FoodTech Startups

HumanCo invests in and incubates mission-driven consumer companies in categories such as food and beverage, beauty, personal care, household products, and consumer health technology, focusing on better-for-you products that help people live healthier lives. It supports its partner companies with resources across data science, go-to-market, operations, R&D, and finance to accelerate their growth.

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Ingest is a data management and analytics platform designed for restaurants and food & beverage businesses. It consolidates data from multiple sources into a single source of truth and provides customized dashboards and reports to help restaurant operators make decisions on pricing, staffing, and operational performance.

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Juicy Marbles is a food company that produces meat products made through traditional methods without laboratory synthesis or artificial chemicals. The company focuses on creating food that nourishes both body and soul for consumers interested in wholesome, quality nutrition.

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Kopi Kenangan is a grab-and-go coffee chain operating across Indonesia and Southeast Asia, serving coffee consumers through a fast-growing retail network. The company sources and emphasizes high-quality Indonesian coffee as a regional brand.

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KoRo is a food retailer that sells snacks and groceries, focused on healthy and tasty products, primarily across DACH markets with operations in France, Italy and Spain. It operates an e-commerce business selling its own product range directly to consumers.

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La Vie Foods produces plant-based meat substitutes including bacon, ham, sausage, meatballs, sandwiches, and tofu for consumers seeking vegetarian and vegan alternatives. The company operates in the foodtech sector with products designed as direct replacements for traditional meat products.

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Maev produces raw, fresh dog food made with human-grade USDA protein and formulated by PhD veterinary nutritionists. The company targets dog owners seeking premium, minimally processed nutrition for their pets.

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Martie is an online grocery store that sells surplus and overstock packaged foods, snacks, beverages, and personal care products from brand-name manufacturers at discounted prices. It offers direct-to-consumer shopping on discounted pantry staples and consumer goods.

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MealMe provides an API for food and grocery delivery that aggregates inventory data from over 1 million stores and enables orders to be sent to restaurants and retailers. The platform serves applications and marketplaces that want to add food ordering and delivery capabilities without direct integrations.

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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.

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meez is a digital recipe management platform for restaurant and kitchen teams, letting them create scalable recipes, manage editing permissions, notify staff of recipe changes, and build interactive training with videos and images. It also supports purchase cost tracking and integrations for food operations.

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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.

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Melt&Marble uses precision fermentation, microbial metabolic engineering, and synthetic biology to produce fats and ingredients aimed at creating more sustainable food products. The company develops and scales bioprocesses to translate its scientific work into large-scale, cost-effective manufacturing for the food and agri-food industry.

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Nara Organics produced organic infant formula for babies. The company has issued a voluntary recall of all its infant formula products due to cases of infant botulism.

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New Culture produces animal-free dairy cheese products, starting with mozzarella for pizzerias, using food science to replicate the taste, melt, and stretch of conventional cheese. The company targets pizza makers and consumers seeking lactose-free and environmentally sustainable dairy alternatives.

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NotCo offers a vertical AI platform and model stack that helps large consumer packaged goods companies generate, validate, and formulate new products, running digital experiments across R&D, procurement, marketing, and operations. It uses a proprietary ingredient catalog and domain-specific multi-agent AI to compress product development cycles and optimize formulations.

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Nourished makes personalised, 3D-printed-style nutrient gummy stacks that customers customise to their own needs, formulated with vegan, sugar-free ingredients by in-house nutritionists. The direct-to-consumer brand sells bespoke supplement stacks made in the UK.

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NuCicer develops improved crop varieties through selective breeding, starting with high-protein chickpeas designed for better nutrition. The company uses predictive breeding and genetic diversity to optimize crops for specific nutritional outcomes rather than yield.

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Nurture Life prepares freshly made meals and snacks for children, delivered ready to serve, targeting busy parents seeking nutritious alternatives to processed foods. The company manufactures all meals in-house and focuses on balanced nutrition and clean ingredients for kids' diets.

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Omni is a UK-based pet food company that makes novel protein, allergy-friendly food for pets, aimed at improving pet health while reducing environmental impact. It positions itself as an ethical, more sustainable option in the pet nutrition category.

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Orderlion provides a digital ordering and sales automation platform for food and beverage wholesalers and distributors, helping them take orders, automate sales workflows, and gain operational insights. The company serves wholesalers across Europe, including the UK and EU, in the B2B food supply chain.

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Ordermentum is an ordering and payments platform for food and beverage suppliers, helping them take customer orders and get paid faster. It serves wholesale food service suppliers and their retail customers.

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Paragon Pure develops plant-based food ingredients designed to reduce environmental impact while improving nutritional value. The company serves food manufacturers and uses material science to create sustainable alternatives in the plant-based food ecosystem.

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Pickup Coffee is a Filipino coffee company operating coffee shops in multiple formats and locations, offering espresso-based beverages positioned as fast, accessible, and affordable. It serves everyday consumers in the Philippines.

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