69 Best Dairy Product Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Dairy Product 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 729 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $13.8b. The average funding per company in this subset is $199.9m.

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

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Arzeda logo

Arzeda

Arzeda is a biotechnology and software company designing custom microorganisms for industrial applications through computational enzyme design, protein optimization, and metabolic engineering.

5

Funding Rounds

$72.2m

Money raised

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ClimaCell

ClimaCell is a Boston-based weather intelligence platform for automated weather predictions.

6

Funding Rounds

$95.0m

Money raised

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Impossible Foods

Impossible Foods is a plant-based meat company making meat and dairy products that are made to look and feel like animal products by manufacturing heme, the oxygen binding molecule found in blood, using engineered yeast grown in bioreactors.

11

Funding Rounds

$1.9b

Money raised

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Salesken

Salesken.ai is a conversational intelligence platform.

4

Funding Rounds

$38.0m

Money raised

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Perfect Day Foods

Perfect Day Foods (formerly Muufri) engineered yeast capable of producing the proteins found in cows milk. They use these proteins to make their own line of animal-free dairy products.

7

Funding Rounds

$711.5m

Money raised

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Krisp

Krisp is a technology company developing an AI-powered app designed to eliminate background noise during online communications.

5

Funding Rounds

$18.0m

Money raised

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Superhuman

A company offering an email client designed to be the fastest email experience. The company was founded by Conrad Irwin, Rahul Vohra, and Vivek Sodera in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

5

Funding Rounds

$121.0m

Money raised

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Desktop Metal

Desktop Metal is a Burlington, Massachusetts-based metal 3D printing company founded in 2015 by Ric Fulop, Jonah Myerberg, and Ely Sachs.

8

Funding Rounds

$741.4m

Money raised

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New Wave Foods

New Wave Foods is a biotechnology company developing plant-based shellfish food products. The company is based out of San Francisco, California and was founded in 2015 by Dominique Barnes and Michelle Wolf.

9

Funding Rounds

$20.3m

Money raised

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Auth0

Auth0 is an authentication and authorization service for application developers.

9

Funding Rounds

$332.3m

Money raised

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DSM

A bio-based chemical manufacturer focusing on human and animal nutrition, health, and materials markets.

1

Funding Rounds

$12.5m

Money raised

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Postman

Postman is a San Francisco-based software company offering an API development environment.

5

Funding Rounds

$433.0m

Money raised

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Future Meat Technologies

An Israeli startup company that is working to make sustainable "animal-free" cell-based meat products available at the local level by adapting the distributed manufacturing model

4

Funding Rounds

$390.0m

Money raised

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Just, Inc.

Just, Inc. (formerly known as Hampton Creek) is a food technology company developing and selling plant based food products around the world.

8

Funding Rounds

$220.0m

Money raised

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Aleph Farms

Aleph Farms is an Israeli cellular agriculture start-up founded by Didier Toubia and Shulamit Levenberg in 2017 developing technologies for culturing meat products into 3D structures.

4

Funding Rounds

$119.8m

Money raised

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Upside Foods

Upside Foods is a San Francisco-based company making cultured meat products. The company was founded by Uma Valeti, Nicholas Genovese, and Will Clem.

4

Funding Rounds

$580.8m

Money raised

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Notion

Notion is a software company offering a platform for writing, planning, and organizing note-taking.

5

Funding Rounds

$335.0m

Money raised

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Polarity

Polarity is a computer software company. It has developed a system that analyzes the contents of users'​ computer screens and gives them real-time access to information without affecting their existing workflow.

3

Funding Rounds

$7.0m

Money raised

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Algolia

Algolia is a company designing and building search and discovery API for websites and mobile apps. It participated in the W14 cohort of Y Combinator.

9

Funding Rounds

$462.2m

Money raised

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MuleSoft

A technology company, now part of Salesforce, providing an integration platform for connecting SaaS & enterprise applications.

7

Funding Rounds

$259.0m

Money raised

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Front (company)

A software company making a workplace email communication platform for remote and office work.

6

Funding Rounds

$200.0m

Money raised

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Califia Farms

Califia Farms makes plant-based dairy products (primarily almond based) such as plant-based milks, plant-based creamers, juices, and dairy-free probiotic yoghurts. The company was founded in 2010 by Greg Steltenpohl and is located in San Joaquin Valley, California.

4

Funding Rounds

$295.0m

Money raised

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Salt Security

Salt Security is a Palo Alto, California-based protection platform for APIs and associated API integrations.

