Best Food & Beverage Products Companies in South Korea
The 99 best Food & Beverage Products companies in South Korea in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: INTAKE.
Food & Beverage Products companies in South Korea don't get a single clean ranking very often, so this directory does the work: 99 tracked companies, sorted by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum, with $33M in total capital across the board.
Intake leads the field at $15M, Simple Planet follows at $8M, and Positive Hotel sits at $6M. That top tier pulls hard. The rest of the pack is thinner, and no unicorns have emerged yet, which tells you something about where South Korea's food sector actually sits right now: early, fragmented, and still figuring out which bets compound. I'd watch the app layer closely. Across 533 food, foodtech, and beverage apps, median install growth is running at roughly plus 19% year-on-year, which is real consumer pull, not just founder optimism. And as shown in 2013 research on dietary behavior shifts, the structural demand driving that growth has roots deeper than any single trend cycle. Backers like D.Camp, Lotte Ventures, and 500 Global are already positioned. If you're mapping this space, the funding concentration at the top three companies is the first number worth sitting with.
Our analysis of 150 Food & Beverage Products companies
$9.5b in tracked funding; 93% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2024.
Ranked: Best Food & Beverage Products companies in South Korea
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | INTAKE Manufactures and markets food products | $15M | 14 mo ago | Series C | Knox Han Founder & CEO | 2013 | — | 17 patents Patents concentrated in health & consumer products | — |
| 2 | Simple Planet Provider of plant-based cultivated meat | $8M | 28 mo ago | Seed | Ildoo Jeong Co-Founder & CEO | 2021 | — | 9 patents Cell-derived edible bioactive ingredients for nutrition, skin, joint and metabolic health | — |
| 3 | Positive Hotel Brand of nutritional supplements | $6M | 62 mo ago | Series A | — | 2016 | Cafe24Cart FunctionalitySentry+21 | — | — |
| 4 | Dr.true Provider of Stevia food products | $3M | 3 mo ago | Series A | Jinsil Yoo CEO | 2020 | — | 9 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 5 | ThePlantEAT Brand of flavoured crackers, cereals, and sauces | $1M | 89 mo ago | Seed | Jaesik Yang CEO | 2017 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Jagilchiojimae Internet first brand of multi category food ingredients | $74K | 26 mo ago | Seed | Kang Da-Yoon CEO | 2022 | — | — | — |
| 7 | RVDS Operator of multiple K-Food brands, expanding into the global market | — | 10 mo ago | Series A | Kun Ki Kim Chief Strategy Officer & Co-Founder | 2024 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Welfare Union Brand of nutritional supplements and other food products | — | 24 mo ago | Series A | Jang Seong-Oh CEO | 2011 | PHPBootstrapApache HTTP Server+9 | — | — |
Top 11 Food & Beverage Products companies in South Korea
#1
Series A · Chuncheon, Gangwon-do · founded 2020$2.6Mraised▾
Provider of Stevia food products. They also provide sugar-free and fruit-based products.
- Mar 2026Series A$2.6M
#2
Series C · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2013 · 47 employees$15.2Mraised▾
Intake manufactures and markets food products. Its product offerings include convenience food, ready-to-cook food, snacks, fruit beverages, healthy food, nuts, dry fruits, fish oil, cod liver oil etc. The company markets its products under various brand names such as Carlson, Dr. Nuts, SugarLolo, Meals, Intake etc.
- Apr 2025Series C$9.2M
- Jul 2023Series B$6.1M
- Seed—
#3
Seed · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2021$7.5Mraised▾
Provider of plant-based cultivated meat. It uses cell cultivation technology for alternative meat production. Its plant-based meat alternatives include beef, pork, chicken, and seafood.
- Feb 2024Seed$6M
- 2022Seed$1.5M
#4
Series A · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2016 · 17 employees$5.8Mraised▾
Operator of an urban lifestyle brand intended to help people pursue sustainable wellness. The company's brand offers wellness products, food ingredients, boosters, and cosmetics, enabling customers to eat well and lead a healthy life with convenient products.
- Apr 2021Series A$5.8M
#5
Seed · Busan, Busan · founded 2022$74.1Kraised▾
Internet first brand of multi category food ingredients
- Mar 2024Seed$74.1K
#6
Seed · Anyang, Gyeonggi do · founded 2017 · 28 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Brand of flavoured crackers, cereals, and sauces
- Jan 2019Seed$1.3M
#7
Series A · Jeju-si, Jeju-do · founded 2024—raised▾
Operator of multiple K-Food brands, expanding into the global market. The company focuses on discovering and systematically managing various K-Food brands. It aims to popularize K-Food in the global market by establishing a platform. The business continues global expansion through efficient operating systems and localization strategies. It innovates and grows to ensure K-Food is globally loved.
- Aug 2025Series A—
#8
Series A · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2011—raised▾
Brand of nutritional supplements and other food products
- May 2024Series A—
#9
Late Stage · Seoul, Seoul · founded 1968—raised▾
Brand offering multi category snack products
#10
Late Stage · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2012 · 78 employees—raised▾
Ssial Food Inc is a Korea based manufacturer of cereal products, starch and starch products. Its product portfolio covers almond flakes, pororo conplasor, rice flakes, and others. The business domain of the company includes Brand business, ODM business and Global business. In Brand business, the company is engaged in producing and selling self-branded products such as cereal, cereal bars, and health functional foods. In ODM business, the organization is involved in the production and delivery of PB products to domestic distributors. The organization is also involved in product development and export activities in the Global business division.
- Nov 2017PE—
#11
Seed · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2012 · 18 employees—raised▾
Producer of sesame and perilla oil intended to sell oil that has quality ingredients and is not harmful. The company's sesame and perilla oil are produced using their low-temperature and cold-press technology where sesame and perilla oil are roasted without getting burnt, enabling buyers to get a deep savory flavor as well as a healthy oil for their cooking.
- Dec 2016Seed—
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