Top Food Tech Startups in 2024

Brightseed believes that food should nourish. We believe that plants have the answers to many diet-caused chronic illnesses and we have built the tools to find them. Using machine learning to bring nature’s intelligence to life, we discover naturally occurring compounds with proven clinical benefits for health and incorporate them into everyday foods. At Brightseed, we are committed to achieving transformative results with a team-first mentality. Above all, we seek team members who are truth-seeking and trusting. This means we hold ourselves and each other accountable in our quest for groundbreaking knowledge. We are also a highly collaborative team that prioritizes shared goals over individual tasks. As such, we share workload, information and feedback generously and look out for each other’s wellbeing. Ultimately, we realize that achieving our purpose of improving lives through nutrition will take our collective intelligence and efforts.

We are creating the software that enables and empowers Local Chefs to better serve their community. We customers are both the Chefs and People looking for meal-prep services unique to their city.

At Red Basil Technologies, our ambition is to transform the way small businesses in the food & beverage ecosystem discover, connect & transact with each other. Our online marketplace improves transparency and price discovery for restaurants, while offering suppliers a full-featured digital storefront to grow their business. Redbasil's asset-light B2B marketplace features a curated catalog of 10k+ ingredients & high-quality food suppliers, vetted by leading chefs and kitchens. Mobile-app based digital storefront, catalog discovery, quotes & contracts, order fulfillment and payment transactions enable simple, fast, accurate & low-cost operations for the kitchen. We are a small and dynamic team using first principles, user-centered design and agile engineering to digitize SMEs in the fragmented Indian food distribution ecosystem. Our team is led by an ex-EY supply chain expert and MIT-alum, along with a Principal Software Architect from WalmartLabs. redbasil.in

Toast, to a new dine-in experience! ToastApp is the first-ever SaaS-based QR-POS. ToastApp was born when we realized that dine-in and restaurant management had to be simpler: we’re driven by providing a superior customer experience -- from ordering to check-out – all the while making it easier for restaurants to run their business from one single dashboard! Our product line: ToastApp: With easy sign-on, you can place orders directly to your table, do takeaways and get food delivered to your home! Now rate your food, leave item-wise feedback, discover exciting offers, and check out with a tap! Become a part of something bigger with the ToastApp Community - and discover what’s exciting around you! iOS | Android | Web ToastPie: Restaurant management is painful – but it doesn’t have to be! Leverage the power of technology and say hello to the first-ever QR-POS -- ToastPie, which integrates seamlessly with our app & web versions and helps you provide a superior customer experience while making it more efficient for you! ToastPie | ToastPie Lite | ToastPie Web | Blackbox

RICEPO is the largest authentic Chinese food ordering and delivery platform in US. RICEPO is registered in New York, NY, and headquartered in Silicon Valley, CA. RICEPO commits to creating one of a kind user experience.

SmartQ - The Compass group company (A product based MNC), started its operations in Bangalore in June 2015, and is a leading B2B food-tech service provider that works on an aggregation model leveraging cutting-edge technology and strong vendor management capabilities to enrich the lives of employees at the workplace. SmartQ was acquired by Compass Group in 2020, Compass is the world's largest Food Services Company having its presence in 70+ countries. Currently, SmartQ is present in 9 countries with more than 160 Clients. SmartQs Digital cafeteria solution transforms any conventional cafeteria into one that is completely digital and cashless. The customized 360-degree digital cafeteria solution includes multiple ordering channels like mobile applications and automated billing kiosks with a plethora of payment options and value-added features like intelligent menu display, Token display, and advanced closed-loop feedback system. SmartQ helps in improving consumers’ experience by providing the convenience of ordering and also engaging the customers through the tech platform. SmartQs Aggregation vertical works with caterers providing consistent quality and healthy food. The diverse set of vendors with excellent service experience are chosen for catering to every need. Based on the likes and tastes of the client, the vendors are handpicked and monitored with an effective cafeteria feedback system. The company aims at reducing Food Fatigue which sets in after a certain period by rotating the vendors. SmartQ further provides gifting solutions, which enables companies to gift their employees & colleagues in a swift process. SmartQ provides 30+ gifting partners, 1000+ gifting options, 15+ gifting categories and pan India delivery. With customized gifting, where the clients have the luxury to select from the wide variety of options to choose and with a quick and agile team to cater to their requirements to ensure delivering the ultimate combinations of gifts makes it easy.

RaftLabs is a digital products and solutions company. We are driven by mission to build products that simplifies customer experience and helps businesses to do more. We value - Think 11x. Always aim for higher benchmarks. Go beyond what is acceptable. - Ship Consistently. Doing is better than thinking. - Learn everything. Stay humble. - Improvise user experience. Remove obstacles. Help them do more.

Process First uses technology to create persistent health - sustainable outcomes based in food, health and climate. Our current focus is the food system's intersection with health care and sustainability. The the problems we face cannot be fixed by addressing symptoms. Food is critical to health and has significant ecological impact. We must rebuild our food system to account for both its immense value as well as the costs incurred in its production, delivery and consumption. To get there we have developed a data model that supports data integration across the food system. A fully integrated food system can support innovation and the tracking of metrics required to improve community and ecological health, create climate resilience and lower the barriers to entry for local food. Our approach to these problems looks like a hybrid of a consulting firm and a startup. In order to work on the most pressing problems, we focus on partnerships with foundations and non-profits to create access to people, knowledge, skills and resources needed to tackle oversized problems. The technical requirements, size of the system and the ROI timelines makes this work outside of the normal fit for non-profits and the startup community. As we reach those initial goals, we have a team ready to accelerate through the hardest phase of a startup, launching products or spinning out a company as best fits the the need.