A proven system, a protected moat, a recurring model.
The whole argument on one screen. Klynkz is deployed and measured, not theoretical, and the part that carries the valuation is the part a competitor cannot copy: four issued US patents and a transaction data set no one else can rebuild. Read this, then read the moat page.
Hardware, system, physics, expansion.
No caps, no scales, no extra labor.
Recover ~$33K, pay ~$4.8K per venue.
At $52.5M pre-money.
The only real-time free-pour inventory system
Klynkz is a patented, hardware-enabled Inventory-as-a-Service platform for hospitality. A sensing mat sits under the bottles and reads each one in under three seconds using hybrid RFID and optical detection. The data flows to a cloud AI that tracks every pour, detects shrinkage as it happens, predicts reorders, and reconciles against the point of sale.
It could not exist before. Manual counts are slow, subjective, and batch. Flow meters alter service and miss free-pour. Smart scales need a person to place every bottle. Klynkz is the only system that is fast, accurate, objective, automatic, real-time, and free-pour at once. Bottles return to the mat and inventory updates itself. Zero extra labor is the model, not a feature.
Deployed and measured, not a pilot deck
The technology has run in live venue environments, not just a lab. The first-year results below are from a Gaming and Sports Entertainment Group deployment. They are single-deployment operating actuals, scoped as such, not yet validated across the independent-bar segment the raise is built to reach.
| Metric | First-year result | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Time to inventory | down 90% | Hours to roughly 10 minutes [pending source verification] |
| Shrinkage | down 35% | Gaming first-year actual [pending source verification] |
| Excess backstock | down 55% | Capital freed from shelf [pending source verification] |
| Full payback | under 90 days | Hardware plus Year-1 subscription recouped |
The system also ran across the 2022 and 2023 MLB seasons [pending source verification], evidence it holds outside a single venue type. The honest framing: this is proof of the technology and the economics. Broadening proof across venue types is exactly what the raise funds.
Four patents and a data set no one can rebuild
Everything else about this business, the ROI, the recurring revenue, the market, is attractive but copyable in principle. The patents and the data set are not. That is why the moat leads the capital story.
The force-sensing resistor array and RFID antenna. No competing mat can be built.
Mat to cloud to AI to app. Any similar end-to-end product infringes.
The concentrating layer that makes RFID work near liquids. No known workaround.
Solids, liquids, chemicals, and parts. Extends the IP into adjacent verticals.
A mat sells once, the intelligence pays monthly
Figures recompute by scenario. Aggressive is the model as built; base and conservative are venue-adoption haircuts. All figures are projected targets.
Recurring base is the asset.
Roughly $1,000 one-time installation fee for the mat, roughly $399 per month for the cloud, plus per-bottle RFID tags. On a venue doing $200K in annual liquor revenue, Klynkz recovers around $33,000 a year across labor, shrinkage, and backstock, against a subscription a fraction of that size. The recurring base, the majority of projected revenue, is what an acquirer pays a premium for, and the model reaches breakeven by Year 3 in the base case with $67.7M of cumulative five-year revenue at the current scenario.
$6M at $52.5M pre-money
Klynkz is raising $6M at a $52.5M pre-money valuation for 10.26 percent [pending source verification: ownership math against final cap table]. The price is for the protected position, the four issued patents and the data moat, not the current run rate. This round funds distribution, not invention, which is the lower-risk place to deploy capital: the system is proven and the IP is issued.
| Raise | $6M equity |
| Pre-money valuation | $52.5M |
| Investor stake | 10.26% [pending source verification] |
| Use of funds | Go-to-market, product, hardware scale, runway to breakeven |
| Securities pathway | Being finalized with counsel (Reg D 506(b), 506(c), or Reg A+) |
All projections are forward-looking and carry the risk language compliance requires. The validated model lives behind the PIN gate on the financials page. Figures reconcile to the validated five-year model, not the pitch deck.