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Owner.com

American tech company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ119805775
Source-derived summary

Owner.com (earlier known as ProfitBoss, Placepull) is an American software-as-a-service company that provides an online food ordering system to independent restaurants in the United States. It offers tools for website and app creation, CRM, loyalty program, marketing automation, and commission-free ordering, with a focus on helping restaurants own their digital presence.

Overview

The company was started as ProfitBoss in 2018 to help restaurants build in-store traffic. Co-founders Adam Guild and Dean Bloembergen renamed the company to Owner.com in 2021, with its headquarters in Palo Alto, California. By 2021, the company had transactions of more than $18 million and by 2022, it operated in 49 states in the United States, working with more than 1,500 restaurants.

Funding

Owner.com has raised a total of $178.7 million since its founding. The company had an initial funding of $10.7 million in a seed round led by SaaStr Fund and in March 2022, it raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Altman Capital. In January 2024, it raised $33 million in Series B funding from Redpoint Ventures and Altman Capital with participation from Horsley Bridge, Activant Capital and Transpose Platform Management.

In May 2025, the company raised $120 million in Series C funding from Meritech Capital Partners and Headline, valuing Owner.com at $1 billion.

Some notable angel investors of the company include Sean Rad, Naval Ravikant, Kimbal Musk and others.

Editorial summary

“Owner.com” enters the record as american tech company. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Owner, American and tech can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 2021, 2022, 2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Owner, American and tech.
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“Owner.com” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Owner, American and tech provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q119805775. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018, 2021, 2022 and 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from Owner.com” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.