Amy Katz, Founder & CEO, curbside kitchen
Amy Katz is the Founder and CEO of Curbside Kitchen, a PropTech company that creates custom food truck solutions for commercial and residential properties. As one of the few female founders in the Proptech sector, Amy oversees all aspects of the company’s operational, sales, and marketing of the business.
In 2018, Amy identified the increasing tenant demand for food amenities within the commercial and residential property markets. Property Owners and Property Managers were struggling to find a way to provide reliable and safe food trucks to their urban and suburban properties. She brought her expertise in sales and digital marketing to the commercial real estate sector and launched Curbside Kitchen.
Curbside Kitchen believes that eating is a shared experience and that every person should be able to enjoy delicious, diverse, and accessible cuisine outside their workplace doors. With her team, Amy developed an easy-to-use technology platform that connects building owners, leasing agents, and property managers with food trucks. Curbside Kitchen has further expanded its technology platform by rolling out its new mobile app and ordering platform which has proven to be prescient given COVID-19’s effect on the food delivery business. Curbside Kitchen also provides wrap-around services to support the tenant experience, such as marketing, flyers, promotional emails, weekly reminders, and menus to tenants. Curbside Kitchen has expanded to work with universities, corporations, and cultural events that want to curate culinary experiences for their communities.
Since its founding in 2018, a core tenet of its mission is community outreach and charitable initiatives. Amy and her team founded Curbside Cares, the company that partners with organizations to support corporate social responsibility efforts and work with national and local non-profits including, So What Else, March of Dimes, and Crystal City.
The company is headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, and works with partners and food truck owners in the Washington, D.C metro area, Philadelphia, and Raleigh, N.C.
Amy’s previous experience includes positions in sales, marketing, and advertising at leading companies including WashingtonPost.com, Paper, and Varsitybooks.com.
Katz graduated from the University of Maryland, with a degree in Marketing.