FoodTech Startups

Kuik is a fintech platform offering embedded finance to restaurants and food businesses, using AI scoring based on POS data to provide instant financing and flexible payment options for cash-flow management. Founded in 2023, it operates across Turkey, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK, and Azerbaijan.

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Kukulcan provides an app that helps farmers record crop information using text and photos, and uses that data to forecast harvests and connect surplus or off-spec produce to pre-booked business buyers. It also processes non-standard fruits and vegetables into purée products, aiming to reduce agricultural waste across cultivation, processing, and distribution.

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Kulkao sources cacao beans from smallholder farmers in its organic program to produce and export cacao derivatives such as nibs, cacao liquor, cacao butter, cacao powder, and chocolates for local and international markets. The company works with over 1,000 farmers near the Cordillera Azul National Park in Peru and emphasizes deforestation-free, organically managed supply chains.

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Kumo is a food brand whose products are offered through retail corners, shelves, and displays. The website is currently under redesign and provides limited detail.

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Kuri is a personalized meal planning application that suggests recipes and generates grocery lists tailored to user dietary preferences, cooking skill, and local seasonal availability. The platform emphasizes low-carbon meals and support for local farmers.

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Kytchens operates a multi-brand cloud kitchen network in Mumbai, providing F&B brands with kitchen infrastructure, staffing, regulatory compliance, aggregator management, packaging, and marketing support. It serves food and beverage brands looking to launch and scale online food delivery operations on a pay-as-you-grow model.

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La Croissanterie is a French bakery-sandwich restaurant chain offering croissants, sandwiches, bowls, pastries, and drinks for breakfast, lunch, snacks, and evening meals. It operates through a franchise model and serves consumers across France.

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La Pâtisserie Numérique provides automation tools for local food producers to reduce low-value administrative tasks and improve operational margins.

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Lactalogics develops human milk-based nutrition products for premature and at-risk infants, serving settings from the NICU to at-home care. It also operates a program connecting mothers with excess breast milk to babies in need.

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LacuS is a Japanese food company that develops nutrition-focused products and services for people who have difficulty eating, such as those with chewing/swallowing problems, poor appetite, or who are elderly or in home care. Its offerings include a complete-nutrition ice cream and in-home nutrition support visits by registered dietitians.

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Lahori Zeera markets flavoured Indian beverages, including Zeera, Shikanji, and Nimboo drinks, positioned as digestive soft drinks for everyday consumers.

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Lakeview Farms manufactures fresh, refrigerated dips, desserts, and specialty food products for retail distribution. The company develops and produces items such as hummus, salsa, layered dips, gelatin, pudding, and premium desserts.

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A manufacturer and retailer of gourmet licorice products, including chocolate-coated varieties, operating from Denmark. The company produces specialty confectionery items marketed as premium treats for global consumers.

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Lala Corporation manufactures the MushFermenter System, a fermentation equipment device for producing mushroom growing substrates using agricultural byproducts like cotton hulls, beet pulp, rice straw, and coffee grounds. The system enables small-scale mushroom cultivation in repurposed spaces, supporting circular economy practices and local sourcing of raw materials.

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Lambda Tea builds self-serve bubble tea dispensers. The company operates in the food & beverage hardware space.

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LANCH is a German food-tech startup that creates delivery-focused virtual food brands (such as Loco Chicken and Happy Slice) together with influencers and celebrities, and enables restaurant operators to run these brands as ghost kitchens or franchise partners. It serves gastronomy operators and combines influencer marketing with delivery food distributed via platforms like Wolt, Lieferando, and UberEats.

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Landwash Brewery is a craft brewery in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland, that produces and sells beer across the province. Founded in 2018 and named after a beach in Branch, NL, it draws inspiration from local Newfoundland coastal communities.

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Laori is a German producer of alcohol-free spirits designed for mixing cocktails and long drinks, made with fresh herbs and spices sourced from France and manufactured near Berlin.

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Las Iguanas is a restaurant group serving Mexican and South American cuisine, founded in Bristol in 1991. The company emphasizes scratch-cooked food, premium cocktails, and responsible sourcing from Latin American suppliers and producers.

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Laticínios São Vicente S/A is a Brazilian dairy company that produces cheese products, including cubed coalho cheese marketed for air fryer use, and buys raw milk from cattle farmers. It publishes monthly minimum milk prices paid to its suppliers.

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Caseificio Moro is an Italian cheese producer, operating since 1860, that makes fresh and aged cheeses and supplies over 400 domestic and international clients across the retail (GDO), industry, and HORECA channels. It sources milk from more than 20 Italian farm-chain producers and 10 foreign suppliers, selling across Italy and Europe.

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Laurus Bio, a subsidiary of Laurus Labs, is a biomanufacturing company using precision fermentation and recombinant DNA technology to produce animal-origin-free recombinant proteins, growth factors, and cell-culture media supplements. It serves the biopharma, cultured meat, and cell-culture markets and offers CDMO precision fermentation services to protein companies and bio-manufacturers across healthcare, food, nutrition, personal care, and bio-based materials.

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LAVIT makes a countertop beverage system that pours on-demand cold drinks—still and sparkling water, sodas, teas, and energy drinks—from single-serve capsules of various brands. It targets workplace and hospitality settings such as office breakrooms, coworking spaces, airports, banks, spas, car dealerships, and college campuses.

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Laws Whiskey House produces grain-forward whiskey in Colorado using heirloom and heritage grains sourced from local family farms. All whiskey is grown, distilled, aged, and bottled on-site in Denver, with a commitment to quality craftsmanship and no shortcuts in production.

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