FoodTech Startups

Ovenly is a bakery that produces baked goods and treats blending savory and sweet flavors, made with high-quality ingredients.

2 investors

Ozo Innovations develops eloclear, a cleaning and disinfection technology that converts salt and cold water into a hygiene solution for food manufacturers and other sectors. The product aims to reduce water, energy, and chemical use while supporting productivity and sustainability/net-zero goals in food processing.

2 investors

Pacifico produces mycelium-based "Mycomeat" sold under the Viando brand, offering poultry alternatives (with pork and fish planned) grown in steel fermentation bioreactors. It supplies clean-label meat alternatives to B2B food manufacturers and food service chains that integrate into existing meat supply chains and recipes.

2 investors

PAKsense provides temperature tracking and monitoring solutions for cold chain logistics, helping reduce food waste and energy use while ensuring regulatory compliance for perishables in global supply chains.

2 investors

Palona AI provides a generative AI platform for restaurants that answers phone calls and messages to take orders, book tables, and upsell using voice cloning and custom brand personalities. It also offers Operations AI (Palona Vision), which uses existing in-store security cameras to analyze operational signals like queue lengths, table turnover, and cleanliness, and integrates with systems such as Toast, Square, and Yelp.

2 investors

Papu.io is a POS and delivery-management system for restaurants that handle deliveries (pizzerias, sushi bars, etc.), covering order taking, driver dispatch and route planning, live driver tracking on a map, customer order-status updates, and settlement reporting. Operating in Poland since 2015, it integrates external food-ordering portals and provides a dedicated driver app.

2 investors

Parkday curates and delivers meals from award-winning restaurants to corporate offices for weekday lunch, with employees ordering through a mobile app and meals tailored by dietary preference. The service targets mid-market and enterprise companies seeking to improve employee experience and retention through access to premium local dining.

2 investors

Parsons Nutritionals is an Indian contract manufacturer providing product development, manufacturing, and packing services to multinational FMCG, food, healthcare, and personal care companies. Founded in 1989, it operates 7 facilities across North, East, and South India spanning 7 states and 90 acres.

2 investors

Pathotrak develops foodborne pathogen detection kits and a next-generation enrichment platform for food safety testing labs, offering fast time-to-results across sample types such as fresh produce, beef, poultry, and environmental swabs. Its products are designed to be USDA and FDA compliant.

2 investors

Pathover (Mixbowl) provides restaurants with a commission-free online ordering and delivery platform, letting customers order via a restaurant's website and social media channels for a flat $0.99 per-order fee. It offers driver dispatch, a website ordering plugin, order scheduling, and customer support for restaurant operators.

2 investors

PathSpot provides a health and safety operating system combining hardware and cloud-based software for restaurants, commercial kitchens, food manufacturers, and hospitality businesses. Its SafetySuite platform offers analytics, threshold monitoring, audit management, and recommendations to help operators track food safety and hygiene standards across company, store, and employee levels.

2 investors

PeelON produces home-compostable active intelligent packaging liners for fresh produce that extend shelf life by regulating moisture and slowing microbial growth using plant-based bioactive agents. The company serves growers, exporters, and retailers seeking to reduce food waste and eliminate single-use plastics from produce supply chains.

2 investors

Pensees develops cultivated meat produced by growing animal cells, using its patented 3D bioprinting technology. The company positions cultivated meat as a sustainable alternative for meat production.

2 investors

Perfekto is a direct-to-consumer platform that delivers "imperfect" fresh produce—fruits and vegetables rejected for cosmetic or production reasons—directly from farms to customers' homes in Mexico. The service reduces food waste while offering consumers cheaper prices and fresher products while supporting farmers.

2 investors

PFx Biotech develops alternative protein products aimed at meeting high nutritional standards and offering health-promoting properties. The company operates in the alternative protein and biotech space.

2 investors

Phizzle offers a platform that connects analytical scientific instruments and workflows directly to digital systems such as LIMS, MES, and QMS, replacing paper-based methods and manual data entry. It serves regulated manufacturers seeking data integrity, compliance (including 21 CFR Part 11 and AS9100), and automated, audit-ready scientific workflows.

2 investors

Pieter Pot is an online grocery service that sells packaging-free and plastic-free food and household staples delivered in reusable deposit jars and bottles, which customers return for a refund. It sells bulk and organic products and focuses on reducing food waste, serving consumers in the Netherlands and Belgium.

2 investors

Pilot Project Brewing is a beverage incubator, tasting room, and restaurant that helps start-up breweries with recipe R&D, production scaling, marketing, and distribution. It operates locations in Chicago, IL and Milwaukee, WI serving craft brewers and restaurant patrons.

2 investors

Polysense builds camera and vision-based hardware that inspects product quality inline on food production lines, detecting defects, measuring dimensions, monitoring colour and identifying foreign material at production speed. It targets food processors, with a stated focus on potato processing, and integrates with existing shop-floor systems such as SCADA, MES, PLC and ERP.

2 investors

Pop Meals is a food delivery service that uses artificial intelligence, data analytics, and automated cooking equipment to produce meals efficiently at affordable prices. The company operates smart kitchens with digital quality control and continuously refines its menu based on customer feedback.

2 investors

Poppi is a consumer beverage brand that makes prebiotic sodas in flavors such as Strawberry Lemon, Wild Berry, Cherry Limeade, Orange, and Root Beer, marketed as low-sugar alternatives to traditional soda. The drinks are sold direct to consumers and in retail stores.

2 investors

PopUp Bagels bakes fresh, whole bagels served hot and sold by the box through drop-style releases, along with specialty cream cheese "schmears" developed with brands and chefs. Founded in Westport, Connecticut, the company has expanded nationally across the US.

2 investors

Poseidon designs aquaculture systems focused on fish welfare and reducing the environmental impact of farming fish for sustainable protein. The company integrates technologies into its systems so fish farmers can focus on raising fish.

2 investors

Posha makes a countertop robot chef that automatically cooks home-cooked meals from 1,000+ recipes, using a built-in camera and AI to detect cooking stages, add ingredients, adjust heat, and stir. It targets home consumers and includes a companion app (Android and iOS) for meal planning, live cooking video, and customization of spice levels, diets, and allergens.</parameter> <parameter name="founders">[]

2 investors