI to data insights, automated process management and a "self-driving currency" concept for venue-branded value.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise-style sales with demos run by former hospitality operators, offering a live tech-stack review, a custom rollout plan within 24 hours and ROI comparisons against similar venue groups; the site is organised around segment-specific messaging (QSRs, casual dining, cafes and bakeries, bars, fine dining) and operator testimonials, and the company recruits for a globally distributed team.
Restaurants, quick-service restaurant chains and megabrands, franchise groups, cafes and bakeries, bars, fine dining restaurants, groceries, pubs and hotels, from single venues to groups of 50 or more.
Geography
Operations across Australia (Melbourne headquarters, plus Brisbane and Sydney), Southeast Asia (Singapore, Bali and Jakarta in Indonesia), the USA (New York) and India.
History
Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Melbourne, Liven began in hospitality loyalty and customer engagement before broadening into a full operating platform. In 2023 it announced the acquisitions of Australian companies OrderUp and Abacus, Singapore-based Zeemart and Silicon Valley-based Copper for a combined $152 million, creating an end-to-end group covering software, services and hardware for hospitality, QSR, franchise, hotel and pub operators. Its hardware storefront now trades under the Nomni brand.
Compiled by commissioned research from 7 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsLiven announced the acquisition of Australian-based OrderUp and Abacus, Singapore-based Zeemart and Silicon Valley-based Copper for a combined $152 million, forming an end-to-end hospitality technology group across software, services and hardware.
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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 7
primary sources listed
- Livenliven.love · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Liven do?
- Liven is an Australian all-in-one hospitality technology platform spanning POS, ordering, kitchen, supply chain and loyalty.
- Who are Liven's investors?
- Liven's investors include ACTAI Ventures, Artesian, Blitzscaling Ventures, Carbide Ventures, Perennial Partners.