Palona AI’s core product is a multimodal "capture, understand, act, learn" operating layer powered by a proprietary Interaction Model for Physical AI that combines vision AI and object detection to interpret spatial, temporal and semantic context in physical locations. It offers product suites including Revenue Expansion, Revenue Intelligence and Operations Intelligence, each with specialized autonomous agents such as ordering and catering agents and integrations into point-of-sale systems. The Operations Intelligence tool links to security cameras to monitor food safety, cleanliness and real-time incidents and sends alerts to managers. Palona has been deployed at the Cali BBQ restaurant chain, where it reported increasing Father’s Day revenue by more than 20% year-over-year and becoming the restaurant’s most valuable sales channel by capturing missed orders and catering opportunities. The company launched out of stealth in January 2025 after a $10M seed and subsequently raised a $20M Series A. Palona is initially focusing on restaurants as a proof-of-concept with plans to extend to other frontline physical businesses.

Total raised

$30M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Aug 2026