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Rajat Suri
Rajat Suri is a technology entrepreneur who is best recognized as being the founder and CEO of E la Carte,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Start-Ups Mixing Food and Technology Vie for an Edge )〕 makers of a guest-facing restaurant tablet called Presto.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lightbank Leads $4 Million Investment in Restaurant Tableside Tablet Creator E la Carte )〕 The Presto Tablet allows guests to order food, play games and pay from their table.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Average Is Over )〕
==Career==
Rajat Suri, a Toronto native, graduated from the University of Waterloo〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rajat Suri )〕 with degrees in economics and chemical engineering. Suri then went on to pursue his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Suri got the idea to start E la Carte while he and his friends struggled to split the bill at a restaurant.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Restaurant tablet startup E la Carte orders up $13.5M )〕 He discovered that the payment and ordering process could be simplified while giving guests an opportunity to control their dining experience. Suri dropped out of MIT to become a waiter at a local restaurant called The Asgard Irish Pub and Restaurant 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Menus for the postmodern milieu )〕 to learn about the restaurant industry. E la Carte was founded in 2008 and is currently located in the Silicon Valley. The company is backed by Y-Combinator and raised initial funding from angel investors including SV Angel, Dave McClure, Joshua Schachter, Roy Rodenstein, and Skip Sack. In 2011, the company raised $4 million from Lightbank.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=E la Carte Raises $4M From Groupon Co-Founders To Bring Tablets To Restaurant Tables )〕 E la Carte received a round of Series B funding of $13.5 million from Intel Capital in 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=E la Carte Raises $13.5 Million to Bring Tablets to More Restaurants )〕 Applebee’s, one of the nation’s largest casual dining chain restaurants,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Applebee's to introduce tablets to its tables )〕 announced that it will deploy 100,000 of E la Carte’s Presto tablets in more than 1,800 locations throughout the United States in 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Applebee's to serve tablets at every table )〕
Suri also co-founded Zimride in 2007 as a Facebook-based ride sharing application.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Service makes students easy riders )〕 In 2013, Zimride changed its name to Lyft.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Uber Competitor Lyft Eyes $150 Million in New Funding )〕 By 2013, Lyft has received approximately $83 million in venture capital funding including investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Floodgate, Founders Fund, K9 Ventures, and Mayfield Fund. In 2014, Lyft announced that was looking to raise $150 million in Series D funding.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lyft Raises $60 Million As Ride Sharing Competition Heats Up )〕 Lyft now operates in more than 20 U.S. cities.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cities )〕
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