Mad Egg co-founder Conor Sheridan raises $37m Series B funding round for his AI start

Mad Egg co-founder Conor Sheridan raises $37m Series B funding round for his AI start-up Nory

The latest round brings to $63m in total funding raised for Nory, which deploys AI in restaurants

Nory founder and chief executive Conor Sheridan

Conor Sheridan, the entrepreneur who co-founded and scaled the Mad Egg chicken restaurant chain, has landed a $37m (€31.5m) Series B funding round to deploy AI in restaurants.

The raise, one of the largest in the hospitality technology sector, takes the overall funding haul of his start-up, Nory, to $63m (€43.6m) since launching it five years ago.

Mr Sheridan’s London-based company plans to use the cash to speed up the development of AI assistants across its restaurant management system as well as scaling operations in the US market.

The funding ro