Best Food Tech Companies in Brooklyn, United States
The 31 best Food Tech companies in Brooklyn, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Kitchensurfing.
Our analysis of 50 Food Tech companies
$6.1b in tracked funding; 93% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Food Tech companies in Brooklyn
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kitchensurfing Cooking products, recipes, and tips for cooks worldwide | $19M | 151 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2012 | WordPressMySQLPHP+19 | — |
| 2 | Aanika Provider of agricultural product traceability solutions using microbial-based tags | $12M | 51 mo ago | Series A | — | 2018 | — | — |
| 3 | Mosaic Foods Internet first restaurant delivering pre-ordered ready-to-heat meals | $10M | 59 mo ago | Seed | — | 2015 | Cart FunctionalityShopifySentry+26 | — |
| 4 | Terra Kaffe Manufacturer of coffee machines | $5M | 19 mo ago | Series A | Sahand Dilmaghani Founder & CEO | 2018 | Cart FunctionalityShopifySentry+40 | — |
| 5 | Fraiche Platform offering smart vending machine offering fresh meals | $3M | 58 mo ago | Acquired | Paul Bernier Co-Founder | 2019 | WordPressMySQLPHP+20 | — |
| 6 | Umi Kitchen Delivery of home-chef prepared meals | $1M | 121 mo ago | Seed | Hallie Meyer Co-Founder | 2015 | — | — |
| 7 | Raaka Brand of dark chocolates | $355K | 137 mo ago | Seed | Ryan Cheney Co-Founder & CEO | 2010 | Cart FunctionalityShopifySentry+49 | — |
| 8 | Per Diem Provider of subscriptions solution for local businesses | $125K | 64 mo ago | Seed | — | 2021 | Webflow EcommerceWebflowYouTube+20 | — |
Top 10 Food Tech companies in Brooklyn
#1
Series A · Brooklyn, New York · founded 2018 · 42 employees$4.6Mraised▾
Manufacturer of coffee machines
- Apr 2025Conventional Debt—
- Nov 2020Series A$4M
- 2019Seed$575K
#2
Series A · Brooklyn, New York · founded 2018 · 12 employees$12Mraised▾
Provider of agricultural product traceability solutions using microbial-based tags. They offer customized microbial-based tags for delivering supply chain insights to agribusinesses.
- Jul 2022Series A—
- Nov 2021Series A$12M
- Feb 2020Seed$2.5M
- 2019Seed—
#3
Seed · Brooklyn, New York · founded 2015 · 16 employees$10Mraised▾
Internet first restaurant delivering pre-ordered ready-to-heat meals. The customers can choose and select meals like plant-based, chef-cooked breakfast, lunch, and dinner options. The meals are shipped in recyclable packaging. The customers can consume the meals by heating in the oven.
- Nov 2021Seed$6M
#4
Deadpooled · Brooklyn, New York · founded 2012 · 9 employees$19.5Mraised▾
Cooking products, recipes, and tips for cooks worldwide. A resource built by cooks, for cooks, dedicated to helping individuals discover suitable and safe cooking products. The team researches popular cooking products from various manufacturers, conducting quality checks on manufacturer reputation and user feedback. They aim to simplify the process of finding the perfect kitchen items, offering well-informed and safely guided purchases. The platform provides articles, reviews, and recipes, covering appliances, cooking techniques, and kitchen essentials. It serves as a comprehensive guide for both novice and experienced cooks, offering valuable insights and recommendations to enhance their culinary journey. The site earns commission from qualifying purchases as an Amazon Associate.
- Apr 2014Series B$15M
- Apr 2013Series A$3.5M
- Feb 2013Angel$1M
#5
Acquired · Brooklyn, New York · founded 2019 · 15 employees$3Mraised▾
Platform offering smart vending machine offering fresh meals. It offers meals, snacks, sweets, and drinks, sustainably sourced with eco-friendly packaging. it comes with AI-driven and tech-driven logistics for companies to offer people healthy eats. It uses face ID to unlock the fridge and an itemized receipt is sent when the door closes.
- Dec 2021Seed$2M
#6
Seed · Brooklyn, New York · founded 2015 · 70 employees$1.4Mraised▾
Umi kitchen is an online marketplace platform that connects home chefs to customers. Orders can be placed by 2pm on the day of, or order up to seven days in advance. Reheating instructions and an ingredient list are available for every meal along with personal notes from chefs. Available in New York City.
#7
Seed · Brooklyn, New York · founded 2021 · 71 employees$125Kraised▾
Provider of subscriptions solution for local businesses. It provides local businesses to sell subscriptions online. The company allows businesses to build relationships with the guests using email marketing tools, branded webpage and mobile applications for ordering. Its features include pickups, deliveries, automated renewals, pickup reminders, push notifications, and more.
- 2021Seed$125K
#8
Seed · Brooklyn, New York · founded 2010 · 25 employees$355Kraised▾
Producer of dark chocolate from unroasted cacao beans designed to preserve the delicate flavors of raw cacao. The company's produced dark chocolate are originated from single estate farms, and farmer-owned cooperatives, the product consists of organic ingredients and free from gluten and soy, also the product ranges from flavors such as coconut milk, and oat milk, enabling chocolate lovers to taste diverse chocolate bar flavors with the fruity flavor of cacao.
- May 2015Seed$355K
#9
Seed · Brooklyn, Illinois · founded 2021 · 1 employees$65Kraised▾
Platform offering plant-based egg substitute food products. The company develops a nutritious plant-based egg that claims to tastes and functions like a real egg. It also can be used as a substitute in various recipes including omelets, baked goods, mayonnaise, sauces, and more.
- May 2021Seed$65K
#10
Seed · Brooklyn, New York · founded 2014 · 36 employees$40Kraised▾
Cups provides a web-based management solution for cafes. The offerings include branded mobile app to enable order taking, processing payments and reach out to customers. Online platform for procurement, staff sourcing platform, and customer engagement. Cups started operations in New York in 2014 and claims to have grown its customer base to other cities of the USA, since then.
- Jan 2014Seed$40K
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Food Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Food Technology is moving in the United States
A read on the academic research around Food Technology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 4,142 United States-affiliated papers.
- Cornell University153
- Purdue University West Lafayette134
- University of Georgia82
- Michigan State University81
- University of California, Davis79
- Food safety4→52
- Food processing2→31
- Food science1→13
- Contamination1→12
- Food products1→12
- Food safety16→214
- Food processing12→174
- Agriculture14→135
- Production (economics)7→122
- Food security3→117
- Food safety56→397
- Food security40→307
- Agriculture35→233
- Food processing54→215
- Food systems28→180
Where food tech is researched across United States
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing food tech patents in the United States
United States food tech patent filing is cooling — 817 filings from 475 assignees (2016–2025), led by Whirlpool, Sharkninja Operating, Provisur Technologies; annual filings 80→68.
- Whirlpool185
- Sharkninja Operating151
- Provisur Technologies51
- Smartwash Solutions39
- LYCO MFG32
- SAFE Foods32
- Massachusetts INST Technology20
- Island Oasis Frozen Cocktail18
Common questions
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