CINDERGROVE

The pizzeria comes to you.

Wood-fired ovens, delivered Friday, collected Monday.
Weekend rentals for backyards, birthdays and block parties.

Seed round · October 202615× bookings growth YTD

The problem

Everyone wants a wood-fired pizza night. Almost no one should buy the oven.

$2,500+

for a decent backyard wood-fired oven, before tools, peel and firewood

4–6×

a year: how often a typical owner actually fires it up after the first summer

$40/head

for a mobile pizza caterer — out of reach for most family gatherings

The result: a heavy, expensive object that sits under a tarp 48 weekends a year — or a party that settles for delivery.

The solution

Rent the oven for the weekend. We handle the heavy part.

1

Book in 60 seconds

Pick a weekend, an oven size and a dough kit. Flat price, no deposit games.

2

Friday drop-off

We deliver, level and test-fire the oven, then leave kiln-dried oak for the weekend.

3

Fire it up

QR-guided video lessons get a first-timer to a 90-second Neapolitan pie.

4

Monday pickup

We collect, clean the ash and inspect. No storage, no maintenance, no tarp.

Traction

610

weekend bookings in September 2026, up from 40 in January.

15×

growth in 8 months

~41%

avg. monthly growth

Weekend bookings, 2026
January: 40 → September: 610

$6.1BUS backyard entertaining

$1.4BOutdoor cooking
& party rentals

$85M10 metros

Market

The rental economy hasn't reached the backyard yet.

TAM

$6.1B spent yearly by US households on hosting outdoor gatherings: catering, equipment, rentals.

SAM

$1.4B in outdoor cooking and party-equipment rentals, a category with no national brand.

SOM

$85M reachable within 3 years across 10 warm-weather and suburban metros.

Business model

One oven pays for itself in under 12 weekends.

Flat weekend pricing from $289, plus high-margin add-ons: dough kits, firewood bundles and a pizzaiolo-for-hire upgrade.

Avg. booking value (incl. add-ons)	$365
Delivery, fuel & cleaning	−$95
Payment & insurance	−$30
Contribution per weekend	$240
Oven + trailer cost	$2,700
Payback	~11 weekends

Team

Operators who've moved heavy things and fed a lot of people.

MR

CEO · Co-founder

Marisol Reyes

Ran regional ops for a party-rental chain; scaled it from 2 to 14 depots.

DO

CTO · Co-founder

Dev Okafor

Built routing and fleet scheduling at a last-mile delivery startup.

TB

Head of Product · Pizzaiolo

Tomás Bellini

Twelve years behind wood-fired ovens; designed our setup and safety protocol.

The ask

$2.5M

Seed round to go from 1 metro to 4, and from 610 to 3,000 weekend bookings a month by summer 2027.

Marisol Reyes · founders@cindergrove.example

Oven fleet & trailers45%

Launch 3 new metros25%

Booking & routing software18%

Brand & partnerships12%