Hungry Ventures is deeply rooted and strongly networked in the startup ecosystem of the food industry. We provide our clients with a comprehensive overview of young and rapidly growing companies. As drivers of innovation, start-ups act with a high dynamic of new products, processes and business models. For established companies a high willingness to enter into partnerships or investments is of growing importance. In this article we have selected start-ups from Berlin. This overview contains more than 100 Berlin-based start-ups from the food and food tech sectors, divided into the following categories:

>100 Food & Food TechStartups aus Berlin

Food

Diet & Fitness Food
Plant-based & Artificial Proteins

Food tech

AgTech & Vertical Farming
Alternative PoS & Retail Tech
Apps & Social Platforms
E-Commerce & D2C Brands
Food Delivery & Cloud Kitchen
Food Packaging & Logistics
Personalised Nutrition & Health
Restaurant & Kitchen Tech
Sustainable & Social Businesses

AgTech & Vertical Farming

ECF Farmsystems

Founding date: 2014

ECF Farmsystems builds aquaponic farms for resource-efficient fish and vegetable production.

GOOD BANK

Founding date: 2016

GOOD BANK is the first original vertical farm-to-table restaurant in the world. It unites farm, kitchen and dining table in one.

GreenLab Berlin

Founding date: 2013

GreenLab Berlin recycles waste products from the food industry to produce organic plant fertilizers.

infarm

Founding date: 2013

Infarm’s vertical farming technology enables a new way of growing vegetables. The produce can be found in restaurants and supermarkets.

Klimazone

Founding date: 2017

Klimazone aims to make next-generation vertical agriculture suitable for the mass market.

MonitorFish

Founding date: 2019

MonitorFish offers an AI driven fish diagnostic tool that helps fish breeders reduce fish losses.

PerformaNat

Founding date: 2015

PerformaNat develops new feed additives to improve and maintain animal health.

Plantix

Founding date: 2015

Plantix supports farmers in diagnosing plant diseases through an app.

Roof Water Farm

Founding date: 2013

Roof Water Farm combines wastewater treatment technology with food production and thereby contributes to protecting the environment.

Smart Cloud Farming

Founding date: 2018

Smart Cloud Farming uses satellite images to determine the kind of soil and generate data-driven recommendations for farmers.

Stadtfarm

Founding date: 2017

Stadtfarm operates Smart Urban Farming and offers fresh fish, vegetables and salads.

Stenon

Founding date: 2018

Stenon is a laboratory independent provider of real-time soil analysis for the agricultural industry.

Trecker.com

Founding date: 2012

Trecker.com reduces working hours in the office through real-time documentation via smartphone.

365FarmNet

Founding date: 2013

365FarmNet offers a farm management information system for the entire farm.

Alternative PoS & Retail Tech

ecratum

Founding date: 2013

ecratum offers supplier relationship management in the format of CRM software.

how I like

Founding date: 2017

how I like is a platform that revolutionises catering at the workplace with the help of an intelligent refrigerator.

POSpulse

Founding date: 2014

POSpulse is a company that enables manufacturers, retailers and service providers to better market their products and services.

Signatrix

Founding date: 2017

Signatrix brings artificial intelligence and machine video understanding to retail through data analysis.

store2be

Founding date: 2015

store2be is an online marketplace for short-term retail and advertising space.

TRAXAS

Founding date: 2014

Traxas offers an innovative POS solution in the form of interactive advertising space, as well as real-time customer evaluations with dashboard control.

Apps & Social Platforms

biopinio

Founding date: 2014

biopinio conducts market research on sustainable and organic products via an app.

Foodguide

Founding date: 2015

The Foodguide app is a social food network to discover the best local restaurants and hot spots in town.

Foodly

Founding date: 2018

Foodly bietet eine kostenlose App, die als Online-Marktplatz für Lebensmittel inklusive Rezeptvorschlägen fungiert.

Kitchenstories

Founding date: 2014

Kitchenstories is an app that brings recipes and useful cooking tips closer to the user in the form of videos and step-by-step photos.

KptnCook

Founding date: 2013

KptnCook is a free app for creating a mobile, individual cookbook.

Lokali

Founding date: 2013

Lokali is a city guide for insider tips for the German capital.

mealy

Founding date: 2015

mealy is an app for finding healthy and quickly prepared meals.

pickpack

Founding date: 2017

pickpack enables the convenient pre-ordering of certain products, including mobile payment via app.

Sandoro

Founding date: 2015

Sandoro is a platform for selling used kitchen equipment from the catering industry.

