FoodTech Startups

Krispy Kreme is a doughnut and beverage retailer that offers a variety of flavored doughnuts and seasonal drinks through its dedicated shops and rewards program.

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Kuik is a fintech platform offering embedded finance to restaurants and food businesses, using AI scoring based on POS data to provide instant financing and flexible payment options for cash-flow management. Founded in 2023, it operates across Turkey, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK, and Azerbaijan.

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Esencia Foods (now KULT FARM) uses mycelium solid-state fermentation with legumes to make vegan meat, fish, and hybrid meat products such as mince, chunks, and slices with clean labels. It sells to food service and retail businesses and has filed patents on its fermentation platform.

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Kuri is a personalized meal planning application that suggests recipes and generates grocery lists tailored to user dietary preferences, cooking skill, and local seasonal availability. The platform emphasizes low-carbon meals and support for local farmers.

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Kytchens operates a multi-brand cloud kitchen network in Mumbai, providing F&B brands with kitchen infrastructure, staffing, regulatory compliance, aggregator management, packaging, and marketing support. It serves food and beverage brands looking to launch and scale online food delivery operations on a pay-as-you-grow model.

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Direct-to-consumer marketplace connecting consumers with organic farmers and producers in Brittany, France, selling fresh vegetables and agricultural products.

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La Pâtisserie Numérique develops Patiss3, a 3D food printer designed for professional pastry chefs, bakeries, restaurants, and makers to produce items such as 3D biscuits and macarons. The company also offers training programs on 3D food printing for both professionals and home users.

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Labomar develops and manufactures nutraceuticals and functional foods with a focus on scientific research. The company participates in the Food-4-Life project aimed at improving plant and animal raw materials and packaging for high-nutritional-value functional foods.

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Lacerta is a plastic packaging manufacturer that designs and produces custom PET food packaging, including film-sealable and tamper-resistant containers for fresh foods like salads and snacks. It offers integrated manufacturing and sustainability-focused materials made with post-consumer recycled plastic.

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Novus Foods is a consumer packaged goods company that produces refrigerated food brands such as dips, desserts, and high-protein snacks made with simple ingredients. Its products are sold in the cold/refrigerated section of retail stores.

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Lakrids by Bülow is a premium confectionery brand that makes gourmet liquorice products, such as liquorice coated in chocolate and flavored coatings. Based in the Nordics, it sells directly to consumers and is B Corp certified.

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Lambda Tea manufactures automated dispensing machines that allow customers to prepare bubble tea independently.

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LANCH is a German food-tech startup that creates delivery-focused virtual food brands (such as Loco Chicken and Happy Slice) together with influencers and celebrities, and enables restaurant operators to run these brands as ghost kitchens or franchise partners. It serves gastronomy operators and combines influencer marketing with delivery food distributed via platforms like Wolt, Lieferando, and UberEats.

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Landwash Brewery is a craft brewery in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland, that produces and sells beer across the province. Founded in 2018 and named after a beach in Branch, NL, it draws inspiration from local Newfoundland coastal communities.

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Laori develops non-alcoholic spirits and drinks, such as alcohol-free alternatives to gin, vermouth and other aperitifs, aimed at adults who want festive drinks without alcohol. The German brand sells its products directly to consumers and shares cocktail recipes on its site.

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Laurus Bio, a subsidiary of Laurus Labs, is a biomanufacturing company using precision fermentation and recombinant DNA technology to produce animal-origin-free recombinant proteins, growth factors, and cell-culture media supplements. It serves the biopharma, cultured meat, and cell-culture markets and offers CDMO precision fermentation services to protein companies and bio-manufacturers across healthcare, food, nutrition, personal care, and bio-based materials.

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LAVIT makes a countertop beverage system that pours on-demand cold drinks—still and sparkling water, sodas, teas, and energy drinks—from single-serve capsules of various brands. It targets workplace and hospitality settings such as office breakrooms, coworking spaces, airports, banks, spas, car dealerships, and college campuses.

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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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Elbee is a Japanese company producing beverages and chilled food products, with roots in a lactic acid bacteria drink. It aims to address social challenges through its beverage and chilled food business.

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The Seville is a cocktail bar and live-music venue in New York City's NoMad District, offering a playful cocktail menu with live musicians and DJs playing older music genres. It is one of LDV Hospitality's signature brands.

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Le Pain Quotidien is a bakery-restaurant chain serving fresh bread and meals made from natural ingredients, with communal-table dining and a "Better Choices" line of nutritionally balanced dishes. It originated in Belgium and traces its roots to founder Alain Coumont's bakery tradition.

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Leaft extracts protein and nutritional ingredients from leafy crops for use in human nutrition products, pet food, and nutritional supplements. The company produces protein isolates and formulated nutrition products targeting consumer health and wellness markets.

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LearnCove provides compliance and training management software for food businesses, replacing paper logs and checklists with digital templates, training modules, and real-time compliance tracking to keep operations audit-ready. It supports food and seafood companies with certification and regulatory management (e.g., HACCP, MSC, OSHA, FSMA), including automatic translation across 130+ languages.

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Lectrolyst develops patented electrolyzer technology that converts carbon dioxide emissions into multi-carbon chemicals such as acetate and ethylene, partnering with carbon emitters and chemical consumers to produce everyday products including edible protein and plastics. A University of Delaware spin-off founded in 2018, it operates in the carbon capture and utilization space.

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