FoodTech Startups

Salad Africa is an agriculture-focused fintech that provides financing to smallholder farmers and agribusinesses, including interest-free crop production financing and invoice factoring, to move staple food crops from farm to market. Through its SourcePro platform it connects farmers, suppliers, transporters, and buyers with quality assurance, starting in Nigeria.

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Salsa Fresca Mexican Grill is a casual dining restaurant that serves burritos and Mexican food with in-store takeout, delivery, and outdoor seating at multiple locations in the United States.

1 investor

Saltwinds Coffee sells specialty 100% Arabica coffee infused with Atlantic ocean air before roasting, a process meant to make the beans smoother and less bitter. The coffee is craft-roasted in small batches in Canada and sold to consumers, including flavoured varieties and bundles.

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Saluna develops industrial hemp seeds bred to keep THC below 0.3%, positioning the crop as an alternative to existing row crops for oil and feed markets. It serves Midwestern American farmers and agricultural entrepreneurs seeking to diversify crops, improve ROI on oil seed crops, and support better soil health.

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SANA makes food products such as tortillas and wraps using low-impact crops like coconut and cassava. It focuses on organic, nutrient-dense ingredients aimed at health-conscious and environmentally minded consumers.

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Sapore di Mare is an Italian retail chain offering frozen seafood, with over 100 varieties of fish sold across more than 100 stores in Italy. It also provides online ordering via Everli for home delivery and a "call & collect" service.

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SASAYA is a Japanese restaurant group operating 104 locations across various formats including yakitori, yakiniku, teppanyaki, izakaya, and set-meal eateries. Based in Osaka with expansion to Tokyo and Hawaii, it develops restaurant concepts driven by its own staff's ideas.

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Sauce is a first-party online ordering and delivery platform for restaurants, offering commission-free direct ordering, branded websites, delivery orchestration across multiple courier fleets, and customer marketing and loyalty tools. It integrates with POS systems like Toast and Square and serves independent restaurants, regional chains, fast casual, and high-volume takeout businesses in the US.

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Sauce is a pricing platform for restaurant marketing teams, letting them set prices by meal period (lunch, dinner, happy hour, late night) and align pricing with marketing campaigns and events. It includes AB testing infrastructure to evaluate new prices across menu items and locations.

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Sauer Brands is a consumer packaged goods company that develops and manages a portfolio of food and flavor brands, focused on everyday products such as condiments and seasonings for consumers. Founded in 1887, it concentrates on building and scaling high-growth food brands.

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Saved a Sea offers a line of food products sold through retail stores, with a store locator and recipes provided on its site. The specific product category is not detailed on the page.

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SavorEase makes Crispy Melts, plant-based dissolvable finger foods designed for people managing dysphagia, purée or soft-texture diets, and feeding difficulties, including both adults and children. The clinically tested products are used by patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers such as speech therapists and dietitians to support chewing, swallowing, and feeding therapy.

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Sayso makes single-serve cocktail and mocktail mixes in tear-open sticks or pouches using real dehydrated fruits, herbs, and spices, low in sugar and calories. Consumers add cold water and optionally spirits to prepare drinks at home or on the go.

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ZOLO provides industry-specific AI that converts unstructured B2B orders from WhatsApp, email, and e-commerce into structured ERP records, and offers sales intelligence for demand forecasting and personalized proposals. It is built for food suppliers and B2B foodservice distributors to manage orders, grow repeat sales, and get paid faster.

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Sbarro is a pizza chain serving New York-style pizza by the slice, with options for pickup, delivery, and catering. The company operates through multiple locations and offers franchise opportunities.

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sbe incubates and operates hospitality and culinary brands, including restaurants, lounges, nightclubs, and luxury wellness hotels such as SLS Hotels, Hyde Lounge, and Mondrian Hotels. The company partners with recognized culinary talent to develop lifestyle hospitality concepts and also launched C3, a food-tech platform focused on digital kitchens and ghost kitchens.

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Scandza is a Scandinavian consumer goods company that owns and operates a portfolio of food brands focused on taste, quality ingredients, and sustainability. It sells its products to consumers across Scandinavia and the Baltics.

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Schlafly is an independently and locally owned craft brewery in Missouri that brews more than 70 styles of beer and operates multiple brewpubs, including a Tap Room, Bottleworks, and an airport location. It has been producing craft beer in the St. Louis area for over three decades.

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Schmackary's is a cookie bakery offering a rotating menu of specialty flavors such as peppermint chocolate, ginger molasses, and chocolate cookies with pudding frosting and gummy worms, available to order.

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Sciphage develops bacteriophage-based products as an alternative to antibiotics for the agricultural and food industries, aiming to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria while improving production yields and food safety. Its technology targets bacterial problems in livestock and food production systems to reduce reliance on antibiotics.

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SCO2 develops Nextract, a patented supercritical CO₂ extraction technology that recovers high-value ingredients such as fibers, oils, bioactives, and proteins from plant biomass byproducts. It targets food and agricultural processing facilities looking to convert waste streams into marketable ingredients without altering existing operations.

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Scooter's Coffee is a coffee brand that sells 100% Arabica beans sourced directly from farmers and offers a home delivery subscription for its coffee products. It also operates coffee locations tied to community initiatives.

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ScotBio develops products through biotechnology, bringing together scientists and business staff to create offerings aimed at consumers and commercial partners. The page describes the team but provides limited detail on the specific products.

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Scream Truck operates a modern ice cream truck service offering sundaes, shakes, and cones for neighborhood routes, private parties, and community events, with online booking and text-based ordering. It serves customers in northern New Jersey counties and the Las Vegas area, and began franchising in 2025.

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