Top Illinois Food Startups (82)

Double Good is a company built on creating joy and helping others. By reimagining product-based virtual fundraising, we help expand organizations' missions by giving back 50% of every dollar sold. We make ultra-premium popcorn sold through our simple-to-use software. We've helped raise over $200 million to support organizations nationwide that tilt the playing field for all kids. Double Good is not...

Since 1963, Imbibe has been accelerating the growth of the food and beverage industry by designing and supplying custom ingredients as an unrivaled R&D partner. Imbibe’s end-to-end food and beverage product development services and ingredients enhance upstream and downstream operations. For companies who have limited internal resources to teams with sophisticated development capabilities, Imbibe is able to unlock the potential...

Chowbus is an online and mobile food-ordering platform that curates daily featured dishes from select ethnic restaurants and delivers them hot and fresh directly to your home or office. What makes Chowbus different is the dish-centric ordering experience so consumers can easily explore authentic ethnic food. Chowbus empowers local restaurants with the technology, tools, and marketing to grow their businesses....

Chomps is a better-for-you meat snack brand with products made from the highest-quality, sustainably sourced proteins and no hidden, harmful ingredients. Chomps beef and venison are 100% grass-fed and finished, our turkey is free range, and all of our proteins are hormone free, antibiotic free, and humanely raised. Chomps meat snacks never contain added sugar, artificial preservatives or colors, MSG...

We manufacture and distribute ingredients to anyone using bulk ingredients in their baking and production.

Zenblen offers freshly blended smoothies via a tech-enabled smoothie bar. Today’s consumers are busier and more health-conscious than ever, and smoothies are a great way to fulfill this trend. But there are many hurdles to making a fresh smoothie: buying ingredients, cleaning the blender, etc. And no one wants to walk 15 minutes to the nearest smoothie bar. Enter Zenblen, we...

Founded by Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast, Feastables is setting out to build the most engaging brand on the planet, bringing the games, stunts and spectacle MrBeast is known for to your doorstep and grocery aisle!

Discover delicious recipes with the ingredients you have on hand

Protein Bar and Kitchen is a healthy quick service restaurant. Launched in 2009, our mission is to provide active, on-the-go people with healthy, flavorful choices while having a positive impact on everyone we meet and in everything we do. Starting from Chicago, we have since expanded into the Chicago suburbs as well as the Denver, Boulder, and Washington D.C. markets....

Alocito is a web-based food ordering and reservation service that removes all wait times in restaurants. Alocito enables the ability to order and pay for food in advance: the meal is the focus of the experience rather than the transactions.

Simple Mills is a rapidly-growing Chicago-based company on the forefront of the clean food movement, transforming center store grocery aisles with products made from simple, whole food, nutrient dense ingredients. In the company’s short history, Simple Mills has become the #1 bestselling natural baking mix, the #1 bestselling natural cracker, and the #2 bestselling natural cookie. Distributed in 25,000+ grocery stores...

 TruckSpotting is a suite of mobile applications and a website that displays the locations, menus, and schedules of food trucks in real time. It's free for the trucks, free for the users.At its heart, it is much much more than that - it is the independent system operator for any food truck market - we aggregate data to generate location...

We are FarmLead & are changing how grain is traded. Our online grain marketplace helps all farmers showcase the grain they want to sell to the broadest possible amount of buyers, helping them secure better prices. In 2.5 years, we’ve helped farmers successfully negotiate over 1.4 million tonnes of grain,

Indulgery allows you to discover specials and events at local restaurants and bars. With our custom search and filter tools, users can search exactly what they're looking for, or follow the businesses they care about to receive a custom newsfeed of specials & events.For businesses, Indulgery aims to be the "Hootsuite for restaurants and bars," by providing an all-in-one marketing...

Pear Chef is the first tech-enabled "Room Service" concept of it's kind. We served downtown luxury apartment buildings and staff each building with a Private Chef. Residents can get fresh food and cocktails within moments of ordering. We are disrupting the food space!

Rivive Consulting Group is a trusted management consulting enterprise specializing in the health, food, and entrepreneurship policy by bringing innovation to the forefront. Rivive is dedicated to delivering economic invigoration, idea streams, and food immersion solutions through technology.

We build and market indoor gardens for consumers. Our experiential products foster health and happiness by enabling people to grow food, plants and flowers year-round. We are mission-driven as we work to improve education and awareness of the benefits of real food through schools - see the video of a recent collaboration.

DinnDinn is a virtual fridge for all the dishes, drinks, and desserts you love or hate! It's available for free in the App Store and Google Play Store. Whether you have one Tastebud (friend) or 1000, DinnDinn is a fun tool to help you share food with friends, keep track of what and where you ate, and best of all...

it all began in a garden. Founder and CEO Michael Heinrich was in his grandmother’s garden in Germany when he learned about the power of food. An avid gardener and medical doctor, his grandmother taught him how to use food to fuel his mind and body. Michael initially pushed the lessons to the back of his thoughts as he began a...

The Uncorkd platform provides a better way for restaurants to manage their beverage programs by with interactive iPad menus, inventory management, purchasing, menu analytics and real-time sales data. Uncorkd is used by hundreds of the leading restaurants, hotels, casinos and private clubs throughout North America.