Cayena operates a B2B marketplace and procurement technology platform for restaurants, bars, hotels and dark kitchens, connecting them with suppliers and adding data-driven intelligence to the purchasing process. The company offers tools to streamline food procurement and improve supply-chain decisions for hospitality businesses. Co-founded by Gabriel Sendacz and Raymond Shayo, Cayena is based in São Paulo, Brazil. The business is positioned to scale its operations across the foodservice sector using its marketplace and analytics capabilities. The company intends to use its recent funding to expand operations and to accelerate product and development efforts. No operating metrics or revenue figures were disclosed in the article. Cayena operates a real-time online B2B marketplace that connects restaurants, bars, bakeries, hotels and dark kitchens with dozens of pre-qualified wholesale food suppliers, offering next-day delivery and efficient allocation. The platform hosts an extensive product catalog and provides complementary services, including a recently launched Buy Now Pay Later solution, Cayena Pay, to meet customers' working capital needs. Cayena addresses a largely analog procurement market in Latin America — a wholesale food market the article estimates at over US$100 billion — where many small independent operators still order by phone or WhatsApp. The company reached R$100 million in sales on its platform, a milestone that helped trigger the new Series A; it had also recently announced a prior R$20 million investment led by Picus Capital. Planned uses of the new capital include expanding presence across Brazil, scaling the BNPL offering, investing in user experience and product simplification, and substantially increasing hiring. The startup plans to double its roughly 60-person team by the end of the year with a focus on technology and data roles, and was founded by Gabriel Sendacz, Pedro Carvalho and Raymond Shayo.

Total raised

$75M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Sep 2024