69 Best Online Food Ordering Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Online Food Ordering 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 5,494 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $58.7b. The average funding per company in this subset is $851.1m.

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Ozon logo

Ozon

Ozon is a Russian e-commerce platform.

2

Funding Rounds

$21.0m

Money raised

READY Robotics logo

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

Instagram logo

Instagram

Instagram is a Menlo Park-based photo-sharing social media platform.

3

Funding Rounds

$57.5m

Money raised

Chime Bank logo

Chime Bank

A bank offering online banking services with no user no bank fees, and an option to receive direct deposit up to two days early. Chris Britt and Ryan King founded Chime in 2013, and the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

6

Funding Rounds

$799.8m

Money raised

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Medium (company)

An online publishing platform used by amateur and professional writers. Membership fees are used to pay writers.

1

Funding Rounds

$31.0m

Money raised

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

Discord logo

Discord

Discord is an American company that offers users a free messenger with support for IP telephony and video conferencing. About 56 million people use the Discord messenger every month, and its total audience exceeds 270 million users.

6

Funding Rounds

$1.7b

Money raised

Pembient logo

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

Twitch logo

Twitch

Twitch is a livestreaming video platform and community for gamers.

3

Funding Rounds

$35.0m

Money raised

Impossible Foods logo

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

Pitney Bowes logo

Pitney Bowes

Pitney Bowes is a Stamford, Connecticut-based company founded in 1920 by Walter Bowes.

3

Funding Rounds

$900.0k

Money raised

Bolt Threads logo

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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Faire (company)

Faire is a curated boutique wholesale marketplace connecting local retailers with thousands of emerging and established brands.

9

Funding Rounds

$1.5b

Money raised

Terminal Africa logo

Terminal Africa

Terminal Africa is the developer of a delivery aggregator platform designed to make it easier for Africans to send and receive products globally.

2

Funding Rounds

$103.5k

Money raised

Klarna logo

Klarna

Klarna is a financial technology company providing e-commerce payment solutions for merchants and shoppers.

20

Funding Rounds

$3.8b

Money raised

JSquare logo

JSquare

JSquare is a San Francisco-based company founded in 1985 by Jeff Herman.

Bolt logo

Bolt

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

15

Funding Rounds

$3.2b

Money raised

Full Circle Biochar logo

Full Circle Biochar

Full Circle Biochar is a developer of products and technologies based on bio-charcoal for the agricultural markets.

1

Funding Rounds

$27.5k

Money raised

Perfect Day Foods logo

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

New Wave Foods logo

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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Dropp

Geo-Based Minting, Land, and AR, developed with usable NFTs.

1

Funding Rounds

$8.0m

Money raised

DSM logo

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

Coursera logo

Coursera

Coursera is an online education technology company founded in 2012 by Daphne Koller.

8

Funding Rounds

$431.5m

Money raised

Finless Foods logo

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

Future Meat Technologies logo

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

Aleph Farms logo

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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Tacit Knowledge

Tacit Knowledge is a London-headquartered software and IT consulting company developing enterprise software solutions for digital commerce companies.

2

Funding Rounds

$13.9m

Money raised

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Openpath Security Inc.

Openpath Security Inc. is a Culver City, California-based cybersecurity company offering mobile and cloud-enabled access control systems.

3

Funding Rounds

$63.0m

Money raised

Wise logo

Wise

Wise, previously TransferWise, is a company that offers money transfers services founded by Kristo Käärmann and Taavet Hinrikus.

6

Funding Rounds

$898.4m

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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Ning (website)

Ning is an online platform for people and organizations to create custom social networks.

4

Funding Rounds

$134.0m

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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Grove Collaborative

Grove Collaborative is an online, subscription-based retailer selling natural home and health products.

4

Funding Rounds

$477.4m

Money raised

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Chess.com

Chess.com is an internet chess server, news website and social networking website.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

Aranex Biotech logo

Aranex Biotech

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

1

Funding Rounds

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Patreon

Patreon is a San Francisco-based crowdfunding platform for artists and creators founded by Jack Conte and Sam Yam in 2013.

8

Funding Rounds

$398.6m

Money raised

N26 (bank) logo

N26 (bank)

N26 is a is a mobile banking company headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

14

Funding Rounds

$2.5b

Money raised

Revolut logo

Revolut

Revolut is a London-based Fintech startup and bank offering mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange services.

12

Funding Rounds

$1.7b

Money raised

Superplastic logo

Superplastic

Superplastic is a creative product and experience studio founded in 2018.

7

Funding Rounds

$66.0m

Money raised

Hawkers (company) logo

Hawkers (company)

Hawkers is an Elche, Spain-based sunglass brand.

2

Funding Rounds

$80.9m

Money raised

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Misterb&b

Misterb&b offers a property rental marketplace used to connect travelers and hosts in the LGBTQ+ community.

4

Funding Rounds

$11.2m

Money raised

Scopely logo

Scopely

Scopely - leading mobile game development company.

8

Funding Rounds

$1.2b

Money raised

Califia Farms logo

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

Mercury logo

Mercury

Mercury is a company making banking products for startups based in San Francisco and backed by a16z.

4

Funding Rounds

$126.0m

Money raised

Planet A Foods logo

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

Juno logo

Juno

Juno, previously known as OnJuno, is a neobanking platform that offers interest-earning personal checking accounts. The platform allows all transactions to be managed from an iPhone or Android application, and users can be paid in cryptocurrency through direct deposit.

4

Funding Rounds

$33.2m

Money raised

Stardust logo

Stardust

Stardust is a company that develops solutions for gaming in the metaverse.

2

Funding Rounds

$35.0m

Money raised

Physna logo

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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BlueNalu

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

5

Funding Rounds

$104.5m

Money raised

Whatnot logo

Whatnot

Whatnot is a California-based livestream shopping platform and marketplace.

7

Funding Rounds

$484.7m

Money raised

Hugo Boss logo

Hugo Boss

Hugo Boss is a major German luxury fashion company.

1

Funding Rounds

BGI logo

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

Meatable logo

Meatable

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

11

Funding Rounds

$256.5m

Money raised

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Zeel (e-commerce company)

Zeel is a New York City-based provider of in-person and virtual on-demand massage and health services from vetted therapists.

9

Funding Rounds

$24.5m

Money raised

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App Samurai

App Samurai is a San Francisco-based company that provides mobile marketing technology.

4

Funding Rounds

$4.4m

Money raised

Eleven Labs logo

Eleven Labs

ElevenLabs is a voice artificial intelligence (AI) research and development company developing text-to-speech and voice cloning software.

2

Funding Rounds

$21.0m

Money raised

Starling Bank logo

Starling Bank

Starling is an UK-based mobile-first digital banking startup.

10

Funding Rounds

$1.1b

Money raised

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Udaan (company)

Udaan is an Indian business-to-business e-commerce company based in Bengalore. It was registered as Hiveloop Technology pvt.ltd. in 2016.

10

Funding Rounds

$5.5b

Money raised

Back Market logo

Back Market

Back Market is an online refurbished goods marketplace connecting consumers with sellers of electronic devices.

9

Funding Rounds

$1.3b

Money raised

Klaviyo logo

Klaviyo

Klaviyo is a marketing automation software company which has a email software platform with SMS for ecommerce companies.

6

Funding Rounds

$678.5m

Money raised

Geltor logo

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

Ant Financial logo

Ant Financial

A venture capital firm in China that focuses on bringing inclusive financial services to the world.

4

Funding Rounds

$22.0b

Money raised

Rebellyous Foods logo

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

Mosa Meat logo

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