Arc develops voice AI systems aimed at automating drive-thru ordering for quick-service restaurants. The company trains its models on real drive-thru conversations and customizes them for brand-specific menus, scripts, accents, and order patterns. Arc provides operators tools to test different model variants and measure speed, accuracy, and ticket size in real time. It reports deployments with two major fast-food chains, each with hundreds of locations, and claims its system completes orders over 95% of the time while raising average order value by 4%–5%. Arc was founded by Mike MacLennan and Ali Hussain, who previously worked at Square and Cash App. The startup recently closed a $10.76 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, giving it early-stage capital to scale deployments and testing.

Total raised

$11M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

May 2026