69 Best Food Production Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Food Production 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 3,851 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $28.3b. The average funding per company in this subset is $409.8m.

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READY Robotics

READY Robotics is a company developing an industrial brand-agnostic operating system (Forge/OS) for industrial robots and automation.

7

Funding Rounds

$60.6m

Money raised

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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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Humane

Humane develops and commercializes consumer hardware, software, and services.

4

Funding Rounds

$230.0m

Money raised

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Pembient

Pembient uses advances in biotechnology to fabricate horn and other wildlife products to combat the threat to endangered species.

1

Funding Rounds

$50.0k

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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Bolt Threads

Bolt Threads is a biotechnology company that makes high performance fabrics and materials using biology.

8

Funding Rounds

$406.4m

Money raised

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Made In Space

Company developing space manufacturing technologies to support exploration, national security, and sustainable space settlement.

3

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C3 AI

C3 AI is an enterprise artificial intelligence software company providing a family of integrated products for accelerating digital transformation.

7

Funding Rounds

$875.5m

Money raised

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Bolt

Bolt, previously Taxify, is a technology start-up and developer of an on-demand transportation platform.

15

Funding Rounds

$3.2b

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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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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Augury (company)

Augury is a B2B company developing hardware and software solutions to help monitor and diagnose a machine's health through wireless sensors and artificial intelligence capabilities.

7

Funding Rounds

$294.0m

Money raised

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Juicero

Juicero was a company founded in 2013 that produced and sold an expensive juicer called the Juicero Press, along with fresh produce packets. The company closed after it received extensive negative press regarding its simplistic machine in contrast with its high cost.

4

Funding Rounds

$118.5m

Money raised

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Zayo Group

Zayo Group offers bandwidth infrastructure services across various markets, delivering lit services and dark fiber products. It supports wireline and wireless customers, data centers, and government agencies with a robust network infrastructure. The company also provides carrier-neutral colocation facilities to enhance connectivity options.

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Pasqal

Pasqal is a company building programmable quantum simulators and quantum computers made of 2D and 3D arrays of neutral atoms.

5

Funding Rounds

$140.5m

Money raised

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Protera Bio

Protera is a biotechnology company that works with protein engineering to address challenges in food, agriculture, the environment, and human health.

2

Funding Rounds

$15.6m

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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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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Shelf Engine

Shelf Engine is a Seattle-based software company and developer of an automated prediction ordering platform for food retailers, intended to reduce food waste.

5

Funding Rounds

$58.2m

Money raised

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Irvine Sensors Corporation (ISC)

ISC provides cybersecurity solutions as well as hardware and software products for enterprise threat management.

153

Funding Rounds

$59.5m

Money raised

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Finless Foods

Finless Foods is a biotechnology company producing cultured marine animal food products through implementing cellular agriculture and manufacturing technologies.

9

Funding Rounds

$37.5m

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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Eat Just

Eat Just is a San Francisco based food technology company founded in 2011. The company is known for its bean-based egg substitute called Just Egg. Eat Just also produces egg-free mayonnaise.

8

Funding Rounds

$551.0m

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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Apeel Sciences

Apeel Sciences is a company that develops treatments to prevent spoilage of fruits and vegetables using molecules naturally found in peels, which maintain moisture and keep out oxygen.

21

Funding Rounds

$1.9b

Money raised

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Matterport

U.S-based 3D media technology company providing worldwide end-to-end virtual media solutions.

5

Funding Rounds

$60.2m

Money raised

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Aranex Biotech

A Canadian food biotech company focused on the development of hypoallergenic peanuts

1

Funding Rounds

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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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Seeq

Seeq is a company that offers an application that processes data analytics.

7

Funding Rounds

$119.2m

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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Planet A Foods

Planet A Foods is a cocoa-free chocolate maker founded in 2021 by Sara Marquart.

2

Funding Rounds

$21.0m

Money raised

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Sight Machine

Sight Machine's manufacturing software platform uses an artificial intelligence (AI) platform to help improve quality and efficiency across a manufacturing enterprise.

6

Funding Rounds

$53.9m

Money raised

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Physna

Physna is a Cincinnati-based 3D modelling software company offering 3D models understandable by software applications for manufacturing, engineering, product design, 3D printing, augmented reality and virtual reality applications.

4

Funding Rounds

$84.9m

Money raised

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Via Separations

Via Separations is a Watertown, Massachusetts-based company founded in 2016 by Shreya Dave.

5

Funding Rounds

$43.9m

Money raised

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Waymo

Waymo is a technology company developing autonomous car technology and is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.

3

Funding Rounds

$5.5b

Money raised

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Lazarus 3D

Lazarus 3D provides medical training and surgery rehearsal services through their soft-tissue 3D printed models built using MRI or CT images of patient anatomy.

