Restaurent

What Restaurent does

RestauRent Inc. is a Providence, Rhode Island-based private company founded in 2023 that operates a two-sided online marketplace for booking private restaurant and event spaces. The platform connects event planners and hosts seeking spaces for occasions such as birthdays, corporate events, baby showers, and celebrations with restaurants and venues looking to monetize underutilized dining rooms. The core product consists of a venue discovery interface allowing users to browse and filter spaces by region, event type, or venue type, paired with a host-side listing portal (List Your Venue / Become a Host) that enables restaurants to onboard their private event spaces onto the platform. The company explicitly positions itself against wedding-dominant competitors, focusing on the broader non-wedding private dining segment.

The platform currently lists 1,250 venues across 28 U.S. cities and the company has stated plans for national expansion. The technology stack is built around a self-serve web platform (no native mobile app and no public API), with content marketing and SEO as primary demand generation channels. Distribution to date relies on organic search, blog content covering specific markets (Phoenix, San Diego) and event planning topics, and direct venue-host recruitment. There are no disclosed integrations, AI/ML features, or SDK offerings.

RestauRent's revenue model is a transaction or booking commission on bookings facilitated between venues and event planners, though specific take rates, pricing tiers, and fee structures are not publicly disclosed. The company has raised approximately $6.3 million across three funding rounds between March 2023 and October 2025, with PS27 Ventures leading the largest round ($3.3M in December 2024) and EMERGING Fund leading the most recent $1.5M round in October 2025. Headcount is reported in the 11-50 range. The company is led by co-founders Bradley Adams, Nick Cianfaglione, and Will Tondo, with Aaron Samuels and James Stallings serving as directors. No named enterprise customers, partnerships, or third-party investor details beyond the funding syndicates are disclosed in available source material.

Name

Restaurent

Legal name

RestauRent Inc.

Website

https://restaurent.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

RestauRent is a U.S. two-sided online marketplace founded in 2023 that connects event planners with restaurants and venues offering private dining and event spaces, currently covering 1,250 venues across 28 cities and monetizing via transaction commissions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Event Venue Marketplace

NAICS

Restaurants and Other Eating Places (72251)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYHSACALAJ

Venue & Facility Reservations (Private Rooms, Event Spaces)

Home & Personal Services/Event & Personal Concierge Services/Ticketing & Reservations Services

SECONDARYTHAFACAK

Special Occasion & Destination Restaurants

Travel & Hospitality/Foodservice & Beverage (Restaurants, Cafes, Bars)/Full-Service Restaurants (Casual & Fine Dining)

Keywords

• Private event booking
• Venue marketplace platform
• Restaurant event spaces
• Private dining marketplace
• Event venue rental

Headquarters

HQ city

Providence

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Transaction/Booking Commission: Platform likely takes a commission or booking fee on transactions between venues and event planners seeking private dining spaces

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

RestauRent operates a two-sided online marketplace that enables restaurants and dining venues to list their private event spaces for rental and allows event planners and hosts to discover, browse, and book those venues for private dining and celebrations. The platform covers 1,250 venues across 28 U.S. cities and supports event types including corporate events, birthdays, baby showers, and other non-wedding celebrations, addressing a gap left by wedding-focused platforms.

Product overview

RestauRent is a unified booking platform for private dining and event spaces, consisting of the core RestauRent Platform that enables users to discover and book restaurant venues for private events. The platform includes Browse Venues functionality for searching spaces by region, event type, or venue type, and a List Your Venue (Become a Host) feature that allows restaurants to list their event spaces. Currently covering 1,250 venues across 28 cities, the platform serves both event bookers seeking private dining options and restaurant venues looking to monetize their event spaces.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• RestauRent Online Marketplace Platform A two-sided online marketplace that enables restaurants and dining venues to list their private event spaces for rental and allows event planners and hosts to discover, browse, and book those venues for private dining and celebrations. The platform covers 1,250 venues across 28 U.S. cities and supports event types including corporate events, birthday parties, baby showers, and other non-wedding celebrations.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Peerspace: Peerspace is the leading online marketplace for booking hourly event spaces, including private dining rooms, lofts, and restaurants. It is the most direct competitor to RestauRent, operating the same two-sided model of venue hosts and event bookers, and has raised significantly more capital to expand supply and demand nationally.

Broad incumbents

• Eventbrite: Eventbrite is a large-scale ticketing and event management platform used by organizers across consumer and corporate event categories. While not focused exclusively on private venue rentals, it overlaps with RestauRent on the demand side as event planners increasingly use Eventbrite for ticketed private events at third-party venues.
• The Knot Worldwide: The Knot Worldwide operates The Knot and WeddingWire marketplaces for wedding vendors and venues. It dominates private event venue discovery for weddings, the category RestauRent explicitly positions against as under-served. As The Knot expands into non-wedding event categories, it represents a credible incumbent threat.
• OpenTable: OpenTable is the largest online restaurant reservation platform, owned by Booking Holdings. It already integrates with thousands of restaurants and has begun experimenting with private dining and event bookings, making it a natural adjacent incumbent with established restaurant relationships that RestauRent must compete against for supply.

Emerging players

• Tock: Tock is a restaurant reservation and ticketed experiences platform acquired by American Express, with strong penetration among chef-driven restaurants. It overlaps with RestauRent in private dining reservations and special-occasion bookings, particularly at upscale venues, and represents a closer niche competitor.
• Resy: Resy is a restaurant reservation platform owned by American Express that focuses on curated, in-demand restaurants. While primarily a dine-in reservation product, it has expanded into private events and exclusive access, overlapping with RestauRent's restaurant-centric venue marketplace at the high end of the market.
• Cozymeal: Cozymeal operates an online marketplace connecting consumers with private chefs, cooking classes, and food experiences, often hosted at third-party venues. It addresses a portion of the same private dining demand RestauRent targets and represents an emerging competitor in the private culinary experience category.

Regional players

• Tagvenue: Tagvenue is an event venue marketplace originally founded in the UK and Australia that has expanded into the US market. It offers a comparable two-sided venue booking model, though its supply density and brand recognition in the US are still developing relative to Peerspace.
• VenueScanner: VenueScanner is a UK-based online marketplace for meeting, conference, and event venue hire. It is comparable in marketplace structure to RestauRent but operates in a different geography and a more corporate/meeting segment rather than private dining.

Others

• Tripleseat: Tripleseat is a SaaS event management platform used by restaurants and hotels to manage private events, leads, and bookings. It serves the same supply side of RestauRent's marketplace (restaurants hosting private events) but as a B2B software vendor rather than a consumer marketplace.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/restaurentapp

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors5 records

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M&A

Investments

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