Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best San Francisco 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 San Francisco Food and Beverage Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Shef
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Shef is a homemade food marketplace that helps cooks make an income by cooking and selling food to their communities.
Underground Cellar
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Underground Cellar is an online wine marketplace to discover, buy, and store premium wines.
Eat Just
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Eat Just offers a plant-based egg substitute intended to provide healthy and nutritional food alternatives.
Imperfect Foods
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Imperfect Foods delivers groceries with a mission to eliminate food waste and build a better food system for everyone.
Bobbie
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Bobbie is a baby formula delivery startup that sells direct-to-consumer and offers a subscription service to parents across the US.
Memphis Meats
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Memphis Meats develops meat produced directly from animal cells without the need to raise and slaughter actual animals.
Club Feast
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Club Feast is a subscription-based restaurant delivery application that provides pre-scheduled food delivery.
GOOD Meat
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GOOD Meat provides cultured cell-based meat instead of slaughtered livestock.
Snackpass
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Snackpass is a platform that focuses on mobile order pickup at local restaurants.
Afresh Technologies
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Afresh is an AI-powered company selling software to track demand and manage orders for fresh produce in grocery stores.
Thistle
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Thistle is a food and juice company that delivers fully-prepared, plant-forward meals to the doorsteps of its customers.
Farmstead
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Farmstead is an artificial intelligence-powered farm to doorstep grocery delivery startup.
Planet FWD
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Planet FWD specializes in developing a regenerative food platform.
Cheetah
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Cheetah is an e-commerce platform offering contactless pickup and delivery of food and supplies.
Hint
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Hint is a beverage startup that produces natural flavored unsweetened essence water.
Aura Bora
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Aura Bora is a maker of craft sparkling water that features herbs, fruits, and flowers.
Silo
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Silo is a wholesale food marketplace that enables customers to buy and sell produce, protein, dairy, and shelf-stable food quickly.
Creator
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Creator is a collective of food lovers and engineers with decades of robotics and restaurant experience.
Caviar
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Caviar is a delivery solution for consumers to order food from local eateries with the ability to live-track the order on a map.
Endless West
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Endless West is a beverage startup using scientific production methods to create its own original blend of wines and spirits.
Wildtype
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Wildtype is an agtech platform that aims to create clean fish and meat.
ZeroCater
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ZeroCater is a provider of office meals and snacks, bringing employees together to build culture and foster community.
Kiva Confections
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Kiva Confections develops innovative ways for people to consume cannabis which nurture, enhance, and improve lives.
Artemys Foods
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Artemys Foods works on the next generation of meat alternatives by cultivating meat, instead of harvesting meat from animals.
MealMe
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MealMe is the Search Engine for Food. Find the cheapest & quickest food delivery and takeout!
Pared
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Pared is a market network for hospitality professionals.
Harmless Harvest
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Harmless Harvest is a progressive food & beverage initiative set to demonstrate that ecosystem-based businesses.
Hooray Foods
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Hooray makes delicious plant-based meats that are designed to look, cook, and taste just like the real thing.
New Culture
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New Culture is making cow cheese without the cow
Zira
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Zira designs and develops employee management solutions that leverage technology to empower companies.
AgFunder
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AgFunder is VC focused on agrifood tech startups and built on an ecosystem of over 65,000 members and subscribers.
EatWith
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EatWith is a community that invites people to dine in homes, connect with hosts, share stories and enjoy homemade cuisine.
ZBiotics
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ZBiotics is a synthetic biology company that bioengineers probiotic bacteria for nutraceutical and other applications.
2ndKitchen
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2ndKitchen enables businesses without a kitchen to serve food seamlessly using a custom menu from nearby restaurants.
Vinebox
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Vinebox is a premium wine-by-the-glass subscription service.
Whisk
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Whisk powers the creation, discovery, personalization, and monetization of food content online, in-store, and at home.
Right Rice
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RightRice provides a tasty rice grain that’s made from vegetables.
Ample Foods
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Ample Foods creates optimally nutritious meal replacements for busy, health-conscious people.
Sourcery Technologies
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Digital payments for the $220B wholesale food industry
Pop & Bottle
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Pop & Bottle is a producer of flavored almond beverages intended to offer variety of delicious flavored milk beverages.
Pod Foods Co
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Changing the way food reaches grocery store shelves
Sudden Coffee
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Sudden Coffee is an online site that sells vials of custom instant coffee for their many customers.
SideChef
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SideChef is an online platform that provides step-by-step recipes for new and amateur cooks.
ReGrained
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ReGrained is a producer of snacks intended to upcycle crunchy puffs from nutritious food.
Partender
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We help over 15,000 bar and restaurant operators do inventory, ordering, & accounting in 15 min (down from 6 hrs) using patented technology.
Nima
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Nima is a science-driven company creating connected food sensors for peace of mind at meal time.
Revi
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Revi connects and deepens customer engagement with the local businesses startup via mobile ordering app.
Renewal Mill
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Renewal Mill is a next generation ingredients company that upcycles byproducts from food manufacturing into high-quality ingredients.
