FoodTech Startups

Yerba Madre (formerly Guayakí) produces yerba mate beverages, including loose leaf, sachets, cans, and bottles, sold across North and South America. The company operates on a regenerative business model and partners with Indigenous communities in Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina to source yerba mate.

3 investors

Haddock provides restaurant management software that automates recipe costing and ingredient price tracking. The platform digitizes invoices, updates dish margins automatically as ingredient prices change, and alerts operators to price fluctuations.

3 investors

Happiest Tours is a platform for booking bartenders and bar services for events. The service provides bartenders, alcohol, equipment, and all bar supplies, with flexible payment based on consumption rather than upfront costs.

3 investors

HeatGenie develops HeatGen, a patented self-heating packaging technology that uses a solid-state thermal reaction to heat ready-to-drink beverages inside the package in under two minutes. The company markets its lightweight, recyclable heaters to beverage brands.

3 investors

HeavyConnect develops software solutions for agricultural operations to improve compliance, efficiency, and operational insights. The platform serves farms of all sizes and focuses on modernizing farm management through technology.

3 investors

Hedgehog uses AI and proprietary bioreactors to optimize fungal cultivation for producing food, biochemicals, animal feed, enzymes, and other products from fungi that can recycle waste. The company serves food and agriculture industries by unlocking new fungal-based product possibilities.

3 investors

Helios operates an AI platform that forecasts prices and supply availability for 50+ agricultural soft commodities by aggregating climate and economic data, including a co-pilot tool (Helios Horizon) and commodity-tracking platform (CommodiTrack). It serves procurement teams at CPG companies, retailers, commodity traders, distributors, and food processors.

3 investors

heycater! is an online catering marketplace that connects business customers with vetted catering providers for corporate events and meetings. Operating across major German cities, it collects requests, gathers multiple offers within 48 hours, and lets clients book and manage B2B catering online.

3 investors

High Time Foods produces traditional Indian snacks (tikki, samosa, momo) formulated with increased protein content, addressing nutritional accessibility for the Indian market.

3 investors

HOPWTR makes non-alcoholic sparkling hop teas with zero calories, sugar, and carbs, sold in flavors such as raspberry, peach, and lemonade. The brand sells directly to consumers online with subscription delivery options.

3 investors

Hostie provides a voice AI phone system for restaurants that answers calls, texts, and emails to handle reservations, private dining, takeout orders, and guest questions. It integrates with POS, reservation, and ordering platforms, offers multilingual support, a shared inbox, and guest data insights for restaurant operators.

3 investors

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3 investors

Inarix uses computer vision to provide instant crop and grain quality analysis, enabling decision-making across the agriculture value chain. It serves farmers, agronomists, processors, and seed companies with tools for quality assessment, varietal purity verification, and batch traceability.

3 investors

Index Biosystems builds an AI platform for food safety and quality assurance (FSQA) teams in food manufacturing, combining AI agents that automate investigations and audit prep with BioTags — food-grade, DNA-labeled microbial tracers that generate molecular data for tracing material movement and validating sanitation. The platform maps facilities, SOPs, and testing programs into a knowledge graph so agents can reason about operations and shift food safety programs from reactive to predictive.

3 investors

Inspectle is a food safety inspection and task management platform that automates compliance documentation, non-conformity tracking, and report generation for food producers. The software helps standardize inspections, capture evidence in real time, and align with GFSI food safety standards.

3 investors

IntegriCulture is a Japanese cellular agriculture company developing cell-culture systems and production technology for cultured foods, along with OEM/ODM cosmetics and supplements and sales of cell-culture consumables and equipment. It applies its "CulNet"/cell-culture technology to help address protein supply and offers products across the food and cosmetics sectors.

3 investors

Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS) develops and manufactures vertical farming technology using a Total Controlled Environment Agriculture (TCEA) approach, providing automated, biosecure indoor growing systems and growth recipes for crop growers. Founded in 2013 in Scotland, it works with growers globally to produce consistent yields through modular, scalable hardware and software.

3 investors

Jesse & Ben's makes frozen french fries, cooked in avocado oil and grass-fed beef tallow, sold as a consumer packaged food brand for grocery retail. The company was founded by two former restaurateurs who developed the fries during their restaurant and food truck years.

3 investors

Juicer is a margin management platform for restaurants that connects to a restaurant's POS to track costs, competitor pricing, sales, and delivery commissions. It surfaces mispriced menu items and delivers specific, dollar-quantified pricing recommendations with associated traffic risk.

3 investors

Junzi Kitchen operates fast-casual restaurants serving seasonal Chinese cuisine, including noodle bowls, rice bowls, and salads, with locations at Columbia University in New York and Yale University in Connecticut. The company emphasizes regional Chinese culinary traditions and ingredients sourced according to seasonal availability.

3 investors

Justo offers an AI-powered software ecosystem for restaurants and food service businesses, combining point-of-sale, e-commerce, reservations, inventory management, and marketing tools. The platform serves independent restaurants and hospitality businesses seeking to reduce operational costs and build direct customer relationships.

3 investors

Kaikaku builds Fusion, a back-of-house automation platform that uses AI and hardware to automate food preparation for restaurants. The company develops robotics and software aimed at restaurant chains to reduce labour and increase meal output.

3 investors

Kartorium is an operations platform that provides a 3D "Visual Twin" of sites, AI-powered search across manuals, SOPs, and records, and analytics tracking batches, jobs, downtime, and quality. It serves maintenance and operations teams in manufacturing, facilities, utilities, and mining.

3 investors

Kaso develops supply chain optimization solutions for restaurants and suppliers to reduce food waste. The platform addresses inefficiencies in the food supply chain to support business profitability and environmental sustainability.

3 investors