# Enlightened Hospitality Investments

> Enlightened Hospitality Investments is a VC fund backing Food and Beverage. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 81%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enlightened-hospitality-investments
- Website: https://ehi.fund

Enlightened Hospitality Investments is a VC fund in New York focused on Food and Beverage and Software. Enlightened Hospitality Investments (EHI) is the strategic investment platform within Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group (USHG), dedicated to driving growth for values-aligned companies in the hospitality and technology sectors. EHI leverages the businesses and professionals of USHG to identify growth potential and investmentopportunities in both internal and outside ventures.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $10M–$28M |
| Series B | $7.5M–$35M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $10M–$28M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 8 | 38% |
| Software | 5 | 24% |
| Food Processing | 4 | 19% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 19% |
| SaaS | 3 | 14% |

42 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 6 | 29% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 6 | 29% |
| Series A | 3 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 14% |
| Series C | 1 | 5% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 14 | 67% |
| Chile | 1 | 5% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Danny Meyer | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/danny-meyer |
| Mark A. Leavitt | Co-Managing Partner and Co-Founder | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-a-leavitt |
| Pete Mavrovitis | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pete-mavrovitis |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Blink | Blink is the mobile-first employee experience platform that connects your people, systems, and culture in one super-app. It bridges the digital divide between deskless and desk-based workers, supercharging employee communication and engagement at industry-leading companies like McDonald's, Nokia, Domino’s, JD Sports, RATP Dev, and Stagecoach.Blink is the top-rated Employee Communications Application on Gartner Peer Insights and a Leader in the G2 Grid for Best Employee Engagement Software. | $17M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 18, 2026 |  |
| Oats Overnight | Oats Overnight is a manufacturer of oatmeal-based nutritional breakfasts. The company offers a spoon-free, high-protein oatmeal that is prepped at night. Oats Overnight is dedicated to providing high-quality products, so it only uses superfoods like maca root, raw cacao, hemp, coffee, and others along with certified gluten-free oats. | $35M | Series B | Jul 29, 2024 |  |
| Chip City Cookies | Chip City presently has over 40 different cookie variations on a daily rotating menu. Chip City designed a 5.5-ounce signature cookie that is served warm. | $7.5M | Series B | May 08, 2024 |  |
| Five Iron Golf | Five Iron Golf has quickly re-shaped Manhattan’s golf culture, growing from our original Midtown location to a re-imagined, high-tech, | $20M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 12, 2024 |  |
| Culture POP Soda | Culture POP Soda is a probiotic drink made with real organic fruit juice and organic spices. | $21M | Series B | Feb 09, 2024 |  |
| Qu | Qu, formerly Gusto, is going beyond traditional Point of Sale (POS) technology with a singular focus on fast casual and quick service restaurant chains. Leveraging an API-first approach and a core suite of omni-channel ordering solutions, Qu delivers an enterprise-scale, cloud-based POS solution that’s fast, flexible, and forward-thinking, makingit easy to implement, easy to use, and easy to afford. Improved guest experience, best-in-class integrations, centralized enterprise management, and payment processor choice are some of the reasons leading restaurant chains choose Qu to help them move faster, stay nimble, and increase profits. Learn more at qubeyond.com or email sales@qubeyond.com. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 15, 2023 |  |
| Chip City Cookies | Chip City presently has over 40 different cookie variations on a daily rotating menu. Chip City designed a 5.5-ounce signature cookie that is served warm. | $10M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 20, 2022 |  |
| ConverseNow | ConverseNow automates and personalizes restaurant orders on high-volume voice channels such as phone, drive-thru, self-service kiosks, voice assistants, and voice-assisted chat on mobile. Founded in 2018 by Rahul Aggarwal and Vinay Shukla, ConverseNow is headquartered in Austin, Texas. | $10M |  | Aug 23, 2022 |  |
| ConverseNow | ConverseNow automates and personalizes restaurant orders on high-volume voice channels such as phone, drive-thru, self-service kiosks, voice assistants, and voice-assisted chat on mobile. Founded in 2018 by Rahul Aggarwal and Vinay Shukla, ConverseNow is headquartered in Austin, Texas. | $10M | Series A | Aug 10, 2022 |  |
| PreciTaste AI | PreciTaste®, a proprietary Vision AI platform and leader in operational optimization in the foodservice industry, provides real-time crew recommendations through deep tech computer vision and machine learning. It's digital food AI management solution revolutionizes the way food chains operate—maximizing efficiency, enhancing customerexperience and reducing food waste. With the Virtual Baker® by PreciBake® already supporting baking processes in Europe’s largest grocery retailer, PreciTaste expands proven infrastructure to serve fast casual and QSR sectors. With 1,500+ food AI systems deployed, PreciTaste's offline-first, in-store software platform with 40+ patents works on Edge Devices, is Cloud and Internet-independent, and data privacy compliant. Series A growth funding is led by Melitas® Ventures and Cleveland Avenue, LLC and includes Enlightened Hospitality Investments (EHI) and Monogram Capital Partners. | $24M | Series A | Aug 09, 2022 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Enlightened Hospitality Investments invest in?

Enlightened Hospitality Investments invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Software and Food Processing startups, most often at Series B and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Enlightened Hospitality Investments's check size?

Enlightened Hospitality Investments typically joins rounds of $10M–$28M at Series A, $7.5M–$35M at Series B and $10M–$28M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Enlightened Hospitality Investments participates in.

### How do I contact Enlightened Hospitality Investments?

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### Who are the partners at Enlightened Hospitality Investments?

The team at Enlightened Hospitality Investments includes Danny Meyer (Co-Founder and Managing Partner), Mark A. Leavitt (Co-Managing Partner and Co-Founder) and Pete Mavrovitis (Co-Founder and Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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