69 Best Food Products Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Food Products 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 1,020 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $17.5b. The average funding per company in this subset is $253.5m.

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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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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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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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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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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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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Aranex Biotech

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

1

Funding Rounds

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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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BlueNalu

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

5

Funding Rounds

$104.5m

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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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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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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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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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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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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Wild Earth (company)

Wild Earth is a biotechnology company using cellular agriculture to produce high-protein pet food.

7

Funding Rounds

$21.2m

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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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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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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Uncommon

Uncommon, formerly known as Higher Steaks, is a cellular agriculture company based in London, England founded in 2017 by Benjamina Bollag, Stephanie Wallis and David Hay working to develop pork and other meat products using cellular agriculture.

3

Funding Rounds

$60.0m

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

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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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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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WOLT

Wolt is a company that provides an online food delivery service

11

Funding Rounds

$1.5b

Money raised

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Ynsect

Ynsect is a company that develops ingredients for aquaculture, pet food and fertilizer using insect protein.

9

Funding Rounds

$382.3m

Money raised

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Wild Type (company)

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

4

Funding Rounds

$119.5m

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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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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Snackpass

Snackpass is a technology company that develops solutions for ordering food for take-out from local restaurants.

2

Funding Rounds

$93.5m

Money raised

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Olio

Olio is a London-based sharing company working to solve the problem of food waste and hunger.

4

Funding Rounds

$95.9m

Money raised

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ZeroCater

ZeroCater is a catering company providing office catering and snack services.

3

Funding Rounds

$17.6m

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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Evolva (Pharmaceutical company)

Biotech company that develops and commercializes ingredients for use in food, nutrition, personal healthcare, agriculture, and other sectors.

3

Funding Rounds

$35.2m

Money raised

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Mission Barns

Mission Barns is a clean meat company company is headquartered in Berkeley, California producing clean meat. The company was founded in March, 2018, by Eitan Fischer (former director of cellular agriculture of JUST, Inc) and David Bowman.

5

Funding Rounds

$27.5m

Money raised

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Solar Foods

A food technology company, based in Finland and founded in 2017, that has a process to electrolyze water for production of hydrogen in a system to feed bacteria to produce an edible protein food product with a low environmental impact. Their technology is being developed for space travel and future food production on Mars.

10

Funding Rounds

$44.8m

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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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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Antera Therapeutics

Antera Therapeutics is an allergy prevention development company.

2

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

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Faeth Therapeutics

Faeth Therapeutics is a start-up that focuses on using nutrition and metabolism to fight cancer.

3

Funding Rounds

$67.0m

Money raised

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Beta Hatch

Beta Hatch is an insect protein for farming company founded in 2015 by Virginia Emery.

6

Funding Rounds

$41.3m

Money raised

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Infarm

Infarm is a developer of vertical farms designed for indoor growing.

9

Funding Rounds

$801.9m

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