Top Illinois Food Startups (81)
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...
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!
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...
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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...
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...
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....
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...
Factor 75 prepares and delivers meals designed to provide a perfect balance of nutrition and taste to enhance mind and body performance. Our menu changes seasonally and incorporates the latest trends and research in nutrition, including the fact that 75% of your fitness results come from what you eat!
Guild Row is a new type of social club located along the Rockwell Corridor in Avondale, Chicago. Our 12,000 SF indoor/outdoor facility was designed as a place to meet new people and try new things. Guild Row opened its doors into the global pandemic this past August believing that togetherness is an essential good. Our growing community is currently comprised...
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....
"The Chef's Kit for home cooking – Authentic, home cooked ethnic food made easy!" CompanyD.I.Y. Takeout delivers authentic ingredients from local ethnic restaurants directly to your kitchen. Select your dish online and everything you need to make a restaurant-quality ethnic meal arrives at your home. Our Chef's Kits are pre-packaged with all the necessary chopped fresh ingredients, secret sauces and easy-to-follow instructions. Now anyone can make an authentic ethnic...
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...
Since its foundation in 1989, Woodland Foods has been a trusted source of culinary inspiration, deeply rooted in global flavor knowledge and exploration. With an unparalleled passion for innovation, leading expertise in crafting unique custom solutions, responsible ingredient sourcing, flexible manufacturing capabilities, and delivery efficiency, Woodland Foods cultivates lasting partnerships through collaborative efforts that cater to the diverse needs of...
Isn't Drinks makes zero-proof cocktails for people who drink or don't drink or are taking a break from drinking alcohol. We make three unique flavors, one for every palate and food pairing.
Purple Carrot started with a seed of an idea in 2014 and is sprouting into the ultimate plant-based marketplace. We envision a world where plant-based eating is at the core of living well. Taste is at the center of what we do: good, vegan food for everyone. We value learning from customers, an ownership mindset, integrity, winning together, and being...
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The company is building a two-sided managed marketplace for the $300b+ wholesale food industry in North America. They aggregate demand through their network and let any wholesale food buyer (restaurants, hospitals, universities, etc) order their supplies and makes the supplier workflow.
Revolution Brewing is Illinois' largest craft brewery. Our brewpub in Chicago's Logan Square is a bustling, neighborhood institution where friends and families meet to enjoy the freshest beer in town. Opening our brewery has been a labor of love. We think you can see that in everything we do ranging from the details of our carved fists holding up o
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.
