FoodTech Startups

MealPal offers discounted lunch meals from partner restaurants for office workers and hybrid workers in the U.S. and Canada, operating as a weekday meal subscription service.

5 investors

Meatly produces cultivated (lab-grown) meat for use in pet food, offering an animal-free protein alternative for pets. It positions its product as a sustainable and nutritious option in the pet food industry.

5 investors

MeliBio is a California-based biotech company that develops plant-based honey alternatives using proprietary plant-science technology to replace commercial honeybees, addressing food security and supply chain challenges while supporting native pollinator biodiversity.

5 investors

MicroHarvest produces protein through natural fermentation of microorganisms, generating high-quality protein from raw materials within 24 hours. The company targets the food ingredients industry with a scalable, lower-footprint alternative to conventional animal protein.

5 investors

The Fynder Group develops a biotechnology platform using extremophile fungi to produce specialty ingredients, biopharmaceutical drugs, and bio-based materials for food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and textile applications. The company leverages proprietary filamentous fungal strains to engineer high-performance solutions across multiple industries.

5 investors

Nobell Foods produces plant-based dairy cheese made from soybean plants engineered to grow casein protein, working with Midwest farmers. The company targets consumers seeking sustainable cheese alternatives that match the taste and melt characteristics of traditional dairy cheese.

5 investors

NovaMeat develops plant-based protein food products, positioning them as part of a new culinary tradition.

5 investors

Oda is an online grocery store offering food and household items at low prices with home delivery to consumers in Norway. It also provides services such as recycling deposit pickup and meal suggestions.

5 investors

OlaClick provides a point-of-sale and delivery management platform for restaurants, including AI-powered menu creation, order management, and loyalty programs. The platform serves restaurants in Brazil and Latin America with commission-free direct-to-consumer sales capabilities.

5 investors

StoreHub provides a point-of-sale (POS) system with ordering and business management features for retail and food-and-beverage businesses. Its software helps merchants handle daily operations, orders, and store management.

5 investors

Planet A Foods develops alternative food ingredients using food technology to reduce climate impact in the food industry. The company produces ChoViva, a no-cocoa chocolate ingredient for B2B food manufacturers seeking sustainable supply chain solutions.

5 investors

Planetary operates a full-stack microbial fermentation platform, building, owning, and running a global network of fermentation facilities to produce bio-based food ingredients and materials at scale for partner companies. Its proprietary BioBlocks fermentation and AI platform is used to scale up, optimize, and manufacture products such as mycoprotein for applications ranging from food to textiles.

5 investors

Prime Roots makes plant-based deli meats designed to match conventional meat in blind taste tests, using clean ingredients without nitrates or celery salt. Its products are sold at deli meat counters.

5 investors

Protealis breeds legume crops such as soybeans and yellow peas and develops proprietary seed coatings with nitrogen-fixing bacteria adapted to the European climate. It supplies seeds and germplasm to European farmers to increase local plant-protein production for meat and dairy alternatives.

5 investors

Provi is a marketplace platform that connects buyers (bartenders, restaurant and retail owners, distributors) with alcohol distributors across the U.S., offering centralized ordering, product visibility, and supply chain management for the beverage alcohol industry.

5 investors

qlub provides QR-code-based pay-at-table, order-and-pay, digital menus, payment links, and a SoftPOS terminal that integrate with restaurants' POS systems. It serves restaurants, hotels, and hospitality businesses, with stated markets including the UAE, Singapore, and Australia.

5 investors

Renewal Mill is a food and ingredients company that makes six upcycled ingredients across protein, flour, and fiber, along with baking mixes, by repurposing byproducts from food production such as juice pulp. It sells consumer baking products and supplies ingredients for developing sustainable food products.

5 investors

Ruby Bio uses fermentation to produce bio-based surfactants, natural food emulsifiers, polyol sweeteners, biomonomers, and oleochemicals from sugars and up-cycled waste feedstocks. Its palm-free, petroleum-free ingredients serve as sustainable replacements for synthetic materials used in detergents, food products, polymers, packaging, adhesives, and coatings.

5 investors

Simple Mills makes packaged foods using minimally processed, natural ingredients, positioning its products as healthful alternatives free of artificial ingredients. The brand focuses on nutritious, clean-label real foods for health-conscious consumers.

5 investors

Splendid Spoon offers a subscription meal-delivery service featuring 60+ plant-rich, frozen ready-to-eat meals for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks, aimed at busy people who want nutrient-dense food without prep. It sources whole-food ingredients from local vendors and delivers meals on flexible plans tied to customers' health and wellness goals.

5 investors

Spoiler Alert helps businesses with global supply chains reduce food waste and sell surplus inventory, addressing food insecurity and environmental sustainability challenges. The company uses data-driven analytics to maximize profitability while diverting organic waste from landfills.

5 investors

Superorder provides AI agents for restaurants that manage customer reputation and feedback, maximize delivery profitability, and generate operational insights. The platform captures customer feedback through AI-driven surveys, automates review management, reconciles third-party delivery data, and surfaces actionable trends to drive operational performance.

5 investors

Topanga builds AI and data-capture tools for institutional dining operations, offering ReusePass for reusable container tracking and the StreamLine suite for kitchen production planning and plate-waste monitoring. It serves culinary teams at universities, healthcare facilities, and corporations across North America to reduce food waste, cut costs, and improve forecasting.

5 investors

TouchBistro is an all-in-one POS and restaurant management system that provides restaurateurs with payment processing, online ordering, reservations, and related tools. The platform helps restaurant operators increase sales, improve guest experiences, and reduce operational costs.

5 investors