Founder Profile
Jonathan Grimm
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Jonathan Grimm?
Jonathan Grimm is a founder of Toast, Inc., which was founded in 2011 with Aman Narang and Steve Fredette.
- Company founded
- Toast, Inc.
- Founded
- 2011
- Co-founders
- Aman Narang and Steve Fredette
Background
Software engineer who worked on core search infrastructure at Endeca.
Founding Story
Jonathan Grimm co-founded Toast and served as its Chief Technology Officer. He built the initial cloud-native backend that allowed restaurants to manage menus and view analytics from anywhere, a massive upgrade over the hard-wired, on-premise servers used by legacy competitors. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
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