69 Best Restaurant Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Restaurant 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 165 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $6.6b. The average funding per company in this subset is $96.0m.

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

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Funding Rounds

$528.0m

Money raised

Zomato is a company providing a search engine application that offers information on restaurants and online food delivery.

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4

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$8.6m

Money raised

Artificial Intelligence company for real estate site analysis.

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$204.9m

Money raised

A company that has designed software with scheduling and communication tools for restaurants. It was founded in 2014 and is located in Saskatoon, Ontario.

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$41.9m

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Onfleet is a company that manages last mile deliveries using routing, dispatching and real-time tracking software.

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$18.7m

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Creator is the developer of a robotic burger maker.

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$22.1m

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A company that had a wait list mobile application that was used in restaurants by owners and customers alike. It was founded in 2010 and acquired by Yelp in March 2017.

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$93.5m

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

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$17.6m

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

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$37.9m

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A technology company that has created a business-to-business software for hyper-local businesses wanting to use e-commerce for their operations. It was founded in 2015 and is located in Bangalore, India.

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$391.4m

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A company that has created software so that restaurants can manage their online orders. It was founded in 2017 and is located in Los Angeles, California.

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$522.0m

Money raised

A restaurant chain serving organic salads and grain bowls.

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$1.0m

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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.

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$1.5b

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Deliveroo is a technology company that markets, sells and delivers restaurant meals to the household or office.

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4

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$46.5m

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ChowNow is a Los Angeles-based company founded in 2011 by Eric Jaffe, Josiah Carlson and Christopher Webb.

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2

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$113.0m

Money raised

Bear Robotics provides automation products for the hospitality industry.

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$40.0m

Money raised

Formerly E la Carte, Presto is a company designing and developing a tablet that offers digital dining services for restaurants.

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$70.0k

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RiceApp is a Mexico City-headquartered developer of a hospitality application.

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$250.0m

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OTG is a restaurateur which operates more than 300 restaurants and retail locations in 10 airports across North America. In 2014 and 2016, it ranked among the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company Magazine.

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$36.5m

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Eat Club is a food delivery founded in 2010 by Kevin Yang.

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$10.0m

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BlueCart is an online ordering platform that connects wholesale suppliers and buyers in the hospitality industry.

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$25.8m

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

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6

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$48.5m

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Software to power reservations, tickets, order delivery and pickup from restaurants.

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$8.0m

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EatStreet is a Madison, Wisconsin-based company founded in 2010 by Matt Howard.

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$63.1m

Money raised

SevenRooms is a New York City-based company.

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$20.4m

Money raised

Upserve is a Providence, Rhode Island-based company founded in 2009 by Angus Davis.

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$1.3m

Money raised

Food Genius is a Chicago-based company founded in 2010 by Justin Massa, Eli Rosenburg and Benjamin Stanley.

3

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$84.0m

Money raised

Ordr Systems Control Engine. The first actionable AI-based systems control engine for the hyper-connected enterprise. You're in control.

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$35.0m

Money raised

Virtual Kitchen Co. is a company using data analytics to purchase commercial spaces and develop kitchens for delivery-only restaurants.

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$35.2m

Money raised

Axonify is a Microlearning platform built for business.

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Developer of a mortgage automation platform designed to streamline the mortgage process. The company's platform provides secure communication and document portal between the lender, borrower and other mortgage stakeholders and hence permits loan originators to use the platform to collect and verify borrower documentation, track loan progress, communicate with borrowers and real estate agents, enabling loan officers TO close loans faster, increase loan volume, reduce workload and make borrowers happy.

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$15.6m

Money raised

Ditto is a San Mateo, California-based company founded in 2011 by Sergey Surkov, Dmitry Kornilov and Kate Doerksen.

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$190.0m

Money raised

Kitchen United is a service in the United States offering a multi-restaurant order and delivery platform.

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$329.0m

Money raised

TouchBistro provides easy and smart point of sale (POS) systems for restaurants, cafes, bars, and more.

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$27.0m

Money raised

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6

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$25.8m

Money raised

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

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4

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$4.7m

Money raised

Hellotickets is a ticketing platform for leisure and cultural events founded in 2016 by Jorge Díaz Largo.

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$80.0m

Money raised

Punchh is a company founded in 2010.

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$205.4m

Money raised

Platform providing branded ordering apps and websites for quick service delivery and takeout restaurants.

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5

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$61.0m

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A company providing financial coaching and down payment assistance

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2

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$21.2m

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BentoBox is a company founded in 2013 by Pierre Drescher.

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3

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$8.0m

Money raised

Quandoo offers online channels and mobile apps to search, find and reserve restaurants in real-time.

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$426.0m

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Paycor is a company founded in 1990 by Peter Swaniker.

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Venga is a Washington, D.C.-based company founded in 2010.

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$25.0m

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Local Kitchens brings several of the Bay Area’s best local restaurants under one roof and closer to home.

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$14.0m

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SALIDO is a company founded in 2012.

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Farmeto is a software company focusing on connecting farmers and retailers of farm produce.

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$2.0m

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Only end-to-end solution for creating, managing, and optimizing enterprise-owned voice assistants that can be deployed anywhere.

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$10.9m

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Luka is an artificial intelligence company. It created Luka app, a messenger with AI-powered chatbots.

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$35.0m

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Smashburger is a Denver-based company founded in 2007.

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$8.5m

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PathSpot is a company founded in 2017 by Dutch Waanders.

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$1.0m

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Finedine is an AI-powered guest experience and digital marketing platform founded in 2016 by Adil Burak KILIC.

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$23.0m

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SevenFifty is a company founded in 2011 by Aaron Sherman, Gianfranco Verga and Neal Parikh.

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$15.6m

Money raised

Allset is a company founded in 2015.

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$15.2m

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Revel Systems is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2010 by Lisa Falzone.

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4

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$24.0m

Money raised

86 Repairs is a subscription service that optimizes and manages end-to-end equipment repair and maintenance for restaurant groups.

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$20.0m

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Ness Computing is a Los Altos, California-based company founded in 2009 by Corey Reese.

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$1.7m

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zenchef is a France-based company founded in 2010 by Xavier Zeitoun, Julien Balmont, Thomas Zeitoun and Xavier Zeitoun.

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$34.0m

Money raised

Vita Mojo International is a company founded in 2015 by B. Nick Popovici.

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Fenix International is a company founded in 2009 by Mike Lin.

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$5.9m

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Halla is a New York City-based company founded in 2016.

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$1.3m

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An online tool for ordering food from restaurants and caterers for companies

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$31.0m

Money raised

A vegan restaurant company offering plant-based meat products in the United States, Europe, and Canada.

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$35.0m

Money raised

GRUBBRR is a revolutionary all-in-one restaurant management platform that intuitively enhances your customerï entire experience and offers you an intelligent back office with everything desirable to efficiently operate and manage your restaurant. Learn who your customer is, where they shop, interact and auto upsell based on behavior. Building loyalty throughout your brand. Welcome to GRUBBRR!

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$7.2m

Money raised

Paerpay helps merchants accept contactless payments without the hassle of changing point-of-sales systems.

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$590.0m

Money raised

Meicai is a company selling agricultural products online from the rural areas and farmers to the small and medium-sized restaurants in China.

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$4.4m

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

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$59.0m

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Sharebite is a company founded in 2015 by Ahsen Saber, Dilip Rao and Mohsin Memon.

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$48.0m

Money raised

A marketplace for the restaurant repair and maintenance industry. ResQ helps streamline the servicing process by connecting restaurants with professionally qualified vendors.

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$4.0m

Money raised

ESL Works helps restaurants attract, keep and grow employees.

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