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PlateJoy - e-commerce food and beverages personal health groceries

PlateJoy

healthy eating for busy people
PlateJoy is turning meal planning, grocery shopping, and recipe creation into an an incredibly simple, healthy, and personalized 60 second process. PlateJoy creates a uniquely personal experience for each user by curating delicious meal options for their weekly ...

Bento - food and beverages mobile commerce local logistics

Bento

Delicious Asian food delivered in minutes.
We believe that you should not have to choose between eating healthy and conveniently. Bento delivers delicious Asian food in minutes in San Francisco. Using our app, customers start building their Bento by choosing a main dish. We have three options, that ...

Nomiku - food and beverages consumer electronics specialty foods cooking

Nomiku

Modern kitchen appliances that connect people.
The most funded Kickstarter project in the food category in 2012, raising over $586K in 30 days. Now we're back and our device is connected, smarter, smaller, and more affordable. This time around we raised 750K and sold over 5,000 Nomikus. Top chefs around the ...

Wednesdays - social media business services food and beverages online scheduling

Wednesdays

Meetup for mealtimes
Wednesdays.com is the easiest way for organizations to create their own lunch or dinner club. It's like Meetup for mealtimes or GrubWithUs for affiliate groups. We finished a pilot with 5,000 lunch invitations. We are unit profitable. RSVP rates are the highest ...

Postmates - food and beverages marketplaces postal and courier services transportation

Postmates

On Demand Delivery
Postmates is transforming the way local goods move around a city by enabling anyone to get any product delivered in under one hour. Postmates' revolutionary urban logistics & on-demand delivery platform connects customers with local couriers, who purchase and deliver ...

Zesty - food and beverages bridging online and offline mobile health nutrition

Zesty

Healthy, delicious food. Delivered. (YC W14)
Zesty empowers companies to eat well, work happy and be awesome. Healthy, delicious food experiences from the best local restaurants, served with love. Curated by in-house dietitians, Zesty works with hundreds of healthy, high quality Bay Area restaurants such ...

Wholeshare - e-commerce food and beverages marketplaces sustainability

Wholeshare

Group-based marketplace for sustainable food
Wholeshare helps people access good quality, affordable food by organizing group purchases. By shopping as a group, members increase their purchasing power, making it worthwhile for local farmers and distributors to deliver directly to them. Dealing directly with ...

Momentum Machines - hardware food and beverages robotics restaurants

Momentum Machines

The Next Generation of Fast Food.
Momentum is revolutionizing the way food is prepared with technology that allows for gourmet quality food to be sold at fast food prices. We have created a robot that makes customized hamburgers from raw ingredients to packaging, with zero human intervention. ...

Partender - mobile SaaS analytics food and beverages

Partender

Bar Inventory. From 6-24 hours on paper & pen to 15 minutes on iOS. (We do food too!)
Partender is a business tool (currently featured on SpikeTV's "Bar Rescue" every Sunday at 9/8c) that reduces the time it takes owners & managers to do bar inventory from a frustrating 6-24 hours to 15 minutes. We do this by digitizing the crazy, archaic paper-pen-clipboard ...

Pantry - food and beverages retail technology rfid vending and concessions

Pantry

Sell Food Anytime, Anywhere.
People crave more than just chips and soda in the office – but that's all vending machines offer. Unfortunately, there hasn't been a technology that allows for fresh food vending – until now. Pantry has radically changed the vending experience for both consumers ...

Kitchit - food and beverages marketplaces restaurants

Kitchit

Chef powered dinner parties for $39
At Kitchit, we believe eating with others enriches our lives and deepens our connections to our community. We are passionate about food’s ability to connect people and have pioneered a powerful way to elevate the experience well beyond a traditional restaurant. ...

Sprig - food and beverages mobile commerce local

Sprig

Eat Well
Sprig is changing the nature of food delivery. With just three taps on your smartphone, you can get dinner delivered in an average of 15 minutes. We provide meals that are not just fast, convenient and affordable but also delicious and healthy. The entire experience ...

