It all began in 2015. Our three co-founders, Venki Ayalur, Vipin Jain, and Vijay Dodd wanted to have fresh, healthy and personalized food available for anyone, anytime, anywhere. As seasoned techies and entrepreneurs, they pondered how technology could help.  

Creating food that is tailored to an individual’s specific needs is difficult and time-consuming when prepared in a traditional kitchen.  But, when leveraging technology – specifically robotics, machine learning and AI – they thought there could be a way to automate the process, thereby creating efficiencies and enabling accessibility more broadly and at a reasonable price.  

After much trial and error, the Blendid concept was finally created. Finally, in March 2019 the first Blendid commercial kiosk was launched in market. 

While we started with a robotic smoothie kiosk, our vision is to serve a complete array of healthy, affordable foods using robotics. Our goal is to deploy these kiosks in all types of food service environments. Our advanced food operating system will expand and adapt to other formats and cuisines including soups, bowls, and more.