Top Illinois Food Startups (80)

J.K. Williams Distilling is a distillery producing craft whiskey and spirits.

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,

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...

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...

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.

foodjunky is a food concierge service that streamlines the ordering process for individuals and groups so everyone's happy. They became an official Yelp Platform partner in June of 2016.

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...

Chowly integrates third-party Online Ordering Systems (TOOS) such as Grubhub, UberEats, Doordash, and more, into a restaurant's point-of-sale (POS) system. Restaurant staff will no longer need to manage delivery tablets and manually enter each order. This saves time, controls staffing costs, increases efficiency, and reduces errors.

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At Bartend Chicago, we specialize in providing bar staff and beverage catering to events of all sizes.  Our team of bartenders are the best in the industry.  We hand pick each bartender and seek only those that are currently in the industry with experience beyond a few bartending classes.  Our staff has experience in high volume bar settings, with craft...

OjaExpress is an ethnic grocery delivery platform, which allows US consumers to shop for their hard to find ethnic groceries in a convenient and efficient manner.

2ndKitchen, a Techstars Chicago company, enables businesses without a kitchen to serve food seamlessly using a custom menu from nearby restaurants. Look for us at your nearest bar, brewery or hotel!

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TableSavvy is a real time reservation platform, helping restaurants fill last minute available tables for the night, while giving spontaneous consumers 30% off to fill these tables. Even the most in-demand restaurants have tables to fill. Between off-peak hours, special events, holidays, and cancellations, full-service restaurants tend to fill only 70% of their seating capacity each night, and most don't have...

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.

Deliveree is a B2B logistics as a service (LaaS) technology marketplace that empowers small businesses with one hour delivery service by providing on-demand delivery personnel. Our mission is to help small businesses to cut their overhead cost, improve the efficiency, and provide exceptional customer service.

At Onyx, we’re more than a supply company. We’re the forward-thinking partner that unpacks more for our customer's business. Through our global and local manufacturing partners, a broad range of products, flexible distribution models, and custom solutions, we keep businesses of all sizes moving forward.

Did you know that craft coffee hits “peak flavor" between Day 3 and Day 14 after roasting? #FreshnessMatters Javaya is the only marketplace that fresh-dates everything it sells (we coined the Future Fresh® date). Craft coffee ships within hours of roasting, guaranteeing it arrives at your doorstep just as it's hitting peak flavor.

Luncheon is your new location-based networking platform. Meet new people based on categories and mutual interests and never have another boring lunch!

Every Last Morsel is a community marketplace for locally grown food -- like an Etsy for small farms and backyard gardeners. We provide growers with web-based record-keeping tools and easy-to-use sales outlets that allow farms to focus on doing what they love -- growing good food.