69 Best Cooking Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Cooking Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 126 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $2.8b. The average funding per company in this subset is $40.2m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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Funding Rounds

$119.5m

Money raised

Wild Type is a San Francisco based company producing meat products like salmon using cellular agriculture lab techniques.

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4

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$18.7m

Money raised

Creator is the developer of a robotic burger maker.

1

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$2.0m

Money raised

A company offering an online food marketplace with a curated shop, home and kitchen content, and a community for kitchen and home enthusiasts.

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1

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$400.0m

Money raised

Dole Food Company is an american agricultural multinational corporation founded in 1851 by Samuel Northrup Castle.

2

Funding Rounds

$22.5m

Money raised

June is a consumer electronics company making home automation products, most notably a smart oven called the June Oven.

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6

Funding Rounds

$125.4m

Money raised

Munchery is the operator of a recipe website where users can search recipes, find cooking tutorials, and a glossary of cooking terms. Based in San Francisco, Munchery originally opened in 2011 as a pre-made meal delivery company that closed in 2019.

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Funding Rounds

$728.1m

Money raised

Gousto is a meal-kit delivery service founded in 2012.

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4

Funding Rounds

$87.0m

Money raised

A biotechnology and energy company developing processing technologies for clean transportation fuels.

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Funding Rounds

$25.8m

Money raised

Spyce is a company founded in 2015 by Brady Knight, Kale Rogers, Michael Farid and Luke Schlueter.

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Orange Chef is a San Francisco-based company.

2

Funding Rounds

$2.3m

Money raised

Melt is a brand of plant-based non-GMO, soy-free, and nut-free vegan butters and spreads offered by Prosperity Organic Foods. The company was founded by Cygnia Rapp in 2008, and is headquartered in Boise, Idaho.

3

Funding Rounds

$31.2m

Money raised

Gobble is a company designing gourmet dinner kits for clients. It sources ingredients from local Bay Area farmers and prepares dinner kits delivered to customers. It participated in the W14 cohort of Y Combinator.

2

Funding Rounds

$7.4m

Money raised

Porter Road is an online butcher service headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee selling pasture-raised beef, pork, lamb, and chicken, delivered. Free of antibiotics, hormones, and GMOs.

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Funding Rounds

$85.0m

Money raised

We bring delicious plant-based proteins with a perfect texture and fibre to the table - without any additives.

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4

Funding Rounds

$60.8m

Money raised

Tovala is a Chicago-based startup company marketing a countertop steam oven that comes with a meal kit subscription service.

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2

Funding Rounds

$48.0m

Money raised

Daring Foods is a company making plant-based chicken products founded in 2018 by Ross Mackay.

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1

Funding Rounds

$20.0m

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A company providing a full-service kitchen stocked with snacks and beverages for employees

5

Funding Rounds

$112.0m

Money raised

Sun Basket is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2014.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.5m

Money raised

Yhangry is a London-based cooking company founded in 2019 by Siddhi Mittal.

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6

Funding Rounds

$25.8m

Money raised

Chowbotics is a robots for food service founded by Deepak Sekar.

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4

Funding Rounds

$1.8m

Money raised

PlateJoy is a company providing an online service for customizing meal plans, grocery lists and optional grocery delivery service.

3

Funding Rounds

$42.7m

Money raised

Territory Foods offers prepared meals in personalized weekly plans.

5

Funding Rounds

$135.0m

Money raised

Simple Feast is a Denmark-based company founded in 2015.

2

Funding Rounds

$32.8m

Money raised

Revolution Foods is an Oakland, California-based cooking company.

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1

Funding Rounds

$21.2m

Money raised

Eko is a company founded in 2010 by Yoni Bloch, Barak Feldman and Tal Zubalsky.

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6

Funding Rounds

$7.2m

Money raised

Tinychef (formerly KloveChef) is a converstional AI-powered cooking platform for recipe creators and home cooks.

1

Funding Rounds

$12.0m

Money raised

Brava is a Redwood City, California-based company founded in 2015.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

Fooda is a company founded in 2011 by Orazio Buzza.

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1

Funding Rounds

$4.4m

Money raised

2ndKitchen enables businesses without a kitchen to serve food seamlessly using a custom menu from nearby restaurants.

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3

Funding Rounds

$7.5m

Money raised

ThisNext is a company founded in 2006.

