FoodTech Startups

Zenamins is an online subscription service that delivers personalized, custom-packed vitamins, minerals, and supplements to consumers. Subscribers choose their supplements or use an online guide, and receive pharmacy-packed daily doses every four weeks.

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Zendera provides a transportation management system tailored for food and beverage logistics in the Nordic region and Europe, handling chilled and frozen goods delivery with route planning, driver support, and proof-of-delivery tracking.

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A data platform for restaurants that connects, warehouses, and routes data from the many applications a restaurant uses to improve analytics, marketing, operations, and finance. It serves restaurant brands such as Frank Pepe's, Halal Guys, and Wings Over, and was acquired by Thanx.

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Zest is a food safety management application that digitizes HACCP compliance and traceability (product origin, expiration dates, temperature logs) and helps manage a Sanitary Control Plan (PMS). It targets food retailers, cafés, hotels, and restaurants, and helps reduce paperwork and food waste.

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Zeste Farms grows and sells fresh, live culinary herbs and salad greens packaged in sleeves for home preparation. The company offers a range of baby lettuces, greens, and herbs marketed toward consumers interested in gourmet salad ingredients with detailed flavor profiles and nutritional information.

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Zest Tea makes high-caffeine teas and functional drink mixes, including creatine and electrolyte sticks, positioned as an alternative to coffee for energy and focus without jitters or crash. It sells directly to consumers via one-time purchase and subscription.

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Zeyton produces hydroxytyrosol-rich extracts from olives using a patented mechanical process without chemical transformations or solvents. The company supplies these natural polyphenol-based ingredients to food manufacturers for fortification of olive oils, margarines, dairy, and other consumer products.

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Zilker Beer is a craft brewery based in Austin that produces award-winning beers and operates a taproom, founded by three local entrepreneurs who transitioned from a garage hobby to a professional operation in 2015.

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Zing Zing is a Chinese takeaway offering familiar Chinese dishes plus its own creations, including a dedicated vegan and vegetarian menu (ZZ Green), delivered to customers at home. The company emphasizes fresh ingredients and uses compostable bagasse packaging.

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Ziplife Foods sells dips, including limited editions and new flavors, offered directly to consumers as a food brand.

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Zip Recipes is a WordPress plugin for recipe bloggers that formats recipes with schema.org structured data for Google search, and adds features like automatic nutrition calculation, serving adjustments, recipe ratings, filtering grids, and social sharing. It is aimed at food blog owners who want SEO-friendly, styled recipe cards.

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ZipX enables consumers in South East Asia to order products from abroad, focusing on international items such as snacks, foods, and health and daily essentials that are unavailable or expensive locally. It operates in cross-border ecommerce aimed at expats and consumers seeking affordable access to foreign goods.

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Atlanta-based grocery marketplace where shoppers post lists and stores bid to fulfill them through a reverse auction.

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Zoa is an energy drink brand that creates beverages designed to help consumers achieve their goals. The company emphasizes innovation and consumer accessibility in the beverage industry.

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zoChai is a fully automatic Chai-making machine that boils all-natural ingredients on demand and lets users customize spices, milk-to-water ratio, and brew strength. It targets offices and workplaces seeking fresh, homemade-style tea instead of tea-bag, premix, or stored options.

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ZOLO is an AI-powered assistant that converts order details sent over WhatsApp into entries in food suppliers' back office and ERP systems. It targets B2B food suppliers managing sales and orders through messaging channels.

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Zwipe provides branded membership card and loyalty infrastructure for restaurants, enabling them to drive repeat visits and predictable recurring revenue through paid membership programs tied to physical and virtual cards.

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Guoquan is a Chinese fresh food supermarket specializing in hotpot and barbecue ingredients, with a focus on food safety and supply chain digitalization. The company sells pre-selected ingredients and meal kits sourced directly from producers.

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Double B ("Даблби") is a specialty coffee company that roasts beans, develops signature drinks, and operates a chain of over 50 coffee shops along with a barista academy, its own roastery, and specialty vending. It serves coffee customers primarily in Moscow, Irkutsk, and across Russia.

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Nuvilab builds an AI food scanner and vision AI that analyze meals served and consumed to support digital operations at daycares, kindergartens, schools, hospitals, and corporate cafeterias. Its tools cover meal inspection, patient nutrition tracking, children's eating-habit education, and food-waste reduction for foodservice operators, primarily in South Korea.

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Lifizz offers a ready-made cocktail and highball solution for bars, pubs, and casual dining establishments in South Korea. The platform enables bar staff to prepare professional-quality mixed drinks through a simple pump-and-carbonation system without requiring advanced bartending skills.

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Manicker F&G (㈜마니커에프앤지) is a South Korean food company that makes prepared and convenience meal products, including ready-to-eat noodles, chicken wings, and tteokbokki dishes. It focuses on convenient, ready-made foods sold to consumers.

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Vitrosys is a South Korean company focused on plant tissue and cell culture, bioreactors, and extraction/purification research, including mass propagation of sterile seedlings and breeding of rare and endangered species. It also develops smart farm systems using ICT and AI, and produces functional health supplement products (sticks, pouches, ampoules, drinks, and concentrates) derived from cultured wild ginseng roots.

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Sirloin is a South Korean premium Korean beef (hanwoo) B2C brand that sells 1++/1+ grade beef, dry- and wet-aged cuts, and holiday gift sets via dawn delivery. It uses data-based quality standardization to manage marbling, aging, and grading, along with its own P.R.O. aging technique.

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