What Keatz does

Keatz is a Berlin-based private company founded in 2015 that operates a network of delivery-only restaurants serving contemporary dishes. The model is a virtual / ghost kitchen network: rather than operating dine-in locations, Keatz centralizes kitchen production and distributes finished meals via third-party delivery platforms, allowing multiple virtual restaurant brands to share underlying kitchen infrastructure. The company is headquartered in Berlin, Germany, and operates with a headcount of 51–100 employees, suggesting a mid-scale operation running multiple brands across its delivery footprint.

Keatz has financed growth primarily through venture capital, raising approximately $24.7M of disclosed equity across at least seven rounds between 2016 and 2023. Early backers include FoodLabs and Project A Ventures, with later participation from K Fund, JME Ventures, RTP Global, U-Start, and #adm ventures; a 2023 round from Polymath Digital extended its runway after a multi-year gap since the 2019 round. Co-founder Dimitrios Ploutarchos remains with the company, and a Head of Digital role (Abhishek Gupta) indicates internal ownership of digital channels and brand operations.

The business model is consumer-facing food delivery revenue: meals are sold to end users through delivery platforms and direct digital channels, with revenue scaled by order volume, average ticket, and the number of virtual brands operating from shared kitchen facilities. No proprietary software, AI/ML systems, patents, or formal pricing data are disclosed in the supplied information, so revenue mechanics are inferred from the category standard: per-order delivery revenue net of platform commissions and ingredient/operating costs. No enterprise customers, distribution partnerships, or geographic expansion beyond Berlin are documented in the input data.

Name

Keatz

Website

https://keatz.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Keatz is a Berlin-based, private delivery-only restaurant network founded in 2015 that operates multiple contemporary virtual restaurant brands from shared ghost kitchens, serving end consumers via third-party delivery platforms.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Ghost Kitchen / Cloud Kitchen Services

NAICS

Limited-Service Restaurants (722513), Restaurants and Other Eating Places (72251), Restaurants and Other Eating Places (7225)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810), Retail-Eating Places (5812)

akta.pro primary industry

Delivery-Only Restaurant Brands (No Dine-In) (THAFAJAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Restaurant Meal & Prepared Food Delivery (CRAFAFAB), Restaurant Meal Delivery Platforms (TLAAAHAA)

Keywords

• Ghost kitchen operations
• Food delivery service
• Virtual restaurant network
• Delivery-only restaurants
• Cloud kitchen brands

Headquarters

HQ city

Berlin

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Core offering

Keatz operates a network of delivery-only restaurants (ghost kitchens) that prepare contemporary dishes for delivery to customers. The company runs a multi-brand virtual restaurant network based in Berlin, Germany, focusing on prepared food fulfillment rather than dine-in service.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Keatz Restaurant Network A network of delivery-only restaurants preparing contemporary dishes for delivery to consumers in Berlin, Germany. The company operates as a virtual restaurant brand focused on fulfilling online food orders.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• CloudKitchens: Travis Kalanick-backed operator of shared ghost-kitchen facilities housing multiple delivery-only virtual restaurant brands. Closely comparable to Keatz's network-of-virtual-brands, delivery-only model at much larger scale.
• Kitchen United: US-based ghost-kitchen operator that provides shared kitchen infrastructure for multiple delivery-focused virtual restaurant brands — a direct operational analogue to Keatz's centralized, multi-brand kitchen network.
• Rebel Foods: India-headquartered operator of a large portfolio of delivery-only virtual restaurant brands (Faasos, Behrouz, Ovenstory). Comparable to Keatz in running contemporary cuisine across many branded dark kitchens for delivery.
• Taster: European (Paris/London) operator of multiple delivery-only restaurant brands. Closely comparable to Keatz in geography, delivery-only virtual-brand strategy, and contemporary menu positioning.
• Dexter: European ghost-kitchen operator that builds and scales delivery-only restaurant brands across multiple cities — directly comparable business model to Keatz's network of contemporary delivery concepts.
• Karma Kitchen: Ghost-kitchen operator offering shared dark-kitchen infrastructure to multiple virtual restaurant brands for delivery, comparable to Keatz's centralized, multi-brand delivery model.
• Franklin Junction: Operates 'host kitchens' and a network of virtual restaurant brands for delivery, broadly comparable to Keatz in creating multiple delivery-only brands run out of shared infrastructure.

Regional players

• Foodstars: European ghost-kitchen operator with dark-kitchen locations across multiple EU cities, comparable in offering shared kitchen capacity to delivery-only restaurant brands similar to Keatz.

Broad incumbents

• Delivery Hero: Global food-delivery marketplace that controls demand-side access for Keatz's brands and operates its own dark-kitchen and private-label concepts (e.g., 'Dmarts') that directly compete with virtual-brand operators.
• Just Eat Takeaway: European food-delivery incumbent (owner of Lieferando in Germany) that influences Keatz's customer access and commission economics and has been expanding proprietary ghost-kitchen initiatives.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds7 records

Investors8 records

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M&A

Investments

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