Kutlerri.ai raises $4 Mn to run AI agents that sell catering and cut costs for US restaurants, built from Bhubaneswar

Kutlerri.ai, an AI agent startup whose product and engineering team sits in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, has raised $4 million from Houston based Narahari Investments, according to YourStory, Food On Demand, QSR Magazine and Fast Casual. The company is headquartered in Stafford, Texas, in the Houston area, and sells only to restaurants in the United States for now. US trade outlets first reported the round at the end of September, and YourStory covered it for Indian readers on 12 November.

The company was founded in December 2025 by Kiran Rana, the chief executive, and Payal Tripathy, the chief operating officer, who both previously worked at the Indian receivables software company HighRadius, YourStory reports. Ankit Narain and Rishabh Srivastav are part of the core founding team. Kutlerri.ai builds one AI agent per restaurant problem and runs it as a managed service. Rather than charging a monthly licence, it takes a percentage of the additional revenue an agent brings in or the cost it takes out, and the restaurant pays nothing if an agent delivers no measurable result.

Its first product on general release is a Catering Sales Agent. It answers catering enquiries by phone, email, text, chat and web forms, sends proposals and closes orders, and also looks for catering customers by mapping businesses within roughly 30 miles of a restaurant and contacting them over several rounds of messages. Restaurant operators approve the decisions and keep the customer relationship. Three more agents are in beta, covering sales on third party delivery apps, the advertising spend behind those sales, and food and labour costs, while agents for a restaurant's own online ordering and for daily prep and waste control are still being built.

The company says the catering agent was developed over 10 months with RASA, a five location fast casual group in the Washington, DC area, which paid for the service from the start. Kutlerri.ai says the agent booked $450,000 in new catering revenue for RASA in that period, more than 10 times what the group paid, without new hires. That figure is the company's own claim. Food On Demand notes that Trisha Narahari, managing director of the lead investor Narahari Investments, also sits on RASA's board.

The funding is meant to scale the catering agent, bring the three beta agents to market and build a mobile first self service app for smaller operators who would rather run the agents themselves. Kutlerri.ai has more than 10 signed customers, YourStory reports, and the company says the catering agent is now live with operators in most major US cities.