7

Funding Rounds

$281.0m

Money raised

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SignalWire

SignalWire is a developer of an API and products platform.

5

Funding Rounds

$41.6m

Money raised

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BlueNalu

A cellular agriculture company making fresh and frozen cultured seafood products.

5

Funding Rounds

$104.5m

Money raised

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Segment (company)

Segment is a company providing a data infrastructure for businesses.

3

Funding Rounds

$239.6m

Money raised

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Geltor

Geltor is a cellular agriculture company making essential proteins, such as collagen and gelatin, using microbes in their own bio-fermentation recombinant protein production facility.

7

Funding Rounds

$114.3m

Money raised

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Rebellyous Foods

Seattle Food Tech is a food manufacturing technology and production company producing plant-based meats. They make plant-based food and plant-based chicken nuggets.

9

Funding Rounds

$24.2m

Money raised

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Casper (company)

Casper is a memory-foam mattress retailer.

6

Funding Rounds

$330.5m

Money raised

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Grammarly

Grammarly is a web application for checking spelling, grammar, and plagiarism.

5

Funding Rounds

$490.0m

Money raised

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Integriculture Inc.

Integriculture is a Japanese cellular agriculture company making lab grown foie gras and other clean meat and cellular agriculture products. The company was founded in on October 23, 2015 and is located in Tokyo, Japan.

2

Funding Rounds

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Evernote

Evernote is a company offering notetaking software and online service founded in 2008 by Stepan Pachikov.

6

Funding Rounds

$159.5m

Money raised

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The EVERY Company

The EVERY Company (formally Clara Foods) is a biotechnology company founded by two New Harvest community members David Anchel and Arturo Elizondo in 2014. The company is based out of San Francisco, California and manufactures animal- free proteins using using yeast bio-fermentation techniques fore use in food products.

5

Funding Rounds

$191.8m

Money raised

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Nylas

A company offering a communications platform allows developers to quickly build features that connect to every email, calendar, and contacts provider in the world.

5

Funding Rounds

$162.5m

Money raised

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Buffer

Buffer is a company founded by Joel Gascoigne, Leo Widrich and Tom Moor.

3

Funding Rounds

$400.0k

Money raised

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Gupshup

Gupshup is an AI-powered messaging platform that integrates with communication software and protocols for commerce, marketing, and support applications.

5

Funding Rounds

$373.0m

Money raised

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Kong (company)

Kong (formerly Mashape) is a San Francisco-based company that offers open source microservice API gateway.

5

Funding Rounds

$167.6m

Money raised

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Air Protein

Air Protein is a Berkeley-based biotechnology company producing protein with microorganisms that are fed carbon dioxide in a mission to replace animal agriculture.

1

Funding Rounds

$32.0m

Money raised

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Hungry Planet

Hungry Planet is a food technology startup company founded in 2016 by siblings Todd and Jody Boyman. Hungry Planet is located in St.Louis, Missouri, and produces plant-based meats. The company offers beef, Italian sausage, chorizo, chicken, pork, crab and turkey - available in chubs (ground), crumble and patties.

1

Funding Rounds

$25.0m

Money raised

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Datatron

Datatron is an artificial Intelligence company providing machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science models for user models.

1

Funding Rounds

$9.4m

Money raised

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NotCo

NotCo is a food science company located in Santiago, Chile, making plant-based Greek yogurt, milk, cheese and mayonnaise, with the help of their artificial intelligence software called Giuseppe.

6

Funding Rounds

$366.0m

Money raised

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Ocean Hugger Foods

Ocean Hugger Foods is making a plant-based raw tuna substitute called Ahimi out of a mixture of 5 ingredients; tomatoes, filtered water, soy sauce, sesame oil, and sugar. The company is located in New York City, New York and was founded in 2015.

2

Funding Rounds

$500.0k

Money raised

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StopLight

Stoplight is an Austin, Texas based company developing an API design and documentation platform.

4

Funding Rounds

$20.4m

Money raised

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SuperMeat

SuperMeat is an Israeli biotechnology company, founded on December 15, 2015. SuperMeat is working to develop chicken meat products cultured from extracted chicken cells.

2

Funding Rounds

$3.2m

Money raised

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One Planet Pizza

One Planet Pizza is a company making plant-based pizza founded in 2016.

1

Funding Rounds

$490.0k

Money raised

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Daily Harvest

Daily Harvest is a New York City-based company founded in 2015 by Rachel Drori.

