Justis Blasco

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer Popmenu

Last Reviewed: September 28, 2026

Executive Summary

Justis Blasco is a co-founder of Popmenu, the Atlanta restaurant technology company, and its Chief Technology Officer. Popmenu began as an interactive menu product and has grown into a platform for independent restaurants spanning websites, online ordering, marketing and guest engagement. Blasco co-founded it with Brendan Sweeney and Mike Gullo, a team that had previously helped scale Commissions Inc, a real estate software provider, through its 2016 acquisition by Fidelity National Financial. He has been named in the company’s SEC filings as one of its managers since 2018.

Career Highlights

• Co-founded Popmenu with Brendan Sweeney and Mike Gullo, according to the company’s 2019 Series A announcement.
• Listed as a manager and promoter of Popmenu, LLC in its Form D filings with the SEC in 2018 and 2019.
• Quoted as Co-Founder and CTO in a Control Plane case study on moving Popmenu’s multi-tenant SaaS platform, which hosts thousands of client domains, off Heroku Enterprise.
• Previously played a key role in scaling Commissions Inc through its acquisition by Fidelity National Financial in 2016.

Professional Journey

Before Popmenu, Blasco was part of the team at Commissions Inc, a software provider that helped local real estate teams compete with third-party platforms such as Zillow. Popmenu’s own account says he, Sweeney and Gullo played key roles in scaling that business until Fidelity National Financial acquired it in 2016.

The three then set out to apply the same idea to restaurants: give independent operators technology that lets them compete for guests directly rather than through third-party platforms. Popmenu was incorporated in 2016 and was bootstrapped for its first 18 months. Its 2018 and 2019 Form D filings list Blasco as a manager and promoter alongside Sweeney, Anthony Roy and Michael Gullo. In November 2019 the company raised a $4.5 million Series A led by Base10 Partners, with Felicis Ventures participating, bringing its total raised to $6 million.

As Chief Technology Officer, Blasco oversees the engineering behind a single multi-tenant SaaS product that hosts thousands of restaurant domains, plus supporting microservices. In a case study published by Control Plane, he explained the company’s move away from Heroku Enterprise in search of a managed platform with a streamlined developer experience, better price scaling, vendor security and application-specific DNS routing. Popmenu has continued to widen the platform, acquiring third-party delivery aggregator OrderNerd in October 2021.

Education

No education record was found in a primary or first-party source.