Codify
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Codify AI is building out solutions from the farm and factory, through our highways, waterways, and skyways.
Gather Wholesale
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Gather Wholesale operates an end-to-end order management platform for the foodservice industry.
All Day Kitchens
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Virtual Kitchen operates as a food tech and logistics company that focuses on building delivery-optimized kitchens.
Pubinno
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Pubinno develops an AI powered platform to minimize waste and maintain the quality of beer from brewery.
Kuleana
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Kuleana creates plant-based alternatives for people’s seafood favorites.
Soma
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Soma is a premium water filter service that includes a beautiful glass carafe and the world’s most innovative water filters.
Sunwink
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Sunwink is a female-founded, plant-powered wellness company.
4505 Meats
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4505 Meats is a food and beverage company that produces of porcine products and meaty magic.
Proper Food
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Proper Food is a new fast-casual food and beverage concept offering delicious, wholesome, grab-and-go fare, designed for the food savvy.
Black Sheep Foods
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The original plant-based lamb alternative
Replenish
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Replenish the first self-cleaning appliance that instantly and harmoniously prepares healthy smoothies and snacks.
Immi
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Immi is a food and beverage company that manufactures low net carb and high protein instant ramen.
California Dreamin
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California Dreamin is a food and beverage start up that manufactures all natural cannabis infused sodas for a light social high.
á la couch
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á la couch is a delivery-focused restaurant group
Dispatch Goods
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Dispatch Goods excludes disposable foodware from food delivery by coordinating into food delivery apps.
Feastly
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Feastly is a global marketplace for chefs to showcase and host dinners, pop-ups, and culinary experiences.
Siren Snacks
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Siren Snacks takes the foods and flavors people love and recreates them using clean, plant-based ingredients.
impct
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Turning brands and their consumers into impact investors
Alter Eco
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Alter Eco distributes imported food products through retail chains.
Liquor.com
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Liquor.com is a website providing recipes, information and news on cocktails and spirits.
Envisionard
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Envisionard is a innovation company developing product platforms using Human Computer Voice Interaction and Mobile technology.
Fort Point Beer
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Fort Point Beer is an independent brewery made up of people who believe the simple things in life can be a whole lot better.
Rip van Wafels
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Rip van Wafels aims to revolutionize the way Americans enjoy their daily coffee.
Kimino Drinks
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Kimino Drinks is a craft beverage group aim to deliver tasty beverages made with season fruits.
Nebia
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Nebia is making products the world needs, starting with the shower. Premium experience, innovative design and 70% water savings.
Waffledog
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Waffledog is a stealth mode startup in the luxury pet food space. x test 3.7
RoboJuice
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RoboJuice is a human-like robot that makes juices and smoothies with fresh organic fruits in 30 seconds
EatLove
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EatLove brings you personalized meal plans to match your lifestyle, allergies and health goals complete with smart grocery list.
Full Harvest
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Full Harvest is the first B2B marketplace for ugly and surplus produce.
Fresh Agriculture Technologies
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Our dream is to revolutionise the way people do fruit growing in the world, by arming the fruit growers with the tools to support them.
NATURANSA Biotechnology Inc.
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Biotechnology company that produces alternative sustainable protein from edible insect by converting pre-consumer food waste into fertilizer
Foodgroup
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Social media app exclusively for restaurants and diners.
DOSA
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DOSA, share a passion for South Indian cuisine and culture that is part of the experience they’ve created at their restaurants.
Foodily
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Foodily is a social recipe network where users can discover and share recipes.
Nom
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Nom is a community for food lovers to create, share and watch their favorite stories in real-time.
Chirps Chips (Six Foods)
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Chirps Chips is a creating edible insect foods for healthyeating and sustainability.
Bitty Foods
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Bitty Foods produces traditional snacks with high protein cricket flour.
Coozyn
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CooZyn is the one stop one needs to make to learn all about Sharing economy: Food & logistic, Instant grocery delivery, earring money.
Kuju Coffee
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Founded by two Eagle Scout brothers who grew tired, Kuju is on a mission to make quality coffee possible everywhere you go.
Voga Coffee
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Voga Coffee develops a coffee brewing machine to provide an efficient way to batch brew specialty coffee.
Eclipse Foods
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Eclipse Foods is a plant-based dairy products that are indistinguishable from animal dairy products.
GEA Enzymes
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GEA Enzymes provides enzymatic solutions for the food industry.
Yoconut Dairy Free
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Yoconut Dairy Free is a food innovation start-up that sells yogurt that has natural electrolytes, no added sugar, and made from coconuts.
Native
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Native aims to create healthy and natural products that humans use every day.
Fuel
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Intelligent Nutrition Engine analyzing your genetics, lifestyle, and body metrics to optimize and deliver the perfect meals for you.
Wild For
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Wild For also known as Love Grain, produces and sells gluten-free teff products such as grain breakfast mixes and chips.
Somatik inc.
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Premium low-dose cannabis infused beverages and artisanal edibles.
