Industrializing the coffee shop. One platform. Three stores. Seven years.

240,000+ cups pulled. $95K in February. $0 spent on product marketing. All POS-verified.

The robotic platform underneath food and beverage.

Four institutions. One angel. Nine hundred fifteen individuals.

Y Combinator backed us in S19. Soma Capital and Asymmetry Ventures came in next. Trevor Blackwell — YC cofounder, OpenAI Research — joined as an angel because he could see the manipulation problem we were solving.

"The team's approach to robotic manipulation in food retail is rigorous and product-grade. Three live stores running on the same software spine is the kind of working proof most robotics startups don't reach."

— Trevor Blackwell · YC Cofounder · OpenAI Research

One quarter. Three live locations. Monthly net revenue stepped from $63K in January to $105K in March — every month larger than the last, with zero product‑marketing spend. Every dollar below is POS‑verified

Jan $63K, Feb $95K, Mar $105K — every month larger than the last, with Jan→Mar at +66% growth in 90 days. Q1 2026 closed at approximately $263K combined across three live locations, every dollar POS‑verified through the Cinny export. Zero product‑marketing spend during the quarter — no paid acquisition, no influencer rev-share, no in-app discount engine.Week 13: $12.2K. Same store. Same crew. Same machine.

Customer pull · in the wild.

We spend $0 on product marketing — no agency, no influencer line items, no paid acquisition. The growth that should price this round is the kind we don't pay for. At Matcha House, our newest store, three behavioral numbers are doing the talking.Order in front. Robot in back. Customer hand-off across the bar. Sixty seconds end to end.

What $0 marketing looks like.

Why we opened a matcha shop three minutes down the same street — on the same robotic platform.

We didn't convert Champaign 609. We opened a second Champaign location, 401, a three-minute walk down the same street, as a dedicated matcha shop under a new sub-brand — Matcha House by Yummy Future. New recipes. New in-store visuals. New menu. Same robotic unit. Same software. Same service model. Concept to live in under a week.

The numbers from one block

Two Champaign stores, one street, three minutes apart. We expected cannibalization. Instead, both stores kept running and the new one stacked on top.

Champaign-area monthly revenue went from $17,995 in January 2026 (609 alone) to $50,203 in March 2026 (609 + 401 combined) — roughly 3× in one quarter, all from the same robotic platform with a different sub-brand on the front. 609 held its coffee base; 401 opened a new daypart of students, remote workers, and matcha-curious customers ordering through the same software stack that pulls espresso three minutes down the road.

And the block matters. 401 sits on a quieter stretch of the same street — the kind of slot a labor-heavy concept usually can't underwrite. Robotics let us take it.

The quarter is the story.

The quarter is the story. These two reference points are the corroborating evidence — one single day that shows what a single robotic kiosk can do unmanned, and one two‑year curve that shows the trajectory didn’t start last month.

On Saturday, April 11, 2026, the three Yummy Coffee locations logged $7,245 in a single 24‑hour POS window — an unmanned robotic kiosk on a normal day, fed by organic walk‑up traffic. No human poured a cup.

Best week of Q1 closed at $35.8K (week ending March 30, 2026) — roughly six times the comparable early‑2024 weekly average on the same kiosk fleet. Same hardware, same footprint, same cost structure. Most independent operators measure same‑store growth in single digits per year; this curve bent by a factor of six in two. The Q1 climb in Section 04 sits at the right edge of this curve — it is not the whole story, just the most recent chapter.

Take the repetitive work off humans. Move them up the value chain.

A specialty barista pulls 300–400 espresso shots per shift — the same motion, again and again. That same person knows the regulars, picks the music, runs the store. We think they're better than the manipulation. So we built a robot to do the prep — pulling shots, steaming milk, whisking matcha. The person does the welcome, the menu, the brand, the ownership. Same craft. Better job. Better business.

One platform. Every place America already buys a cup.

Coffee in America isn't one channel — it's a constellation. Hotel lobbies before sunrise. Office-tower lobbies at the 8:45 rush. Corporate floors between meetings. Airport gates eighteen hours a day. Each is a place where someone with a wallet wants a cup right now, and where a human barista can't always be standing there.

The imagination isn't how much one Yummy Future Unit earns in one room. It's how many rooms one platform can sit inside. Same hardware. Same software. Four addressable wedges of a single $47.8B pie — and a US coffee category projected at $150B by 2034 (Custom Market Insights)

Team.

Roadmap.

Non-binding LOIs from 25+ operators cluster in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Seattle. One operator has expressed interest in a multi-store agreement covering dozens of locations.

Flywheel effect.

As franchise stores compound, the next one gets cheaper and faster to bring online. We plan for franchise count to accelerate rather than scale linearly. Forward-looking — actual pace depends on operator readiness, capital, and execution.

That's what we mean when we say platform: one machine, one software stack, one operating model — and the option to add a second concept on the same block in days rather than years.

Tomorrow · Vision

1. Robotic platform for food and beverage
2. Beverage today · other F&B categories tomorrow
3. Cross-channel: office · airport · hotel · campus

What $1M does

1. Ship Kiosk pilots
2. Stand up the Founding Operator program
3. Working capital + UL cert + supply chain qualification

Seven years of building. Same robotic spine. Three live stores.

We started this in September 2018, inside UIUC's Advanced Digital Projects Lab — one early-generation robot, a handful of engineering students, and the thesis that a machine could pull a real drink. The company was formally incorporated in 2019, the same year we won the Illinois Cozad New Venture Challenge and the Amazon Alexa Prize, and joined Y Combinator S19. From that early prototype to the production units now running our three live storefronts, the robotic core is the same lineage of hardware and software — refined seven years, never replaced.

Build the rest with us.

Today we run three stores. Twenty-five operators have asked for theirs.

The way Stripe sits underneath payments.

The way Shopify sits underneath retail.

We want to sit underneath the next decade of F&B.