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StrideQ

YC S21

San Francisco, US · Founded 2021 · 2 employees · 1 known investors

StrideQ provides an AI-powered phone answering and catering ordering system for restaurants, handling phone orders and catering inquiries without dedicated staff or new hardware. It aims to reduce missed calls, cut labor costs, and increase orders during peak hours.

Also known as SliceQ

Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (S21)

StrideQ was founded in 2021 by Shreyansh Gandhi and Sreehari Pulikkal Sivadasan.

SGShreyansh Gandhi
Shreyansh Gandhiin𝕏Co-Founder & CEO (YC S21)He previously led the catalog data science team at WalmartLabs and worked as an early engineer at Amazon Web Services on EC2 infrastructure. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and a BTech in IT from VJTI, India.
SPSreehari Pulikkal Sivadasan
Sreehari Pulikkal Sivadasanin𝕏Co-Founder (YC S21)2021–2022Sreehari Pulikkal Sivadasan is a co-founder of SliceQ and holds MS and BS degrees in Computer Science from Amrita University in India. He previously worked as a senior engineer at PayPal and Yahoo, focusing on large-scale distributed systems.

Investors · 1

Competitors · 8

by search overlap
Uber Eats4052 shared keywordsEasiest way for consumers and businesses to order food from favorite local eateries
DoorDash3613 shared keywordsDoorDash operates a restaurant delivery platform that connects customers with dining establishments across hundreds of cities in North America through a logistics network.
Grubhub2869 shared keywordsChicago-based online food ordering and delivery platform, formerly NYSE-listed, now owned by Marc Lore's Wonder Group.
Postmates2108 shared keywords<UNKNOWN>
Toast2074 shared keywordsToast provides a restaurant management platform combining point-of-sale hardware (Flex POS, Toast Go 3 handheld) with software tools for online ordering, payroll, and other operations. It serves restaurants and restaurateurs across the food service industry.
Clover Network2021 shared keywordsClover offers a point-of-sale system and software platform designed for small businesses in restaurants, retail, and service industries, featuring integrated payment processing, online ordering, inventory management, and staff scheduling capabilities.
Atly1204 shared keywordsAtly is a location discovery app that helps people find restaurants, bars, and places to visit through personalized recommendations and user-generated tips. The consumer platform has been described as combining social community content with map-based navigation.
Zomato1012 shared keywordsZomato operates a restaurant discovery and food delivery platform across India, alongside the quick-commerce grocery service Blinkit.

Companies competing with StrideQ for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.

Frequently asked questions

What does StrideQ do?
StrideQ provides an AI-powered phone answering and catering ordering system for restaurants, handling phone orders and catering inquiries without dedicated staff or new hardware. It aims to reduce missed calls, cut labor costs, and increase orders during peak hours.
Who founded StrideQ?
StrideQ was founded by Shreyansh Gandhi, Sreehari Pulikkal Sivadasan in 2021.
Who are StrideQ's investors?
StrideQ's investors include Y Combinator.
Where is StrideQ headquartered?
StrideQ is headquartered in San Francisco, US.