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2

Funding Rounds

$98.0m

Money raised

Freshly is a company founded in 2012.

1

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$40.0m

Money raised

Home Chef is a Chicago-based company founded in 2013.

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A company making plant-based meat products and packaged foods.

3

Funding Rounds

$1.9m

Money raised

A company making and delivering gourmet and organic prepared meals within the United States.

1

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Markov is a Palo Alto, California-based company founded in 2016 by Leonard Speiser.

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2

Funding Rounds

$500.0k

Money raised

Kitchology provides an integrated analytics platform based on machine learning to help people with special diets find select food, products and retailers.

2

Funding Rounds

$25.0m

Money raised

The Level Hot Pantry is a company that provides an AI technology which enables restaurant quality cooking at lower costs.

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2

Funding Rounds

$17.0m

Money raised

Ollie is a company founded in 2016.

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2

Funding Rounds

$47.7m

Money raised

Operator of an online grocery platform intended to offer personalized grocery services.

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1

Funding Rounds

$350.0k

Money raised

On-demand grocery delivery platform. Find and shop from any local grocery store and get your order in minutes!

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4

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$35.8m

Money raised

Jow, it's a new way to do your grocery shopping.

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3

Funding Rounds

$756.0k

Money raised

Parsley Software, Inc. is helping commercial kitchens manage recipes, get nutrition facts, calculate food costs, and track inventory.

2

Funding Rounds

$36.3m

Money raised

Platform offering plant-based, eco-friendly food choices for everyone.

1

Funding Rounds

$990.0k

Money raised

White-label platform offering a complete solution for restaurants, including an open API suite.

3

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$58.0m

Money raised

1

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$20.0m

Money raised

Garten is concierge-style kitchen management for offices.

2

Funding Rounds

$2.2m

Money raised

Digital platform providing corporate catering with Mediterranean dishes.

3

Funding Rounds

$22.9m

Money raised

Fresh Prep is a meal kit delivery service based in Vancouver, BC.

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2

Funding Rounds

$7.9m

Money raised

Empowering restaurants to sell their dishes online, on their terms.

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1

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$16.0m

Money raised

Food delivery service specializing in meals for people at work.

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Edamam is a New York-based company founded in 2011 by Victor Penev.

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2

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$12.1m

Money raised

Yumi is a Los Angeles-based company founded in 2017 by Evelyn Rusli.

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1

Funding Rounds

$4.0m

Money raised

BOU Brands is a food company founded in 2017 by Robert Jakobi.

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2

Funding Rounds

$2.6m

Money raised

SimplyCook is a London-based company founded in 2014.

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1

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$200.0k

Money raised

IoT Pot is a cooking research and development company.

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1

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$1.3m

Money raised

Moley Robotics is a company founded in 2014 by Mark Oleynik.

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1

Funding Rounds

$4.0m

Money raised

PetPlate is a company founded in 2016.

1

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$3.9m

Money raised

Website offering information and resources on keto and low-carb diets for diabetes, weight loss, and other health conditions.

1

Funding Rounds

$67.0m

Money raised

Green Chef is a company founded in 2014.

1

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$14.0m

Money raised

Woodspoon is a New York City-based company founded by Oren Saar, Lee Reshef and Merav Rozengarten.

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1

Funding Rounds

$900.0k

Money raised

DinnerTime is a Baltimore-based cooking company founded by Charles P. Moore, Laura Moore, Sharon Lacy and Doug Lay.

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1

Funding Rounds

$670.0k

Money raised

Streaming platform where creators own, control, and monetize their premium content.

1

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$800.0k

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Page Street Publishing is a Salem, Massachusetts-based company founded by Will Kiester.

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1

Funding Rounds

$615.0k

Money raised

bitewell is the first nutrition-focused restaurant and grocery delivery app. Our mission is to make healthy eating simple and actionable.

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1

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$210.4k

Money raised

MYCHOPCHOP is a London-based company founded by JinA Bae, Johnson Wang, Max Frenzel and George Trevill.

1

Funding Rounds

$11.3m

Money raised

Platform for fitness and sports nutrition products sold exclusively online.

2

Funding Rounds

$27.5m

Money raised

Just Spices is a spice-mix and meal-prep brand that manufactures and markets food products.

4

Funding Rounds

$101.5k

Money raised

Tupalo is an Austria-based company.

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