Best Food Tech Companies in Maryland, United States
The 41 best Food Tech companies in Maryland, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Qu.
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 Maryland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qu Developer of unified commerce platform for quick service and fast-casual restaurants | $13M | 90 mo ago | Series B | Niko Papademetriou Co-Founder | 2012 | Cart FunctionalityWordPressApple iCloud Mail+40 | — | 2 partnerships |
| 2 | OrderUp Franchise model based online restaurant ordering in towns | $10M | 144 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2009 | TypeScriptPHPGoogle Maps+11 | — | — |
| 3 | Everything Legendary Platform offering plant-based burgers | $6M | 54 mo ago | Series A | Duane Myko Founder & CEO | 2019 | Cart FunctionalityShopifySentry+29 | — | — |
| 4 | Everything Legendary Developer of plant-based meat substitute food products | $6M | 54 mo ago | Series A | Duane Myko Founder & CEO | 2020 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Spotluck Discover local restaurants, spin for discounts, and support local businesses | $5M | 111 mo ago | Series A | — | 2014 | — | 2 patents Dynamic pricing and discount management for e‑commerce platforms | — |
| 6 | pathOtrak Provider of food safety and testing solutions | $4M | 26 mo ago | Series A | Javier Atencia Founder & CEO | 2016 | — | 28 patents Automated sample prep and filtration technologies for rapid microbial detection in food safety | — |
| 7 | Mooji Meats Platform offering plant-based and cultured meat alternatives | $2M | 53 mo ago | Seed | Insa Mohr Co-Founder & CEO | 2022 | — | 2 patents Structuring plant-based whole-cut meat analogues across multiple length scales | — |
| 8 | iBar Provider of inventory management solution for bar businesses | $500K | 36 mo ago | Seed | Boglarka Varkuti Co-Founder & CEO | 2019 | Wix eCommerceWixSentry+21 | — | — |
| 9 | Flave App-based to earn rewards from local restaurants | $100K | 60 mo ago | Seed | Derek Battle Co-Founder | 2020 | — | — | — |
Top 12 Food Tech companies in Maryland
#1
Series A · College Park, Maryland · founded 2016 · 7 employees$4.2Mraised▾
Provider of food safety and testing solutions. Its extraction system concentrates bacterias and reduces the time required to detect foodborne pathogens. It caters to meat and poultry businesses.
- Jun 2024Conventional Debt$2.2M
- Nov 2023Series A$2.9M
- May 2020Seed$1.2M
- May 2020Grant (prize money)$249.9K
#2
Series A · Largo, Maryland · founded 2019$6Mraised▾
Platform offering plant-based burgers. Its ingredient used includes pea protein, coconut oil, canola oil, potato starch, nutritional yeast, and more. The company claims the product is soy-free & gluten-free.
- Feb 2022Series A$6M
#3
Series A · Largo, Maryland · founded 2020$6Mraised▾
Developer of plant-based meat substitute food products
#4
Series B · Bethesda, Maryland · founded 2012 · 66 employees$12.9Mraised▾
Developer of unified commerce platform for quick service and fast-casual restaurants. The platform connects on- and off-premise ordering, loyalty programs, and production experiences. It simplifies multi-channel and menu ecosystems, providing data-rich experiences for operators and guests. The platform streamlines operations and drives scalable growth for enterprise restaurants.
- Feb 2019Series B$10M
- Apr 2015Series A$2M
#5
Acquired · Baltimore, Maryland · founded 2009 · 130 employees$10Mraised▾
OrderUp (formerly known as LocalUp) provides restaurant food ordering services on online and mobile devices in small towns in the United States. Provides payment processing and partner in delivery for restaurants. Operates a franchise model through local entrepreneurs offering them low start-up costs, rapid deployment, and a clear revenue model. Operates in select American locations. Acquired by GrubHub.
- Aug 2014Series A$9M
- Feb 2012Seed$675K
- Apr 2011Seed$350K
#6
Seed · Baltimore, Maryland · founded 2022 · 13 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Platform offering plant-based and cultured meat alternatives. The company offers texturing technologies for developing plant-based cultured meat.
- Apr 2022Seed$2.5M
#7
Seed · Baltimore, Maryland · founded 2019 · 7 employees$500Kraised▾
Provider of inventory management solution for bar businesses. It offers a mobile application that uses artificial intelligence. Using the mobile application, businesses can take a photo of the bottle and the app recognizes the bottle and calculates the amount of liquid in it.
- Aug 2023Seed$500K
#8
Series A · Bethesda, Maryland · founded 2014 · 18 employees$5.3Mraised▾
Discover local restaurants, spin for discounts, and support local businesses. It is a mobile app that connects diners with local restaurants, offering discounts through a fun, interactive spinning wheel. Users discover new dining options and save money while supporting local businesses. The app provides a platform for restaurants to attract customers and offer dynamic discounts based on factors like day, time, and weather. It eliminates the need for prepaid coupons or email subscriptions, offering a seamless discount experience directly through the user's phone. The service promotes local culinary diversity and provides a win-win situation for both restaurants and diners, fostering community engagement and economic support for local establishments. It is a B2C tech company with a social impact business model.
- May 2017Series A$4.8M
- Dec 2016Seed$585.3K
- Apr 2016Conventional Debt$2M
#9
Seed · Baltimore, Maryland · founded 2021$82.5Kraised▾
Internet first brand offering smart oven. The oven has features like a freezer, wifi connectivity, LED lighting, cooking modes, automated smart scheduling, and much more. It can also be controlled via a mobile application that is available to download from the apple app store and google play store.
- Nov 2022Seed—
- Jul 2021Seed$82.5K
#10
Seed · Baltimore, Maryland · founded 2020 · 12 employees$100Kraised▾
App-based to earn rewards from local restaurants. The users can discover local restaurants, dine-in or order takeout, snap a pic of the food to earn Flave cash or in-app currency. Users with Flave cash can donate to their favorite local restaurants or redeem it for a deal at the partner restaurants. The company offers mobile applications for Android and iOS platforms.
- Aug 2021Seed$100K
#11
Funding Raised · Parkville, Maryland · founded 1998 · 60 employees—raised▾
Platform offering suite solution for restaurant businesses. Its features include employee management, food management, menu management, data analytics & reporting, and can be integrated with POS, accounting, HR software.
- Aug 2025Unattributed—
#12
Funding Raised · Towson, Maryland · founded 1990 · 15 employees—raised▾
Delegate Group is a developer of enterprise management solutions for the foodservice industry. Its product Web Client is a web-based tool that allows users to manage orders, menus, recipes, deliveries, and inventories. Its POS solution with data administration and purchase management modules. The company claims that its solutions are flexible and can be used at hospitals, commercial food production facilities, schools, central kitchens, commercial catering, fast-casual dining, and contract catering companies.
- Feb 2024Unattributed—
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 Tech in Maryland is moving
A read on the academic research around Food Tech in Maryland — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 51 papers.
- University of Maryland, College Park34
- University of Maryland Eastern Shore7
- University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science5
- University of Maryland Extension3
- University of Maryland, Baltimore2
- Food prices1
- Food security1
- Agriculture1
- Agricultural productivity1
- Sanctions1
- Production (economics)5
- Food safety3
- Food security3
- Salmonella3
- Crop2
- Food safety1→5
- Population1→3
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