Foodyt

What Foodyt does

Foodyt is a Spain-based, private SaaS company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Sevilla that builds point-of-sale (TPV) software for the hospitality industry. According to its firmographic data, Foodyt "digitizes the relationship between the restaurant and its customer," and its primary use case is TPV/POS software for bars and restaurants, with a horizontal segmentation approach targeting the SMB hospitality long tail. The company also operates under the doing-business-as name "Tipsi," with a Spanish-language web presence (tipsitpv.com) positioning itself as "TPV Hostelería y Software TPV para Bares y Restaurantes," indicating a market-narrowing brand posture toward Spanish bars and restaurants.

The underlying technology is not publicly disclosed in the available source material — there are no documented proprietary features, APIs, SDKs, integrations, certifications, or technical architecture details — so the product surface is best characterized as a hospitality-focused POS application. The company is led by founder & CEO Pedro Piñar Filpo, with co-founders Ricardo del Pozo (CSO) and Ignacio Piñar Filpo (CMO). Reported headcount is 1–10 employees, consistent with an early-stage startup.

Foodyt's only disclosed capital event is a September 2019 seed round of approximately $237,473 from Lanzadera Accelerator. No revenue model, pricing structure, go-to-market channel details, named customers, awards, partnerships, patents, regulatory actions, or M&A activity is documented in the supplied data. Accordingly, the business model's revenue mechanics, customer acquisition motion, and pricing tiers cannot be characterized from evidence — only the inferred SaaS / subscription shape typical of vertical SMB POS software in the Spanish hospitality market.

Name

Foodyt

Website

https://foodyt.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Foodyt is a Sevilla, Spain-based SaaS company founded in 2018 that builds point-of-sale (TPV) software for bars and restaurants in the hospitality industry, operating under the brand Tipsi and led by founder & CEO Pedro Piñar Filpo.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Restaurant Point of Sale Software

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAMAIAK

Restaurant Reservations & Dining Booking Platforms

Business & Public Services/Web, Mobile & Digital Platforms/Travel, Mobility & Booking Platforms

Keywords

• Restaurant point of sale
• Hospitality POS software
• TPV for restaurants
• Restaurant management software
• Bar and restaurant systems

Headquarters

HQ city

Madrid

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Core offering

Foodyt digitizes the relationship between restaurants and their customers by providing TPV (Point of Sale) software for the hospitality sector. Its product, Tipsi, is a hospitality-focused POS system designed for bars and restaurants to manage their point-of-sale operations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Tipsi — TPV Hostelería (Hospitality POS Software) Tipsi is a TPV (Terminal Punto de Venta) software platform built for hospitality businesses — specifically bars and restaurants — to manage their point-of-sale operations.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Toast: Toast is the largest US-listed restaurant-only POS and commerce platform, with a deeply featured TPV plus payments, online ordering, payroll and loyalty modules. It serves the same bars/restaurants end market as Foodyt/Tipsi but at vastly greater scale and capital intensity.
• Square (Block): Square (part of Block) offers a widely-adopted payments-first POS with a dedicated Square for Restaurants product, plus online ordering and invoicing. Its horizontal SMB POS plus vertical restaurant stack makes it a broad incumbent competitor for any independent hospitality operator.
• TheFork: TheFork (owned by Tripadvisor) is Europe's leading restaurant reservations and dining platform, with management, marketing and POS-adjacent tools for restaurants. It competes for the same restaurant IT budget in Spain and across Europe as Foodyt/Tipsi at a much broader scale.

Direct peers

• TouchBistro: TouchBistro is an iPad-first POS built specifically for restaurants, bars and hospitality venues. Its feature set (order management, payments, integrations) maps directly to the niche Foodyt/Tipsi serves, making it one of the most comparable POS-native peers in the market.
• Tiller Systems: Tiller Systems is a Paris-based restaurant POS and commerce platform for hospitality operators (chains and independents), serving European bars and restaurants with TPV-equivalent functionality. It is the closest European comparable in product, target customer, and language localization needs.
• Lightspeed Restaurant: Lightspeed's Restaurant segment offers POS and commerce tools for hospitality operators, including bars and full-service restaurants. It is a direct product/category competitor with international reach, comparable in serving the same underlying TPV use case that Foodyt/Tipsi targets.

Regional players

• CoverManager: CoverManager is a Spain-based restaurant management platform covering reservations, CRM, marketing and operations for bars and restaurants. It is a strong regional comparable for Foodyt/Tipsi given shared geography, customer base and the overlap between customer-engagement and TPV-level functionality.
• Orderbird: Orderbird is a German-headquartered iPad POS provider targeting bars, cafés and restaurants across the DACH region. It competes in the same European SMB hospitality POS category and is comparable on customer profile, pricing model and product scope.
• PaynoPain: PaynoPain is a Spanish payment gateway and TPV provider offering local payment processing and POS-adjacent services. It competes in the same Spanish payments-and-POS infrastructure layer that Foodyt/Tipsi depends on and serves an overlapping bar/restaurant customer base.

Emerging players

• Zenchef: Zenchef is a European restaurant CRM and marketing platform that digitizes the restaurant-customer relationship through reservations, online ordering and loyalty. The mission overlap ("digitize restaurant-customer relationship") makes it a directly adjacent emerging peer in the same category.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/foodyt

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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