Best Food Tech Companies in Ohio, United States
The 50 best Food Tech companies in Ohio, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Zipscene.
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 Ohio
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zipscene Cloud based marketing intelligence software solution for the restaurants | $14M | 128 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2006 | — | — |
| 2 | Algisys Producer of algal-based EPA omega-3 oils and vegan protein | $9M | 155 mo ago | Series A | Charles Roe Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder | 2009 | — | — |
| 3 | Juicy Marbles Platform offering plant-based meat products | $5M | 56 mo ago | Seed | Luka Sincek Co-Founder & Co-CEO | 2019 | Cart FunctionalityShopifySentry+37 | 1 launch · 2 awards |
| 4 | Matrix Food Technologies Provider of plant-based alternative proteins for meat | $3M | 67 mo ago | Acquired | Jed Johnson Co-Founder and CTO | 2019 | — | — |
| 5 | PopCom Cloud-based software tools and smart vending machines for offline retailers | $2M | 73 mo ago | Seed | — | 2012 | WebflowYouTubecore-js+14 | — |
| 6 | CookinGenie Online marketplace platform for on demand chefs | $2M | 49 mo ago | Seed | Sabah Drabu Co-Founder | 2020 | SentryTypeScriptNode.js+25 | 3 partnerships |
| 7 | Ontrak Software POS marketing solutions to restaurant businesses | $1M | 130 mo ago | Seed | Mark Fullerton President/CEO - OnTrak Software | 2004 | — | — |
| 8 | REFILL Platform offering custom mobile ordering solution for food industries | $1M | 60 mo ago | Deadpooled | Anthony Reynolds CEO | 2020 | — | — |
| 9 | BYBE Promotion platform that enables retailers to offer digital rebates on beer, wine, and spirits | $570K | 88 mo ago | Acquired | Drew Knight Co-Founder | 2015 | Tailwind CSSReactAmazon Web Services+7 | — |
Top 10 Food Tech companies in Ohio
#1
Seed · Hudson, Ohio · founded 2020 · 8 employees$2Mraised▾
Online marketplace platform for on demand chefs. The customer has to choose the cuisine, dish, date, and time. On the basis of the details provided the chef will collect grocery required for cooking The dish will prepare in the customer's kitchen.
- Jun 2022Seed$2M
#2
Seed · Delaware, Ohio · founded 2019 · 21 employees$4.6Mraised▾
Platform offering plant-based meat products. The company developed protein texturing technology that enables to produce plant-based meat cuts. Its product includes burgers, sausages, bacon, and chicken tenders. It products are made from ingredients including water, soy protein concentrate, wheat protein isolate, sunflower oil, natural flavors, beetroot powder, and more.
- Nov 2021Seed$4.5M
- 2021Seed—
- 2021Seed$125K
#3
Deadpooled · Columbus, Ohio · founded 2020 · 13 employees$1Mraised▾
Platform offering custom mobile ordering solution for food industries. The platform offers mobile ordering application intended for venues. The company provides point-of-sale, mobile commerce, and loyalty solutions, enabling venues and other business verticals.
- Jul 2021Angel$1M
#4
Seed · Columbus, Ohio · founded 2012 · 22 employees$2.3Mraised▾
PopCom provides cloud-based software tools and smart vending machines for offline retailers. The company PopShop Kiosks which is an IoT technology-based smart vending machine. Its features include automated payments, integrated mobile POS, order & inventory management, reporting & analytics and others. It also has advanced payment features, inventory management, cloud-storage solutions and others.
- Jun 2020Seed$1.3M
- Jan 2019Grant (prize money)$125K
- Dec 2017Seed$1M
- 2017Seed—
#5
Acquired · Dublin, Ohio · founded 2019 · 10 employees$3Mraised▾
Provider of plant-based alternative proteins for meat. It claims it manufactures animal component-free, plant-based, cell-based meat alternatives.
- Dec 2020Seed$3M
#6
Series A · Cleveland, Ohio · founded 2009 · 7 employees$8.9Mraised▾
Producer of algal-based EPA omega-3 oils and vegan protein. This company utilizes a proprietary, sustainable fermentation process to produce these products. The process is cost-effective and scalable, using traditional industrial fermentation equipment. The resulting oils and protein are intended for various markets, including supplements, human and animal nutrition, and potentially pharmaceuticals, food & beverage, and cosmetics. The company's technology offers a sustainable alternative to fish oil as a source of EPA omega-3s.
- Aug 2013Series A$6.2M
- Jan 2012Series A$2.5M
- Apr 2011Angel$200K
- Jul 2010Grant (prize money)$150K
#7
Deadpooled · Cincinnati, Ohio · founded 2006 · 18 employees$14.1Mraised▾
Cloud based marketing intelligence software solution for the restaurants. It's a digital marketing solution focused on guest behavior patterns, data & analytic, and more. The platform works based on consuming data from multiple sources like linking POS transactions to individual customers, developing individual customer profiles, layering market factors, and others.
- Nov 2015Series A$5.3M
- Nov 2014Series A$5M
- Nov 2013Series A$3.8M
#8
Acquired · Columbus, Ohio · founded 2015 · 18 employees$570Kraised▾
Promotion platform that enables retailers to offer digital rebates on beer, wine, and spirits. It provides consumers with exclusive cash back rebates at their local retailers, thereby simplifying the rebate process. The platform allows consumers to access these rebates through the app.
- Mar 2019Seed$550K
- Jul 2017Seed$120K
- 2017Seed$20K
#9
Seed · Cincinnati, Ohio · founded 2004 · 6 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Ontrak Software is a POS marketing management software for Beer, Wine & Spirits Companies to track and manage their POS marketing materials and draught line cleaning.
- Sep 2015Seed$967.5K
- Nov 2011Seed$132.5K
- Nov 2008Seed$370K
#10
Seed · Delaware, Ohio · founded 2015—raised▾
Carrydo provider of Chabot solution for eCommerce businesses. Its multi-channel marketing solutions based on an integrated chatbot platform. The solutions based on chatbots including e-commerce, social poster, FB & Instagram comment bots, email marketing, SMS & notification marketing, and more. It can also be integrated onto platforms like product & category management, coupon system, COD, order management, invoicing, abandoned cart recovery, and more.
- May 2017Seed—
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 Ohio is moving
A read on the academic research around Food Tech in Ohio — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 69 papers.
- The Ohio State University61
- Ohio University Lancaster2
- State Library of Ohio2
- Ohio Department of Health2
- Ohio Environmental Protection Agency1
- Corporate governance1
- Supply chain1
- Government (linguistics)1
- Food safety1
- Order (exchange)1
- Agriculture1→3
- Food safety1→19
- Environmental health1→4
- Food security1→4
- Agriculture1→4
- Listeria monocytogenes1→3
Common questions
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