FoodTech Startups

Biryani By Kilo is an online food ordering and delivery service offering dum-cooked handi biryani, kebabs, curries, rolls, breads, beverages, and desserts to consumers across many Indian cities. Each biryani is individually cooked and delivered in clay handi earthenware.

3 investors

Blendid builds a fully autonomous robotic kiosk that prepares customizable smoothies from whole fruits, vegetables, and other real ingredients, operating without on-site staff. Its unmanned kiosks are aimed at retail locations, colleges and universities, health clubs, and hospitals.

3 investors

Upswell helps restaurants drive grand openings, re-openings, and repeat customer growth using creator campaigns, tracked customer data, paid amplification, and CRM. Operated by Bobidi, Inc., its products include Upswell Preshift (an AI staff-training tool) and Upswell Play (a consumer dining app).

3 investors

Boh provides a managed service that handles repairs, preventive maintenance, and compliance for commercial restaurant kitchens, offering 13 bookable service lines individually or as a single Kitchen Coverage plan. It serves restaurants across Southern California.

3 investors

Boomerang's makes Australian-inspired frozen handheld foods, including meat pies, sandwiches, and rolls, made with flaky puff pastry and designed to be prepared in a microwave or air fryer. The products are sold in the freezer section of retailers as convenient snacks or meals.

3 investors

Bota Bio operates a proprietary Biofoundry platform combining computational algorithms with biotechnology to accelerate design-build-test-learn cycles for bio-manufacturing. Through brands like HeliaGenesis (bio-preservatives, nutritional supplements, and clean label products for food and nutrition) and YuccaElements (synthetic biological materials for personal care), it develops natural, sustainable bio-based ingredients.

3 investors

Botrista makes an automated beverage dispensing machine (the BotristaPro) paired with AI that uses location and daypart demand data to predict which drinks will sell and craft them on demand. It serves foodservice operators such as restaurants and coffee shops looking to add a beverage program.

3 investors

Breadless makes bread-free sandwiches, bowls, and salads wrapped in greens like swiss chard and romaine, with menu items such as jerk chicken, falafel, and braised beef. It offers ordering and catering to consumers and promotes franchise ownership opportunities.

3 investors

Brendi is a Brazilian platform that gives restaurants their own delivery channel, combining a digital menu, AI-powered WhatsApp ordering and customer service, a proprietary CRM, a loyalty program with cashback, and campaign management in one system. It serves restaurants of all sizes—from neighborhood eateries and food trucks to multi-location chains—that want to own their customer relationships instead of relying on marketplaces like iFood.

3 investors

Cartwheel provides a software platform for restaurant delivery and order management, serving independent restaurants and multi-unit brands through their own delivery networks. The company evolved from operating its own delivery service for restaurants and liquor stores to licensing its software to major restaurant brands.

3 investors

Caviar is a food delivery platform that partners with restaurants to fulfill orders placed through its web and mobile applications. The service connects customers to restaurants across major U.S. cities and provides restaurants with tools to expand their customer base and sales.

3 investors

Celleste Bio develops a cell-based "cocoa technology" combining biotech, agtech, and AI to produce real cocoa ingredients—including cocoa butter and powder—at scale independent of geography and climate. Its products serve as drop-in replacements for conventional cocoa in chocolate manufacturing.

3 investors

Cerebelly makes organic baby food and snack bars formulated with 16 brain-supporting nutrients, with no added sugar, aimed at supporting infant and toddler brain development. Its products are USDA Certified Organic and Clean Label Project certified, targeting parents of babies and young children.

3 investors

Chari is a fintech app available in Morocco that provides mobile money services including phone recharges, bill payments, peer-to-peer transfers, and Visa card issuance. The platform serves both consumers and merchants, offering wallet functionality, bill payment services, and point-of-sale solutions.

3 investors

Cheaf runs a mobile app that connects supermarkets, restaurants, bakeries and other food businesses with surplus food to consumers who buy it at a discount through a pickup-only model, reducing food waste. It operates across four countries and serves both merchants looking to monetize excess inventory and shoppers seeking cheaper food.

3 investors

Checkerspot uses microalgae precision fermentation to produce specialized lipids and fats, including a bio-equivalent source of the sn-2 palmitate fat found in mother's milk, rare bioactive fatty acids, and tropical fat alternatives. Its ingredients serve the food, infant nutrition, and health and wellness markets, with partnerships aimed at scaling and commercializing these fats and oils.

3 investors

ChefCoco is an office and event catering service that delivers fresh, chef-prepared meals with rotating weekly menus and reusable, zero-waste packaging to companies. It focuses on the Berlin market, serving corporate clients for daily employee lunches and events.

3 investors

Chompy builds a food delivery service and offers a free service (beta) that lets restaurants and food retail brands create their own official app and website. The company aims to provide food and beverage retail brands with access to technology for daily meal distribution.

3 investors

Chope operates a restaurant reservation platform with a consumer app for diners to book tables and a rewards program ("Chope-Dollars"), alongside tools for restaurants.

3 investors

Chromologics develops natural red colorants as alternatives to synthetic dyes. Its Natu.Red product targets food and beverage manufacturers as a replacement for Red3 and Red40, while Sustainly.Red serves non-food industries such as textiles and cosmetics.

3 investors

CloudChef builds hourly-wage kitchen robots that learn recipes from a single demonstration and operate across commercial kitchen stations such as prep, batch cooking, line cooking, griddle work, and packaging. The robots are designed to drop into existing commercial kitchens without retrofitting and are offered on a pay-by-the-hour model in three form factors.

3 investors

Cometeer produces flash-frozen specialty coffee in recyclable capsules designed for home brewing, emphasizing freshness and sustainability. The company serves coffee enthusiasts seeking high-quality, convenient coffee with minimal waste.

3 investors

Cookat operates an online store selling ready-to-eat and frozen convenience foods, including microwaveable meals, snacks, and its own Cookat Made branded products. The Korean-language e-commerce platform offers curated food items with discounts, recommendations, and same-day delivery to consumers.

3 investors

Cooklist provides AI shopping agents for grocery retailers, including an embedded conversational assistant that plans meals and fills carts, an intent-based agentic search engine, and an MCP server that connects a grocer's catalog to off-platform AI assistants like ChatGPT and Gemini. It offers a drop-in SDK and governance controls so grocers can integrate the tools into their existing tech stack.

3 investors