Philz Coffee - e-commerce retail food and beverages

Philz Coffee

A handcrafted cup of love
Philz Coffee focuses on making the best drip coffee. Each cup is handcrafted and made one cup at a time at our retail stores served by friendly Baristas dedicated to customizing your cup of love. We don't do espresso, lattes, cappuccinos... We believe in being ...

tapviva - payments food and beverages mobile payments point of sale

tapviva

Next-generation restaurant technology with mobile ordering (AngelPad S11)
tapviva enables all types of restaurants, cafes and food trucks to streamline their ordering process and facilitate mobile ordering (a la Chipotle). We are an end-to-end solution, allowing orders from multiple ordering avenues to appear as virtual tickets on iPads ...

Forage - e-commerce food and beverages groceries subscription

Forage

Recreate Restaurant Dishes at Home in Under 20 Minutes
Forage helps you recreate restaurant dishes at home. Any restaurant can fire a dish in 20 min, we do the prep work so you can too. We get access to the best recipes from notable restaurants and deliver the whole and pre-prepped ingredients to your doorstep.

Smart Coffee Technology - hardware food and beverages product design coffee

Smart Coffee Technology

Reinventing Single Serve Coffee
Single serve coffee is the fastest growing portion of the coffee industry reaching $3.8 billion in sales in 2014. The coffee currently available in single serve form must be ground prior to packaging, often making it stale at the time of consumption. Most craft ...

Munchery - e-commerce food and beverages marketplaces hospitality

Munchery

Wholesome Meals in a Snap
Munchery is reinventing the weeknight dinner, and making it ridiculously easy to put a high-quality dinner on the table. Dinner can be a boring and often dreaded experience. You’re too busy to cook, donʼt have time to shop, and you’re frankly out of ideas about ...

Goldbely - e-commerce food and beverages marketplaces specialty foods

Goldbely

Etsy for Food
Goldbely is a marketplace that enables consumers to buy food directly from the country's best independent food makers. Our vision is an online marketplace that connects curious eaters with America's best gourmet food purveyors. We are creating an alternative to ...

Cinder - hardware food and beverages consumer electronics Food tech

Cinder

Foreman grill meets Nest (YC W'15)
The Cinder Sensing Cooker is a smart, countertop kitchen appliance that uses patent-pending sensing technology for precision temperature-control cooking that enables home cooks to prepare foods to exact temperatures and then sear in the same unit - unattended - ...

Chewse - food and beverages local bridging online and offline corporate wellness

Chewse

Feeding entire offices with 1 click
There are now over 700,000 US companies who feed their workforce — a $20 billion market with no modern solution. Chewse is SaaS for Corporate Meals. We plan and deliver meals to the office from local restaurants in one instant and online experience. Our first ...

Flaviar - e-commerce food and beverages wine and spirits subscription businesses

Flaviar

Warby Parker for fine spirits. Tasting is believing.
We help people discover new and exciting drinks. Our aim is to become the largest Flavor Curation and Discovery Service in all verticals where flavor and personal taste is an important driver of sales. We want to give Flavor to the People. Our curators prepare ...

Foodzie - consumer internet e-commerce food and beverages subscription businesses

Foodzie

Marketplace for Artisan Food (Acquired 2012)
Foodzie is an online marketplace where food lovers delight in the discovery of new and interesting products from small-batch foodmakers.

Feast - education food and beverages health and wellness cooking

Feast

Become a Cook in 30 Days
Feast has a simple mission: to help people become cooks. Today, people don't need fancy recipes or culinary schools, they're just looking to make cooking a regular part of their life. The Feast Bootcamp goes beyond just teaching people how to cook and helps them ...

Soma Water - e-commerce food and beverages product design subscription businesses

Soma Water

Sustainable water filters sold on a subscription
Soma is a subscription business in the beverage industry. Our first product is a sustainable glass water filter ($59). Replacement filters are shipped to our customers every two months for $12.99. We launched in September 2013 going direct to consumer online selling ...

Feastly - e-commerce food and beverages bridging online and offline collaborative consumption

Feastly

A marketplace connecting cooks and eaters over meals in a cook’s home.
Feastly is an online p2p marketplace that empowers any cook to turn their kitchen into a restaurant. Through the Feastly platform hungry eaters find delicious meals offered and served in cook’s home (or other locations). We are doing to kitchens, what Airbnb did ...

