FoodTech Startups

La Brasserie Fondamentale (L.B.F.) is a French craft brewery that produces beer, focusing on rare hops and varied aroma and bitterness profiles. It aims to introduce and explain quality beer to a broad audience across France.

2 investors

Labomar is a company involved in food production and research, participating in the Food-4-Life research project focused on improving plant and animal raw materials for functional foods with high nutritional value while maintaining ecological sustainability.

2 investors

Lacerta manufactures thermoformed PET plastic packaging for food producers and supermarkets, offering stock and custom solutions with integrated design capabilities. The company emphasizes sustainable packaging including its ReCERTA™ material made with recycled content.

2 investors

LayerLogic builds a portable graphene field-effect transistor (gFET) biosensor that detects Listeria monocytogenes in food-production environments, returning pass/fail results in under fifteen minutes without a lab. The single-use sensor is aimed at food producers for on-line microbial contamination testing, with a platform that can be re-tuned for other bacteria, viruses, and analytes.</parameter> <parameter name="hq_city">Göteborg

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Lemonilo makes healthier packaged consumer goods and food products, such as instant noodles, sold to Indonesian consumers through e-commerce platforms like TikTok Shop, Tokopedia, and Shopee. It positions itself as a healthier FMCG brand focused on the Indonesian market.

2 investors

Go Zero makes low-calorie ice creams and frozen desserts marketed as guilt-free and free of preservatives, sold in India in formats such as cups, tubs, bars, cones, and fruit pops.

2 investors

Liberation Bioindustries provides a platform for rapid deployment of biomanufacturing capacity using precision fermentation for companies developing bio-based products.

2 investors

Lish operates a corporate catering service that delivers chef-prepared meals to offices in the Seattle and Vancouver areas. The company partners with local chefs to provide customized meal options for workplace dining programs.

2 investors

Liv Up sells ready-to-eat frozen meals ("marmitas"), proteins, side dishes, snacks and desserts through an online store with home delivery. Its product lines target goals such as weight loss, athletic performance, meat-free diets and healthy snacking for consumers in Brazil.

2 investors

A beverage company offering herbal tea-based drinks in subscription format. The product is a low-calorie, naturally sweetened canned beverage made with brewed herbal tea blend and fruit juice concentrate.

2 investors

LMNT is a manufacturer of electrolyte drink mixes and beverages sold direct-to-consumer, formulated to support hydration without added sugar or artificial ingredients.

2 investors

Local is a UAE-based payments company offering QR code-based transactions. It targets merchants that serve customers in person and aims to complete a payment in roughly ten seconds.

2 investors

A marketplace connecting consumers with local producers of fresh produce, meat, dairy, grains, and artisanal products from New York state growers and makers.

2 investors

Local Line operates a digital supply chain platform that connects family farms with buyers such as restaurants, grocery chains, and institutions. The platform manages sales, sourcing, orders, inventory, logistics, and payments to enable efficient regional food sourcing at scale.

2 investors

ShopLocale is a meal delivery service that provides meals made with high-protein, organic natural ingredients, without seed oils and reduced microplastics. The service targets health-conscious consumers seeking science-backed nutrition.

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Loisa produces organic Latin cooking staples such as sazón, adobo, and sofrito made with clean ingredients. The Latin-owned brand sells directly to consumers seeking healthier versions of traditional Latin pantry products.

2 investors

Loopworm produces custom recombinant proteins—antigens, antibodies, cytokines, growth factors and enzymes—by using living silkworms as bioreactors instead of stainless-steel fermenters or mammalian cell culture. It serves human and animal therapeutics, diagnostics, biotech research and industrial applications, and is based in Bengaluru, India.

2 investors

Louisville Brands is a vertically integrated house of brands focused on beverages/alcohol and plant-based foods, managing product development from concept to retail shelf. The company combines design and entrepreneurial expertise to create consumer products targeting next-generation consumers.

2 investors

LOVE CORN makes crunchy roasted corn snacks sold in multiple flavors and pack sizes for everyday snacking. It is a direct-to-consumer packaged food brand positioned as a snack for kids and adults.

2 investors

Lowell Farms is a California-based cannabis company providing extraction, manufacturing, processing, logistics, distribution, and sales support services for cannabis brands. The company operates a statewide distribution network with a distribution center in Salinas serving retail and wholesale customers across California.

2 investors

Löwenzahn Organics produces organic baby food and nutrition products—such as infant formula (Pre and follow-on milk in cow's and goat's milk varieties) and bone broth—along with products for mothers, focused on nutrition during the first 1,000 days from conception to a child's second birthday. The company sells direct to parents online and through retail, developing its products with in-house nutrition scientists and independent labs.

2 investors

Lucille makes lactose-free nutrition shakes designed to deliver protein, fiber, calories, and essential nutrients, with a focus on supporting strength, energy, and digestion in older adults. The shakes were developed with experts from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and are sold direct to consumers, including via subscription.

2 investors

Lulo builds a mobile app that helps families access and redeem Supplemental Nutrition Program (WIC) benefits more easily, increasing redemption rates and reducing time spent on WIC shopping. The platform serves low-income families and aims to address food insecurity by unlocking billions in unused government benefits.

2 investors

SmartLunch is a workplace meal-organization platform that combines online meal ordering, employer subsidies, and billing in one system, letting employees pick meals while employers control budgets, limits, and settlements. It serves companies across Poland — including factories, warehouses, logistics centers, and shift-based operations — offering 24/7 catering, on-site canteens, and regulatory (BHP) regenerative meals without requiring in-house kitchen infrastructure.

2 investors