Best Food Tech Companies in Utah, United States
The 31 best Food Tech companies in Utah, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Traeger.
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 Utah
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Traeger Manufacturer & supplier of wood fired grill | $180M | 85 mo ago | Public | Jeremy Andrus CEO | 1987 | Amazon WebstoreCart FunctionalityAmplience+40 | — | — |
| 2 | Jolt Provider of operations management software for restaurants and other businesses | $22M | 63 mo ago | Series B | Josh Bird Co-Founder & CEO | 2012 | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+32 | — | — |
| 3 | Ovation Customer engagement platform for food business 64Funding top 28%Tech top 29%Growth top 35%Patents top 38% All 12 signals ▾Fundingtop 28% Techtop 29% Growthtop 35% Patentstop 38% Moattop 38% Talenttop 38% Innovationtop 41% AItop 45% Productbottom 48% Marketbottom 44% Globalbottom 39% Customersbottom 9% Funding: Raised $17.9M across 7 rounds · 7 rounds over 7 yrs (1.0/yr) Tech: 46 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 64/100 | $18M | 9 mo ago | Series A | Derek Morgan President | 2016 | WordPressMySQLPHP+30 | 45 patents Firearm fire‑control components: triggers, hammer mechanisms, compensators, and AK‑type actions | — |
| 4 | Boostly Provider of marketing and customer engagement solutions for restaurants | $6M | 21 mo ago | Series A | Shane Murphy Co-Founder & CEO | 2017 | SentryApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+16 | — | — |
| 5 | Integrated Ordering Systems Provider of POS software solutions for restaurants | $1M | 146 mo ago | Deadpooled | Joshua Stephens Co-Founder & CEO | 2009 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Integrated Ordering Systems Enabling take out, catering and online orders within restaurant groups. | $1M | 146 mo ago | Deadpooled | Craig Bodily Co-Founder | 2009 | — | — | — |
| 7 | BotPot Internet first brand offering autonomous cooking devices | $10K | 114 mo ago | Deadpooled | Andrzej Forys Co-Founder & CTO | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Payson Fruit Growers Internet-first brand offering dried fruits and recipes | — | 58 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 1964 | Cart FunctionalityShopifyInstafeed+22 | — | — |
Top 8 Food Tech companies in Utah
#1
Series A · Provo, Utah · founded 2016 · 26 employees$17.9Mraised▾
Customer engagement platform for food business. The customer engagement and experience platform provides a solution to engage the customer using chat. It leverages machine learning algorithms to understand what improvements can be made on and off-premises. It provides intelligent insights about the individual customers based on behavioral characteristics. It also used to take customer feedback and online reviews. The feature includes the facility to respond to reviews, text marketing, online reputation management, and measurement of customer service experience. The pricing model is based on monthly usage.
- Feb 2026Series A$3M
- Jun 2024Series A$9M
- Jun 2023Series A$4M
- Sep 2022Series A$2M
#2
Series A · Provo, Utah · founded 2017 · 1 employees$5.7Mraised▾
Provider of marketing and customer engagement solutions for restaurants. It offers customer engagement and retention tools that allows restaurants to collect, track, and analyze customer data, feedback, and reviews from multiple sources including kiosks, third party platforms, social media, and more. Restaurants can also send promotional messages to their customers automatically. Users can also track and analyze weekly and monthly ROIs and plan their loyalty programs.
- Jan 2025Series A$22M
- Aug 2024Seed$5.6M
- Aug 2022Seed$500K
#3
Public · Salt Lake City, Utah · founded 1987 · 690 employees$180Mraised▾
Manufacturer & supplier of wood fired grill
- Sep 2019Series D—
- Jun 2013Series D$180M
- Venture Debt—
#4
Series B · Lehi, Utah · founded 2012 · 107 employees$21.6Mraised▾
Provider of operations management software for restaurants and other businesses. The software offers tools for task management, temperature monitoring, employee scheduling, and labeling. It helps businesses achieve team accountability, digital food safety compliance, and enhanced employee performance. The platform is available on smartphones and tablets.
- Jul 2021Series B$21.6M
- Oct 2018Series A$7.2M
#5
Deadpooled · Draper, Utah · founded 2009$1.2Mraised▾
Provider of POS software solutions for restaurants
- Sep 2014Seed$455.9K
- Nov 2013Seed$750K
#6
Deadpooled · Draper, Utah · founded 2009$1.2Mraised▾
IOS's proprietary system is a company that provides certified call center staff to ensure that all orders placed from phone within a restaurant does not get placed on hold, receive a busy signal, or are rushed through their ordering. IOS offers a services like outsourced phone order handling, online ordering, and comprehensive reporting for restaurant brands in United States. All orders placed through the system directly goes to the retail point of sale system, which is then processed by the restaurants. The restaurants also know more about their customers and their ordering habits through its analytic reporting.
- Sep 2014Seed$455K
- Nov 2013Seed$750K
#7
Deadpooled · Salt Lake City, Utah · founded 2016$10Kraised▾
Internet first brand offering autonomous cooking devices. It offers app-controlled robotic cooking appliances that cook using automation & scheduling and service local fresh produce and meats on a recurring basis.
- Apr 2017Seed—
#8
Funding Raised · Payson, Utah · founded 1964—raised▾
Internet-first brand offering dried fruits and recipes
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
What Utah researches in food tech
- Utah State University5
- University of Utah4
- Mutah University2
- Southern Utah University1
- Kutahya Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi1
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