FoodTech Startups

Matchaful is a female-founded purveyor of premium matcha and plant-based botanical beverages and snacks with an emphasis on sustainable, single-origin sourcing and organic practices. The company operates retail cafes in Manhattan and sells products online, offering ceremonial-grade matcha, creative lattes, elixirs, and chef-crafted plant-forward snacks.

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Mati makes plant-based meat alternatives such as a chicken substitute made from mycelium (mushroom root structure) grown through fermentation, high in protein and fiber. Its products are marketed as sustainable food that suits any dish or world cuisine, with additional items like a fish alternative in development.

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Matilda FoodTech provides a digital platform for managing the meal process, covering procurement, menu and recipe planning, production and distribution, reporting, and food safety. It serves meal organisations and food producers across public and private sectors in Europe.

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Matorka operates a land-based, vertically integrated aquaculture business raising Arctic char in Iceland, harvesting to order with full traceability from egg to customer. It sells fresh, certified fish to seafood buyers and holds environmental, labour, and animal welfare certifications.

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Matsmart/Motatos is an online grocery retailer that sells surplus and near-expiry food and household products at reduced prices to reduce food waste. It operates across several European markets including Sweden, Germany, Finland, Austria, Denmark, and Switzerland.

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Matsmart is a Swedish online store that sells surplus and short-dated food, beverages, and household and beauty products at discounted prices to consumers. It offers items nearing their best-before date at reduced cost to reduce food waste.

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Browns Plantations is a group of regional plantation companies in Sri Lanka managing roughly 44,270 hectares under sustainable agriculture practices to produce Ceylon tea, spices, cinnamon, coconut, rubber, and commercial forestry crops for local and global export markets. It oversees estates and factories including Maturata Plantations, Hapugastenne Plantations, Udapussellawa Plantations, and Tea Smallholder Factories.</parameter> <parameter name="founders">[]

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Maus Robotics develops and operates robotic kiosks that make fresh crêpes to order in about 90 seconds, using its own patented technology and self-service ordering. The Basel-based company runs autonomous fresh-food terminals aimed at consumers, operating around the clock.

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Mavericks Snacks makes family-oriented packaged snacks, including whole-grain sandwich crackers and lower-sugar Bolt Cookies, made with Non-GMO Project Verified ingredients. Its products are sold to families through retailers such as Thrive Market, Whole Foods, and Sprouts.

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Maya Kaimal produces packaged Indian foods including simmer sauces, dals, chanas, rice, and a line of Chinese Indian (Desi Chinese) products, along with cookbooks and recipes. The brand focuses on homestyle South Indian flavors for home cooks.

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Maya Milk engineers and optimizes microbial yeast strains for precision fermentation, enabling food companies to produce animal-free dairy proteins and fats such as whey protein. It serves dairy and alternative-protein producers in the foodtech industry, with R&D operations in Izmir, Turkey.

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Japanese holding company for McDonald's operations in Japan, providing investor relations information, financial summaries, and corporate details. The site covers product and campaign information, shareholder dividends, and recruitment for the fast-food restaurant business in Japan.

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Mealiq provides a platform-as-a-service for building healthy eating applications, offering recipe management, meal planning, diet curation, and supermarket integration capabilities through APIs or white-labeled products for consumer health and wellness brands.

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Meal Ticket provides profitability management software for the foodservice supply chain, including platforms for distributors to manage rebates and trade spend, and an AI-powered inventory management tool for restaurant operators. The company serves food distributors, suppliers, and restaurant operators to improve margins and reduce operational costs.

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Meal Village delivers fresh, chef-prepared cooked meals to customers' homes daily, requiring no subscription or commitment. The service targets busy individuals and families seeking convenient, healthy, and affordable meal alternatives to takeout and restaurants.

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Meala develops plant-based functional proteins that replace eggs and hydrocolloids in food manufacturing, delivering texture and emulsification capabilities for baked goods, plant-based meats, and dressings. The company serves food manufacturers seeking cleaner-label ingredients and simplified formulations.

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MealPlanet is a UAE-based marketplace that aggregates meal plans from more than 100 brands, letting users browse, compare, and subscribe to plans with options to customise ingredients, swap meals, and skip delivery days. It serves consumers seeking prepared meal subscriptions tailored to fitness goals, dietary restrictions, or convenience.

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Meals in Minutes offers customizable, pre-prepared sous-vide-style meals that customers mix and match from proteins, bases, and sides, then cook by boiling, pan-frying, or air-frying at home. It sells frozen, portioned meals with natural ingredients and vegan, gluten-free, and keto options via a next-day delivery subscription service.

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Mealz offers a white-label AI engine that integrates into grocery retailers' e-commerce journeys to guide shoppers with recipes and meal planning, increasing basket size and margin. It also provides a native food Retail Media offering that lets distributors monetize their e-commerce audience through branded product placements in culinary content.

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Meatless produces texturized plant-based ingredients based on hydrocolloid technology, used to improve the texture, mouthfeel, and stability of vegetarian and vegan meat and fish alternatives. The company sells these ingredients to food manufacturers worldwide and operates as a brand of BENEO.

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BioResin develops bio-separation technology that upcycles agricultural byproducts such as acid whey, pea, and soy waste streams into edible "magnetic" fibers used to capture and purify proteins. Its products serve food and alternative-protein producers, including precision fermentation and plant-based applications, offering both a dual-upcycled fiber-protein hybrid ingredient and a food-grade high-purity processing aid.

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Meeat develops plant-based meat alternative food products, such as a meaty burger patty and a chicken-free "Kanaton Lastu" product, aimed at consumers seeking sustainable alternatives. The company's products are sold to food service partners including the Finnish burger chain ScanBurger.

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Meek's Vegan Pizza is a Black-owned vegan pizzeria in Houston that serves plant-based pizza, wings, calzones, and other food items to pizza lovers seeking meat-free and dairy-free options. The restaurant offers dine-in, takeout, delivery, and catering services.

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Meknology provides a patented waste transformation system for beverage producers that converts spent grain, stillage, and wastewater into saleable byproducts including animal feed, biochar fertilizer, and potable water. The system reduces disposal costs and creates new revenue streams while helping producers meet environmental compliance standards.

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