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Alex Barrotti on the TechTO stage

Alex Barrotti

Founder & Vice-Chairman, TouchBistro

Restaurant technologyTorontoOn TechTO stages since 2018

Alex Barrotti is the founder of TouchBistro, the Toronto restaurant point-of-sale company he started in 2010 and built into one of Canada's larger vertical-SaaS businesses, raising roughly C$321M led by OMERS. He now serves as Founder and Vice-Chairman, with Samir Zabaneh as CEO. Earlier he founded INEX, sold to InfoSpace in 1999.

On the TechTO stage ×1

TECHTO16:06

Alex Barrotti of TouchBistro presents Why Toronto is a great city to launch a startup

TechTO · March 2018
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In their words

our our product but it took us six months to get 35 customers right it was just very very hard to convince people to use our product in the beginning and but you know we persevered we kept we kept going we kept going

TechTO, Mar 2018 · watch at 1:54 ↗

it's very difficult the market regardless where you are but it's no difficult here than anywhere else

TechTO, Mar 2018 · watch at 1:13 ↗
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Around the web ×1

Interview
Scaleup Q&A: TouchBistro CEO Alex Barrotti on growing 'shoulder to shoulder' with his employeesResearch Money
2020

Quick answers

What is Alex Barrotti known for?

Founding TouchBistro in 2010, a Toronto restaurant point-of-sale company that grew into a major Canadian vertical-SaaS business. He earlier founded and sold INEX to InfoSpace in 1999.

What is Alex Barrotti's role at TouchBistro now?

He is Founder and Vice-Chairman. Samir Zabaneh is Chairman and CEO after Barrotti stepped back from the CEO role.

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