About

Driving Tech Ventures with Our Food Retail Expertise

Transforming foodservice

Empowering tech entrepreneurs to transform foodservice. We bring deep expertise across the entire food ecosystem—from purchasing to customer experience. Our vision: sustainable, transparent, convenient and personalized food experiences.

Our Approach

We bridge corporate foodservice with the startup ecosystem, implementing innovative solutions into our $28B share of the $300B industry. Our pilot program gives founders direct access to expertise, technologies, customers, and investment—accelerating growth through our ecosystem.

What we
look for

The Builders.
The Problem Solvers.

The Determined.

Next-Gen Food Retail

Transforming how consumers discover, purchase, and experience food products.

Foodservice operations

Boosting growth, profitability, and efficiency for foodservice operations.

Climate and Sustainability

Reducing our environmental impact: waste, energy consumption, and emissions.

Group Purchasing Operations

Connecting GPOs, suppliers, restaurants, and distributors to run seamlessly.

Enterprise Operations

Streamlining corporate workflows, data management, and decision-making

What we offer

Compass Access
Direct industry connections.
Expertise
Decades in food & hospitality.
Pilots
Test with Compass customers.
Investment
Strategic capital (Series A and later).
Founder Support
Navigate Compass with ease.

Our team

Amodini Chhabra

Managing Director

Amodini leads Compass Digital Ventures (CDV), the Corporate Venture Capital arm of Compass Group. With a background in venture strategy, Amo has been a part of CDV since its genesis and helped raise its first fund. She has been instrumental in investing in and scaling CDV’s portfolio companies, in particular Shelf Engine and Kitchen Robotics. Before CDV, Amo worked at BCG Digital Ventures where she builtnew startup ventures for Fortune 500 companies. Amodini also serves on the committee for Canadian Women in VC, an organization dedicated to retaining and promoting women in venture capital.

Our portfolio