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Founder & CEO
ResQ
KJ is the founder and CEO of ResQ, a facilities management plaform that streamlines repair and maintenance operations for the restaurant industry. ResQ was inspired by KJ's own experience as a restaurant owner for seven years, where he saw firsthand how restaurants spend 3-5% of annual sales on repairs and maintenance, taking time, critical systems, and money away from running the business. As a founding member of iGan Partners, a venture capital firm that invested in marketplace and Saas companies, KJ saw an opportunity for modern technology to solve the problem. KJ built the solution from the inside out. ResQ has since raised $46M from investors including Tiger Global, Canvas Prime, and Homebrew. The company serves leading restaurant groups including Nobu, McDonalds, Five Guys, Pret a Manager, and Jersey Mike's. We first met KJ through Homebrew co-founders Hunter Walk and Satya Patel, who had backed both ResQ and Managed by Q's seed rounds.