Best Food Tech Companies in New Jersey, United States
The 45 best Food Tech companies in New Jersey, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Paragon Pure.
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 New Jersey
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paragon Pure Supplier of natural flavor whole grain encapsulation carriers | $8M | 35 mo ago | Seed | Matthew Sillick Co-Founder | 2019 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Buying.com Decentralized e-commerce platform | $3M | 61 mo ago | Series A | Jeanmarie Gabriel Founder | 1996 | — | — | — |
| 3 | TeaConnect Provider of an all-in-one communication platform for restaurants | $400K | 15 mo ago | Seed | Chris Viola Founder | 2023 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Forkcast Online food and restaurant discovery platform | $145K | 125 mo ago | Seed | Jeremy Cooley Founder & CEO | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 5 | CaliBurger Robotic kitchen serving burgers | $35K | 137 mo ago | Series A | — | 2011 | WordPress Block EditorElementorCart Functionality+20 | — | — |
| 6 | PlantFusion Manufactures plant-based protein ingredients supplements | — | 115 mo ago | Series A | Phil Vigeant CEO and co-founder | 2009 | Shogun Page BuilderCart FunctionalityShopify+48 | — | — |
| 7 | Big Holler Business app solutions empowering customer communication and digital marketing success | — | — | Unfunded | GR Homa Founder & Managing Partner | 2004 | ZohoWindows ServerMicrosoft ASP.NET+5 | — | — |
| 8 | Centra Inc Provider of cloud-based suite solutions for the hospitality and retail industry | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2018 | Cart FunctionalityOdooContentful+22 | — | 1 launch |
Top 6 Food Tech companies in New Jersey
#1
Seed · Asbury Park, New Jersey · founded 2023$400Kraised▾
Provider of an all-in-one communication platform for restaurants. This platform streamlines communication between staff, management, and guests. It offers features such as team chat, a social inbox for managing guest interactions across various channels, and AI-driven operational insights derived from social messaging and feedback. The platform aims to improve service, enhance guest experience, and optimize business operations by centralizing communication and providing data-driven recommendations.
- May 2025Seed$400K
#2
Seed · Princeton, New Jersey · founded 2019 · 7 employees$7.8Mraised▾
Supplier of natural flavor whole grain encapsulation carriers
- Sep 2023Seed$3.9M
- Jul 2022Seed$3.9M
- Jul 2021Grant (prize money)$99.4K
- Nov 2020Seed—
#3
Series A · Mahwah, New Jersey · founded 1996 · 23 employees$3Mraised▾
Buying.com is a decentralized e-commerce platform. The platform allows online stores and consumers to buy products directly from manufacturers. Businesses and consumers can pool their order to reach the Minimum Order Quantity(MOQ) of manufacturers. Users earn tokens for referrals and for placing MOQ orders. Users can provide delivery services and storage services by staking the tokens.
- Jul 2021ICO$5M
- Oct 2018Series A$3M
#4
Seed · Hoboken, New Jersey · founded 2014 · 3 employees$145Kraised▾
Forkcast is an app-based food and restaurant discovery platform. Uses machine learning algorithm with big data to predict user taste and then suggests a restaurant offering that food. Also, suggests trending food. It allows users to order from their preferred restaurants offering takeaway or delivery by the restaurants. It offers loyalty points for every order placed through their platform. It charges a commission from restaurants for every order placed through their platform.
- Mar 2016Seed$145K
#5
Series A · Elizabeth, New Jersey · founded 2011 · 3 employees$35Kraised▾
Cali Burger owns and operates a chain of robotic kitchen restaurants serving burgers. Its menu offerings include burgers, sandwich, cheeseburger, meal burgers, fries, shakes, soft drinks etc. Its restaurant outlets are located in select locations in the USA, Canada, Mexico, China, Kuwait, Qatar, Spain etc.
- Mar 2015Series A—
- Feb 2014Series A—
- Feb 2011Seed$35K
#6
Series A · Edison, New Jersey · founded 2009 · 10 employees—raised▾
Manufactures plant-based protein ingredients supplements. The company offers plant-based protein, vegan collagen builders, and vegan vitamins & minerals. It helps to build & repair muscle, hormonal balance, and more.
- Jan 2017Series A—
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
- Ecolab USA18
Common questions
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