29 Best Restaurants Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Restaurants Startups

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There are 29 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $1.5b. The average funding per company in this subset is $50.2m.

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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2

Funding Rounds

$113.0m

Money raised

Bear Robotics provides automation products for the hospitality industry.

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1

Funding Rounds

$250.0m

Money raised

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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Funding Rounds

$80.0m

Money raised

Inkling is a company that develops a mobile learning enablement platform for businesses.

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9

Funding Rounds

$104.8m

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Branch Messenger is a Minneapolis-based company founded in 2015 by Atif Siddiqi.

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3

Funding Rounds

$57.5m

Money raised

LevelUp is an online and mobile food ordering company that connects diners with local takeout restaurants.

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Provider of a restaurant discovery platform designed to help users to search for food outlets. The company offers a technology-based search portal that partners with food outlets and helps restaurants to increase revenues and optimize occupancy utilization, enabling customers to book tables with discounts

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Funding Rounds

$2.6m

Money raised

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Funding Rounds

$3.8m

Money raised

Commerce.AI is a company that started with the mission to use the power of AI to change the way commerce is done.

2

Funding Rounds

$34.0m

Money raised

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

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3

Funding Rounds

$76.0m

Money raised

Cayena is an online marketplace in the food industry founded in 2019.

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2

Funding Rounds

$1.3m

Money raised

Developer of a restaurant management application intended to help restaurateurs easily manage their business.

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1

Funding Rounds

$325.0k

Money raised

InvitedHome combines the consistency & service of fine hotels with beautiful private homes in amazing destinations.

2

Funding Rounds

$5.9m

Money raised

Milano Vice is building a new virtual food brand by working with professional kitchens to prepare and deliver delicious pizzas to home.

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$8.0m

Money raised

1HUDDLE is a company founded in 2015.

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$1.6m

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Operator of digital food court intended to allow any restaurants to scale to multiple locations at zero cost. The company operationalizes underperforming restaurant space and staff to run kitchens and offers an entire suite of AI-powered advanced restaurant inventory, ops and logistics tech, enabling restaurants to scale quickly with limited risk.

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Funding Rounds

$9.5m

Money raised

Elmenus is a company founded in 2011 by Amir Allam.

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1

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$6.0m

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Umamicart is an online grocery store for Asian products and ingredients. Their carefully curated selection includes both traditional staples, as well as up-and-coming Asian-American owned brands.

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$180.8k

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Developer of an online trip planning platform intended to let users discover, share and book travel recommendations and restaurants.

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2

Funding Rounds

$8.7m

Money raised

Atoa is an open Banking-based payment solution founded in 2022.

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RobinFood is an operator of a chain of restaurants used to provide access to quality and affordable homemade food.

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$1.0m

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E-commerce, logistics, and marketing for restaurants founded in 2020.

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1

Funding Rounds

$32.0m

Money raised

Market Force Information is a Peachtree Corners, Georgia-based company founded in 2005 by Rushton McGarr.

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1

Funding Rounds

$100.0k

Money raised

Energyly is an India-based company founded in 2015 by Dayal Nathan.

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1

Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised

The Ultimate Card for Restaurant & Ghost Kitchen Operators

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$15.0m

Money raised

Foodology is a Bogotá-based company founded in 2019.

2

Funding Rounds

$36.5m

Money raised

Esensi Solusi Buana is a Tangerang-based company founded by Eka Prasetya.

2

Funding Rounds

$75.0m

Money raised

Paytronix Systems is a Newton, Massachusetts-based restaurants company founded in 2001.

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1

Funding Rounds

$1.2m

Money raised

Nix86 is a Newton, Massachusetts-based company.

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