Owner, which makes AI agents that manage restaurants' websites, marketing, and other functions, raised a $240M Series D at a $2.3B valuation (Joe Guszkowski/Restaurant Business)

Owner’s $240M Series D at a $2.3B valuation underscores strong investor confidence in AI agents moving from experiments into real operational tooling for small and midmarket businesses. For restaurants, this could meaningfully reduce the cost and complexity of managing websites, marketing, and other customer-facing functions, while shifting strategic pressure onto IT organizations to assess AI vendors, integration points, data governance, and oversight of automated workflows.