At Best Startup California we track over 300,000 Californian startups and over 1,500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 101 Food and Beverage companies in California, United States. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Food and Beverage Companies & Startups (California, United States)
Once Upon a Farm
Once Upon a Farm creates quality, eco-friendly, and nutritious food products for children.
Founder(s): Ari Raz, Cassandra Curtis, Jennifer Garner, John M. Foraker
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Baby, Food and Beverage, Health Care, Snack Food
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Liquid Death
Liquid Death is a non-alcoholic beverage brand that is focused on health and sustainability.
Founder(s): Jon-Ryan Riggins, Mike Cessario
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Product Design
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Masienda
Masienda offers vertically-coordinated supply chain solution for non-GMO heirloom corn and companion crops.
Founder(s): Jorge Gaviria
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage
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Endless West
Endless West is a beverage startup using scientific production methods to create its own original blend of wines and spirits.
Founder(s): Alec Lee, Josh Decolongon, Mardonn Chua
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Wine And Spirits
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Caviar
Caviar is a delivery solution for consumers to order food from local eateries with the ability to live-track the order on a map.
Founder(s): Abel Lin, Andy Zhang, Jason Wang, Richard Din, Shawn Tsao
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Food Delivery, Hospitality
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Perfect Day
Perfect Day produces dairy proteins that are nutritionally identical to proteins from cow’s milk.
Founder(s): Perumal Gandhi, Ryan Pandya
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Sustainability
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Shef
Shef is a homemade food marketplace that helps cooks make an income by cooking and selling food to their communities.
Founder(s): Alvin Salehi, Joey Grassia
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Local, Marketplace, Restaurants
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Vericool
Vericool is a developer of sustainable cold chain packaging.
Founder(s): Darrell Jobe
Location: Livermore, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Logistics, Manufacturing, Packaging Services, Transportation
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Imperfect Foods
Imperfect Foods delivers groceries with a mission to eliminate food waste and build a better food system for everyone.
Founder(s): Ben Simon, Benjamin Chesler, Ron Clark
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Consumer, Delivery Service, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Food Delivery, Grocery
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New Culture
New Culture is a food and beverage company that focuses on revolutionizing how cheese is made.
Founder(s): Inja Radman, Matt Gibson
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage
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Nectar
Nectar develops an IoT solution for the hospitality and consumer packaged goods industries.
Founder(s): Aayush Phumbhra, Prabhanjan Gurumohan
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Consumer, Consumer Goods, Food and Beverage, Internet of Things
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Vintage Wine Estates
Vintage Wine Estates is a wine & spirits company specializing in wines and services.
Founder(s): Leslie Rudd, Pat Roney
Location: Santa Rosa, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Wine And Spirits
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Your Super
Your Super is a direct-to-consumer superfoods supplement company that provides natural, organic and delicious products.
Founder(s): Kristel de Groot, Michael Kuech
Location: Venice, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Fitness, Food and Beverage, Health Care, Nutrition
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Gooder Foods
Gooder Foods re-imagines Mac & cheese that’s stealthily healthy and unbelievably delicious.
Founder(s): Jennifer Zeszut
Location: Santa Cruz, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Snack Food
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Miyoko’s Kitchen
Miyoko’s Kitchen is a food production company that produces artisan cultured Vegan cheese and butter.
Founder(s): Miyoko Schinner
Location: Fairfax, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Food Processing
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Yali Biosciences
Yali Biosciences is a food tech company uses synthetic biology and genomics tools to make climate-smart, sustainable foods.
Founder(s): Peng Xu, Yulin Lu
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage
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Real Good Foods
Real Good Foods offers food that is low in carbs, high in protein, and made with real food ingredients.
Founder(s): Josh Schreider
Location: Glendale, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Retail
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Brightland
Brightland extra virgin olive oils are consciously made in California, and contain nothing more than olives, love and sunshine.
Founder(s): Aishwarya Iyer
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Consumer Goods, Food and Beverage, Retail
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Szent
Szent is a beverage startup innovating the water category.
Founder(s): Shawn Griffis
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage
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Fred Water
Fred Water is a beverage company that creates a brand that advocates the indisputable of water.
Founder(s): Adam Gayner, Ariel Broggi
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Water, Water Purification
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NICK’S
NICK’S is a food tech company that manufactures keto diet-friendly ice cream, snack bars, and ice cream sandwiches.
