Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best Massachusetts based Food and Beverage companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Food and Beverage industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top Massachusetts Food and Beverage Startups
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Drizly
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Drizly is an alcohol marketplace that offers a variety of beer, wine and, spirits online.
Keurig Dr Pepper
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Keurig Dr Pepper is a coffee and beverage company.
Motif
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Motif makes ingredients for the next generation of plant-based and healthy foods.
Bevi
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Bevi is a smart water dispenser that customizes flavored and sparkling beverages on demand.
Spyce
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Spyce operates robotic restaurant kitchen serving up healthy food bowls.
Spindrift
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Spindrift is a food and beverage company that produces a line of unsweetened sparkling beverages made with real squeezed fruit.
Manus Bio
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Manus Bio makes nature accessible and affordable for a growing society.
Coravin
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Coravin offers a proprietary wine access technology that does not disturb a wine’s aging process even after the cork is removed.
LevelUp
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LevelUp is an online and mobile food ordering company that connects diners with local takeout restaurants.
Mori
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Mori is a developer of a protective silk coating product that extends the shelf life of perishable foods.
Freight Farms
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Freight Farms offers high-volume crop production units made from upcycled shipping containers to support farming in any climate.
Kula Bio
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Kula Bio is a company that provides sustainable biological solutions for modern agriculture.
Tru
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Tru is a provider of functional beverages used for energy, focus, power, and refreshment.
Spoiler Alert
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Spoiler Alert is a Boston-based software company helping perishable CPG brands manage excess and slow-moving inventory
The Purple Carrot
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The Purple Carrot is a plant-based meal delivery service, offering all the pre-measured ingredients so you can cook healthy meals at home.
Suvie
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Suvie builds a multi-zone cool to cook kitchen robot that makes 5 star meals with zero effort.
Dexai Robotics
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Dexai automates activities in commercial kitchens and the food industry more broadly.
Green Rabbit
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Green Rabbit is a trusted cold chain logistics provider for fast, safe delivery of perishable goods and grocery.
Biena Snacks
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Biena Snacks is a snack food company that specializes in deliciously crunchy and healthy plant-based snacks.
Yasso
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Yasso operates as a frozen yogurt brand featuring stick bars.
Ohza
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Ohza is a premium, ready-to-drink mimosa that uses quality sparkling wine and juice liked you’d use making your own.
Unreal Brands
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UnReal is the super-natural snack company founded by two teenage brothers on a mission to unjunk the world.
Alice’s Table
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Alice’s Table brings women together to learn new skills, and live a social and creative lifestyle.
Clover Food Lab
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Clover Food Lab is a fast food chain that operates through food trucks and restaurants.
Smart Lunches
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Smart Lunches is an online ordering and delivery platform that enables parents to order school lunch for their children.
Lighter
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Lighter provides software and services to bridge the gap between dietary recommendations and people’s eating habits.
Oath Craft Pizza
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Treat yourself to real food treated right. Certified Humane, sustainably sourced. Treat yourself to real food treated right.
B.Good
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B. Good is a fast food company that produces and sells grain bowls, salads, burgers, sandwiches, and smoothies.
Harmony Baby Nutrition
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Harmony Baby Nutrition is a food-tech company providing next-generation of human breast milk based formulas.
Food for All
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Food for All makes quality food affordable to all, while stopping perfectly good and delicious meals from being wasted.
Kalahari Biltong
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Kalahari Biltong offers seasoned and dried beef snack that tastes like prosciutto and jerky.
Labby
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Labby converts a smartphone into a high-tech food/beverage analytics lab
Eat Your Coffee
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Eat Your Coffee is on a mission to energize life by providing caffeinated natural snacks, packed with superfoods, to nourish and energize.
Crio Bru
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A delicious brewed drink made from the finest roasted and ground cocoa beans.
Theraplant
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Theraplant is a licensed Medical Marijuana Produce.
Walden Local Meat
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Walden Local Meat is Local, sustainable and honest meats from the very best New England farmers
Fuel For Fire
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Fuel For Fire makes real foods to fill the void in the sports nutrition market for fueling sources.
Vodkyte
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Vodkyte is a sports drinks beverage company that offers scientifically engineered premium vodka, electrolytes, and coconut water.
Cantrip Seltzer
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Cantrip Seltzer is a cannabis-infused seltzer with a quick onset that provides an experience, unlike traditional edibles.
Global Village Fruit
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Global VIllage Fruit develops and markets nutritious, delicious products from under-recognized superfruits.
MyTable
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MyTable is a mobile application and marketplace connecting users to talented chefs and home cooks to prepare a delicious in-home meal.
Know Seafood
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Know Seafood utilizes blockchain technology to follow the seafood from the point of harvest right to the customer’s tables.
Beckon Ice cream
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Beckon specializes in the manufacture of premium quality ice cream.
Mighty Squirrel
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Mighty Squirrel I Boston Based Beer Company I Flavorful & Refreshing Craft Beer I Celebrate Mighty Moments
Crane & Co.
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Crane & Co. is a manufacturing company that creates cotton stationery.
MingsBings
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MingsBings is a food CPG startup that produces delicious and healthy packaged food products.
