Top Food and Beverages Startups in 2025

Zerocater builds revolutionary corporate catering and cafeteria solutions employees love while saving companies millions of dollars as they transition to the hybrid workplace. With its Cloud Cafe, Hybrid Cafe, Managed Cafe, and Event Cafe products; Zerocater has built corporate cafeteria and office catering programs for companies of all sizes from growing startups to the Fortune 500. Thousands of companies like TikTok, Datadog, Airtable, and McKinsey choose Zerocater for the customized, consistent, and diverse meal experiences its products offer, while also reducing costs by giving companies the flexibility to only pay for the employees who come into the office. Zerocater currently offers its corporate cafeteria and office catering products in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Austin, Denver, Seattle, and Washington D.C. with additional markets in the U.S. and Canada coming online every month. Since completing YCombinator in Winter 2011, Zerocater has raised $38.5M from leading investors including Cleveland Avenue, Remus Capital, Romulus Capital, Struck Capital, SV Angel, Keith Rabois, Yuri Milner, Paul Buchheit, and Justin Kan. For more information visit zerocater.com and follow @Zerocater on Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, and Twitter. Check out our company profile on Workatastartup: workatastartup.com/directory/171

Chowbus is a food ordering platform which curates featured dishes from selected ethnic restaurants daily and delivers them fresh and hot to your home or office affordably with the tap of your cell phone. We provide dish-centric mobile ordering experience for consumers to easily explore and order authentic ethnic food and we empower local ethnic restaurants with the technology, tools, and marketing to grow their business.

Slice is the easiest way to order authentic local pizza. We serve the $40 billion U.S. pizzeria market in two ways: by providing a pizza-centric mobile and web ordering experience for consumers, and by empowering local restaurants with technology that grows their business and helps them compete with Big Pizza. Can you imagine what a local pizza shop could achieve with the resources of Domino’s?

The Good Food Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a healthy, humane, and sustainable food supply. GFI’s team of scientists, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and lobbyists are laser-focused on using markets and food innovation to transform our food system away from industrial animal agriculture and toward plant-based and clean meat alternatives.

Pepper is building the digital OS for the food supply chain. Our eCommerce platform enables food distributors to find new customers, deepen relationships, grow revenue, and run more efficiently. Started by the team that took Uber Eats from a small experiment to a billion dollar business, we're more excited than ever about building the technology that unlocks the food industry's full potential.

CookUnity is the first-ever chef-to-consumer platform. Connecting a diverse group of talented chefs with busy food lovers, we’re elevating the at-home dining experience. On a quest to unlock the world’s best food creators and bring their meals to the masses, CookUnity is home to more than 35 of NYC and LA’s most talented chefs. Through a weekly subscription, consumers can select from a robust and ever-changing menu of handcrafted meals that cater to a wide variety of palates and dietary preferences. Delivering more than 3.5M meals per year and growing 5x YoY, CookUnity is also helping Chefs double their income and build their own teams under their personal brands. Believing that healthy food fuels stronger communities, CookUnity contributes to an ongoing partnership and donation with the Food Bank For New York City, the city’s major hunger-relief organization working to end food poverty across all five boroughs. A growing startup with kitchens in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, CookUnity reaches subscribers throughout the country, with ambitious expansion planned for 2021. Join Us!

The global food system connects 570M farms to 8B consumers and is the most important, complex structure on earth. But with growing populations and no system alignment or technology, it's under extreme stress. To cope, intermediary players (brokers, importers, etc.) manage only their part of the supply chain. These silos lead to a wasteful food system - a driver of climate change. Choco's here to provide the technology required for a connected, wasteless, data-driven, and innovative food system. We’re here to lead a change in one of the oldest industries on the planet, not just take part in it. We’re here to shape, not to observe. The problem we’re solving is complex with many moving parts, the work we’re doing is difficult and ambitious. But we’re here to win. That’s why we need the absolute best people to help us get there. Choco was founded by serial entrepreneurs Daniel Khachab, Julian Hammer, and Grégoire Ambroselli. Since its founding in 2018, the company has grown rapidly and is now active in markets such as the U.S., Germany, France, Spain, Austria, and Belgium. In February 2022, the total value of goods traded through Choco exceeded $1.2 billion. In April of 2022, we gained another $111 million in Series B2 funding with a valuation of $1.2 billion - earning us unicorn status just a few years in.

GrubMarket's mission is to provide organic food for the 99%. In other words, we conveniently make fresh and healthy food accessible to everyone. We firmly believe that you, your family, and your friends should always have the opportunity to eat well, and that price should never be a barrier between you and healthy, delicious, and freshly-harvested food. GrubMarket is committed to providing you with the best grocery experience possible, by regularly offering you a spectacular array of wholesome foods at prices that are up to 50% OFF what you'd typically find at other grocers. Our promise to you is to always deliver unbelievable quality at unbeatable prices.

We started in 2011 with a simple question: “Why does meat taste like meat?” We spent the next five years researching every aspect of the unique sensory experience of meat, from how it looks raw to how it sizzles and what happens when we sink our teeth into a burger. Then we recreated the precise flavors, textures, aromas, and nutrition of ground beef -- using only plants. By understanding meat at the molecular level, we made a juicy, delicious burger that's better for the planet. Compared to a burger made from cows, making an Impossible Burger uses about 1/20th the land, 1/4th the water, and produces 1/8th the greenhouse gas emissions.

We collect, analyze, and rate product health & sustainability data for consumers, companies (food/cpg/grocery), and investors. Evaluated the dietary, health, & climate impacts of 360K+ products (and counting). Named by Google 1 of the 3 “Best Apps for Good”.