Best Food Tech Companies in Virginia, United States
The 56 best Food Tech companies in Virginia, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: MarginEdge.
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 Virginia
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 247Waiter Online ordering system empowering restaurants with websites and commission-free sales | — | — | Unfunded | — | Saber Zaher Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | — | — |
| 2 | Artesa Ingredients Provider of research, development, and commercialization of plant-based ingredients | — | — | Acquired | 12 | Nick Hampton CEO | — | — | — |
| 3 | Bertello Platform offering simulfire gas and wood-fired technology based outdoor pizza ovens and accessories | — | — | Funding Raised | — | Andy Bert Co-Founder | Amazon WebstoreCart FunctionalityShopify+32 | — | — |
| 4 | Bon AppeSweet Internet first brand offering dairy free chocolates | — | — | Funding Raised | 2 | Thereasa Black Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+21 | — | — |
| 5 | Brew Perfect Digital hydrometer to collect beer fermenting data | — | — | Unfunded | 4 | Conner Trebour CEO & President | — | — | — |
| 6 | Cater Nation Online catering marketplace connecting businesses and individuals with local restaurants and caterers | — | — | Unfunded | 10 | Kyle Brown Co-Founder and CFO | Windows ServerMicrosoft ASP.NETBootstrap+16 | — | — |
| 7 | Chef2Gather Internet first restaurant offering food delivery | — | — | Deadpooled | — | James Lee Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 8 | Chefscape Kitchen Empowering food entrepreneurs with shared kitchens, catering, and business support | — | — | Unfunded | — | Robert Batchelder Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
Top 12 Food Tech companies in Virginia
#1
Series C · Arlington, Virginia · founded 2016 · 250 employees$77.1Mraised▾
Hungry offers a marketplace and delivery platform for Chef-prepared meals. Allows users to order for business & events from local chefs. Orders are taken on its web or iOS-based mobile app and delivered to the customer. Operates in various states of the US. Clients include Microsoft, Amazon, Deloitte, and others.
- May 2024Series C$6.2M
- Jun 2023Series C$10M
- Apr 2022Series C$6.6M
- Sep 2021Series C$21M
#2
Series C · Charlottesville, Virginia · founded 2016 · 21 employees$53.3Mraised▾
Bonumose BioChem is developing a range of enzyme-based products for consumer food and agriculture industries. As per the website description, the company is developing biological feed additives and crop nutrition products for the agriculture industry. For the consumer food industry, the company has developed Tagatose which is an enzyme-based alternative sweetener for consumer food products. The company claims that it is developing technology for reducing the cost of production of Tagatose which is very high for Tagatose provided by other producers.
- Sep 2023Series C$41M
- Feb 2021Series B$9M
- Feb 2021Conventional Debt—
- 2017Series A$3.3M
#3
Series C · Arlington, Virginia · founded 2015 · 147 employees$83.2Mraised▾
Restaurant management software providing real-time data and back-office automation. It is a SaaS platform designed for restaurant people, by restaurant people, offering a holistic solution for streamlining operations. The software automates invoice processing, bill payments, cost management, inventory and ordering, recipes and menu analysis, and AP automation. It integrates with POS and accounting systems, providing real-time insights into food costs, usage, and menu profitability. The platform empowers restaurants to simplify their business, control complexity, and make informed decisions. It offers features like daily P&Ls, price change tracking, and theoretical cost analysis. It helps restaurants manage product costs from procurement to service, improving back-office efficiencies and overall financial performance. The platform supports multi-unit groups and offers resources like a blog, podcast, case studies, and a resource library.
- Dec 2022Series C$45M
- Sep 2021Series B$23.2M
- Nov 2020Series A$4M
- Oct 2019Series A$5M
#4
Series A · Arlington, Virginia · founded 2016 · 49 employees$18Mraised▾
Restaurant commerce platform offering digital solutions. Its solutions are POS, mobile ordering, kitchen display solutions, integration, accounting, and more.
