Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best Minnesota 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 Minnesota Food and Beverage Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Kraft Heinz
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The Kraft Heinz Company is the third-largest food and beverage company in North America
Puris
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Puris cultivates plant-based foods and ingredients from organic and non-GMO sources.
Calyxt
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Calyxt is an Agbiotech company focused on developing crops with healthier characteristics
Cargill
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Cargill is an international producer and marketer of food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services.
Spoonshot
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Spoonshot is a developer of a personal discovery platform used to replicate human cognition in the food domain.
Buffalo Wild Wings
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Sports-bar chain serving up Buffalo style chicken wings & other American pub food.
Sow Good
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Sow Good is an emerging consumer products platform focused on manufacturing and marketing freeze-dried snacks, smoothies, and soups.
Brother Justus Whiskey
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Brother Justus Whiskey offers handcrafted micro batches of single malt whiskeys, distilled from premium Minnesota malted barley.
So Good So You
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So Good Brand is a Minnesota-based company and a producer of natural organic beverages and food products.
Drake’s Organic
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Drake’s Organic Spirits is a online liquor marketplace that manufactures and sells organic spirits.
General Mills
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General Mills is a food company that manufactures and markets branded consumer foods.
ASPIRE Beverages
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Aspire Beverages produces all-natural sports drinks that enhance performance and contain health benefits.
Local Crate
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Local Crate is a food and beverage delivery service company.
Fybraworks Foods
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Fybraworks Foods is a new entrant in the substitute meat market, using fermentation and protein ingredients to replicate the taste.
Canomiks
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Canomiks’ genomics, bioinformatics, and AI-based Product Superiority Platform helps companies create safe and efficacious products.
Vēmos
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Vēmos is a payments and analytics company for the hospitality industry, connecting venues, brands and consumers in a single marketplace.
Forever Ware
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Forever Ware specializes in offering eco-friendly takeout containers.
Apparo
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Apparo is a food processing technology intended to process crops in order to maximize the yield of available nutrients.
Seven Sundays
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Seven Sundays aims to promote healthy and enjoyable morning routines.
Ecolab
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Ecolab is a global leader in water, hygiene, and energy technologies and services that provide clean water, safe food, and abundant energy.
MyFormulary LLC
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MyFormulary is a Healthy Food MedTech Company with a patented food effectiveness recommendation tool backed by unbiased clinical studies.
WholeMe
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WholeMe creates nutrient-dense, delicious, convenient foods.
Flackers
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Flackers is a food company that provides nutritious, healthy and organic flax seeds.
Veen
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Veen is a Finnish premium beverage brand focusing on waters and natural, unprocessed drinks.
Ultra Green Packaging
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Ultra Green Packaging is providing comprehensive packaging options and plus made-to-order solutions for the food industry.
Tattersall Distilling
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Tattersall Distilling is a destination micro-distillery and cocktail room specializing in craft distilleries in the country.
Hairless Dog Brewing
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Hairless Dog Brewing is a craft beer brand that offers truly alcohol-free products.
Fafa’s Plats
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Fafa’s Plats is a leading fast casual food chain.
Fair State Brewing
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Fair State Brewing is a brewing cooperative company producing craft beers.
Far North Spirits
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Far North Spirits operates as a craft distillery specializing in field-to-glass, hand-crafted spirits.
Häagen-Dazs
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An ice cream brand, established by Reuben and Rose Mattus in the Bronx, New York, in 1961.
301 INC
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301 INC is an energetic and enthusiastic team looking to collaborate with emerging food brands.
Restaurant Technologies
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Restaurant Technologies creates safer, smarter foodservice kitchens through cooking oil and hood and flue management solutions.
XOXO Kitchen
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XOXO Kitchen is a home-based family site that encourages users to invite friends who are welcome in their kitchen.
Rochester Mills
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Rochester Mills serving comfort food paired with handcrafted beers.
Techstars Farm to Fork Accelerator
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Aims on finding the best entrepreneurs working on solutions in food tech, food supply chain and AgTech. Partnered with Cargill and Ecolab.
Mighty Spark Food
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Mighty Spark Food is a producer of craft meat products intended to make meals healthy and easy to prepare.
MOM Brands
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Lakeville, Minn.-based breakfast cereal maker
Spee-Dee Delivery Service
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A Food Delivery Service platform.
Cub Foods
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Cub Foods has been bringing more to your table by providing the best grocery value to our customers.
Bauhaus Brew Labs
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Bauhaus Brew Labs is a family of musicians, scientists, artists and above all, beer lovers, aiming to reinvigorate.
Dessert Holdings
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Dessert is manufacturer of high-quality frozen desserts for retail and foodservice customer.
Rosen’s Diversified
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Rosen’s Inc. leads the industry in developing innovative and environmentally responsible solutions for today’s agribusiness.
Johnson Brothers Liquor Co
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Johnson Brothers Liquor Co is a wine, spirits and beer distributor.
Angie’s Artisan Treats
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The makers of Angie’s Boomchickapop kettle corn.
Downs Food Group
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Downs Food Group is a food production company offering canned and refrigerated meat products.
Food Dudes Delivery
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Food Dudes Delivery provides restaurant delivery and marketing services.
Sargento Foods Inc.
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Sargento Foods Inc.is an food producer known for its cheese.
Ridley
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Ridley Inc. is a commercial animal nutrition companies in North America.