Too Good To Go

Founding date: 2015

Too Good to Go is an app that enables cafes and restaurants to sell surplus goods in the fight against food waste.

Diet & Fitness Food

BRAINEFFECT

Founding date: 2015

BRAINEFFECT offers mental performance nutrition that helps to optimize and achieve goals.

Daluma

Founding date: 2014

Daluma was the pioneer of vegan restaurants & cafés and convinces customers through its natural products.

eat Performance

Founding date: 2014

eat Performance produces high quality organic products that meet the requirements of the paleo diet.

Evope Nutrition

Founding date: 2014

Evope Nutrition offers innovative, time-saving and clean nutritional supplements from nature for athletes & top performers. All products are lactose-free, gluten-free, soy-free, without artificial colouring and Made in Germany.

frufree

Founding date: 2016

frufree offers fructose-free foods with a focus on chocolate.

Mindfuel

Founding date: 2014

Mindfuel is a provider of innovative, vegan and nutritious products for everyday office life.

Shileo

Founding date: 2017

Shileo offers vegan, low calorie alternatives to traditional dishes by using the konjac root as a substitute.

Veganz

Founding date: 2011

Veganz is the leading brand in the plant-based food sector.

E-Commerce & D2C Brands

Coffee Circle

Founding date: 2010

Coffee Circle is a D2C online platform for ordering special coffee and accessories.

Coffeeness

Founding date: 2013

Coffeeness is an e-commerce platform that tests and distributes coffee and coffee machines.

Fromage Frères

Founding date: 2013

Fromage Frères delivers exclusive cheese specialities directly from French producers to their customers.

KoRo

Founding date: 2016

KoRo sells healthy and sustainable food such as nuts, dried fruit and seeds.

Try Foods

Founding date: 2013

Try Foods offers tasting kits for top-shelf food delicacies.

Wein der Woche

Founding date: 2011

Wein der Woche offers wine tasting and also sells the wine.

Wine in Black

Founding date: 2011

Wine in Black is an exclusive online shop for wine lovers.

Food Delivery & Cloud Kitchen

CATERWINGS

Founding date: 2011

CATERWINGS brings together the best caterers and restaurants of the city on one platform.

Delivery Hero

Founding date: 2010

Delivery Hero is one of the world’s leading food delivery companies with over 500,000 restaurant partnerships.

Die Stulle

Founding date: 2013

Die Stulle reinterprets classic sandwich variations and delivers them at short notice within the Berlin city centre.

food.de

Founding date: 2011

food.de is an online supermarket that delivers food directly to its customers’ homes.

Hello Fresh

Founding date: 2011

Hello Fresh delivers tasty recipes and ingredients in a cooking box nationwide and free of shipping costs every week.

heycater!

Founding date: 2016

heycater! is an online platform for planning and ordering individual catering events.

Honest Food Company

Founding date: 2017

Honest Food Company helps build brands for the online food delivery business.

Hungr

Founding date: 2015

Hungr delivers meals to hungry customers at home.

keatz

Founding date: 2015

keatz is a family of virtual restaurants, which exclusively delivers modern dishes.

KUKIMI

Founding date: 2014

KUKIMI offers pre-cooked low-carb meals online, orders can be placed individually for one or more weeks.

MyDrams

Founding date: 2017

MyDrams offers special spirits, which are delivered to your home as tasting boxes for tasting purposes.

Paletas

Founding date: 2015

Paletas is a provider of ice cream catering using whole fruit and fresh ingredients.

SMUNCH

Founding date: 2016

SMUNCH is an alternative catering service, the food is delivered in environmentally friendly boxes.

Sektgar

Founding date: 2013

Sektgar offers mobile champagne bars and bar catering services for various events.

Food Packaging & Logistics

arekapak

Founding date: 2017

arekapak produces 100% natural product packaging from agricultural by-products.

fliit

Founding date: 2016

fliit is a logistics platform focusing on the delivery of fresh food.

Simcopack

Founding date: 2018

Simcopack stands for novel, simple and practical packaging with the possibility of seperating the individual components.

Innovative Beverages

Ände

Founding date: 2016

Ände brings lemonade classics from foreign countries to Germany.

bergtau

Founding date: 2017

bergtau offers shock-frozen premium smoothies to mix yourself in to-go cups.

BRLO

Founding date: 2014

BRLO is a craft beer from Berlin, produced in small batches, rich in character and taste.

fairment

Founding date: 2018

fairment offers Kombucha as well as toolkits for the production of Kombucha.

