FoodTech Startups

Mastro's operates a chain of upscale steakhouse and seafood fine-dining restaurants offering USDA Prime steaks, signature seafood towers, and an extensive wine selection in refined settings with live entertainment. The restaurants cater to diners seeking premium dining experiences for special occasions and elegant nights out.

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Mati makes plant-based meat alternatives such as a chicken substitute made from mycelium (mushroom root structure) grown through fermentation, high in protein and fiber. Its products are marketed as sustainable food that suits any dish or world cuisine, with additional items like a fish alternative in development.

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Matilda Food Tech provides digital solutions for food producers to manage production and distribution, including tender management, food safety compliance, and data-driven product decisions. The platform helps food manufacturers streamline procurement processes, ensure HACCP compliance, and optimize bidding for large food contracts.

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Matorka operates a land-based, vertically integrated aquaculture business raising Arctic char in Iceland, harvesting to order with full traceability from egg to customer. It sells fresh, certified fish to seafood buyers and holds environmental, labour, and animal welfare certifications.

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Matriarks Foods is a women-owned food company inspired by traditional cooking practices that transform surplus ingredients into nutritious, filling meals. The company focuses on food sustainability and combating food insecurity through innovative food products.

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Matsmart/Motatos is an online grocery retailer that sells surplus and near-expiry food and household products at reduced prices to reduce food waste. It operates across several European markets including Sweden, Germany, Finland, Austria, Denmark, and Switzerland.

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Browns Plantations is a group of regional plantation companies in Sri Lanka managing roughly 44,270 hectares under sustainable agriculture practices to produce Ceylon tea, spices, cinnamon, coconut, rubber, and commercial forestry crops for local and global export markets. It oversees estates and factories including Maturata Plantations, Hapugastenne Plantations, Udapussellawa Plantations, and Tea Smallholder Factories.</parameter> <parameter name="founders">[]

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Maus Robotics develops and operates robotic kiosks that make fresh crêpes to order in about 90 seconds, using its own patented technology and self-service ordering. The Basel-based company runs autonomous fresh-food terminals aimed at consumers, operating around the clock.

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Maya Kaimal produces packaged Indian foods including simmer sauces, dals, chanas, rice, and a line of Chinese Indian (Desi Chinese) products, along with cookbooks and recipes. The brand focuses on homestyle South Indian flavors for home cooks.

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Maya Milk engineers and optimizes microbial yeast strains for precision fermentation, enabling food companies to produce animal-free dairy proteins and fats such as whey protein. It serves dairy and alternative-protein producers in the foodtech industry, with R&D operations in Izmir, Turkey.

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MAYMANA is a Moroccan gastronomy house specializing in Moroccan pastries and oriental specialties, sold through its boutiques. It operates shops in the Moroccan capital and a boutique in France.

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MCD Holdings is a holding company that manages assets built from its hamburger restaurant business, focusing on operational efficiency and shareholder returns through stable dividends and improved financial metrics.

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Mealiq provides a platform-as-a-service for building healthy eating applications, offering recipe management, meal planning, diet curation, and supermarket integration capabilities through APIs or white-labeled products for consumer health and wellness brands.

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Meal Ticket provides profitability management software for the foodservice supply chain, including platforms for distributors to manage rebates and trade spend, and an AI-powered inventory management tool for restaurant operators. The company serves food distributors, suppliers, and restaurant operators to improve margins and reduce operational costs.

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Meal Village delivers fresh, chef-prepared cooked meals to customers' homes daily, requiring no subscription or commitment. The service targets busy individuals and families seeking convenient, healthy, and affordable meal alternatives to takeout and restaurants.

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Meala develops plant-based functional proteins that replace eggs and hydrocolloids in food manufacturing, delivering texture and emulsification capabilities for baked goods, plant-based meats, and dressings. The company serves food manufacturers seeking cleaner-label ingredients and simplified formulations.

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Meals in Minutes offers customizable, pre-prepared sous-vide-style meals that customers mix and match from proteins, bases, and sides, then cook by boiling, pan-frying, or air-frying at home. It sells frozen, portioned meals with natural ingredients and vegan, gluten-free, and keto options via a next-day delivery subscription service.

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Mealvana is a meal-planning app that learns a user's food likes, dislikes, diet, and routine to generate personalized menus and recipes. It also provides automated shopping lists and nutrition tracking for individual consumers.

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Mealz offers a white-label AI engine that integrates into grocery retailers' e-commerce journeys to guide shoppers with recipes and meal planning, increasing basket size and margin. It also provides a native food Retail Media offering that lets distributors monetize their e-commerce audience through branded product placements in culinary content.

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Meat Naturally trains small-scale rural farmers in Southern Africa in regenerative grazing, cattle management, and predator control, and connects them to commercial meat buyers through mobile auctions and abattoirs. It works with local NGOs as implementing partners to support emerging farmers while promoting restoration of Africa's rangelands and wetlands.

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Meat Tomorrow is a cellular agriculture company developing methods to produce affordable, sustainable cultivated meat as an alternative to conventional animal-based meat production. It is based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Meat Team Quality is a cattle slaughterhouse and beef processor based in Romania that processes approximately 2,000 cows monthly to supply premium-grade beef to international and domestic markets, with a focus on European food safety standards and full product traceability.

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Meatless produces textured plant-based protein ingredients for food manufacturers, serving the vegetarian and plant-based food industry. The company specializes in texturizing ingredients like faba beans, quinoa, and fish alternatives for use in processed food products.

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Medicinal Genomics provides microbial and plant testing solutions for the cannabis, nutraceutical, and food safety industries through validated qPCR assays and automated liquid handling platforms. Their offerings enable rapid pathogen detection and species identification with turnaround times measured in hours rather than days.

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