DoorDash
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What they do:
Restaurant delivery.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Top Food & Agriculture Startups
This list has 249 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. 31 of them are hiring right now. Biggest hubs: San Francisco (80), New York (25), and Los Angeles (11). Largest teams: Breadfast, DoorDash, and Rappi. Latest round: Agriculture Scout AI raised $425K (Oct 13, 2026).
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Rappi
Hiring
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On-demand delivery and financial services for Latin America.
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AI-powered technology enabler and digital transformer of American…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Instacart
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What they do:
Marketplace for grocery delivery and pickup
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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10-Minute Grocery Delivery in India
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HQ: India
Presto
Public
What they do:
Digital meets physical for big chain restaurants
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Household needs, from bread to everything.
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Chaldal.com is an online shop based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is a service rooted on the idea that shopping for necessities should not be a burden. At Chaldal,…
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HQ: Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Full-stack grocery delivery in LatAm
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Tovala
Hiring
What they do:
A smart-oven-paired subscription meal service.
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HQ: Chicago, IL, United States
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Food delivery service in Africa
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HQ: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Where restaurants in Africa buy food supplies
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ThriveAgric help Farmers in Africa access finance, insight and Markets
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HQ: Abuja, Nigeria
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Lezzoo is an on-demand delivery Superapp for Iraq.
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HQ: Erbil, Iraq
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Building the Operating System for B&M Retail using Deep Learning
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Pop Meals
Hiring
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Pop Meals is a restaurant chain without chefs. All recipes are…
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HQ: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Zerocater is revolutionizing how companies feed their employees
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HQ: Chicago, IL, United States
Goldbelly
Hiring
What they do:
Empowering restaurants and small food makers to ship nationwide.
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
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Your one-stop shop to eat well in Brazil
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Building a world where alternative proteins are no longer alternative.
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HQ: Washington, DC, United States
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Delivering fruits and vegetables to multi-segment restaurants and…
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On-demand food delivery for Africa
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HQ: Nigeria
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Turning food waste into Biochar to remove CO2 from the atmsophere
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B2B e-commerce and fintech platform for traditional proximity stores
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HQ: Casablanca, Morocco
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Robots for longer-lasting, better-tasting fish at scale.
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Virtual Restaurants & Stores for Africa
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Grocery Delivery in Pakistan
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HQ: Karachi, Pakistan
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Autonomous electric airplanes
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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French FoodTech startup Edonia, a B2B ingredient supplier specialised in ready-to-eat-protein ingredients, has raised €15 million to expand the commercial use of its microalgae-based ingredients. The round was led by…
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HQ: France
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€15M · Oct 2026
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Shef is a Marketplace for Homemade Food
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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CarbonFarm, a Paris-based ClimateTech startup specialising in rice decarbonisation, has closed an oversubscribed €7 million Series A funding round. The round was led by Colam Impact, the impact investment arm of…
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€7M · Series A · Oct 2026
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Cori Clinical, a London-based startup that acts as the intelligence layer to accelerate clinical trials, has closed a €3.8 million Seed round led by Breega, with participation from Enzo, Heartfelt, Together Ventures,…
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
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€3.8M · Seed · Oct 2026
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Workforce Management for Large Farms
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Zurich-based climate technology company Cotierra has raised $3 million to take its technology from successful field deployments to repeatable commercial scale. The company has raised $4.75 million sin...
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$3M · Sep 2026
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Bavaria-based agritech Finches has raised €2 million in a pre-seedfunding round led by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), with Vanagon Venturesjoining as co-lead. Bayern Kapital participated as a new inve...
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€2M · Oct 2026
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Taking from 1 to 100 the premade food industry in LATAM
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Questions and answers
How many startups are on this list?
There are 249 startups on this list, last updated on Oct 15, 2026.
Which of them are hiring?
31 of them are hiring right now, including DoorDash, Rappi, and Instacart.
Which of them have the largest teams?
By team size: Breadfast (10,000 employees), DoorDash (8,600 employees), and Rappi (4,800 employees).
Which of them raised money recently?
Latest rounds: Agriculture Scout AI — $425K Equity (Oct 2026), CarbonFarm — €7M Series A (Oct 2026), and Cori Clinical — €3.8M Seed (Oct 2026).
Where are they based?
The biggest hubs are San Francisco (80), New York (25), and Los Angeles (11).