Top California Food Startups (213)

We're a team of engineers, researchers, and farmers on a mission to revolutionize one of Earth's most important industries – agriculture. At Orchard, we're securing America’s food supply by building the AI farmer that automates our nation’s farms. Our mission is to help farmers produce more food for the world, more profitably and sustainably than ever before. Farmers across the...

SafetyChain is a Quality Management System (QMS) that helps food and beverage companies improve productivity, profitability and compliance with a flexible, user-friendly software platform that captures, manages and analyzes real-time operations data. Learn more at https://safetychain.com

The truth is, every body needs high performance energy. Whether you’re a top-performing ultra marathoner, or on the eleventh hour of cramming for finals, we all need healthier, more elite energy. We’ve developed a family of products steeped in the legacy of endurance athletics, designed to function for every day use. From cyclists winning the Tour de France, to EMT workers pulling a...

Running a food business is hard, too hard. About 2/3 of brick and mortar restaurants and bakeries fail within their first year, putting these types of businesses in the same risk category as startups. It is insane that that is the case. However, during COVID, as people were stuck at home, a new model for selling food emerged: people making and...

Miso Robotics is building AI-powered automation for commercial kitchens, starting with Flippy, the industry's first fully autonomous fry station robot deployed at commercial scale. If you're an AI or robotics engineer who wants to see your work in action every single day, solving real problems for real people, this is where that happens. We're tackling one of the hardest robotics challenges:...

Blentech is a bay area based food technology company focused on developing equipment, systems and software for the safe, nutritious and consistent preparation of foods. Creatively blending the latest digital and physical technologies, our products deliver function, durability, sanitary design, safety and performance. Our experience in process engineering, automation, manufacturing and service, paired with proprietary manufacturing techniques, delivers superior processing...

Wildtype isn’t plant-based, farmed-raised, or wild-caught. We're making cultivated seafood, starting with sushi-grade salmon.

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Bobbie is the first and only mom-founded and women-led infant formula company in the U.S. Our European-style recipe meets all FDA requirements, is made made with pasture-raised milk from Organic Valley farms, and is the only infant formula to receive both the Clean Label Project’s Purity Award and Pesticide Free Certification. Bobbie is working to shake the stigma and evolve...

A national food and beverage sales management company providing broker, merchandising, and business intelligence services. Critical mass is the point at which a growing company becomes self-sustaining and no longer needs additional investment to remain economically viable. The term is derived from nuclear physics, where critical mass is defined as the smallest mass that can sustain a nuclear reaction at...

JuneShine is brewed with real, organic ingredients: green tea, honey, fruit juice, spices, and our jun kombucha base (also known as the SCOBY). The flavor’s are so smooth, it’s literally called “the champagne of kombuchas.”

Bee Sweet Citrus, Inc. is a vertically integrated agribusiness, dedicated to providing our consumers with citrus that's fresh, safe and delicious. Family owned and operated, and located in the heart of the Central Valley, Bee Sweet Citrus is known for the production of Navel and Valencia oranges, lemons, grapefruit, mandarins – even exotic specialties like minneolas and pummelos. In addition, close...

Bellwether is a venture-backed, high-growth tech company working hard—alongside other game-changers—to positively transform the coffee industry. We’re a diverse team of coffee industry veterans, entrepreneurs, engineers, technicians, human-centered designers, and people-focused rule-breakers who have a passion for making the “impossible” a reality.

Foodsmart is the leading telenutrition and foodcare solution, backed by a robust network of registered dietitians. We’re redefining health through Foodcare—connecting nutrition, food access, and medicine to make healthy eating accessible for all. Our platform is designed to foster healthier food choices, drive lasting behavior change, and deliver long-term health outcomes. Through our highly personalized, digital platform, we guide our...

At Zevia, we get up every day to create a world of better-for-you flavor — better for people and better for the planet. We're cleaning up the beverage aisle with accessible, naturally sweetened, zero-sugar deliciousness – and you won't find a single plastic bottle in sight. Passion, openness, gratitude, accessibility, humanism, humility, and scrappiness – these are the values that drive...

Revi is redefining retail by turning every point-of-sale into a revenue growth engine. We fuse AI, hardware, and a consumer app-based experiences to create digital profiles for every in-store customer—fueling automated upsells, instant rewards, and hyper-personalized engagement. Revi is more than an ordering system — it’s a growth engine that personalizes, optimizes, and amplifies every transaction for both the business...

Plantible Foods is a B2B food technology company with the goal to develop the most functional and applicable plant-based protein in the world using scalable and sustainable aqua-farming and extraction technologies

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...

Care of Chan is a trusted resource for all things convivial, providing a fresh perspective on event planning with purpose. We offer curated guides showcasing some of our favorite chefs, venues, florists and other event vendors; stories from creative hosts and producers behind some of the most memorable gatherings; and interviews, op-eds, and personal essays exploring themes such as craft...

We create on-demand crop solutions that lead to more sustainable, healthier and tastier food. Our solutions unleash the natural power that exists in plants and the soil to create a more agile and resilient agriculture system.