Founder(s): Carl Backlund, Niclas Luthman
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Consumer Goods, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Snack Food
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Hippeas
Hippeas is a operator of natural snack food companies.
Founder(s): Livio Bisterzo
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Health Care, Organic Food
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OLLY
Olly is a manufacturer of wellness and nutrition products that inspires lifelong healthy habits.
Founder(s): Brad Harrington, Eric Ryan
Location: Belvedere Tiburon, California, United States
Industries: Fitness, Food and Beverage, Health Care, Manufacturing, Wellness
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JustFoodForDogs
JustFoodForDogs manufactures scientifically proven, whole food diets made fresh daily for dogs.
Founder(s): Shawn Buckley
Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Animal Feed, Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Health Care, Pet, Veterinary
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Artemys Foods
Artemys Foods works on the next generation of meat alternatives by cultivating meat, instead of harvesting meat from animals.
Founder(s): Jess Krieger, Joshua March
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Food Processing
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Bellwether Coffee
Bellwether Coffee develops hardware and software platform to transform the coffee industry.
Founder(s): Ricardo Lopez
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Coffee, Commercial, Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Software
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Haus
Haus is a beverage brand creating better products for the modern drinker.
Founder(s): Helena Price Hambrecht, Woody Hambrecht
Location: Healdsburg, California, United States
Industries: Distillery, Food and Beverage, Wine And Spirits
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BCD Bioscience
BCD Bioscience is an emerging biotechnology spinout from UC Davis that creates ingredients for food and biopharmaceutical applications.
Founder(s): Bruce German, Carlito Lebrilla, David Mills, Matthew Amicucci
Location: Davis, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Health Care
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Fat Brands
Fat Brands is a leading global franchising company.
Founder(s): Andy Wiederhorn, Taylor Wiederhorn, Thayer Wiederhorn
Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Restaurants
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NatureBox
NatureBox is an online delivery service that home-delivers all-natural snack foods to their consumers on a monthly basis.
Founder(s): Dilpreet Singh, Gautam Gupta, Kenneth Chen
Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Internet, Retail
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Revolution Foods
Revolution Foods delivers ready-to-eat meal kits for school children and families.
Founder(s): Kirsten Saenz Tobey, Kristin Groos Richmond
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Food Delivery, Organic Food
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The Better Meat Co.
The Better Meat makes plant-based proteins that food service providers and meat companies can seamlessly blend directly into ground meat.
Founder(s): Christian Edler, Joanna Bromley, Paul Shapiro
Location: Sacramento, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Food Processing
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Chowbotics by DoorDash
Chowbotics is an industrial automation company that applies designs robotics into the food industry.
Founder(s): Deepak Sekar
Location: Hayward, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Robotics, Snack Food, Vending and Concessions
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SafetyChain Software
SafetyChain Software, Inc. provides cloud-based food safety and quality management solutions.
Founder(s): Wally Smith
Location: San Rafael, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Software
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Del Taco
Del Taco specializes in offering tacos, burritos, quesadillas and nachos.
Founder(s): David Jameson, Ed Hackbarth
Location: Lake Forest, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Food Delivery, Food Processing
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Salted
Salted is a platform for developing and scaling better-for-you, QSR brands.
Founder(s): Jeff Appelbaum
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Cooking, Food and Beverage, Grocery
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Zen Beverage
Zen Beverage offers Zenwtr, a vapor distilled alkaline water bottled in recyclable ocean-bound plastic.
Founder(s): Lance Collins
Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Water, Water Purification
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Uplifting Results Labs
Uplifting Results Labs is a consumer health and food tech company that focuses on nutrition solutions to address chronic health conditions.
Founder(s): Marc Washington
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Dietary Supplements, Food and Beverage, Health Care
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Alpha Foods
Alpha Foods produces plant-based foods focused on taste, texture, and sustainability.
Founder(s): Cole Orobetz, Loren Wallis
Location: Glendale, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Nutrition, Sustainability
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Harmless Harvest
Harmless Harvest is a progressive food & beverage initiative set to demonstrate that ecosystem-based businesses.
Founder(s): Douglas Riboud, Justin Guilbert
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Organic Food
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SnackNation
Healthy snack delivery service that makes healthy snacking fun, life more productive, and workplaces awesome… and now, your home!
