Top Food and Beverages Startups in 2024

Instacart is a North American leader in online grocery and one of the fastest-growing companies in e-commerce. Instacart's same-day delivery and pickup services bring fresh groceries and everyday essentials to busy people and families across the U.S. and Canada in as fast as an hour. Instacart has partnered with more than 300 beloved national, regional and local retailers to deliver from nearly 25,000 stores across more than 5,500 cities in North America. Our enterprise technology powers the e-commerce platforms of some of the world's biggest retail players, supporting their white-label websites, applications, and delivery solutions. Our teams are small, nimble, and cross-functional in nature. We are looking for folks who are looking for a high-impact role, and able to jump in right away and help us shape the future of Instacart.

42 million Americans receive government benefits for programs like food stamps on an EBT card. They spend a combined $66 billion every year through EBT cards, making it one of the most important payment methods in the United States. But the EBT card isn't very user-friendly - in order to check your balance, you have to call a phone hotline or save your old grocery receipt. As a result, poverty-fighting programs like food stamps aren't nearly as effective as they could be. We build Fresh EBT, a free smartphone app that allows EBT cardholders to see their balance and transaction history, in seconds, for free. Fresh EBT provides much more than EBT card services: we aim to build a platform for financial health by helping our users save money on groceries, set a budget, and find jobs. Fresh EBT has over a million monthly active users across the country and is one of the top finance apps on Android and iOS.

Zenput is mobile enterprise company building tools for the 80% of the workforce that doesn't work behind a desk. Our initial focus is on helping retailer and restaurant operators on being able to manage key tasks their team members need to get in the field and store level. Our current customers include well known brands like Domino’s, Chipotle, Papa John’s, 7-Eleven, and many others. Operators from these customers use Zenput to coordinate, assign, track and automate all of the tasks that mobile workers complete throughout the day. These tasks cover compliance, operations, and marketing execution across hundreds of thousands of locations.

Magic Spoon reimagines your favorite childhood breakfast cereal into a high protein, low carb, guilt-free daily indulgence. Since launching in April 2019, Magic Spoon has been featured in media ranging from New York Magazine to Fast Company, and raised $6.5mm+ from investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Collaborative Fund, Questlove, Nas, Rick Rubin, Ryan Holliday and the founders of Allbirds, Casper, Warby Parker, Harry's, Native, FabFitFun, and more.

Our products enhance the guest dining experience, streamlines operations, and increase our clients’ brand value. With PrestoPrime, diners can order food, provide feedback, play games, and pay their bill at the table, without waiting. Our system includes not only specialized hardware, but also a complete software solution designed to meet the specialized needs of restaurants.

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We are a critical link between growers of a community and consumers, and we feel a responsibility to protect the future of real food. We are committed to supporting the smaller and mid-size growers who are doing their farming sustainably. We are committed to creating transparency around what is in your food and where the food comes from, and we want to create more accessibility to healthy, real food for more people. We set up our spaces with real food and preserve the building structure, decorating with works from local artist that will blend with the communities we serve. Our food is healthy and real and we help communities make the best choices for what they eat by having sustainably grown food in our spaces.

Founded by Rachel Drori in 2015, Daily Harvest is on a mission to make nourishing, plant-based foods more attainable by eliminating barriers to access, cost, and time. With ready-in-minutes foods built on organic fruits and vegetables, Daily Harvest takes care of food so that food can take care of you. Since launching nationwide in 2016, Daily Harvest has become one of the fastest-growing direct-to-consumer brands today and was named one of Fast Company’s "World's Most Innovative Companies" in 2018.

Founded in 2013, Thistle is an early stage food-tech startup empowering our customers to get and stay healthy. We deliver delicious, organic, healthy, plant-forward meals, cold-pressed juices and snacks to customers in California who want to put their nutrition on auto-pilot. We don’t want to be just another food delivery startup or meal-kit company. Our focus is on the health and happiness of our customers, and we are revolutionizing how fresh, nutritious, high-quality food is purchased, manufactured, and delivered at scale. Thistle is headquartered in San Francisco and we are backed by some amazing investors in the Bay Area and beyond.

Snackpass is building the social layer for local commerce, starting with restaurants. We believe that in 5 years, restaurants will be entirely cashier-less. Snackpass mobile order and kiosk are the next generation of the in-store customer experience, replacing traditional registers. We enable mobile ordering, group buying, and social rewards for users. On our platform, restaurants grow their brand by converting offline purchasers into digital followers, while saving on labor costs. image While we’ve seen the rise of online delivery apps, delivery makes up less than 10% of the restaurant market. The rest — takeout and dine-in — is a $600B market that remains offline, anonymous, and on the verge of disruption. There is an opportunity to make these offline transactions digital, self-service, and connected, and we’re leading this movement. Snackpass is one the largest social commerce platforms in the US, one of the fastest growing marketplaces, and a top 100 YC company. And we've built this with a team of under 40 people. The environment at Snackpass is high impact, fast paced, and empowering for everyone. We are growing fast and looking for hungry and humble builders to join us in any of our hubs (NYC, SF, LA) or remotely.