Ah, apparently also someone who would rather be early than late. A good ten minutes before our appointment, Daniel Khachab is already standing in front of the Il Nuovo Primo restaurant on the Fontanepromenade in Berlin-Kreuzberg. It’s snowing. Khachab ducks under the canopy and makes a phone call. That’s probably how it is as the CEO of a unicorn. You have to use every minute.
The unicorn, whose inventor and boss is Daniel Khachab, is called Choco. Most recently, in February 2023, the Berlin startup was valued at 1.2 billion euros. Investors such as Bessemer Venture Partners, G Squared, Coatue Management, Insight Partners and Left Lane Capital have invested a total of more than 308 million euros in the startup since it was founded in 2018. Choco is particularly active in the United States, but more than 15,000 restaurateurs also use the app in Germany, France, Spain, Austria and Belgium, according to the company.