ZIKI
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
ZIKI (The Food Company) is an Austin, Texas-based fast-casual restaurant startup founded in 2018 by Nick Nanakos. It manufactures its own modular restaurant pods in a Texas factory and operates a growing network of seed-oil-free, soy-free Greek-Mexican fusion restaurants, expanding from 10 locations in its first seven months. The company raised a $6.7 million seed round led by Gigafund in August 2022. It remains active.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- ZIKI established
Nick Nanakos established ZIKI in Austin, Texas, building modular, vertically-integrated fast-casual restaurants.
- Seed round
ZIKI raised a $6.7 million seed round led by Gigafund, the investor group that backed SpaceX, to expand beyond Austin.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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