FoodTech Startups

L'Atelier Du Miel produces raw, single-origin artisanal honey along with royal jelly, pollen, and homemade food products, harvesting 13+ honey varieties across Lebanon's ecosystems using migratory hives that follow flowering seasons. The company sells its honey and related goods directly to consumers through its online shop.

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Atlas is an all-in-one operating system for restaurants that unifies online ordering, point-of-sale, kitchen management, and delivery platform integration. It serves food and beverage operators across Southeast Asia with storefront, table ordering, kiosk, and omnichannel commerce capabilities.

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Atome Bakery is a delivery-only service that ships French-inspired, ready-to-bake frozen sourdough breads and pastries for baking at home in a custom pan. It serves consumers in western and central Canada (British Columbia, Alberta, select cities in Saskatchewan, and Ontario) via subscription and one-time orders.

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Au Bon Pain is a bakery-café chain offering sandwiches, soups, salads, breakfast items, baked goods, and beverages, with multiple locations and catering ("Bon to Go") options.

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Audivi AI builds an AI voice ordering system for quick-service restaurant drive-thrus, with its first product, Order AI, automating order taking without a human in the loop. The system offers order accuracy, multi-language support, and upsell features for QSR operators in the US.

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Aujan Group Holding is a family-owned diversified holding company with operations spanning FMCG (including beverage brands such as Rani, Vimto, and Barbican), hospitality and real estate, and packaging materials. It operates across the Middle East and Africa, including the UAE and Mozambique.

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Aussitôt Bon is a meal box subscription service that delivers ready-to-eat, seasonal dishes cooked sous-vide at low temperature by chefs, reheatable in about three minutes. It targets consumers in France who want balanced, natural meals without cooking or grocery shopping.

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Austin Cocktails makes canned, full-strength cocktails at 12.5-15% ABV using premium spirits and natural ingredients sweetened with organic agave. The Texas-based company sells ready-to-drink cocktails positioned as low-calorie and low-carb.

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The Better Fish produces ocean-farmed Barramundi marketed as a sustainable, nutritious seafood alternative to fish like salmon. It focuses on climate-smart ocean farming practices with an emphasis on environmental protection and responsible supply chains.

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AuX Labs uses precision fermentation to produce casein and other milk proteins without animals, giving microorganisms the genetic blueprint to make dairy proteins. It targets food manufacturers, CPG brands, and food-service operators seeking animal-free dairy ingredients that match conventional dairy's taste and functionality.

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Ava Ocean develops seabed harvesting technology that identifies, selects, and sorts bottom-dwelling marine species without damaging surrounding ecosystems, as an alternative to methods like dredging and bottom trawling. Based in Western Norway, the company aims to supply sustainably harvested seafood while preserving marine habitats.

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AWAKE makes premium caffeinated chocolate bites that are individually wrapped for on-the-go consumption. The company sells directly to consumers, offering subscription auto-delivery and a program giving free products to overnight workers such as healthcare staff, night-shift servers, and truckers.

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Awakened Foods is a contract manufacturer of snacks and baked goods, including popped and extruded snacks, granolas, and snack mixes, with a focus on cleaner-label and "free from" products made from higher-nutrition, higher-protein ingredients. Its SQF Level 2 certified facilities produce items under certifications such as allergen-free, gluten-free, non-GMO, organic, vegan, kosher, paleo, and keto.

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AWSM is a condiment brand that delivers sauce and seasoning ingredients in powder form that customers mix with water at home, reducing single-use plastic packaging. The company serves home cooks and families seeking sustainable, convenient alternatives to bottled condiments.

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Axial Shift is a restaurant operations platform built by restaurant owners that provides role-based dashboards, real-time data, and apps to help managers coach staff, track service metrics, and reduce back-office admin work. It serves restaurant owners, operators, and unit-level teams, with open data access via exports and APIs.

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Axino provides an ML/AI-based system that continuously calculates the product-specific core temperature of goods in real time and without probing, using Swiss-made sensors or existing hardware. It serves food retail, catering, production, healthcare, and logistics businesses for product safety, quality assurance, and regulatory compliance.

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Axxam is a Contract Research Organization (CRO) providing early drug discovery services—from target validation to hit and lead identification—for pharmaceutical and biotech companies, start-ups, patient foundations, and academic groups. It also identifies bioactive compounds for crop protection and animal health, and, through its AXXSense platform, discovers novel flavors, fragrances, and taste ingredients for the food & beverage, cosmetics, and pet food industries.</parameter> <parameter name="founders">[]

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Azzurri Group is a UK hospitality company operating over 240 restaurants and stores across brands including Zizzi, ASK Italian, Coco di Mama, Boojum, and Dave's Hot Chicken, serving over 15 million meals annually. It also runs Openr, a spun-out business that manages menu and pricing data for restaurant operators.

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Baby Gourmet makes naturally healthy, clean-label baby and children's food, offering products tested for industrial and environmental contaminants. It targets parents seeking nutritious food for their children.

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Backhouse provides a platform that consolidates online orders from delivery marketplaces such as DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub into a single device, and manages menu syncing, order support, and financial reporting for restaurants. It serves U.S.-based multi-location restaurants, high-volume independents, and restaurant groups handling delivery and takeout operations.

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Bacta develops an AI-powered bioproduction platform that uses microorganisms to produce industrial ingredients, starting with astaxanthin. Its ingredients are offered in multiple forms with traceability for the cosmetics, human nutrition, and animal nutrition markets.

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Bactolife develops Binding Proteins for use in functional foods for humans and in animal feed, aimed at supporting healthy digestion and livestock health. It positions its products as affordable, science-based solutions sold to food producers and the animal feed industry.

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Badiani is an artisan gelato producer founded in Florence in 1932, operating retail stores, kiosks, and market stalls. It sells Italian gelato and related treats to consumers, with locations across London and Brighton (UK), Spain (Barcelona and Malaga), and France (Carrousel du Louvre, Paris).

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Bairu offers a WhatsApp-based ordering and payment system that lets restaurants take orders and payments directly through WhatsApp without customers downloading apps, along with tools for order management, automated follow-up messages, and reporting. It targets Latino restaurants and charges a fixed per-transaction fee starting at 2% instead of subscriptions.

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