Founder(s): Andy Mackensen, Chelsie Rae Lee, Sean Patrick Kelly
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Food Delivery, Food Trucks, Health Care
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Botrista Technology
Botrista Technology is a developer of a device called the DrinkBot that prepares craft beverages like lattes and flavored lemonades.
Founder(s): Paul Chen, Peter Kuo, Sean Hsu
Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Industries: Coffee, Food and Beverage, Restaurants, Retail, Robotics
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De La Calle
De La Calle celebrates street food culture in Mexico.
Founder(s): Alex Matthews
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage
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Creator
Creator is a collective of food lovers and engineers with decades of robotics and restaurant experience.
Founder(s): Alexandros Vardakostas, Steven Frehn
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Industrial Design, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Restaurants, Robotics
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FreshRealm
FreshRealm partners with grocery, convenience, and omni channel retailers to provide meal destination solutions.
Founder(s): Bob Philipps, Ian McManus, Michael Lippold, Scott Hoyt
Location: Ventura, California, United States
Industries: B2B, B2C, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Food Processing
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Urban Remedy
Urban Remedy is a plant-based organic food company that makes eating ultra-fresh and clean easier
Founder(s): Neka Pasquale
Location: Richmond, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Retail, Wholesale
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Munchery
Munchery offers same-day food deliver services.
Founder(s): Conrad Chu, Tri Tran, Van Tran
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Consumer, Food and Beverage, Hospitality, Same Day Delivery
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Liquid I.V
Liquid I.V. is a health-science nutrition and wellness company.
Founder(s): Brandin Cohen
Location: Marina Del Rey, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Health Care, Nutrition, Wellness
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Blendid
Blendid is an autonomous robotic food kiosk that builds robotic and AI-enabled food automation solutions.
Founder(s): Venki Ayalur, Vijay Dodd, Vipin Jain
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Machine Learning, Restaurants, Robotics
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Juicero
Juicero is the inventor of the first home cold-pressed juicing system.
Founder(s): Doug Evans
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Nutrition, Organic Food
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MealMe
MealMe is the Search Engine for Food. Find the cheapest & quickest food delivery and takeout!
Founder(s): Matthew Bouchner, Will Said
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Food Delivery
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Flying Embers Hard Kombucha
Flying Embers is the first better-for-you alcohol platform that delivers great tasting beverages including kombucha, craft beer, & more.
Founder(s): William D. Moses
Location: Ojai, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Wine And Spirits
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Better Brand
Better Brand is a food tech startup marking a new era of nutrition by driving innovation in the multi-trillion-dollar refined carb industry.
Founder(s): Aimee Yang
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Nutrition, Organic Food
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Dream Pops
100% Plant-based, Less than 100 Calories, Less than 2g of Coconut Sugar Frozen Snacks.
Founder(s): David Cohen, David Greenfeld
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Snack Food
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NovoNutrients
NovoNutrients is working to turn waste CO2 into high-value, low-cost proteins and oils for aquaculture and beyond.
Founder(s): Brian Sefton
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industries: Animal Feed, Aquaculture, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage
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Evergreen
Evergreen is a beer, spirit, cocktail, and wine management and marketing platform for bars, restaurants, brands, and consumers.
Founder(s): Jeff Gordon, Melani Gordon
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Food and Beverage, Hospitality, Mobile, Restaurants, SaaS, Social Media, Software, Wine And Spirits
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ZBiotics
ZBiotics is a synthetic biology company that bioengineers probiotic bacteria for nutraceutical and other applications.
Founder(s): Stephen Lamb, Zachary Abbott
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Nutraceutical
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La Colombe Coffee Roasters
La Colombe Coffee operates as a coffee roaster company.
Founder(s): JP Iberti, Todd Carmichael
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Coffee, Food and Beverage, Retail
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Kopari Beauty
Kopari Beauty is a digitally native e-commerce beauty brand
Founder(s): Gigi Farah Goldman, James Brennan, Kiana Cabell
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Beauty, Consumer Goods, Cosmetics, E-Commerce, Fashion, Food and Beverage, Health Care, Retail
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LifeAID Beverage
A leading manufacturer of premium, healthy, and convenient nutritional products for your active lifestyle.