SpoonRocket - food and beverages mobile commerce local logistics

SpoonRocket

Most Convenient Meal Ever
Imagine a world where you can get delicious food anywhere, anytime, any place almost instantly. SpoonRocket has figured out the magic in delivering delicious meals in 10 minutes, and they're aiming to change the way people think about food. ___________ The YCombinator-backed ...

Feeding Forward - food and beverages ventures for good startups sustainability

Feeding Forward

'Uber' for food recovery.
Feeding Forward recovers excess food from businesses (caterers, restaurants, grocers, companies, etc.) and redistributes it to feed those in need, instantly. Our online and mobile platforms streamline food recovery and distribution, eliminating both hunger and ...

Taste.com - food and beverages bridging online and offline mobile health nutrition

Taste.com

Logistics of Office Catering
Consumers today want to know where their food comes from. To quote Whole Foods, they want to know their farmer. Our product, aside from offering a system build specifically for office catering, brings the story of food from harvest, through preparation, to your ...

Cozymeal - food and beverages marketplaces hospitality restaurants

Cozymeal

welcome to the chef's table
Cozymeal personally connects food lovers with local professional chefs. Through cooking classes, private dining experiences, and market tours, our guests embark on culinary adventures. At Cozymeal, we give you more than just an ordinary night out—we bring you to ...

Thistle - retail food and beverages health and wellness subscription businesses

Thistle

Healthy Food on Demand
Combining the ease of Munchery/Sprig with the much better business model of Blue Apron Thistle makes eating nutritious, organic and local foods incredibly convenient and accessible. We believe that by removing the major existing hurdles to consumers (no time ...

EatWith - e-commerce food and beverages restaurants travel & tourism

EatWith

The best meals are homemade. Enjoy a dinner party at the chef's house. You're invited.
EatWith.com is a community marketplace offering authentic dining experiences in people's homes around the world. Try new dishes, meet new people and experience the hottest new trend in foodie travel. At EatWith, we bring the world together one meal at a time by ...

Mantis Energy - food and beverages

Mantis Energy

Mantis Energy Shot: We manufacture Human Focus Fuel
At Mantis Destroyer we manufacture human-focus-fuels. Our core product, "Mantis Energy shot" contains natural flavors and just 149 mg of natural caffeine. It is the worlds first HONEYDEW MELON Energy Shot. It can be easily mixed with other liquids such as club ...

FOODIA - consumer internet mobile social media food and beverages

FOODIA

Inspired by food.
FOODIA. Who knows?

Blossom Coffee - hardware food and beverages product design coffee

Blossom Coffee

Precision coffee brewing.
Our machine brews better coffee faster using precise temperature control. We sell to cafes, offices, and highly engaged enthusiasts. Coffee is a $100B/year global market; precision brew technology will change forever the way people find it, taste it, and share ...

Muufri - food and beverages Dairy

Muufri

Feeding a growing world with sustainable, healthy, humane milk.
Muufri is a biotechnology company revolutionizing the production of milk and dairy products. The first product, a simple glass of animal-free milk, is still under development, with a prototype slated to be ready by the end of summer 2015.

LivBlends - food and beverages health and wellness

LivBlends

The Nespresso machine for smoothies.
LivBlends is the "Nespresso machine for smoothies." The single serve pods come pre-packaged with fruits, vegetables, seeds and nuts - insert a pod into the machine, blend and you're ready to go. No need to source, clean, cut and measure ingredients. LivBlends is ...

Mellow - hardware e-commerce food and beverages consumer electronics

Mellow

The robotic sous-chef for home cooks
Mellow is a smart cooking tool that stays behind and gets dinner started while you're away at work. It combines sous-vide cooking with software and refrigerator-like cooling, so that you can drop ingredients in, give it an order through your smartphone, and come ...

