YC Summer 2026 (S26) company

Truffle

The autonomous back-of-house for restaurants.

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About Truffle

Truffle is the first AI-native operating system for the hospitality back-of-house. Restaurants, cafes and bars still run on a patchwork of disconnected point solutions, spreadsheets, clipboards and tribal knowledge, which costs the industry billions each year in stockouts, food waste, and lost profit. Truffle replaces that entire stack with one system. Computer vision and voice AI capture real-time inventory levels 90% faster than manual counts, ML models forecast item-level demand at 97% accuracy, and AI agents run dozens of end-to-end workflows autonomously, from procurement and invoice reconciliation to scheduling, food prep, menu engineering, and more.

Public traction evidence

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  1. LinkedIn

    Accepted into Y Combinator's summer batch

    Arjun Chaliha and I have been accepted into Y Combinator's summer batch and are building for hospitality and restaurant groups.

  2. X

    Something cooking

    Something cooking… @pinchoftruffle

  3. X

    Y Combinator S26 day two

    Crazy day 2 of Y Combinator S26.

  4. X

    Arjun Chaliha (@arjunjchaliha) on X

    @khannauno and I have been friends for almost 10 years, and we'd always talked about starting something together.