Founder(s): Aaron Hinde, Orion Melehan
Location: Pebble Beach, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Health Care, Manufacturing, Retail
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Sugarfina
Sugarfina is an eCommerce shopping site for a luxury candy boutique.
Founder(s): Josh Resnick, Rosie O’Neill
Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Shopping
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Four Sigmatic
Four Sigmatic is make drinking mushrooms easy with their mushroom coffees, elixirs, and superfood blends.
Founder(s): Mikko Revonniemi, Tero Isokauppila
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Fitness, Food and Beverage, Health Care, Nutrition, Wellness
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Dispatch Goods
Dispatch Goods excludes disposable foodware from food delivery by coordinating into food delivery apps.
Founder(s): Jessica Heiges, Lindsey Hoell
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Delivery, Food and Beverage, Sustainability
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Pared
Pared is a market network for hospitality professionals.
Founder(s): Dave Lu, Will Pacio
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Marketplace, Restaurants, Service Industry
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Tea Drops
Tea Drops is an organic tea company that makes a line of bagless, dissolvable tea blends.
Founder(s): Sashee Chandran
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Organic, Tea
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Right Rice
RightRice provides a tasty rice grain that’s made from vegetables.
Founder(s): Keith Belling
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Retail
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Waka Coffee
Waka Coffee helps people enjoy coffee (and tea) more easily, wherever they are.
Founder(s): David Kovalevski
Location: Walnut, California, United States
Industries: Coffee, Consumer Goods, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
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The Naked Market
The Naked Market is a next-generation consumer products company that is creating a portfolio of food & beverage brands.
Founder(s): Alex Kost, Harrison Fugman, Tim Marbach
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
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Ukko
Improving the lives of millions that suffer from food allergies and disorders
Founder(s): Anat Binur
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Health Care
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Climax Foods
Climax Foods Climax Foods develops machine intelligence tools to create plant-based foods that will out-compete animal-based predecessors.
Founder(s): Oliver Zahn
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Machine Learning, Sustainability
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Better Booch
Better Booch manufactures Premium Small Craft Kombucha expertly brewed in Los Angeles.
Founder(s): Trey Lockerbie
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing
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2ndKitchen
2ndKitchen enables businesses without a kitchen to serve food seamlessly using a custom menu from nearby restaurants.
Founder(s): Arik Gaisler, Jonathan Elron, Nick Anastasiades
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: B2B, Food and Beverage, Food Delivery, Information Technology, Restaurants
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Kiva Confections
Kiva Confections develops innovative ways for people to consume cannabis which nurture, enhance, and improve lives.
Founder(s): Kristi Knoblich, Scott Palmer
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cannabis, Food and Beverage, Medical
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Eclipse Foods
Eclipse Foods is a plant-based dairy products that are indistinguishable from animal dairy products.
Founder(s): Aylon Steinhart, Thomas Bowman
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Manufacturing
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Koia
Koia is a food and beverage company that specializes in manufacturing plant protein drinks.
Founder(s): Chris Fanucchi, Christopher Hunter, Dustin Baker, Maya French
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Food Delivery, Food Processing, Manufacturing
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Deux Foods
Deux Foods operates as a functional cookie dough startup.
Founder(s): Sabeena Ladha
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Snack Food
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Maker Wine
Maker Wine connects wine lovers to premium canned wines from best-in-class independent producers.
Founder(s): Kendra Kawala, Sarah Hoffman, Zoe Victor
Location: Novato, California, United States
Industries: Consumer Goods, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Wine And Spirits, Winery
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Trust Me Vodka
Trust Me Vodka features Gluten-Free Made from potatoes and Organic made from wheat vodka.
Founder(s): Mitchell Bailey
Location: Carlsbad, California, United States
Industries: Art, Food and Beverage, Wine And Spirits
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CAULIPOWER
Caulipower produces vegetable-based pizzas and pizza crusts that are gluten-free.
Founder(s): Gail Becker
Location: Encino, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Organic Food
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NuZee
NuZee is an innovative consumer products development company
Founder(s): Masateru Higashida
Location: Vista, California, United States
Industries: Coffee, Consumer Goods, Food and Beverage
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Serve Automation
Serve Automation is changing the way your favorite food gets delivered.
Founder(s): Benson Tsai
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Food Delivery, Restaurants
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Presto
Presto is the leading provider of customer experience and labor productivity software to restaurant enterprises.
