FoodTech Startups

Lembas develops science-backed functional ingredients and supplements for weight management, designed to support fullness and metabolic health. It partners with supplement, food, beverage, and wellness brands to incorporate its clean-label ingredients into bars, shakes, snacks, and boosters.

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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.

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Lenny & Larry's makes better-for-you snack products including soft-baked protein cookies, sandwich cookies, snack bars, protein-packed pretzels, and plant-based protein candy bars. The products are sold directly to consumers online.

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Le Room Service is an outsourced Food & Beverage partner for hotels, managing services such as room service, breakfasts, buffets, events, and guest amenities either fully or partially, including production and logistics. It serves urban and holiday hotels, both independent and chain, aiming to reduce fixed costs and improve guest experience.

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Leroy International develops nutritional health products, including 3RFlex, a food formulation of hydrolysed collagen, vitamins, and minerals for bone and joint health, and 3R BioChlorella, a chlorella supplement produced in Germany using a patented glass-tube cultivation system. The company operates in the consumer health and dietary supplement industry.

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Les Fermes Debout builds modern agroecological market-garden farms that grow over 70 varieties of organic vegetables on 20-hectare sites, using a rail-mounted robotic gantry and farm-management software to handle repetitive tasks. It supplies local, ultra-fresh certified-organic produce at scale — enough to feed up to 20,000 pupils per farm — serving territories, local authorities, and school canteens in France.

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Les Nouvelles Fermes operates urban aquaponic farms that grow vegetables, herbs, and raise fish together, selling ultra-fresh local produce within about 30km of Bordeaux, France. It runs facilities in Lormont and Mérignac, the latter described as one of Europe's largest aquaponic farms.

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Let us Nudge offers a cloud-based seating optimization system that helps restaurants turn tables faster and fill seats during off-peak hours using QR-code incentives and departure prompts sent to seated customers' mobile devices. It serves family-owned, casual-chain, and fine-dining restaurants with no hardware to purchase or setup fees.

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BeFit is a prepared healthy meal delivery service offering weekly subscription meal plans with calculated calories and macros, sugar-free dishes for weight loss, fitness maintenance, or muscle gain. It delivers ready meals daily or every few days across Moscow (within the MKAD) and several Moscow region cities.

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Levain Bakery is a New York bakery known for large chocolate chip cookies, and sells cookies and gifts including a Levain for Crate & Barrel collaboration collection. Founded in 1995, it operates as a consumer food brand with direct-to-consumer online ordering.

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Lever VC is a venture capital firm that invests in startups building the future of food and agriculture, backing companies working on alternative proteins, crop genetics, animal health, and fermentation.

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Levur uses precision fermentation, guiding microbes such as yeast through a brewing-like process, to produce oils identical to those found in nature without the associated environmental harm. The resulting oil is intended for use across a range of consumer products.

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Levya uses precision fermentation with wild, non-GMO yeasts to produce fats and oils that replicate the fatty acid profiles of cocoa butter, palm oil, and shea butter. The company supplies these fermentation-derived ingredients to the food and cosmetics industries as alternatives to conventional fats.

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Lewis Bakeries is a family-owned bakery company that produces and sells a line of bread and baked goods brands. The company has operated for over 100 years and serves consumers across the nation.

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Lezzoo is a marketplace and delivery platform operating across Iraq and Kurdistan, serving restaurants, vendors, and consumers. The company offers food delivery, B2B marketplace services, and digital games, with recent expansion into AI-powered services.

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Lgem builds patented tubular photobioreactor (PBR) systems for industrial cultivation of autotrophic algae, offering automated, modular systems ranging from 25 to over 1,000,000 litres. It also operates the AlgaeHUB facility where customers can test and validate algae production processes at industrial scale before investing, serving researchers and industry professionals.

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LiberEat provides allergen error detection technology that scans supplier data, menus, product information, and labels to automatically identify undeclared allergens and mislabelled ingredients, issuing real-time alerts to food safety teams. It serves the food industry, including restaurant brands, food manufacturers, and airline food service.

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Lilo is a procurement platform that consolidates vendors, invoices, and approvals into one automated workflow, with an AI cart optimizer for price comparison, GPO rebates, flexible approval routing, and accounting-system integration for GL coding. It targets multi-property operations such as hospitality and food service, offering inventory, menu, and cost management alongside cashback on card payments.

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Lineage operates a global network of temperature-controlled cold storage facilities and provides logistics services—including import/export, transportation, warehousing and fulfillment—for temperature-sensitive food products. It serves food supply chain customers across regions including the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

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Link is a social networking app where users share location-based check-ins, photo and video posts, text "thoughts," and short voice posts, along with direct messaging and status settings. It is oriented toward consumers sharing everyday moments with their social circle.

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Lipari Foods is a food distributor and private-label manufacturer that plans assortments, manages cold-chain warehousing and transportation, and provides in-store category and merchandising support for grocery, college and university, convenience, and healthcare retailers. It offers a digital portal for ordering, pricing, availability, and claim tracking across ten product categories.

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Lish is a corporate catering service that partners with local chefs to provide chef-crafted meals for offices, offering subscription catering, on-demand ordering, box lunches, and pop-up restaurant programs. It serves workplaces in Seattle, WA and Vancouver, BC, accommodating dietary restrictions and offering delivery and set-up.

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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.

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LiVA develops natural food-protection stickers that activate fresh produce's own microbiome to extend freshness, reduce decay, and preserve flavor, texture, and aroma along the supply chain. The technology targets the first and last mile of fruit logistics (such as berries and strawberries) for growers, distributors, and retailers.

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