FoodTech Startups

Verve Market is a grocery shopping and delivery service that filters products from local stores to match a shopper's diets, allergies, and ingredient restrictions (e.g. gluten-free, vegan, keto, low FODMAP). It offers curated matching products at regular store prices with delivery or pickup, and is designed alongside medical professionals with a clinician-facing offering.

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Vesper builds data and analytics tools for commodity markets, used by procurement teams at large food companies. Its platform supports decision-making around food commodity trading and sourcing.

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Vetsark runs a "Prosperity Model" poultry network that coordinates chicken farming across multiple farms, providing chicks, feed, vaccines, and health management while handling sales, logistics, and distribution of frozen chicken to buyers. It also offers software to track farm performance, inventory, bird maturity, and farmer repayments across production cycles.

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Vi-Kang makes heavy-duty countertop laminates and antimicrobial surface spray coatings for kitchens and food preparation areas, providing up to 90-day protection effective against 99.9% of common food microbes. Its products target food safety for kitchen and food service environments.

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Vibrant Foods is a South Asian food group operating a family of heritage food brands focused on plant-based and vegetarian products, emphasizing global ingredient sourcing and authentic flavours. It positions itself as one of the largest South Asian food groups in Europe.

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Vida Fuel makes a single-serve protein drink combining whey and collagen protein, developed by dietitians to support muscle mass, joint and bone health, energy, and digestion. The consumer wellness beverage contains all 20 amino acids and uses no artificial sweeteners.

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Vinerra is an online wine resource offering guides on grape varietals, wines, and wine styles, along with research, thought leadership, and industry news. It serves both wine enthusiasts and wine businesses such as producers, retailers, and the HoReCa sector.

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VinoAI offers personalized wine ratings that learn an individual's taste preferences and predict how much they will enjoy a wine before purchase. It is a consumer app aimed at helping wine drinkers discover and explore new wines with confidence.

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Vinventions makes wine bottle closures — including synthetic closures, micro-natural corks, and screw caps — along with sustainability solutions and enological decision-making tools for winemakers and producers of wine, spirits, olive oil, and vinegar. It serves clients ranging from boutique wineries to large commercial operations.

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VIP provides technology for the three-tier beverage industry, supporting coordination and relationships among distributors, suppliers, and retailers.

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Viridian Renewable Technology converts food by-products into premium protein, oil, and fertilizer ingredients using black soldier fly larvae. The company manufactures these products in Australia for pet food, livestock feed, and agricultural brands.

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Virnika builds AI voice agents for restaurants that answer phones 24/7, take and process orders, book reservations, take payments, and answer customer questions. The agents integrate with restaurant POS systems such as Toast, Square, and Clover to reduce labor costs and capture missed phone orders.

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Vistify is a menu management platform for multi-unit restaurant brands, letting operations teams push and verify digital menu-board updates across many locations from a single governed system. It offers POS integrations, role-based access controls for HQ and franchisees, and context-aware promotion tools that adjust displays based on local signals like weather and sporting events.

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Vitaco is a supplements, sports nutrition and health food company that owns and manufactures brands including Musashi, Athena, Nutra-Life and Healtheries. It serves consumers across Australia and New Zealand with vitamins, supplements, weight management products and sports nutrition.

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Viva la Faba produces plant-based cheese made from faba beans and legumes, applying traditional cheesemaking techniques to create an alternative to dairy cheese. The company serves consumers seeking plant-based dairy alternatives in the food sector.

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Vivanterre is a natural wine producer based in the Auvergne region of France, creating organically and biodynamically farmed wines without additives or processing. The company offers a range of natural wines including sparkling, orange, white, and red varieties for consumers seeking sustainable wine products.

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Vive Organic makes organic, plant-based wellness shots using ingredients like ginger, turmeric, cayenne, green tea caffeine, B-vitamins, and functional mushrooms, with products targeting immunity and energy benefits. The consumer packaged beverage brand sells directly to consumers via one-time purchases and subscriptions.

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Vivera makes plant-based meat alternatives such as veggie burgers and firm tofu, sold as high-protein substitutes for meat. Its products are distributed in the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.

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VivoProtect develops beneficial bacteria products for professional growers to improve crop health, nutrient uptake, germination, and post-harvest shelf life. The technology is based on research from Lund University in Sweden.

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Vizva AgroTech develops automated, robotic vertical hydroponic greenhouses for indoor food production. It focuses on sustainable farming aimed at improving food security and reducing environmental impact.

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vly develops plant-based foods made from pea protein, positioned as nutritious and low-sugar alternatives to conventional and oat-based products. The company runs its own lab to research and improve its plant-based product line, marketed primarily to German consumers.

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Axia (Volo Agri) breeds and develops tomato and vegetable seeds using advanced breeding techniques at its own research and development centre. It supplies high-quality seeds to greenhouse growers.

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Völur uses AI and data analytics to optimize meat production, helping producers increase yield, cut emissions, and make better operational and planning decisions across the meat value chain. It serves companies in the meat industry.

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