Founder(s): Rajat Suri
Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Industries: Enterprise Software, Food and Beverage, Restaurants, SaaS, Software
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Jack in the Box
Jack in the Box is a restaurant company that operates and franchises restaurants.
Founder(s): Robert Oscar Peterson
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Franchise, Hospitality, Restaurants
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Iron Ox
Iron Ox operates autonomous robotic greenhouses that grow every plant at its best from seed to harvest.
Founder(s): Brandon Alexander, Jon Binney
Location: San Carlos, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, Food and Beverage, Green Building, GreenTech, Robotics, Sustainability
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Kitchen United
Kitchen United offers a turnkey solution that eliminates barriers to growth and enables restaurant brands to profitably expand.
Founder(s): Harry Tsao and John Miller
Location: Pasadena, California, United States
Industries: Commercial, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Real Estate, Restaurants, Software
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Cheetah
Cheetah is an e-commerce platform offering contactless pickup and delivery of food and supplies.
Founder(s): Alon Har-Tal, Christopher Elliott, Na’ama Moran
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Food Delivery, Logistics, Packaging Services, Supply Chain Management
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Zero Acre Farms
Zero Acre Farms is a food company that aims to end the food industry’s dependence on destructive vegetable oils.
Founder(s): Jeff Nobbs
Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Nutrition, Personal Health, Wellness
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Winc
Winc is a winery company with a direct connection to the consumer, building a portfolio of brands for the next generation of wine drinkers.
Founder(s): Brian Smith, Geoff McFarlane, Mark Thomas Lynn, Xander Oxman
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Hospitality, Wine And Spirits, Winery
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Blue Bottle Coffee
Blue Bottle Coffee is a coffee roaster and retailer platform that delivers coffee subscriptions to doorsteps nationwide.
Founder(s): James Freeman
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Coffee, Food and Beverage, Retail
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Lypid
Pioneering alternative fat to make alternative protein as good as original meat.
Founder(s): Jen-Yu Huang, Michelle Lee
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Nutraceutical
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Mountain Mike’s Pizza
Mountain Mike’s Pizza is a restaurant chain with delivery service specializing in pizza.
Founder(s):
Location: Alameda, California, United States
Industries: Delivery Service, Food and Beverage, Restaurants
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Voyage Foods
Voyage Foods is future-proofing the food and drink we love.
Founder(s): Adam Maxwell
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage
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Veggie Grill
Veggie Grill, a West Coast restaurant, provides plant-based food including hot sandwiches and burgers, entrée salads, soups and deserts.
Founder(s): Kevin Boylan, Ray White, T.K. Pillan
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Cooking, Food and Beverage, Hospitality, Restaurants
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Nima
Nima is a science-driven company creating connected food sensors for peace of mind at meal time.
Founder(s): Scott Sundvor, Shireen Yates
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Health Care, Medical Device, Personal Health, Sensor, Wellness
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Zira
Zira designs and develops employee management solutions that leverage technology to empower companies.
Founder(s): Arjun Vora, Tito Goldstein
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Food and Beverage, Internet, Restaurants, Retail, Small and Medium Businesses, Software
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SideChef
SideChef is an online platform that provides step-by-step recipes for new and amateur cooks.
Founder(s): Kevin Yu
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Cooking, Food and Beverage, Internet of Things, Smart Home, Software
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Soma
Soma is a premium water filter service that includes a beautiful glass carafe and the world’s most innovative water filters.
Founder(s): Ido Leffler, Mike Del Ponte, Rohan Oza, Zach Allia
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Green Consumer Goods, Hardware, Product Design
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Piestro
Piestro operates a robotic pizza system and dispenser designed to deliver high-quality artisanal pizzas.
Founder(s): Massimo Noja De Marco
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Hotel, Restaurants
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Galley Solutions
Galley helps restaurants, caterers, and other types of food businesses collect and understand the food data behind their operations.
Founder(s): Benji Koltai, Ian Christopher
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Information Technology, Software
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Ready, Set, Food!
Ready, Set, Food! develops an evidence-based solution that makes it easy for parents to protect their babies from common food allergies.
Founder(s): Andy Leitner, Daniel Zakowski
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
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Urban Plates
Urban Plates is a restaurant offering meal and dining services.
Founder(s): Saad Nadhir
Location: Cardiff By The Sea, California, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Hospitality
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