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Our path towards
our vision…

2016

Grabango was founded by Will Glaser
First patent filings

2017

Seed funding
First proof of concept store
deployed in Berkeley, CA
First 100% automated shop completed

2018

World’s first commercial retrofit
store installed in California
Continued developing technology for enterprise installations

2019

Two Top-10 convenience stores
installed in the U.S.
Deployed world's largest
checkout-free grocery store.
Announced partnership with Giant Eagle

2020

Over 30 patents filed
Signed Top-5 global grocer
Public Launch at GetGo in Pittsburgh, PA

2021

Series B Funding
Launched multiple Circle K stores in Tucson, AZ, the largest rollout of retrofit checkout-free technology in the world to date

2022

Grabango joins Pledge 1% committing the team’s time and proprietary technology to eliminate food deserts and improve access to healthy food in underserved communities.
Launched Chevron ExtraMile store in San Ramon, CA
Launched first Mapco store in the Nashville, TN area

2023

Launched second Mapco store in the Nashville, TN area
Announced partnership with 7-Eleven to launch 10 stores in Australia
Announced partnership with Copec with the objective to upgrade 100 stores across South America with checkout-free technology

2024

Announced partnership with ALDI and the launch of the retail industry's first full-size grocery store retrofit with checkout-free technology powered by computer vision.

The foundation of our culture.

Integrity

Do the right thing, particularly
when you don’t have to.

Bold Innovation

Think recklessly, but temper your
actions with pragmatism.

People Matter

Hire the best, and
treasure them.

Don't Live with Broken

Have the courage to admit mistakes,
and the urgency to correct them.

Customer Focus

Deliver beyond expectations,
both internally and externally.

Inclusion

Foster an environment
that welcomes all.

Simplify

Everything should be made as simple
as possible, but not simpler.

Our leadership team

Will Glaser

Will Glaser

Founder & CEO

Co-founder Pandora Media. Board member of Blue Shield of California. Founder of Hydra Systems. Triple major in Computer Science, Mathematics and Physics Cornell.

Andrew Radlow

Andrew Radlow

CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER

Head of BD & Strategy for LendUp, SVP of BD for Citigroup. Emerging Payments (Retail Sector). Board Member, AIrTouch-Globalstar. Economics UCSB.

John Hyun

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

CFO, Mode, VP Finance, Rocket Lawyer, VP Finance, YuMe. BA. Economics University of Wisconsin, MBA UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.

Ken Fenyo

Chief Marketing Officer

President, Research & Advisory at Coresight Research, Senior Consultant at McKinsey & Company, CEO of YOU Technology, VP, Loyalty & Digital at The Kroger Co. B.A. Economics Stanford, J.D. Harvard.

Saralynn Malott

Saralynn Malott

CHIEF HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICER

Head of People for TaskRabbit & Le Tote. Advocate of American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. MS-Law Champlain College.

Andrew Jensen

Andrew Jensen

Chief Data and Operations Officer

Founder of Northox, COO & CFO at 3D Robotics, SVP of Operations at GoalMine, Manager at McMaster-Carr. MBA Wharton School of UPenn.

Sree Sankar

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, PRODUCT

Head of Product, DISQO, Product leader and GM, Meta, Amazon and Hubspot, Sr. Director of Product, Ericsson and Juniper Networks. MS, Computer Engineering, Santa Clara University, Executive Program, Graduate School of Business (GSB), Stanford.

Phil Seaton

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, ENGINEERING

Director of Engineering at DroneDeploy, Engineering Manager at SightMachine & Instructables. M.Arch, MIT.

Trevor Darrell

Trevor Darrell

CHIEF SCIENTIST

Full faculty at UC Berkeley. Founding Co-Director of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab. Co-author of Convolutional Architecture for Fast Feature Embedding (Caffe). Ph.D. MIT.

Mark Nitzberg

Mark Nitzberg

COMPUTER VISION SCIENCE

Founder & CEO of Blindsight. Executive Director of the Center for Human-compatible AI. Director of Computer Vision at Amazon/A9. Ph.D. Harvard.

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