Marble (YC S26) — The autonomous back-of-house for restaurants
Marble is the first AI-native operating system for the restaurant 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.
Marble is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2026 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: The autonomous back-of-house for restaurants. The founders listed are Aakar Khanna (Founder/CEO), Arjun Chaliha (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, June 21, 2026).
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What it does The autonomous back-of-house for restaurants (source)
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Marble is the first AI-native operating system for the restaurant 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.
Marble 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.
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The autonomous back of house for restaurants. One platform to manage your entire operation, more profitably.
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Aakar Khanna
Founder/CEO
Co-Founder and CEO at Marble (YC S26). Previously Head of Strategy & Operations at Kouper (healthcare applied AI) and an early BizOps hire at AtoB (YC S20). Started career as an Investment Banking Analyst at Goldman Sachs covering Restaurants and Food & Beverage. Grew up managing family's multi-unit restaurant business. Undergrad from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business with a minor in Computer Science.
Arjun Chaliha
Founder/CTO
Co-Founder & CTO at Marble (YC S26). Previously Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg, leading AI/ML initiatives for Electronic Trading. CFA Charterholder. BSE Computer Science from University of Michigan. While in college, founded a peer-to-peer tutoring marketplace, backed by University of Michigan.
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