FoodTech Startups

El Guapo manufactures non-alcoholic cocktail bitters, syrups, mixers, and canned beverages using high-quality, locally sourced ingredients and sustainable practices in New Orleans. The company prioritizes ingredient transparency, environmental responsibility, and customer service.

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Elior Group operates a contract catering and multiservice business serving collective feeding operations across 11 countries, with a focus on sustainability, healthy nutrition, and environmental responsibility. The company manages over 3.2 million meals daily and emphasizes reducing carbon emissions, food waste, and promoting circular economy practices in its supply chain.

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Elixir Kombucha makes raw, living kombucha sold in cans across a range of flavors, marketed as a gut-health beverage. It sells directly to consumers online, including through a customizable monthly subscription variety pack called the Booch Box.

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El Jannah is a Lebanese charcoal chicken restaurant chain founded in 1998 in Western Sydney that serves flame-grilled poultry with traditional Lebanese sides and sauces. Operating across Australia with 64 locations, the business emphasizes traditional cooking methods and family recipes originating from the founder's childhood in Lebanon.

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Embargo provides a plug-and-play digital loyalty card, CRM, marketing, and delivery/pickup ordering platform for coffee shops, restaurants, and bakeries. It helps hospitality venues capture customer data across in-store, delivery, and click-and-collect channels, with a focus on the UK market.

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EMBRACE makes fruit-based drinks using fruits sourced from across Europe. The company markets its beverages to consumers and highlights recipes such as watermelon-mint.

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eMenu International develops interactive digital menu technology for restaurants and hospitality venues using iPad-based systems. The company serves restaurants, hotels, and hospitality establishments across the United States and internationally, helping them enhance guest experiences and sales.

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The Empowered Cookie makes soft-baked snacks using high-fiber, plant-based ingredients, positioned as a healthy snack option in the US market.

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Emtethal builds a monitoring system for hospitality operators that combines computer vision with IoT sensors. It flags food safety and operational violations as they occur, helping restaurants and similar businesses correct issues before regulatory inspections result in penalties.

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Endless Summer Sweets is a dessert and carnival-food vendor offering items like funnel cakes, deep fried Oreo sundaes, churros, popcorn, and chicken sandwiches, available in-store and through a food trailer. It provides on-time delivery, instant pickup, and event catering in Berkeley, California.

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EnerGaia grows spirulina in proprietary closed bioreactors and sells it as fresh-frozen paste and freeze-dried powder to food manufacturers for use in beverages, noodles, pastas, meat substitutes and snacks. It also licenses its bioreactor systems, post-harvest processing, and smart farm management software, and runs rural farming projects to create livelihoods in low-income communities.

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EnerGrow provides on-farm soybean and oilseed pressing systems that let farmers crush their own beans to produce oil and livestock feed, cutting feed costs and adding income from oil sales. It serves agricultural producers such as dairy and livestock farmers.

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Engineered Medical develops handheld spectrometers for measuring chemical compounds in agricultural and food products, including cannabinoids, phenolics, and contaminants. The devices serve producers and consumers in agriculture, food production, and hemp/cannabis cultivation who need on-site analytical testing.

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Brami is a food brand that sells Italian-style pasta made from gently milled durum wheat kneaded in mountain spring water. The products are sold directly to consumers online.

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ENOUGH produces sustainable food ingredients and works with customers, suppliers, and partners toward its mission. The page describes the company's team and collaborators but gives limited detail on its products.

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An e-commerce shop selling physical products through an online storefront.

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ento produces edible-insect food products — including roasted crickets, black soldier fly larvae, cricket powder, and flavoured protein snacks — aimed at consumers curious about entomophagy. Founded in 2018, it markets sustainable insect protein as a food source in Malaysia and Singapore.

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A research and development facility focused on continuous production and optimization of black soldier fly larvae for waste valorization and industrial scaling. The facility serves as Europe's first demonstration plant for this biotechnology process, supporting government authorities, suppliers, and potential investors.

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EPC Champagne is a French Champagne producer that partners with expert winegrowers to make its cuvées with a focus on transparency and traceability. It also offers personalized Champagne for businesses, including custom client gifts and bespoke events.

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Epicurate, headquartered in Dundee, runs a hospitality platform for booking and coordinating luxury travel and lifestyle experiences. Independent providers use it to manage their operations and distribute their offerings through connected hospitality marketplaces.

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Epogee develops EPG, a modified fat ingredient that reduces calorie absorption by around 92% while maintaining the taste and texture of traditional fat. It supplies the ingredient to food producers and cites human clinical studies, toxicology testing, and GRAS status supporting its safety.

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Equinox makes organic kombucha, including an adaptogen-infused "Equinox+" line, marketed as gut-friendly and low-impact. The brand sells its drinks directly to consumers, including via a subscription box.

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Erbert prepares fresh, ready-to-eat meals without preservatives that heat in two minutes, targeting health-conscious consumers seeking convenient nutritious options in stores, for delivery, or at offices. The company provides meals with clear nutritional labeling and serves the foodtech industry.

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Erewhon is an organic grocery retailer that sources ethically-produced foods and focuses on environmental sustainability and community support in Los Angeles. As a certified organic retailer and B-Corp, the company donates food, runs composting programs, and partners with nonprofits to address food insecurity and reduce waste.

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