Lucid Brewing
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Lucid Brewing produces craft beer that is drinkable is no longer unthinkable.
Wellmune
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Wellmune is a natural food, beverage, and supplement ingredient, that strengthens the immune system.
St. James Hotel
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St. James Hotel is a hospitality company that provides restaurant and spa services.
Grain Millers Inc.
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Grain Millers is a food production company that manufactures organic whole grain ingredients.
Schwan Food
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The Schwan Food Company began delivering ice cream to isolated rural families in 1952.
Punch Pizza
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Punch Pizza is a chain specializes in traditional Neapolitan pizza.
RJ Schinner Co., Inc.
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RJ Schinner Co. is a wholesale company that offers foodservice, paper, and grocery supplies.
S.T. Specialty Foods
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S.T. Specialty Foods produces pasta and rice dinners.
JonnyPops
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JonnyPops is produces wholesome and better-for-you frozen treats, using real fruit as the main ingredient.
Taher, Inc.
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Taher is a food production company that provides k-12 school lunch management and campus dining services.
QualiTech
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QualiTech is a food production company specializing in animal and plant nutrition products.
Appert’s Foodservice
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Appert’s Foodservice is a broadline distributor and foodservice processor servicing restaurants and institutions in Greater Minnesota.
Faribault Foods
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Faribault Foods is a manufacturer of canned beans and vegetables.
Bernatello’s Pizza, Inc
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Bernatello’s Pizza is a food production company that provides mozzarella cheese.
pepr
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Pepr is an online platform that provides food cost management software for restaurants on multiple platforms.
Immaculate Baking
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Immaculate Baking Company is engaged in the production and sale of baked goods for restaurants, airplanes, supermarkets, and club stores.
Bailey Nurseries
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Bailey Nurseries is a wholesale company specializing in trees, perennials, annuals, and roses.
Lehmann Farms
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Lehmann Farms is a food and beverages company offering gourmet foods.
Hormel Health Labs
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Hormel Health Labs is a nutrition and food and beverage company located in 1 Hormel Place.
Robinsonfresh
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Robinson Fresh best fruits and vegetables, but we go beyond supplying fresh produce to offering an abundance of fresh solutions.
Sweet Harvest Foods
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Sweet Harvest Foods offers high quality, great tasting honey, peanut butter, and syrup products.
Nomi
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Nomi is a producer of a refrigerated snack bar used to offer nutritious snacks.
Tastefully Simple
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Tastefully Simple is a food and beverages company.
Bernick’s
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Bernick’s is a wholesale company that provides Pepsi products, beverages, vending products, and food services.
Midwest Home Brewing and Wine Making Supplies
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Midwest Home Brewing and Wine Making Supplies is a food and beverage company located in Minneapolis.
Henry’s Foods
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Henry’s Foods is diversified from distributing candy and tobacco products to include the distribution of full line food service.
NutriSource Pet Foods
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NutriSource Pet Foods is a pet food manufacturer.
Deli Express
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Deli Express is a food and beverage company.
Log House Foods
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Log House Foods is a long standing family owned and operated business that produces quality baking and snack items.
The National Food Lab
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The National Food Lab is a consulting and testing company supporting the food and beverage industry.
CatchFood
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Get Food Delivered, Pick-Up & Dine in From Your Favorite Restaurants.
Mydrink Beverages
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Mydrink Beverages is a food and beverage company located in St Paul.
United Sugars
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United Sugars, reliability and in-spec sugar go hand-in-hand. We make sure you have exactly the sugar you need
Schwan’s Company
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Schwan’s Company is a U.S. manufacturer and marketer of quality foods.
Russ Davis Wholesale
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Russ Davis Wholesale is a wholesale company providing fruits and vegetables.
Live Better Brands
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A Minneapolis-based maker of natural tortilla chips and crackers
Bachman’s Inc.
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Bachman’s is a retail company that provides flowers and floral gifts.
Man Cave Craft Meats
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Man Cave Craft Meats is a food chain with their own recipes of craft meat.
Pan-O-Gold Baking Company
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Pan-O-Gold Baking Company is a food production company offering bread, buns, bagels, muffins, donuts, and rolls.
Northern Technologies International Corporation (NTIC”)”
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Northern Technologies International Corporation is a packaging and containers company that produces corrosion inhibitors and removers.
Mayflower Distributing
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Mayflower Distributing is a supplies helium, nitrogen, balloons, party items, and foodservice items to florists, retailers, and shops.
Phillips Distilling Company
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Phillips Distilling Company produces a wide range of spirits like Gin, vodka, whiskey, liqueur, tequila and rum.
Surly Brewing Co.
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Surly Brewing Co. is a food & beverages company specializing in crafted beer and hospitality products.
Solero
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Solero is a producer of natural and organic frozen fruit bars and pops.
Premium Waters
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Premium Waters is a provider of bottled water and coffee solutions for home and offices.
New Fashion Pork
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New Fashion Pork is a producer of high quality pork with operations in Minnesota, Indiana.
Green Mill Restaurants Inc.
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Green Mill Restaurants is a restaurant providing wining and dining services.
National Checking Company
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National Checking Company is a restaurant specializing in cash register rolls, cash register ribbons, and food safety products.
Bongards Premium Cheese
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Bongards Premium Cheese is a dairy firm providing SKIP
Innovative Food Processors
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Innovative Food Processors is a domestic manufacturer of high performance powders and encapsulates that deliver consumer solutions.
