Top Palo Alto, CA Food Startups (20)
CAKE by Mad Mobile combines Silicon Valley innovation with decades of restaurant expertise. We believe technology is the key to improving the restaurant experience for both diners and restaurateurs. Our integrated platform of software and hardware builds better dining experiences for restaurant operators and their guests. CAKE makes restaurant technology easy.
Formed in 2010, Terviva is a food and agriculture company that delivers tasty and nourishing plant-based food ingredients from the pongamia tree. We provide patented high-yielding trees and offer proprietary bean processing to create the world's most sustainable oil and protein food ingredients. Pongamia trees restore farmland to productive use, helping farmers feed people while taking care of the planet.
Saltalk is a virtual kitchen and e-commerce platform to connect food entrepreneurs and customers.
Yummly is the ultimate app to simplify home cooking with personalized recipe inspiration, organization, and meal planning, all in one place. We’re a technology company committed to helping you choose homemade food to support your wellbeing. We provide limitless ideas and insights — and the tools to make homemade a piece of cake, from recipe discovery to meal prep to...
Blendid is transforming the way food is prepared and served to meet the unique health and taste preferences of today’s consumers. Blendid offers autonomous robotics food kiosks that use advanced technology – including robotics, machine vision, and artificial intelligence – to prepare and serve healthy, fresh, and delicious smoothies, known as Blends. Blends are customized and made-to-order based on an...
Iron Ox uses robotics and artificial intelligence to ensure each individual plant receives the optimal levels of sunshine, water, and nutrients. Iron Ox is dedicated to addressing some of the most significant issues in food security, now and in the future. We’re focused on sustainable, scalable food production for a changing climate and an ever growing population.
New Culture is leading the global change to an animal-free dairy future. We’re revolutionizing how cheese is made by combining traditional cheesemaking methods with modern fermentation technology. Using our groundbreaking science, any cheese is possible and can be made completely animal-free. First up is our craveable, sustainable, animal-free mozzarella that melts, stretches, bubbles, and browns to perfection. With a completely...
The EVERY Company combines industry-leading expertise in food technology and flavor to enable the foods of tomorrow, today, for the world’s global food and beverage industries. We’re creating game-changing solutions for businesses and brands, with our people and products delivering leveled-up performance, unprecedented outcomes in taste and texture, and animal-free innovation to a host of categories, in line with consumer trends. Along...
AgShift is an AI based food technology start-up working on designing world's most advanced autonomous food inspection system. AgShift's software blends patented Deep Learning models with Computer vision to make food inspections autonomous, consistent and standardized at scale. AgShift is empowering the world's largest food organizations to reduce global food loss and waste. AgShift, Inc. is based out of Silicon...
Cut+Dry is the #1 e-commerce platform for foodservice distributors. We are the only back-of-office sales enablement and customer-facing e-commerce tool in the industry. Cut+Dry was created by a team of food service fanatics with decades of experience in hospitality, technology, restaurant operations, wholesale food distribution, food analytics, and data science. Our executive team has built and scaled multiple companies in the...
Farmigo brings the farmers’ market online, connecting food communities -- such as workplaces, apartment complexes, community centers and schools -- directly to multiple local farms to provide a personalized online marketplace for fresh-from-harvest food. The Farmigo team is dedicated to accelerating the adoption of an alternative food system by delivering healthy locally grown food to households across the country.
Taro is a chef-to-table marketplace for healthy, authentic homestyle meals that are delivered directly to you. We connect you with local chefs who are already preparing your favorite homemade food each week so you can place an order and #EatHappy in the comfort of your own home.
The EVERY Co., headquartered in South San Francisco, is a market leader in engineering, manufacturing and formulating animal-free, animal proteins as ingredients for the global food and beverage industry. Originally founded as Clara Foods in 2014, EVERY™ rebranded in 2021 to better capture its vision to bring animal-free proteins to everyone, everywhere.
We are reimagining the dining experience from ground up, by providing full service restaurant operators with 1 to 15 locations an insanely easy-to-use all-in-one SaaS solution that replaces 16 separate systems, dramatically streamlining restaurant management and operations, increasing margins and sales, while reducing costs and delighting guests.
Cana is an early stage start up on a mission to transform the way the world produces and consumes. We believe in an abundant future, a future where molecular printers instantly make the things we want to consume. Where more options and more flavors are delivered in more ways with less of an impact on the environment. We're starting with beverages. Every...
TerraVia™ is a next-generation food, nutrition and specialty ingredients company that harnesses the power of algae, the mother of all plants and earth's original superfood, to deliver much needed innovation and sustainable solutions to the food industry. TerraVia's algae-based platform is transforming our food system by bringing together better nutrition and great taste, along with economic and environmental sustainability. The...
NatureBox has built one of the fastest growing food brands in the country and a passionate member community. Hungry to make discovering bold, delicious foods easier, NatureBox is on a mission to empower consumers with direct access to better choices and a dynamic, personalized experience. As a multi-channel food company, NatureBox harnesses consumer data to drive personalized, real time innovation...
Imagine a meat company unlike anything that has come before! Air Protein™ is on a mission to impact climate change by revolutionizing how we make meat. Founded in 2019, we make protein from elements of the air. Air Protein is a modern food company, crafting the world’s first air-based meats to feed us more sustainably, help renew the planet’s resources and...
AirGrub is an App that allows air travelers to preorder their food from their phone and pick up their freshly made meal at the airport, without waiting in line or fumbling around for a credit card. Bringing you peace of mind (and a full stomach!) in a busy, stressful airport environment. Skip the lines, every time for real food when...
Oh My Green is the Eat Healthy, Work Happy, Live BlissTM company. Founded out of Stanford StartX and Y Combinator, Oh My Green offers a complete wellness platform that brings delicious and nutritious food, healthy snacks, drinks, and wellness practices to the workplace to improve employee productivity and engagement. Oh My Green provides micro-kitchens, micro-markets, catering, cafe management, subscription boxes...
