15 Top funded German Food Tech Startups

The founding team of air up has developed a drinking bottle that uses scented pods to simulate the taste of water. One pod holds at least 5 litres of water.

The Berlin-based startup develops and distributes personalized dietary supplements, at the moment only in the USA. With a blood test at home, an app and a monthly subscription model, the missing vitamins are delivered in tablet form.

With an app for digestive health, Cara Care offers a service for diseases such as irritable bowel syndrome or heartburn with the help of symptom tracking and nutritionists. In the case of a “referral” from a doctor, many health insurance companies even pay for the consultation.

The Rocket Startup Caterwings is a marketplace where companies and private individuals can find the right caterer for everything from business meetings to private birthday parties. The mediated caterers pay a flexibly negotiated commission to Caterwings.

The app Choco offers a messenger service for restaurateurs, supermarkets and canteens to communicate with their suppliers, order food and request invoices.

Started as an online shop with its own brand coffee from Ethiopia in combination with social projects for the coffee farmers, Coffee Circle went online for the first time in 2010. In the meantime they also sell accessories for coffee preparation.

Founded in Münster in 2016, the startup for beverage supplies can count prominent names such as Vorwerk Ventures or Cherry Ventures among its investors.

Founded in 2016, Fliit networks manufacturers and distributors in the food industry with transport companies. Through its platform, Fliit already covers Germany and neighbouring countries. Customers include Marley Spoon and Rewe.

The smart herb gardens from infarm adapt light, temperature and nutrient density to the respective plants. They can already be found in supermarkets and warehouses of wholesalers like Amazon or Edeka.

Ghost restaurants are virtual restaurants that have no guest operations, consist only of a kitchen, and deliver food. With this concept and various restaurant brands, Keatz has started in 2017.

Legendairy artificially cultivates the milk protein casein and whey proteins as a basis for dairy products. The first product will be a vegan mozzarella from the laboratory.

With water treatment for housholds, Mitte not only purifies water, but also enriches it with minerals. Various cartridges charge the water with minerals and trace elements. Danone Manifesto Ventures has recently invested.

Prolupin was launched in 2010 as a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute and produces lupin protein isolate, lupin fibres and lupin oil as a B2B solution. In 2013 they launched the B2C product range Made with Luve.

Launched in 2012 as an online platform for selling kitchen appliances, Springlane 2018 changed its business model and from now on only sells kitchen-machines under its own brand.

As one of the first e-commerce platforms for wine, Vicampo has been online since 2012 and sells wine from winemakers who do not have their own digital channels. In addition to the platform function for winegrowers, Vicampo also functions as a retailer with its own warehouse.