1

Funding Rounds

$100.0k

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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Boston Dynamics

An engineering and robotics design company founded in 1992 and headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company is engaged in the creation of robots and the development of software to simulate human behavior. Among the clients are SpaceX and the US Army.

1

Funding Rounds

$37.0m

Money raised

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Stoke Space

Stoke Space is a company manufacturing space vehicle components and performing scientific and technological services associated with the space industry.

4

Funding Rounds

$269.4m

Money raised

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Boom Supersonic

Boom Supersonic is a Colorado-based company developing supersonic commercial aircraft.

8

Funding Rounds

$269.6m

Money raised

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HireEZ

HireEZ, formerly Hiretual, is a Mountain View, California-based developer of an artificial intelligence-powered recruitment platform to help companies find employees.

4

Funding Rounds

$45.5m

Money raised

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Cron (calendar company)

Cron offers a calendar for professionals and teams

1

Funding Rounds

$150.0k

Money raised

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OneWeb

OneWeb is a telecommunications company.

4

Funding Rounds

$4.1b

Money raised

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MachineMetrics

MachineMetrics is a developer of industrial IoT analytics and a machine monitoring platform.

6

Funding Rounds

$37.7m

Money raised

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BGI

BGI is a life science and genomics organization following a development model of research, production and application.

1

Funding Rounds

$300.0m

Money raised

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Meatable

Meatable is a cellular agriculture company making 100 percent clean meat products.

11

Funding Rounds

$256.5m

Money raised

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Scintilla Iceland

Scintilla Iceland is an interior textile design company based in Reykjavik, Iceland.

2

Funding Rounds

$133.4k

Money raised

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Galgus

Galgus is a Camas, Seville-based wireless and Wi-Fi technology company developing systems used by OEMs and system integrators for Wi-Fi networks.

4

Funding Rounds

$13.3m

Money raised

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Histosonics, Inc.

HistoSonics is a venture-backed medical device start-up company developing a non-invasive sonic beam therapy platform and procedure using the science of histotripsy. Histotripsy utilizes the pressure created by focused sound energy to liquify and destroy targeted tissue, including diseased tissue and tumors, at sub-cellular levels.

5

Funding Rounds

$218.1m

Money raised

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OQ Technology

5G satellite telecom operator for global IoT connectivity.

6

Funding Rounds

$55.9m

Money raised

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OPSWAT

OPSWAT is a cybersecurity company founded in 2002. Based in San Francisco, CA, they focus on cyberthreat prevention including a focus on malware, sensitive information, and application vulnerabilities.

1

Funding Rounds

$125.0m

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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Mosa Meat

Mosa Meat is a Dutch start-up company that makes and commercializes clean meat, meat made by growing animal cells directly rather than slaughtering animals.

6

Funding Rounds

$138.2m

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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SimScale

SimScale is a cloud-based CAE software that helps users perform simulations of CAD models.

9

Funding Rounds

$90.0m

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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Stottler Henke

Stottler Henke is a San Mateo, California-based company founded in 1988.

9

Funding Rounds

$5.1m

Money raised

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Toast Ale

Toast Ale is a London-based brewery using surplus fresh bread to brew beer and dedicating their profits to charities working to create greater efficiency in the food supply system.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.5m

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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Membrion, Inc.

Membrion is a Seattle-based clean technology company and developer of flexible ceramic ion exchange membranes capable of being used in wastewater cleaning and in energy storage solutions.

10

Funding Rounds

$28.5m

Money raised

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Zoe (health science company)

Zoe is a Boston and London-based company which builds software for tracking individuals' nutrition response patterns, as well as a mobile application for tracking COVID-19 symptoms.

6

Funding Rounds

$119.0m

Money raised

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Starship Technologies

Starship Technologies is an Estonian company developing small self-driving robotic delivery vehicles. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with engineering operations in Tallinn, Estonia, and a satellite team in Helsinki, Finland. Starship also has offices in London, UK, Germany, Washington, DC and Mountain View, California.

8

Funding Rounds

$354.4m

Money raised

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Astrocast

Astrocast is an end-to-end satellite IoT network provider, manufacturer, and operator.

4

Funding Rounds

$23.8m

Money raised

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Serve Robotics

Serve Robotics is a developer of autonomous robotic vehicles intended for use in delivery, especially food delivery, in urban settings.

3

Funding Rounds

$23.0m

Money raised

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Agolo

An artificial intelligence company developing a platform that helps analysts process and understand information.

4

Funding Rounds

$7.0m

Money raised

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Allbirds

Allbirds is a startup company manufacturing wool footwear.

8

Funding Rounds

$2.0b

Money raised