Our Story
Pepper, the AI-powered revenue platform for distributors, has acquired Kimelo, a vertical distribution toolset for distributors. Together, the companies will deliver greater value to customers, expand opportunities for employees, and efficiently scale in the foodservice distribution industry. This partnership ensures both organizations are well positioned to become the trusted technology partner for foodservice distributors in the AI era.
By joining forces, Pepper and Kimelo provide distributors with a more powerful, streamlined suite of tools designed to drive revenue growth, make ordering easier, and unlock distributor buying insights. By offering more opportunities for distributor growth, they faster accelerate towards their shared mission of offering distributors a single, unified solution for managing customer relationships, optimizing sales processes, and driving sustainable growth.
Our Values
Empowering Growth
By simplifying operations, we help distributors reclaim time, allowing them to focus on what truly matters—growing their business and cultivating stronger relationships with their customers.
Customer Success
Our success is measured by our customers’ success. We create tools that empower distributors to operate more efficiently and scale their businesses, building solutions based on real-world feedback to address industry challenges directly.
Collaboration & Teamwork
Success is built through collaboration—both within our team and with our customers. We work hand-in-hand with our clients to craft better, more effective solutions that drive mutual success.
Innovation
We invest in the latest technologies to drive sales growth, streamline operations, and reduce costs for our customers. By prioritizing ease of integration, we help small business owners seamlessly adopt solutions that foster lasting change and improve efficiency within their foodservice operations.
Our Executive Team
Kim Spalding
Sunny Dhillon
Sunny leads sales, account management and marketing at Kimelo. She is scaling our Go-To-Market engine from 25 to 1,000+ customers and from $1B to $15B+ GMV.
Sunny brings deep expertise in enterprise sales and the food and beverage industry. Most recently she was the VP of sales at Flexport, prior to that she spent 8 years leading client sales at PepsiCo.
Michal Łapkowski
Michal leads the product and technical support teams at Kimelo. He architected the vertical SaaS strategy and is driving ERP integrations and feature development.
Prior to Kimelo, he built SMB advertising experience and marketplace programming at Google. He also led SaaS solutions at DocuSign, leading their core eSign consumer experience.