6

Funding Rounds

$120.0m

Money raised

SCiFi Foods logo

SCiFi Foods

SCiFi Foods (formerly Artemys Foods) is a company that makes and provides meat that is animal-free

4

Funding Rounds

$84.5m

Money raised

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Shiok Meats

Shiok Meats is a Singapore-based cellular agriculture company focusing on making cultured seafood.

5

Funding Rounds

$20.4m

Money raised

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Almanac

Almanac is a San Francisco-based cloud-based knowledge platform for professionals to create, fork, and share open-source work documents.

4

Funding Rounds

$45.0m

Money raised

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Alpha Foods

Alpha Foods is a plant-based food company operating out of Glendale, California, that was founded in by Cole Orobetz and Loren Wallis in 2015.

4

Funding Rounds

$47.4m

Money raised

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Keen

Keen is a company founded in 2011 by Kyle Wild, Ryan Spraetz and Dan Kador.

3

Funding Rounds

$15.6m

Money raised

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Thumbtack

Thumbtack is a company operating an online platform for finding and hiring workers for particular tasks.

9

Funding Rounds

$973.2m

Money raised

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Motif FoodWorks

Motif Foodworks is a food ingredients company that uses biotechnology to brew proteins and nutrients, for sustainable foods.

4

Funding Rounds

$344.3m

Money raised

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Zeroheight

Company developing collaboration platform for teams to create and maintain design system documentation

5

Funding Rounds

$31.4m

Money raised

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Good Catch

Good Catch is a New York-based food technology company focused on the production of plant-based seafood alternatives.

4

Funding Rounds

$82.7m

Money raised

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Element AI

An artificial Intelligence company making a business intelligence platform.

4

Funding Rounds

$258.3m

Money raised

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StatusToday

StatusToday is an artificial Intelligence company for Employee Behavioral Analytics founded in 2015 by Ankur Modi.

2

Funding Rounds

$3.9m

Money raised

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SmartBear Software

SmartBear Software is a company developing tools for various software development and API management tasks.

3

Funding Rounds

$25.0m

Money raised

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Meati Foods

Meati Foods is a Colorado-based alternative meat company.

5

Funding Rounds

$81.1m

Money raised

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Because Animals

Because Animals is a pet food and cellular agriculture technology company founded in 2016 by Shannon Falconer and Joshua Erret, and is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Because Animals makes 100% animal-free pet foods, treats, and supplements.

4

Funding Rounds

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Roquette

Roquette is a French company focused on the production of plant-based food and nutrition ingredients for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. The company was founded in 1933 by Dominique & Germain Roquette, and is headquartered in Lestrem, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, France.

1

Funding Rounds

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FalconX

FalconX is a blockchain, cryptocurrency, and fintech-focused brokerage and digital asset trading platform.

8

Funding Rounds

$327.0m

Money raised

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Prime Roots

Prime Roots (formerly Terramino Foods) is a food company located in San Leandro, California, founded by Kimberlie Le and Joshua Nixon in 2017 producing a salmon meat substitute made from fungi.

2

Funding Rounds

$4.6m

Money raised

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Algarithm

Algarithm is a plant-based omega-3 ingredient company located in Saskatoon, Canada and was founded on June 22, 2017, by Udaya Wanasundara and Ben Kelly. The company derives omega-3 fatty acids from from algal oil for use in the food, beverage, and dietary supplement industries.

1

Funding Rounds

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KonoLabs

KonoLabs is a company with an artificially intelligent scheduling assistant for enterprises, founded by Jung-hee Ryu, YJ Min and Jaehoon Choi.

5

Funding Rounds

$980.0k

Money raised

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Bond Pet Foods

Bond Pet Foods is a biotechnology company located in Nederland, Colorado, founded in 2015 by Rich Kelleman. Bond Pet Foods is making "cruelty free" real animal protein pet foods using cellular agriculture.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.2m

Money raised

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Natures Fynd

Nature's Fynd is a biotechnology company growing edible proteins founded in 2012.

8

Funding Rounds

$851.0m

Money raised

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Good Dot

GoodDot is a plant-based protein manufacturer and food technology company operating out of Udaipur, India. The company was founded in 2016 by Abhishek Sinha, Stephanie Downs, Deepak Parihar, Taranum Bhatia, and Shruti Sonali.

2

Funding Rounds

$200.0k

Money raised

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Sophie's Kitchen

Sophie's Kitchen is a plant-based vegan seafood company located in Dover,Kent County, DE and founded by Eugene Wang in 2010. The company is producing vegan seafood such as crab meat, shrimp, scallops, tuna and salmon.

2

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised