Top California Food Startups (212)

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.”

Since 2010, we’ve been helping companies build community and culture within their teams. We’re dedicated to getting the best local food delivered directly to your team, whether they’re in the office or working from home. Meals not really your thing? We provide many other perks that are perfect for helping you engage your team and boost morale. What sets us apart?...

At Shef, we're bringing the sharing economy to the table. We believe in providing our Shefs (refugees, immigrants, stay-at-home parents) the opportunity to make a meaningful income from their very own kitchens. We also believe that every person should have access to a healthy, homemade meal at an affordable price. Building a safe and happy community devoted to economic empowerment...

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...

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...

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...

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...

We build innovative systems and processes that allow farmers to streamline farm operations and increase food production efficiency. We start with mechanical weeding on vegetables. For vegetable growers who face increased growing costs and new environmental and regulatory pressures, the FarmWise suite of data-driven services harnesses plant-level data to drive precise field actions in order to streamline farm operations and...

Once Upon a Farm was built on a dream with co-founders John Foraker, Jennifer Garner, Cassandra Curtis and Ari Raz in crafting better, nutritious foods for little ones. Using the magic of high-pressure pasteurization (HPP) to lock in the nutrients and flavors of farm-fresh ingredients, they pioneered the first cold-pressed, organic fruit and veggie blends for babies. Today, Once Upon...

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

As one of the fastest growing non-alcoholic beverage brands, Liquid Death uses comedy and entertainment to make health and sustainability 50 times more fun. We take low-calorie beverages and package them into infinitely recyclable cans that compete with the fun marketing of unhealthy brands across energy drinks, beer, and junk food. Our product lines include mountain water, soda-flavored sparkling water,...

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

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...

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At FreshRealm meals are more than a source of nutrition, they are our passion. Meals are the heart of a timeless ritual of sitting down to connect: with family, friends and ourselves. We are a Fresh Meals company, and that’s all we do. We focus on where consumers shop everyday … at retail. We partner with leading Grocery, Convenience and...

Nash exists to democratize local delivery for business across all industries and sizes. We use the power of technology to build user-friendly infrastructure and smart interfaces that enable all merchants to exceed the rapidly evolving expectations of today and tomorrow’s consumer.

WHAT WE DO WX develops exclusive brands of wine for retailers around the world. We also offer our own unique portfolio of proprietary wine brands that are sold globally. Products are sourced from 17 countries and sold in 12 countries resulting in over 6 million cases sold worldwide. NATIONAL BRANDS include Bread & Butter Wines, Chronic Cellars, Jamieson Ranch Vineyards portfolio...

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...

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

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.