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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CEO.\n\nJoel Montaniel is co-founder and CEO of SevenRooms, a guest management and marketing platform for restaurants and hospitality operators. He started it with Allison Page and Kinesh Patel after the three saw in 2011 that the systems operators used were missing guest data. The company now serves thousands of operators worldwide.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-montaniel-1a244316\n\n## What Joel builds\n\n- [SevenRooms](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sevenrooms.md), graded F, 17.7/100, in Restaurant \u0026 local bookings. SevenRooms is a reservation, table management, guest CRM and marketing platform for restaurants, hotels and other hospitality venues, owned by DoorDash. It runs venues' booking widgets and connects to 100+ booking, POS and voice AI partners. Co-founder and CEO, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Allison Page](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/allison-page/), Co-founder and CPO\n- [Kinesh Patel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/kinesh-patel/), Co-founder and CTO; indexed profile says Head of Engineering\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Comcast Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/comcast-ventures/)\n- [BoxGroup](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/boxgroup/)\n- [David Nichols](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/david-nichols/)\n- [Thomas Keller](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/thomas-keller/)\n- [Amazon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/amazon/)\n- [PSG](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/psg/)\n- [Enlightened Hospitality Investments](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/enlightened-hospitality-investments/)\n- [Danny Meyer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/danny-meyer/)\n- [José Andrés](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jose-andres/)\n- [Wolfgang Puck](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/wolfgang-puck/)\n- [Michael Mina](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/michael-mina/)\n- [Jeremy King](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jeremy-king/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Joel Montaniel?\n\nJoel Montaniel is co-founder and CEO of SevenRooms, a guest management and marketing platform for restaurants and hospitality operators. He started it with Allison Page and Kinesh Patel after the three saw in 2011 that the systems operators used were missing guest data. The company now serves thousands of operators worldwide.\n\n### What does SevenRooms (a DoorDash company) make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists SevenRooms from SevenRooms (a DoorDash company). SevenRooms is a reservation, table management, guest CRM and marketing platform for restaurants, hotels and other hospitality venues, owned by DoorDash. It runs venues' booking widgets and connects to 100+ booking, POS and voice AI partners.\n\n### Who has invested in SevenRooms (a DoorDash company)?\n\nThe sources our research read name Comcast Ventures, BoxGroup, David Nichols, Thomas Keller, Amazon, PSG, Enlightened Hospitality Investments, Danny Meyer, José Andrés, Wolfgang Puck, Michael Mina and Jeremy King.\n\n### How are Joel's tools graded?\n\nSevenRooms is graded F, 17.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://sevenrooms.com/team/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-montaniel-1a244316\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/allison-page-09a69a18\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/kinesh\n- https://sevenrooms.com/\n- https://sevenrooms.com/lets-talk/\n- https://sevenrooms.com/our-story/\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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