From Restaurant Rescue To Making Big Tech Face AI Bias: 30 Under 30 In Enterprise Tech

From Restaurant Rescue To Making Big Tech Face AI Bias: 30 Under 30 In Enterprise Tech

These startups and upstarts are making it their mission to take technology to the next level.

From “immigrant busboy” to CMO of Bareburger, a chain restaurant with 50 locations, is how Nabeel Alamgir short-hands his work experience in the first 25 years of his life. The longer version is much more interesting.

Born in Bangladesh, Alamgir was 15 and didn't speak English when he immigrated with his family from Kuwait to the Queens borough of New York City. Martin Scorsese mob movies taught him a version of the local language and he helped support his family by busing tables at the first Bareburger location, right next to his high school.

A decade later, Alamgir was in the C-suite of a company with more than $100 million in sales and franchises in three countries and the first chain to carry the meatless Beyond Burger. Then, as Alamgir tells it, “I threw all of that away last year to start Lunchbox.io,” an SaaS enterprise food-tech company.

Alamgir, 29, is one among the bright, young innovators on the 2021 Enterprise Tech 30 Under 30 list using their talent to effect positive change. “I wanted to help save the restaurant industry by competing against Grubhub,