Craftable
“Can a hospitality back-office suite become the AI-driven financial operations layer between restaurants, their food/beverage vendors, and their accounting systems?”
Founded2015
HQDallas, Texas, United States (Farmers Branch, TX)
FoundersSam Zats, Max Zats, Jay Villafana
Total raised$2.5M
Latest roundAcquired by Gauge Capital
IndustryVertical SaaS / Restaurants
The story
Founded 2015 as Bevager, a bar-inventory tool built by hospitality veterans. Expanded into full restaurant and hotel back-office (purchasing, inventory, AP automation, analytics) under the Craftable brand. Operates as FNBTech, Inc. and was acquired by Gauge Capital. The 2025 push is AI-first: hospitality-trained OCR/RAG models that ingest ~6,000 invoices/day and drive an embedded AP-payments workflow to vendors.
Last 12 months
Product timeline
2015
Founded in Silicon Valley by Sam & Max Zats and Jay Villafana to solve hospitality back-office inefficiency· founding
2020
Expanded from bar-focused Bevager into full restaurant/hotel back-office suite as Craftable· pivot
2024
Acquired by Gauge Capital (private equity)· acquisition
2025
Launched Craftable AI suite (Operator AI, Invoice AI, Crafti) with hybrid RAG OCR for invoice processing· product-launch
The stack
4 layers disclosed in Craftable’s embedded-finance stack
Payments / PSP
Money movement
in the full report
Open banking
in the full report
Accounting
in the full report
Accounting gap: none
8 more providers across 3 layers, with confidence-scored evidence and source URLs, are in the Embedded Finance Index report.