FoodTech Startups

Zilker Brewing Co. is a craft brewery and taproom in Austin producing core, seasonal, and collaboration beers such as IPAs, lagers, and sours. It sells its beer through its taproom, retail distribution, and merchandise.

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Zing Zing is a Chinese takeaway offering familiar Chinese dishes plus its own creations, including a dedicated vegan and vegetarian menu (ZZ Green), delivered to customers at home. The company emphasizes fresh ingredients and uses compostable bagasse packaging.

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Zip Recipes is a WordPress plugin for recipe bloggers that formats recipes with schema.org structured data for Google search, and adds features like automatic nutrition calculation, serving adjustments, recipe ratings, filtering grids, and social sharing. It is aimed at food blog owners who want SEO-friendly, styled recipe cards.

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ZipX provides international package forwarding, giving members mailing addresses in worldwide locations so they can shop from online vendors abroad and have purchases consolidated, exported, and shipped to them. It offers shipment tracking, an order-history customer portal, and secure payment for cross-border deliveries.

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ZOA makes zero-sugar energy drinks formulated with electrolytes, B and C vitamins, amino acids, camu camu, and caffeine sourced from green tea. The beverages are sold direct to consumers and through retailers such as Amazon.

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zoChai is a fully automatic Chai-making machine that boils all-natural ingredients on demand and lets users customize spices, milk-to-water ratio, and brew strength. It targets offices and workplaces seeking fresh, homemade-style tea instead of tea-bag, premix, or stored options.

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Zohe is a corporate meal service that uses a network of over 300 food and restaurant partners to design menus for company teams, ranging from small startups to enterprises of 300+ people. It handles menu selection for daily meals and periodic catered events based on each company's dining preferences.

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Zomoz produces and sells momos and dumplings, operating food production and delivery operations in India with manufacturing capacity exceeding 100,000 units daily.

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Zoomer operates a delivery logistics platform that matches high-volume restaurants with independent drivers to fulfill food orders. The platform enables restaurants to improve delivery speed and consistency, gives drivers flexible scheduling and earnings potential, and aims to reduce delivery times for consumers.

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Zucca is a product development platform for consumer packaged goods (CPG) innovation and R&D teams that connects formulas to live supplier specs, real-time costs, and regulatory constraints. It automatically extracts and structures specs, generates FDA-compliant labels, and gives brand and P&L leaders visibility into cost targets, timeline risks, and feasibility trade-offs.

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Zwipe provides branded membership card and loyalty infrastructure for restaurants, enabling them to drive repeat visits and predictable recurring revenue through paid membership programs tied to physical and virtual cards.

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Guoquan Shihui, a brand of Guoquan Food (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., sells at-home meal products across categories including hot pot, barbecue, drinks, single-serve meals, ready-to-cook packs, fresh food, Western food, and snacks through a network of community franchise stores. It reaches consumers in China via its store network plus online channels including its own app, a WeChat mini-program, and third-party delivery platforms.

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RomanSive is a South Korean company that makes COZA, a sleep-support beverage marketed as a sugar-free, alcohol-free, and cholesterol-free alternative to melatonin. The drink is sold to a general consumer market ranging from students to adults through pharmacies and retail channels.

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Lifizz offers a ready-made cocktail and highball solution for bars, pubs, and casual dining establishments in South Korea. The platform enables bar staff to prepare professional-quality mixed drinks through a simple pump-and-carbonation system without requiring advanced bartending skills.

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Manicker F&G (㈜마니커에프앤지) is a South Korean food company that makes prepared and convenience meal products, including ready-to-eat noodles, chicken wings, and tteokbokki dishes. It focuses on convenient, ready-made foods sold to consumers.

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Vitrosys is a South Korean company focused on plant tissue and cell culture, bioreactors, and extraction/purification research, including mass propagation of sterile seedlings and breeding of rare and endangered species. It also develops smart farm systems using ICT and AI, and produces functional health supplement products (sticks, pouches, ampoules, drinks, and concentrates) derived from cultured wild ginseng roots.

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Sirloin is a South Korean premium Korean beef (hanwoo) B2C brand that sells 1++/1+ grade beef, dry- and wet-aged cuts, and holiday gift sets via dawn delivery. It uses data-based quality standardization to manage marbling, aging, and grading, along with its own P.R.O. aging technique.

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Super Kitchen operates a neighborhood side-dish (banchan) shop offering ready-made Korean side dishes and meals for families and everyday home cooking. It positions itself as a local prepared-food store in South Korea.

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Shinstarr builds a robotics-powered, AI-driven kitchen platform that automates food preparation to serve hot meals through autonomous formats including a chef-led dine-in restaurant, mobile cook-in-transit trucks, and compact 24/7 micro-restaurants. The company operates in the foodtech and food-service automation category.

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IDEAL System (㈜아이디알시스템) designs and installs equipment and engineering systems for post-harvest processing of grains, soybeans, mixed grains, and fresh agricultural produce, including drying, storage, sorting, and packaging facilities. Founded in 1990, it also provides machine-vision sorting for grains and other materials, dust-collection environmental systems, and smart-factory ICT solutions for the agri-food sector.

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An online store selling meat products, presented in Korean with product listings and prices.

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A Korean coffee company (에이비비알 주식회사) offering coffee products, with customer service and contact details listed for a business based in Gyeonggi Province.

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meatOS is an autonomous manufacturing operations platform that integrates field data, business systems, and worker interactions through AI agents for the food and meat processing value chain. The platform digitizes procurement, production, shipping, inventory, and sales data, with AI-driven insights delivered to managers and operators via a subscription starting at KRW 300,000 monthly.

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