Traveling Spoon - food and beverages online travel travel & tourism collaborative consumption

Traveling Spoon

Authentic home dining experiences for travelers around the world
Traveling Spoon is changing the future of travel by connecting travelers with authentic food experiences in people's homes around the world through a vetted, online marketplace. Our hosts are all pre-vetted by a Traveling Spoon team member to ensure a quality experience ...

Drop - food and beverages ios cooking hardware + software

Drop

Bringing recipes to life
Our vision is to inspire and instill confidence in anyone entering their kitchen, by bringing recipes to life through connections to products, people and food. Drop’s recipe app re-imagines the kitchen by leading chefs intuitively, step-by-step, through finding, ...

PURE SWISS mineral water - consumer goods food and beverages

PURE SWISS mineral water

Only & healthiest Swiss Mineral Water Brand in Export
This is the ONLY Swiss Mineral Water from the Swiss Alps being exported to the USA and most of the world. It is also one of the healthiest ones. Has natural Alkaline (pH 8.2); natural electrolytes; natural minerals; very low Sodium and Zero Nitrates. No other brand ...

Black Hammer Brewing - food and beverages craft beer Bars

Black Hammer Brewing

Lager without Limits.
Black Hammer Brewing will brew and serve the best European Ales and Lagers in Northern California in our San Francisco brewery and tasting room in SoMa. In a sea of umpteen-percent-ABV hop-bombs, Black Hammer Brewing will create malt-focused, superbly balanced ...

7shifts - food and beverages hospitality restaurants

7shifts

Restaurant Scheduling Software & Behavioral Platform
7shifts allows managers to create schedules, communicate with staff, and control labor costs in one easy to use application. Employees can then check their schedule, request shift trades, and submit time-off, all via the 7shifts mobile app. Owners and managers ...

Rewinery - e-commerce food and beverages mobile commerce wine and spirits

Rewinery

Simply the best way to purchase beverages
Rewinery is simply the best way to purchase alcoholic beverages. We select special products and deliver to our customers within the hour. We started with wine and will soon be selling beer and liquor. With Rewinery, our goal is to disrupt the beverage industry. We ...

Zipongo - mobile enterprise software food and beverages health and wellness

Zipongo

Prescription for Healthy Living (Personalized Mobile Meal Plan & Grocery List you'll Love)
Free: Web & Mobile shopping list on healthy GO foods with prices and discounts from all major grocers across US Basic (for health plans): Co-branded with reporting and personalized communications campaigns Premium (for large employers): Personalized Meal Planning ...

TableGrabber - food and beverages hospitality restaurants predictive analytics

TableGrabber

GDS for Restaurants with Dynamic Pricing
We provide restaurants with a cloud based online reservation system.

Easy as Pi - mobile food and beverages mobile commerce

Easy as Pi

Pi - Pizza 2.0
Pi is restaurant-quality pizza baked and delivered to you in 15 minutes.

Plumfare - social media e-commerce search food and beverages

Plumfare

Gift the good stuff
Plumfare is building a mobile experience to allow you to buy a round of drinks for your friends. Plumfare lets you share the good stuff, no matter where you are. We are a start up founded in 2011 in San Francisco, CA. We are building a native iOS application with ...

HomeDine - location based services food and beverages bridging online and offline collaborative consumption

HomeDine

AirBnb for meals
Basically, think CouchSurfing or AirBNB for food, where you can go on your computer or mobile and invite people over to share a meal. It’s geared towards people who are into food and meeting new people, the idea being to offer an alternative to going out to a restaurant, ...

GrubMarket - e-commerce food and beverages specialty foods organic food

GrubMarket

Online Marketplace for Local Foods. A Y Combinator Company
GrubMarket is an online marketplace to connect people who are passionate about creating and consuming locally produced foods including farm produce. GrubMarket’s mission is to facilitate the direct sale of local foods (including farm produce) to local consumers, ...

Battr - food and beverages hospitality mobile health nutrition

Battr

Delivering your meals in a unique way • SF • Boost Summer 2013
Battr is a future-friendly way to get healthy meals delivered. Eating healthier is hard. Battr changes that by delivering.. not just a meal, but a complete experience.

Seva Coffee - food and beverages consumer electronics coffee

Seva Coffee

Seva Coffee

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