FoodTech Startups

Lufa Farms operates a network of rooftop greenhouses across Quebec and Ottawa that grow and distribute fresh vegetables directly to consumers. The company combines urban farming with a marketplace and logistics infrastructure to provide locally-sourced produce.

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Luke's Lobster is a vertically integrated seafood company that sources traceable, sustainable seafood directly from fishermen, processes it at its own facility in Saco, Maine, and sells it through its seafood shacks, grocery stores, and online shipping nationwide. It serves U.S. consumers with lobster meat, tails, and seafood meals, and is a certified B Corp.

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Luna Grill is a Mediterranean restaurant chain that cooks meals from scratch using fresh, non-GMO ingredients and responsibly raised proteins, aimed at families seeking wholesome everyday meals. Founded in 2004, it operates over 50 restaurants across California and Texas.

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런치랩(LunchLab) is a corporate lunch subscription service that delivers home-style and fresh-meal boxed lunches to workplaces, with a dedicated manager handling scheduled delivery and pickup of used containers. It provides an app for employees to select menus and an admin website for companies to manage orders and billing, currently serving parts of Seoul.

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Lupii makes plant-based protein products from lupini beans, marketed as a sustainable whole-food alternative to animal-based and processed proteins. The company targets health-conscious consumers seeking minimally processed nutrition with minimal environmental impact.

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L'uva Bella is a winery producing several wine collections, including its Purple, Passion Essenza, Red's, and Reserve labels. It operates a tasting room and bistro offering wine, food, and live music.

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Luvi develops on-farm fermentation systems that stabilize surplus crops and agricultural sidestreams (such as coffee cherry pulp) into shelf-stable functional ingredients for food and beverage brands. Its first product, Luma, is a fermented Cascara extract rich in polyphenols, natural caffeine, and prebiotic fiber for wellness drinks.

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MacDonald Meat Company is a USDA-inspected protein supplier and butchery operation providing custom portion control, precision cutting, packaging, and cold-chain distribution of meat products to chefs, restaurants, and retailers. Founded in 1933, it serves the regional culinary market and is part of the Durham Meat & Seafood Group.

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Macromia Group develops and operates a portfolio of dining and retail concepts, offering property developers proven food and retail brands to fill vacancies and drive foot traffic to their developments. It serves real estate developers seeking ready-made hospitality and retail tenants.

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Maczfit is a meal-delivery service offering ready-made diet plans and daily menus, including dishes signed by Jamie Oliver, delivered to customers' homes. It serves consumers in Poland with subscription meal boxes, add-on snacks and shakes, and access to online dietitian consultations.

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Mademoiselle Desserts Group operates a network of 12 bakeries across France, the UK, the Netherlands, and Belgium that manufacture and distribute frozen unbaked puff pastry dough and baked goods under multiple brand names. The company focuses on product quality, sustainability, and expanding its portfolio through strategic acquisitions.

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Maetadata operates a foodservice supply chain database that aggregates and harmonizes spend data from over 1,000 distribution sources, applying attribution, sustainability tagging, and carbon scoring. It serves foodservice companies, distributors, and dining operations in higher education, healthcare, business dining, and K12 for local, sustainable, and equitable sourcing transparency and ESG reporting.

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Magellan Life Sciences develops X-Seed, a protein engineering platform that uses a precision respiration process to produce complex protein molecules at higher yields with simpler purification. The company applies synthetic biology toward food security, focusing on producing alternatives such as sugar replacements to reduce the environmental impact of traditional farming.

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MagicalButter sells the DecarBox, a food-grade silicone decarboxylation device with an integrated digital thermometer and external display for activating herbs in an oven at precise temperatures. The company offers consumer products and bundles for home herbal infusion.

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Magnolia Bakery operates bakery locations that sell baked goods and related products, with both in-store and national shipping options available for customers.

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A company using artificial intelligence to identify natural proteins of interest, operating at the intersection of foodtech, immunology, and biotech.

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Mailo's The Pasta Project is a street-food pasta concept in central Athens that prepares fresh pasta dishes on the spot, offering three types of fresh pasta (Rigatoni, Casarecce, Campanelle) paired with signature sauces. It uses ingredients sourced from Greece and Italy.

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Main Street Gourmet is a custom bakery products manufacturer that develops and produces muffins, granola, cookies, brownies, and other baked goods for food operators and retail/foodservice clients. It offers product development and manufacturing services, including thaw-and-serve muffins and pre-packaged granola clusters.

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Portland, Maine farm-to-flask distillery making small-batch spirits and canned ready-to-drink cocktails such as Blueshine Lemonade.

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Woodland Eggs produces eggs from hens fed a specialized grain blend milled in-house. The company serves consumers seeking high-quality eggs in New Zealand.

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Maison No. 9 is a rosé wine brand producing a French Riviera-style rosé, created in collaboration with musician Post Malone and a winery. The product is marketed as a dry, crisp wine for drinking on its own or paired with food.

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Maison Pradier is a French bakery-patisserie and restaurant chain offering pastries, savory dishes, and catering, with a menu that changes each season. It serves customers from breakfast through afternoon snack across its restaurant locations.

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Maitly offers an AI-powered phone receptionist for restaurants that answers calls around the clock, handles reservations, and routes complex requests to staff. It integrates with reservation platforms such as OpenTable and Resy and supports multiple languages including English, Spanish, French, and Italian.

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Mai Vino sells wine in single-serve pouches, including a build-your-own variety 3-pack, offering organic, naturally dry-fermented wines such as skin-contact white, Pinot Noir, rosé, and Sauvignon Blanc. The wines are marketed as additive-free with zero grams of sugar and roughly 100 calories per glass.

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