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Sundayapp is a technology company.
Sundayapp delivers a specialized fintech platform enabling QR-code-based payments for restaurants and hotels. Its core product allows guests to quickly settle bills via mobile devices, modernizing the transaction process. This system aims to boost operational efficiency and provide a faster, more convenient customer experience within hospitality settings.
Co-founded in 2021 by Victor Lugger and Tigrane Seydoux of Big Mamma restaurant group, alongside Christine de Wendel from Zalando, Sundayapp originated from a crucial insight. Their collective experience highlighted the need for a payment system crafted by restaurateurs for the industry, addressing inefficiencies in traditional hospitality transactions. This background provides a deep understanding of the sector's operational needs.
Sundayapp serves hospitality businesses and their patrons, streamlining the payment journey. The company envisions transforming the restaurant experience through integrated, seamless payment technology. It aims to elevate operational standards, facilitate increased staff gratuities, and cultivate stronger customer loyalty via innovative solutions, forecasting effortless hospitality transactions.
Sundayapp has raised $145.0M across 3 funding rounds.
Sundayapp has raised $145.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
Sundayapp (styled as "sunday") is a technology company building a unified hospitality platform that streamlines payments, ordering, loyalty, and CRM for restaurants, bars, pubs, cafés, and hotels.[1][2][3][5] It serves small to midsize "local hero" restaurants initially, expanding to mid-market and enterprise brands, solving the slow, frustrating payment process—reducing 15-minute waits to under 10 seconds via QR codes—while boosting table turns, tips (up 18%), check averages (up 12%), and operational efficiency.[1][3][4][5] With explosive growth since 2021, sunday powers 3,000+ restaurants across the US, UK, Canada, Spain, and France, processing $4B in annual payments and serving 80M guests, backed by $124M raised including a recent Series B.[1][2][3]
Founded in April 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic by restaurateurs Victor Lugger and Tigrane Seydoux—creators of the Big Mamma restaurant group—and Christine de Wendel, former Zalando and ManoMano executive, sunday started as a simple QR-based payment fix for contactless dining in Big Mamma venues.[2][3][4] Lugger's team discovered rapid table turns, higher tips, and time savings for staff and guests, sparking the idea to scale this "quick fix" into a global solution for the hated 15-minute bill wait.[1][3][4] Early traction was immediate: over 70% adoption in pilot markets, leading to expansion across five countries with tremendous results, evolving from payments to a full ecosystem.[2][3]
Sunday rides the post-pandemic wave of contactless hospitality tech, capitalizing on shifted consumer expectations for speed and seamlessness amid labor shortages and rising operational costs in a $4T global restaurant industry.[1][2][3] Perfect timing: QR adoption surged during lockdowns, enabling sunday's pivot from payments to an "intelligent layer" that unifies fragmented tools (POS, delivery, CRM), addressing market forces like thin margins and guest retention challenges.[2][5][6] It influences the ecosystem by setting a new standard—restaurants request it, creating a flywheel effect—and disrupting stagnant retail payments next, empowering operators with unified data to optimize revenue and service.[2][3][5]
Sunday is accelerating from payment innovator to category-defining hospitality OS, with Series B fueling AI kiosks, modular hardware, and enterprise expansion by 2026.[1][2] Trends like AI personalization, unified tech stacks, and demand for data-driven ops will propel it, potentially dominating as guest-facing platforms consolidate amid economic pressures. Its restaurateur roots ensure sticky adoption, evolving influence from table-level efficiency to ecosystem-wide intelligence—redefining dining from transaction to memorable connection, just as it began with a pandemic QR code.[2][4][5]
Sundayapp has raised $145.0M across 3 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $21.0M Sunday - Series B in November 2025.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 13, 2025 | $21M Series B | DST Global | — | Announced |
| Sep 1, 2021 | $100M Series A | Coatue | Bennu, Crosslink Capital, Dreamers VC, General Catalyst, Kombo Ventures, Penny JAR Capital, Queensbridge Venture Partners, Remus Capital, Ribbit Capital, Twelve Below, Alex Rodriguez, WGI Group, Andre Iguodala, ELI Manning, Jared Leto, Justin Timberlake, Kelvin Beachum JR., Noah Goodhart | Announced |
| Apr 1, 2021 | $24M Seed | Coatue | Bennu, Crosslink Capital, Dreamers VC, General Catalyst, Kombo Ventures, Penny JAR Capital, Queensbridge Venture Partners, Remus Capital, Ribbit Capital, Twelve Below, Alex Rodriguez, WGI Group, Andre Iguodala, ELI Manning, Jared Leto, Justin Timberlake, Kelvin Beachum JR., Noah Goodhart, PIA D'iribarne | Announced |
Sundayapp has raised $145.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
Sundayapp's investors include DST Global, Coatue, Bennu, Crosslink Capital, Dreamers VC, General Catalyst, Kombo Ventures, Penny Jar Capital, QueensBridge Venture Partners, REMUS Capital, Ribbit Capital, Twelve Below.