- Aug 2023Series A$18M
- Jan 2023Series A$15M
- Jul 2021Angel$3.5M
- Sep 2020Seed$6M
#5
Seed · Virginia · founded 2021 · 21 employees$6Mraised▾
Provider of QR-based digital menu solutions for restaurants. The platform offers solutions like digital menu customization, ordering solution, online payment solution, etc. The platform also allows restaurants to add photos of their dishes to the menu.
- Mar 2023Seed$4M
- Apr 2022Seed$2M
#6
Series B · Alexandria, Virginia · founded 2011 · 57 employees$44Mraised▾
Territory platform offering chef-prepared meal delivery service. It offers ready-to-heat meals that are created by professional chefs in commercial kitchens. The platform lists the menu along with the creator's name and cuisine. It uses sustainably sourced ingredients free of refined sugars, gluten, and dairy. The menus can be customized to meet dietary templates such as vegan, vegetarian, whole, and keto.
- Apr 2021Series B$22M
- Mar 2019Series A$3.9M
- Aug 2018Series A$10.8M
- Feb 2016Seed$5M
#7
Seed · Great Falls, Virginia · founded 2021 · 8 employees$2.1Mraised▾
Platform offering food detection solutions using AI. The customers can take a picture of the meal and it provides nutritional information including calories, fat, carbs, and protein.
- Jun 2023Seed$2M
- Sep 2021Seed$125K
#8
Series A · Leesburg, Virginia · founded 2018 · 54 employees$15Mraised▾
Provider of a pouring solution and an inventory management system for bars. The platform offers features like monitoring draft quality, comparing pours to sales, providing real-time keg levels and alerts, and more.
- Apr 2022Series A$10.5M
- Feb 2020Seed$200K
#9
Series C · Richmond, Virginia · founded 2013$36.9Mraised▾
Processing chickpea to derive alternative protein ingredients for the food industry. It offers plant-based ingredients through its patented Artesa PureProcess extraction process. The company uses a process for turning chickpeas into protein powder that can serve as ingredients for eggs, wheat, soy, and milk.
- Dec 2019Series C$12.7M
- Aug 2019Series A$2.9M
- Aug 2018Series A$4M
- Apr 2017Series A$8M
#10
Series A · Charlottesville, Virginia · founded 2017 · 46 employees$15.5Mraised▾
Online platform to order lunch for school kids. It allows users to subscribe to meal plans and get them delivered to schools every day. The company claims to have been partnered with vendors to prepare meals for kids. The company serves the individuals and schools in Charlottesville and Richmond.
- Nov 2021Series A$12M
#11
Series B · Sterling, Virginia · founded 2015 · 47 employees$15Mraised▾
Provider of a smart beverage dispensing solution. Its features include electronic portion control, real-time data analytics, monitoring, and more.
- Aug 2021Series B$15M
#12
Seed · Christiansburg, Virginia · founded 2022$20Kraised▾
Provider of drive-through automation solutions for restaurants. The platform provides augmented supervision and POS solutions. Features includes payment processing, feedback curation, surveys, placing orders, entertainment options, notifying managers, marketing promotions, and more.
- 2024Seed$20K
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 Virginia is moving
A read on the academic research around Food Tech in Virginia — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 72 papers.
Virginia Tech and University of Virginia lead cautiously optimistic food-tech research (mean stance 0.17), dominated by pathogen safety concerns—Listeria, Salmonella—with sustainability emerging recently.
- Virginia Tech39
- University of Virginia14
- West Virginia University12
- Virginia Sea Grant5
- Virginia Cooperative Extension3
- Food waste3
- Food safety2
- Postharvest2
- Bioplastic2
- Food processing2
- Food safety7
- Food science4
- Food processing3
- Agriculture2
- Listeria monocytogenes2
- Food safety1→10
- Food science1→3
- Sustainability1→3
Common questions
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