Gourmesso

Founding date: 2013

Gourmesso distributes premium coffee capsules for the Nespresso system.

Kakuzo

Founding date: 2018

Kakuzo combines tea varieties from Japan, China and India with vodka, from which Kakuzo Tea Infused Vodka is created.

koawach

Founding date: 2014

Koawach produces organic cocoa with guarana powder, a real alternative to coffee and energy drinks.

Kolonne Null

Founding date: 2018

Kolonne Null is a provider of non-alcoholic wines.

Laori Drinks

Founding date: 2018

Laori Drinks is a provider of non-alcoholic gin.

Lebepur

Founding date: 2010

Lebepur is a provider of superfood powder for mueslis, smoothies and shakes.

P & T

Founding date: 2012

P & T is a supplier of special types of tea.

ROY Kombucha

Founding date: 2019

ROY produces Kombucha according to 2000-year-old traditional recipes, using only organic ingredients.

Superfoods & Organic Liquids

Founding date: 2015

Superfoods & Organic Liquids ist ein Café mit Fokus auf Nahrungsmittel-Unverträglichkeiten.

TEATOX

Founding date: 2013

TEATOX is a provider of functional organic tea.

Innovative Food

alvego

Founding date: 2019

alvego has developed vegan jerky from 100% dried algae and vegetables.

BAIHU

Founding date: 2017

BAIHU has created a premium segment in the area of 100% natural, high-quality and vegan instant noodles.

Bohnikat

Founding date: 2018

Bohnikat offers local legumes in snack form.

Bone Brox

Founding date: 2013

Bone Brox produces real bone broth from grass-fed organic cattle, organic free-range chickens and for the vegan version from vital mushrooms.

buah

Founding date: 2014

buah is a supplier of freeze-dried fruits, preserving taste and nutrients of the product.

DÖRRWERK

Founding date: 2014

DÖRRWERK is a sustainable manufacturer from Berlin that produces dried snacks from saved fruit and vegetables.

Freche Freunde

Founding date: 2011

Freche Freunde is a brand that specializes in organic fruit and vegetable snacks for children.

Haferkater

Founding date: 2014

Haferkater sells traditional Scottish freshly cooked porridge with various toppings.

KNALLE

Founding date: 2015

KNALLE Popcorn sells handmade popcorn made from southern French corn with extraordinary taste compositions.

Nordic Oceanfruit

Founding date: 2019

Nordic Oceanfruit uses algae to create salads, toppings and burgers and deliver them to restaurateurs.

olive joy

Founding date: 2014

olive joy offers three different kinds of virgin olive oil from Greece.

Rawster Foods

Founding date: 2016

Rawster Foods offers superfoods, carefully dried superfruits, organic protein powder and kale chips.

REBELICIOUS

Founding date: 2018

REBELICIOUS produces organic cornflakes and cereals that contain 30-40% less sugar than comparable products.

Runtime

Founding date: 2016

Runtime is the first nutrition company for the eSport scene.

SPICE NERDS

Founding date: 2018

SPICE NERDS produces high-quality salad, vegetable and other dressings, using ingredients from organic farming.

Spooning

Founding date: 2015

Spooning Cookie Dough has developed a cookie dough that dough lovers can safely consume in its raw form.

TSAMPA

Founding date: 2016

TSAMPA offers various products based on roasted barley.

Wholey

Founding date: 2016

Wholey offers shock-frozen organic smoothies consisting of fruit, vegetables and superfoods in convenient to-go cups.

Wildcorn

Founding date: 2016

Wildcorn popcorn is an honest, genuine organic snack.

Wonderpots

Founding date: 2011

Wonderpots is a supplier of low calorie frozen yoghurt ice cream.

ZEEVI

Founding date: 2018

ZEEVI is a supplier of an alternative tofu made from chickpeas.

Zveetz

Founding date: 2018

Zveetz offers sugar-free, plant-based desserts made from natural ingredients.

Personalised Nutrition & Health

Baze

Founding date: 2017

Baze offers personalized food supplements that promise more energy, better sleep and other positive effects.

Cara Care

Founding date: 2016

Cara Care offers nutrition therapies and a digital nutrition diary to help customers achieve good digestive health.

eatpal.co

Founding date: 2016

eatpal.co is a digital, photo-based nutrition assistant for losing weight.

eatr

Founding date: 2019

eatr offers transparency and orientation when shopping for food.

