FoodTech Startups

Playa Betty's is a restaurant serving California-style beach food, drawing on cuisine from across the California coast and Baja California. It offers wholesome, fast-casual fare to diners.

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Playa Bowls operates a chain of over 400 shops serving açaí- and superfruit-based bowls and refreshers made with fruit purees, agave, and other better-for-you ingredients. The company began as a beach-town pop-up cart and now offers franchise opportunities.

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PLG (Pleaze) operates a last-mile delivery service built on a nationwide logistics network and IT systems, offering fast delivery for e-commerce and same-day fulfillment. The company also handles cold-chain distribution of food ingredients and combines quick-commerce with live-commerce for retail clients in South Korea.

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Pleese Foods makes a plant-based, dairy-free cheese made from ingredients like faba beans, potato proteins, and refined coconut fat, designed to melt on pizza and other comfort foods. The family-run company targets vegan consumers as well as people who are lactose intolerant or have food allergies, and distributes its products nationwide through foodservice and online channels.

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Pluck operates a neighborhood-based delivery model that groups orders from local businesses and farms so that nearby deliveries on the same day share and lower the per-delivery cost. It aims to make fresh food more accessible to residents by reducing delivery fees when neighbors order together.

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Plukon Food Group is a European food manufacturer that supplies poultry, meals, salads, meal components, and alternative proteins to retail and food service customers. The company operates across seven European countries with a focus on producing fresh, healthy, and sustainable food products.

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Poke House is a food brand offering poke bowls and salads built from ingredients like kale, jasmine rice, shrimp, chicken, and various dressings. It runs a loyalty community that rewards customers with a free bowl on every tenth order.

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Polynatural develops and sells post-harvest treatments for fresh fruit, including residue-free ozone nanobubble sanitization, fungicides, and edible coatings to extend shelf life. It serves the agroindustry with application services and real-time monitoring, with a focus on South American produce.

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Popchef is a corporate foodcare provider that delivers chef-prepared, fresh meals to workplaces through connected fridges, customizable food counters, and catered meal trays. Founded in 2015, it serves companies looking to offer employee dining as part of their HR and wellbeing strategy, primarily in France.

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Popchef is a corporate foodcare service that provides office meal solutions including a connected fridge, a customizable food counter, and delivered meal trays, with dishes prepared by in-house chefs using fresh, seasonal ingredients. It serves companies looking to feed their teams at the workplace, primarily in France.

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Popchips manufactures popped potato chips that are lower in fat than traditional fried chips, targeting health-conscious snack consumers.

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Popi's Oysterette is an oyster bar and restaurant in San Francisco's Marina neighborhood, serving oysters on the half shell and other seafood in a small counter-and-dining-room setting. It emphasizes seasonal, sustainable offerings.

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Population develops a health and safety operating system that combines technology for pathogen management with data capabilities to help businesses maintain clean, safe environments. The platform serves foodservice and food manufacturing brands, enabling population health through automated, eco-friendly environmental monitoring and risk management.

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Port of Mokha sources and sells specialty coffee from Yemen, working with farmers to improve cultivation practices and coffee quality. The company operates as a social enterprise focused on empowering coffee producers in the region.

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Porter Logistics provides food-grade warehousing services for manufacturers, importers, wholesalers, and retailers, with SQF certification and FDA/AIB compliance. The company manages inventory tracking, storage, and cross-dock operations while maintaining strict food safety standards.

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Poseidon-AI develops sensors and AI-driven algorithms for aquaculture farms, focusing on feed optimization and water sensing/monitoring to reduce feed costs. It serves fish and aquaculture farmers, with roots in Southeast Asia.

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POS Experts provides a modular point-of-sale ecosystem for hospitality and retail businesses, connecting cash registers, self-service kiosks, kitchen displays, order management, inventory, delivery, and loyalty programs into one system. It serves restaurants, cafés, fast-food chains, retail stores, and food production operations, with integrations to e-shops, delivery platforms, and accounting systems, targeting the Czech and Slovak market.

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Posidonia produces a liquid salt made from natural seawater in Formentera's salt marshes, designed to reduce sodium content in food products such as bread by at least 25% without compromising taste. The product is sold to food manufacturers and retailers including major chains like Delhaize and Carrefour.

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POSS Design manufactures mechanical separators for poultry, pork, beef, and fish processing to recover meat and byproducts. The company serves meat processing plants worldwide, with over 1,800 machines installed across 69 countries.

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Pots & Co makes restaurant-quality desserts and puddings crafted by chefs, using premium ingredients and no artificial preservatives. The company sells consumer food products and has won multiple Great Taste awards.

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Pound Bizness is a pound cake business founded in 2018 that sells flavored bundt/pound cakes, offering local pickup and nationwide delivery. It grew from a home kitchen into a bakery brand serving customers across the US.

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HeatGen develops self-heating packaging technology for beverage and consumer packaged goods brands. The company works with brand owners and package manufacturers to integrate self-heating functionality into products while addressing cost, safety, performance, and sustainability considerations.

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Predikt provides an AI-based direct spend forecasting tool that uses feedstock and cost-model data to connect market conditions with a company's P&L. It is aimed at procurement professionals at consumer goods and food & beverage companies.

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PrepMyMeal is a German meal delivery service that provides pre-prepared, frozen meals ranging from pastas and bowls to pizzas. The company serves health-conscious consumers seeking convenient, portion-controlled meals with transparent nutritional information.

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