FoodTech Startups

SambaPOS is restaurant point-of-sale and management software that handles orders, customizable menus and reporting while collecting operational data for business decisions. It serves restaurants and offers customization and integrations with other applications.

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Sammontana Italia is an Italian food company producing Italian-style ice cream (gelato) and frozen bakery and pastry products. It aims to bring Italian food expertise to international markets, including the United States.

1 investor

San Dimas is a mezcal producer offering bottled mezcal spirits for consumers.

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SANA makes food products such as tortillas and wraps using low-impact crops like coconut and cassava. It focuses on organic, nutrient-dense ingredients aimed at health-conscious and environmentally minded consumers.

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A company focused on oyster aquaculture and research, based on marine science expertise in oyster biology and coastal ecosystems.

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sanotact is a German manufacturer of health and functional confectionery products, producing dietary supplements, medical products, dextrose, and mints in compressed and packaged forms. It also offers contract manufacturing across the full value chain for other brands and exports its products worldwide from its base in Münster.

1 investor

Sapore is a Brazilian corporate food service company that operates restaurants and provides meal services for corporate clients. Founded in 1992, it describes itself as the first genuinely Brazilian multinational in the corporate restaurant sector.

1 investor

Sapsucker makes sparkling water naturally sweetened with organic Canadian maple sap, available in seven flavors. The beverage is sold direct to consumers through the company's online shop.

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SASAYA Holdings operates and manages restaurants. The company develops workplace environments where employees can express their individuality and advance their careers across various fields.

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Sauce provides an online ordering and delivery engagement platform for local restaurants and chains to connect directly with customers and build profitable relationships.

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Sauce is a pricing platform for restaurant marketing teams, letting them set prices by meal period (lunch, dinner, happy hour, late night) and align pricing with marketing campaigns and events. It includes AB testing infrastructure to evaluate new prices across menu items and locations.

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Sauer Brands is a consumer packaged goods company that develops and manages a portfolio of food and flavor brands, focused on everyday products such as condiments and seasonings for consumers. Founded in 1887, it concentrates on building and scaling high-growth food brands.

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Saval Foodservice is a food service distributor that supplies products and market insights to restaurants, food service operators, and independent business owners. It provides online ordering and invoice management for its customers and shares industry knowledge with both buyers and suppliers.

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Sayless Spritz produces low-calorie, gluten-free ready-to-drink cocktails blending wine with sparkling water, marketed toward health-conscious consumers. The company operates in the beverage category and ships across multiple U.S. states.

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ZOLO provides industry-specific AI that converts unstructured B2B orders from WhatsApp, email, and e-commerce into structured ERP records, and offers sales intelligence for demand forecasting and personalized proposals. It is built for food suppliers and B2B foodservice distributors to manage orders, grow repeat sales, and get paid faster.

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Sbarro is a casual dining pizza and Italian food restaurant chain founded in 1956, operating over 630 locations across 28 countries. The company serves consumers seeking quick, authentic New York-style pizza and Italian cuisine.

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sbe incubates and operates hospitality and culinary brands, including restaurants, lounges, nightclubs, and luxury wellness hotels such as SLS Hotels, Hyde Lounge, and Mondrian Hotels. The company partners with recognized culinary talent to develop lifestyle hospitality concepts and also launched C3, a food-tech platform focused on digital kitchens and ghost kitchens.

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Scanbio collects seafood waste from wild and farmed fisheries and recycles it at facilities into bioenergy and animal feed products for sale to customers across more than 20 countries. The company operates recycling infrastructure and collection vessels in Northern Europe with a focus on circular resource utilization from the fishing industry.

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Scandza is a Scandinavian consumer brands company that acquires and operates iconic Nordic food and beverage brands including snacks and dairy products. The company focuses on maintaining Scandinavian ownership and quality while emphasizing sustainability and child-safe food standards.

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SCD Probiotics develops a fermentation-based biological platform that grows multiple microbial strains together into consortia to produce probiotics and microbial biochemicals. Its products serve applications ranging from gut and home health to industrial uses such as leather processing, offering bio-based, non-toxic alternatives to petroleum-based chemicals.

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Nuvin produces dried egg ingredients and functional egg-based solutions—including whole egg, yolk, egg white, binders, and eggshell membrane products—for pet food manufacturers. It valorizes side streams from human food processing and offers R&D support through its Innovation Center for dry foods, wet foods, and treats.

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Schlafly is a craft brewery based in St. Louis offering brewery tours and tastings at its Bottleworks location and Tap Room. The company operates the oldest craft brewery in St. Louis.

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Schmackary's is a cookie bakery offering a rotating menu of specialty flavors such as peppermint chocolate, ginger molasses, and chocolate cookies with pudding frosting and gummy worms, available to order.

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Michael Schulson is a chef and restaurateur who owns the Schulson Collective, a portfolio of restaurants across Philadelphia, Miami, and New York offering diverse cuisines from Japanese izakaya to Italian steakhouses and Mediterranean dining. The group operates over a dozen concepts ranging from casual pizzerias to fine-dining establishments.

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