HI:ME

Founding date: 2018

HI:ME creates personalized vitamin packages based on an online questionnaire. The offer consists of three different vitamin packages.

hundred

Founding date: 2017

hundred sets up an individualized dietary supplement program with the help of nutrition experts.

Jourvie

Founding date: 2014

Jourvie supports people in the fight against anorexia and eating disorders.

LINEAVI

Founding date: 2014

LINEAVI offers meal replacements in powder form for weight loss.

Lykon

Founding date: 2018

Lykon helps its customers to develop a personalized health strategy with blood and DNA tests for home use.

ONO LABS

Founding date: 2017

ONO LABS sells nutritional supplements for pregnant women under the brand “her1”.

sleep.ink

Founding date: 2015

sleep.ink is the first provider of natural sleep-inducing products.

Plant-based & Artificial Proteins

blue farm

Founding date: 2012

blue farm produces nut-based milk alternatives.

INSNACK

Founding date: 2018

INSNACK markets energy bars produced in the EU from sustainable ingredients and insect meal.

Instinct

Founding date: 2017

Instinct (formerly Bear Protein) develops and distributes organic insect snacks to the European market.

Legendairy Foods

Founding date: 2018

Legendairy is Europe’s first producer of cell-based milk products from the laboratory – without the use of cows.

Mushlabs

Founding date: 2018

Mushlabs is a biotech company that produces sustainable food through fermentation and the roots of fungi.

Peace of Meat

Founding date: 2019

Peace of Meat produces real, cell-based meat, completely guilt free.

Plantcraft

Founding date: 2018

Plantcraft is a manufacturer of plant-based meat products.

Terra Vegane

Founding date: 2013

Terra Vegane produces plant-based meat, cheese and egg alternatives.

VlyFoods

Founding date: 2018

VlyFoods develops and markets vegetable milk alternatives based on split pea protein.

Restaurant & Kitchen Tech

Choco

Founding date: 2018

Choco ermöglicht einen reibungslosen Ablauf in der Kommunikation und bei Bestellprozessen mit Zulieferern.

EatAndTheCity

Founding date: 2016

EatAndTheCity helps magazines and local food guides to monetise their business.

GASTROFIX

Founding date: 2011

GASTROFIX is a mobile iPad cash register system, which was developed for the gastronomy, hotel and trade industry.

Mitte

Founding date: 2016

Mitte is a smart water system for home use that can filter water and add minerals.

orderbird

Founding date: 2011

orderbird is a mobile cash register system which helps gastronomic businesses efficiently take orders, create and evaluate invoices.

Quandoo

Founding date: 2012

Quandoo is a real-time reservation platform for restaurants. Guests have the possibility to discover new restaurants and book tables online.

Seatris AI

Founding date: 2013

Seatris AI is an online support for restaurant reservations, table management and sales growth.

YouFlake

Founding date: 2018

In addition to organic cereals for muesli, YouFlake also offers “flake crushers”, for fresh self-flaked muesli.

Sustainable & Social Businesses

Berlin Tea Company

Founding date: 2016

The Berlin Tea Company stands for special and rare tea varieties that are traditionally grown and processed on a plantation.

Karma Tea

Founding date: 2019

Karma Tea is a sustainable fair trade producer of tea-based soft drinks.

Nourit

Founding date: 2017

Nourit produces unpackaged organic food and is thus expanding the range in organic and unpackaged shops.

Obergudt

Founding date: 2014

Obergudt enables its customers to purchase high-quality food locally from bakeries, micro-breweries and farmers.

Original Unverpackt

Founding date: 2014

Original Unverpackt is a Berlin supermarket that specialises in the exclusive use of sustainable packaging.

RETTERGUT

Founding date: 2020

Based on saved raw materials, RETTERGUT creates delicious and long-lasting products suitable for everyday use, such as chocolate, soups and spreads. In addition, every purchase supports social projects.

share

Founding date: 2017

share makes donations to people in need per purchased product  according to the 1+1 principle.

ShareTheMeal

Founding date: 2014

ShareTheMeal is an app developed by the United Nations World Food Program to combat food famine in Africa.

Sirplus

Founding date: 2017

Sirplus saves food in Berlin with the help of its online shop and nationwide delivery service.

Solidrinks

Founding date: 2016

Solidrinks offers draught beer and is a social non-profit enterprise.

Über den Tellerrand

Founding date: 2013

Über den Tellerrand promotes the integration of refugees in Berlin by hosting cooking sessions.

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