foodtech
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Glife Technologies Pte Ltd
Glife Technologies is a Singapore-based B2B food and agri-tech company that digitizes the food supply chain across Southeast Asia. It connects farmers and suppliers directly with restaurants, hotels, caterers and retailers through an app-based sourcing marketplace, its own cold-chain distribution network, and an in-house ERP platform called GlifeWare. By cutting out layers of middlemen and aggregating demand, Glife aims to lower costs for buyers, give farmers reliable access to end-buyers, and improve food safety and food security in the region.
Grubtech
Grubtech is a Dubai-based restaurant technology company that builds a unified operating system for food and beverage and quick-commerce businesses. Its middleware platform, gOnline, connects fragmented software touchpoints - POS systems, ERP, delivery aggregators like Talabat, Deliveroo, Careem and Uber Eats, kitchen displays, dispatch and analytics - into a single dashboard so restaurants, cloud kitchens, grocers and pharmacies can run online and in-store operations without juggling multiple screens. Founded in 2019, the company has raised $33.4M and operates across roughly 18 markets.
JALA
JALA is an Indonesian aquaculture technology company that helps shrimp farmers raise more shrimp with less risk. Founded in 2017 in Yogyakarta, it pairs IoT water-quality sensors with a farm-management app and layers on financing, quality inputs, expert consultation, and a marketplace for harvests. The goal is an end-to-end digital ecosystem that makes shrimp farming more productive, transparent, and sustainable across Indonesia's fragmented supply chain.
Incredo
Incredo (formerly DouxMatok) is a foodtech company that makes real cane and beet sugar taste sweeter, letting food manufacturers cut sugar by 30-50% without artificial sweeteners, sugar alcohols or a change in taste, mouthfeel or texture. Its patented Incredo Sugar binds sugar to a natural carrier so it dissolves and reaches taste receptors more efficiently, and because it is still sugar it can be labeled cleanly. Founded in Israel in 2014 and rebranded to Incredo in 2023 alongside a $30M Series C, the company works B2B with confectionery, bakery and spread makers to reformulate everyday sweet products.
Sauce
Sauce is a Miami-based restaurant technology company that helps independent restaurants and small chains build a profitable direct online ordering and delivery business. Instead of surrendering 30% commissions and customer data to marketplaces like DoorDash and Uber Eats, restaurants use Sauce to take branded direct orders and fulfill them through a managed, commission-free courier network charged at a flat per-order fee. The platform bundles online ordering, managed delivery, live order support, local SEO, and AI-driven marketing and retention into a single system aimed at turning delivery from a cost center into a margin driver.
Tastewise
Tastewise is an agentic AI platform built exclusively for the food and beverage industry. It combines proprietary consumer panels, market trackers, and trillions of real-time food signals with AI agents trained on food behavior to help brands spot trends earlier, validate new products, win retail and menu placement, and automate marketing and sales. Its tools are used by a large share of the world's leading F&B companies, including Mars, Nestle, PepsiCo, Kraft Heinz and Kroger.
Hyphen
Hyphen builds the Makeline, an automated meal-assembly system that sits beneath a restaurant's counter and portions and plates digital and takeout orders while staff handle the guest-facing line above it. Paired with its CulinaryOS software for menus, orders, inventory and labor, the San Jose company aims to raise peak-hour throughput and order accuracy without replacing kitchen workers. Founded in 2020 by Stephen Klein and Daniel Fukuba, Hyphen has raised roughly $59M and counts Chipotle and Cava among its strategic investors and pilot customers.
Shin Starr Presents Corp.
Shin Starr Presents Corp. is a Korean-American foodtech company building autonomous, AI-powered robotic kitchens. Its 'Autowok' system - a modular, Lego-block robotics platform - cooks Korean BBQ and seafood with minimal human intervention, including inside moving OLHSO food trucks that finish dishes 'en route' so meals arrive minutes after cooking. Founded in 2019 by Kish Shin and Jay Shin, the company operates OLHSO branded trucks and a San Mateo restaurant in the San Francisco Bay Area and is targeting airports, campuses, and corporate cafeterias for expansion.
Traveling Spoon
Traveling Spoon is a food-tourism marketplace that lets travelers eat home-cooked meals, take private cooking classes, and tour local markets with vetted home cooks - mostly women - in their own kitchens around the world. Founded in 2011 by Haas MBA classmates Aashi Vel and Steph Lawrence, the company turns a stranger's dining table into the most authentic seat in a foreign city, giving hosts a new income stream and travelers a meal you can't find on any restaurant menu.
Solarbiotech
Solarbiotech is a U.S.-based synthetic biology and biomanufacturing company that helps companies move precision-fermentation products from lab bench to commercial scale. Built around a Norton, Virginia plant with fermentation capacity from 6L to 10,000L and a modular 'BioNodes' architecture, it offers end-to-end strain-to-shelf services - upstream fermentation, downstream processing, and commercial production - for food ingredients, nutraceuticals, cosmetics, enzymes, and industrial bioproducts. After a 2024 Chapter 11 restructuring, its assets were acquired by Pictor Biotech (led by ex-Novozymes executive Peter Rosholm) and unified in January 2025 with GPC Bio and Eleszto Genetika into a vertically integrated, 100+ person SynBio platform.
MarginEdge
MarginEdge is a restaurant management software company that turns the back office paperwork of running a restaurant - invoices, food costs, inventory, vendor payments - into real-time, actionable data. Founded in 2015 by restaurant veterans and technologists, the platform digitizes invoices, tracks theoretical vs. actual food costs, delivers daily profit-and-loss reports, and lets operators pay vendor bills with no added fees. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, it now serves more than 10,000 restaurants across the U.S. and Canada.
TurtleTree
TurtleTree is a biotech and food-tech company that makes lactoferrin - one of the rarest and most valuable proteins in cow's milk - without the cow. Using precision fermentation, its flagship ingredient LF+ recreates the bioactive milk protein at scale for use in immunity, gut health, sports nutrition and infant nutrition products. In 2025 TurtleTree became the first company in the world to win an FDA 'No Questions' GRAS letter for precision-fermented lactoferrin, clearing it to commercialize in the U.S.
ezCater
ezCater is the leading U.S. workplace food platform, connecting companies that need to feed teams, meetings and events with a network of more than 100,000 local restaurants and caterers. Founded in Boston in 2007, it turned the messy, phone-and-fax world of office catering into software - online ordering, delivery logistics, billing and analytics - serving everything from a 5-person lunch to a 2,000-person conference. Now a $1.6B company, it has expanded from a transactional marketplace into an enterprise food management platform.
Fork & Good, Inc.
Fork & Good is a Jersey City-based cellular agriculture company growing real meat from animal cells instead of whole animals. Founded by urban-farming entrepreneur Niya Gupta and cultivated-meat pioneer Gabor Forgacs, the company built a pilot factory that produces cultivated pork using a patented bioprocess centered on muscle cells and high-density bioreactors. Its goal is to reach price parity with commodity meat - targeting roughly $2 per pound - while using a fraction of the land and water of conventional farming. In 2025 it acquired California's Orbillion Bio to combine cultivated pork and beef under one global platform spanning North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.