Teplo
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Its 1st product Teplo Tea Maker allows tea lovers to brew the perfect cup of tea, each and every time of the day,
Sandymount Technologies
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Sandymount is a technology platform for beverage brands to adopt an end-to-end concentrate based supply chain.
Dunkin’ Donuts
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Dunkin’ Donuts is the largest coffee and baked goods chain in the world providing you, their loyal customers, with high quality coffee,
Green Mountain CBD
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Green Mountain CBD is a full spectrum CBD oil is extracted from the hemp they grow using organic coconut oil.
ButcherBox
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An online butcher changing the way consumers shop for and purchase meat and other proteins.
Evy Tea
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Evy Tea is a cold brew tea company that produces flavored organic tea.
88 Acres
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88 Acres is an artisan food start-up crafting healthy snacks free of the most common food allergens.
Proteus Industries
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Proteus Industries operates as a food ingredient manufacturing company that offers fish protein products.
Hawthorne Food
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Hawthorne Food is a food and beverage provider with a large number of food and drinks to provide.
Night Shift Brewing
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Night Shift Brewing is a food and beverage company specializing in homebrewing.
PurposeEnergy
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Purpose Energy produces renewable energy from organic waste produced by the brewing industry.
Boston Beer
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The Boston Beer Company, Inc. (Boston Beer) is a craft brewer in the United States.
Marty’s Local
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Marty’s Local delivers fresh, high-quality produce, flours and grains, dairy, meats, cheeses, and specialty foods every day.
Laoxiangji
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A fast food chain brand based in Anhui province.
The Dinner Daily
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The Dinner Daily is passionate about helping busy families eat delicious and healthy food and save money at the same time.
WikiCell Designs
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WikiCell Designs develops edible forms of packaging that enclose food or drinks in ways similar to how nature protects them.
SoCo Creamery
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SoCo Creamery specializes in producing, distribution, and sales of ice cream-based food products.
Boston Meats
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Boston Meats is making alternative meats so delicious, nutritious, and affordable that eating animals won’t make sense anymore!
Stem + Glory
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Stem + Glory is a UK-based restaurant chain.
Snap Infusion
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Snap Infusion offers a natural energy snack packed with b-vitamins, antioxidants, and electrolytes.
Boston Harbor Distillery
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Boston Harbor Distillery will create world-class, award-winning spirits with a particular focus on whiskey.
Farmwise Foods
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Farmwise provids a fresh take on America’s favorite frozen foods.
FYTO
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FYTO is a technology company that develops systems that grow high quality crops using much less resources.
Progressive Gourmet
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Progressive Gourmet is a manufacturer and distributor of products for the foodservice industry.
Evaptainers
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Evaptainers makes mobile refrigeration technology to keep food fresher, longer using nothing but sun and water.
Food Retail Ventures
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Food Retail Ventures invests in early stage food and retail technology companies.
Kiwi Biosciences
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Kiwi biosciences is a bio tech company innovating gut releif solutions.
FoodPhone
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FoodPhone is a provider of an online health monitoring platform
Remnant Brewing
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Remnant Brewing is a microbrewery that offers a rotating selection of craft beers and specialty coffee.
Keto and Co
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Keto and Co makes a growing line of ultra-low carb, ketogenic foods.
MapleMama Beverages
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MapleMama Beverages is a Food and drinks company.
Nomsly
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Nomsly keeps your employees fed, focused, and energized with delicious snack packs delivered directly to your office.
Baskin Robbins
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Baskin-Robbins creates and markets innovative, premium ice cream, specialty frozen desserts and beverages.
Incentivio
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Helping restaurants win Restaurant 2.0 by transforming the restaurant experience for the digital age
GreenChoice
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The search engine & marketplace for conscious consumers with dietary needs.
Deacon Giles
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Deacon Giles is a distillery serving a variety of spirits.
The Boston Beer Company (Samuel Adams)
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The Boston Beer Company is a manufacturer of wide variety of beers.
NU Kitchen
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NU Kitchen pairs your passion for entertaining with our commitment to a healthy lifestyle.
Charm Sciences, Inc.
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Charm Sciences is a world leader provider of food safety, water quality and environmental diagnostics.
Fenugreen
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Fenugreen is a social enterprise addressing the massive, yet often overlooked, global challenge of food spoilage with a simple innovation.
Kettle Cuisine
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Kettle Cuisine is a food & beverages company offering handcrafted soups.
Island Oasis
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In 1984 Island Oasis revolutionized the frozen drink market with the introduction of the first all-natural strawberry daiquiri mix.
Foodtec Solutions
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Foodtec Solutions is a restaurant specializing in pizza POS computers and order taking computers.
Northern Wind
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Northern Wind is a distributor of fresh and frozen scallops along with additional seafood.
NOCA Beverages
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NOCA is a non-carbonated spiked water (think hard seltzer without the bubbles). NOCA is gluten free, has 95 calories, 2G sugar and 4.5% ABV
Cains Foods
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Cains Foods produces and sells mayonnaise, salad dressings, and sauces primarily for retail grocery and foodservice distribution channels.
Cocomama Foods
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Cocamama is a goddess of health and happiness.
Lightlife Foods
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Lightlife Foods is developer, manufacturer and marketer of premium vegetarian and soy products.
RYZE Superfoods
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RYZE Superfoods is a rapidly growing e-commerce company that sells mushroom coffee.
