OliverIQ vs Toast POS
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US Smart Home as a Service (SHaaS) platform with OliverIQ Hub (Matter/Z-Wave/Zigbee) and AI Ollie support; $7.26M EPIC Ventures seed from Control4 co-founders competing with Amazon Echo and Vivint for ISP and dealer smart home subscription.
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OliverIQ is a United States-based smart home technology company — backed with $7.26 million in seed funding in September 2022 from EPIC Ventures, Album VC, Pelion Venture Partners, and Silicon Valley Bank — providing Internet Service Providers, security dealers, home builders, and retailers with a Smart Home as a Service (SHaaS) platform: the OliverIQ Hub (a multiprotocol smart home hub supporting Matter, Thread, Z-Wave, Zigbee, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth across 90%+ of popular smart home devices) combined with the AI-powered Ollie chatbot for 24/7 multilingual customer support, device diagnostics, and troubleshooting — enabling channel partners to offer professional-grade home automation to mainstream consumers as a subscription service. Launched at CES 2024, OliverIQ was founded by Control4 co-founders Will West and Eric Smith (who previously co-founded and scaled Control4 from startup to $200M+ revenue before Snap One acquisition) with decades of home automation experience.
Q3 2025 $1.63B revenue (+25.1% YoY); 156K locations powered globally; $2.0B+ ARR (+30% YoY); $159.1B GPV FY2024 (+26% YoY); 97.36% customers from US; restaurant POS leader
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Toast was founded in 2011 in Boston with the mission of building an all-in-one technology platform purpose-built for the restaurant industry. Unlike generic point-of-sale vendors that adapted retail software for food service, Toast designed its hardware, software, and payments stack from the ground up around restaurant workflows — table management, kitchen display systems, online ordering, payroll, and inventory unified in a single cloud platform.\n\nToast's product suite covers the full restaurant operating stack: POS terminals and handheld order devices, kitchen display screens, Toast Go handhelds for tableside payments, online ordering and delivery integrations, catering management, payroll and scheduling, and xtraCHEF for back-of-house food cost analytics. The platform serves independent restaurants, multi-location chains, quick-service concepts, and enterprise groups. Its open API allows integrations with hundreds of third-party tools, and the Toast for Enterprise tier serves national brands with centralized menu and reporting management.\n\nAs of Q3 2025, Toast reported $1.63 billion in quarterly revenue, up 25.1% year-over-year, with annualized recurring revenue exceeding $2 billion and gross payment volume of $159.1 billion for fiscal 2024. The company serves more than 156,000 restaurant locations globally and trades on the NYSE under the ticker TOST. Toast's vertical focus and deep restaurant-specific functionality give it a durable competitive moat against horizontal POS vendors.
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