What Televend does

Televend is a Croatia-headquartered (Zagreb), privately held for-profit company that provides IoT solutions for vending and coffee machine management based on real-time data. Per the available firmographic snapshot, the firm was founded in 1989 and operates with 101-250 employees, indicating a long-tenured, mid-sized industrial-IoT vendor rather than an early-stage startup. Its functional focus is the operational telemetry layer of unattended retail — connecting distributed vending and coffee machines to a back-end data platform so operators can monitor stock levels, machine status, and sales performance remotely.

The core product is best characterized as a machine-telematics stack combining IoT hardware on vending and coffee machines with a real-time data monitoring and management application. The website description ("IoT solutions for vending and coffee machine management based on real-time data") implies a hardware-plus-software architecture typical of the segment, where telematic devices attached to machines report status, inventory, and transaction events that operators can act on through dashboards. The firmographic record confirms a for-profit, private operating model and a 35+ year operating history; co-founder Jerome Bouloton anchors the founding leadership. No further product, integration, SDK, API, or technology details are exposed in the current data pull.

On revenue mechanics, the firmographic record does not disclose pricing models, revenue model, contract structure, or customer segments. The primary website returned only a loading/verification page with no substantive content, so pricing transparency, sales motion, and channel mix cannot be derived from public sources. Management team, investor, partner, subsidiary, M&A, and regulatory information are all blank in the underlying data set. Evidence supports only the minimum conclusion that Televend serves unattended-retail and office coffee service operators as paying customers of its IoT management platform; the structure of those commercial relationships (one-time hardware sale vs. recurring SaaS/connectivity subscription vs. managed-service) is not established by the current input.

Name

Televend

Website

https://televend.eu

Company type

Private

Founded year

1989

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Televend is a Zagreb, Croatia-headquartered IoT solutions provider, founded in 1989, that builds real-time data management systems for vending and coffee machine operators in the unattended-retail and office coffee service segments.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Vending Management Software

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Fleet, Asset Tracking & Telematics Location Platforms (BPAMANAF)

Keywords

• IoT vending solutions
• Vending telemetry
• Remote machine monitoring
• Vending management software
• Coffee machine telemetry

Headquarters

HQ city

Zagreb

HQ country

Croatia

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Core offering

Televend provides IoT-based solutions for the remote management of vending machines and coffee machines, leveraging real-time data to monitor stock levels, machine status, and operational performance for vending operators and office coffee service providers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Televend IoT Vending Management Platform

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Nayax: Nayax (TASE:NYAX) is a leading global provider of cashless payment, telemetry, and management solutions for unattended automated retail, including vending and coffee machines. Directly comparable to Televend as a full-stack IoT and payments platform serving vending operators across geographies.
• Cantaloupe Inc. Cantaloupe is a US-based provider of seed-to-sale platforms and IoT-managed vending solutions, including the Seedlive and ePort telemetry/payment systems. Directly comparable to Televend because both deliver real-time telemetry and back-office management to vending and OCS operators.
• Parlevel Systems: Parlevel provides a vending management platform with real-time inventory, route management, and consumer-facing cashless app features. Direct peer to Televend because both are SaaS-led vending IoT platforms serving small-to-mid operators.
• Vendon: Vendon is a Europe-based IoT and cloud platform purpose-built for vending operators, offering telemetry, route optimization, and cashless payment integrations. Highly comparable to Televend given overlapping target customers (vending/coffee operators) and European regional overlap.

Broad incumbents

• Ingenico (Worldline): Worldline (which acquired Ingenico) provides payment terminals and processing used widely by vending and self-service operators across Europe. Broad incumbent comparable because it overlaps with Televend's cashless-payment-adjacent functionality, though it is far broader than vending-specific telemetry.
• Shift4 Payments: Shift4 Payments is a major payments provider that has expanded into unattended retail (vending, kiosks) via its SkyTab and POS hardware. Comparable as a broad incumbent competing for the same operator wallet through cashless payment integrations that increasingly bundle telemetry.

Emerging players

• PayRange: PayRange is a mobile cashless-payment and management solution for unattended retail (vending, laundromats, amusement). Comparable as an emerging player because it complements vending telemetry by adding consumer payments, an adjacent capability to Televend's IoT offering.
• Azkoyen: Azkoyen is a European manufacturer of vending machines and payment systems with growing IoT/connectivity offerings. Comparable as an OEM-level peer that both competes with and could partner with Televend in deploying telemetry on coffee and vending hardware.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/TelevendVending

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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