25 Awesome Cooking Orientated Startups To Keep An Eye On In 2021

December 24, 2020

This article showcases Startup Pill’s top picks for the best cooking startups. These startups are taking a variety of approaches to innovating inside of the cooking industry and around the world. They are all exceptional startups well worth a follow.

We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

Welp Magazine  hosts a yearly startup award honouring the most outstanding entrepreneurs and high-growth businesses in the world. If you want to enter your startup to be in the running for the top startup of 2021 or learn more about our competition click here.


1. HakkoBako

The idea behind this startup: Smart Fermentation Chamber for professional chefs

Headquarters: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong

Industries: AgTech, Consumer Electronics, Cooking, Food and Beverage, Hardware, Smart Home

Founders: Tommy Leung

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2. Qummy

The idea behind this startup: Qummy is a food-tech startup technology allow to arrange cafe on 2 sq.m without cooks and kitchen.

Headquarters: Krasnodar, Krasnodar, Russian Federation

Industries: Cooking, Food and Beverage, Food Delivery

Founders: Aleksey Kislun, Artem Simonyants, Evgeniy Pisarev

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3. The Tiny Chef Show

The idea behind this startup: The Tiny Chef Show is a developer of stop-motion videos intended to help children to learn cooking.

Headquarters: Glendale, California, United States

Industries: Cooking, Internet, Training

Founders: Unknown

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4. Defiant Food Group

The idea behind this startup: Defiant Food Group develops and produces the highest quality, most nutritious, easy to use ready to eat proteins available.

Headquarters: Richmond, Virginia, United States

Industries: Cooking, Food and Beverage, Nutrition

Founders: Benjamin Pasternak

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5. Khal

The idea behind this startup: Dedicated cooking profiles for Chefs and people who love to cook

Headquarters: Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

Industries: Cooking, Professional Networking, Social Media

Founders: Samir Tendulkar

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6. CookinGenie

The idea behind this startup: CookinGenie is a digital restaurant connecting culinary experts to end users. The cooking happens in the users kitchen

Headquarters: Hudson, Ohio, United States

Industries: Cooking, Food and Beverage

Founders: Sabah Drabu and Abhijit Ganguly

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7. Digiplay

The idea behind this startup: Digiplay, a SAAS Specially Designed for Restaurant to start accepting order for free .

Headquarters: Unknown

Industries: Cooking, E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Reservations, Restaurants, Software

Founders: Unknown

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8. THUCPHAM.COM

The idea behind this startup: CÔNG TY TNHH THUCPHAM.COM

Headquarters: Hanoi, NA – Vietnam, Vietnam

Industries: Cooking, Farmers Market, Food and Beverage, Food Delivery, Food Processing, Grocery, Organic Food, Recipes, Seafood, Snack Food

Founders: Hieu Nguyen Trong

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9. NutriSense

The idea behind this startup: Custom meal plans, personalised recipes and grocery lists to help Australians save time and eat better

Headquarters: Unknown

Industries: Cooking, Recipes

Founders: Unknown

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10. BonAPI B.V.

The idea behind this startup: World’s first data-driven ingredient replacement algorithm. Substitutions are based on diet, allergies/intolerances and cooking technique.

Headquarters: Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

Industries: Cooking, Food and Beverage, Recipes

Founders: Fabian Apel, Moritz Pill

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11. Kitchen Season

The idea behind this startup: Definitive Guides to Kitchen Products And Design

Headquarters: New York, New York, United States

Industries: Cooking

Founders: Unknown

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12. Souledout

The idea behind this startup: A FoodTech brand redefining post pandemic dining through a selection of our finest Home chefs and exotic DIY Meal kits.

Headquarters: Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Industries: Bakery, Catering, Cooking, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Food Delivery, Food Processing, Recipes

Founders: Aditya Belwal

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13. Whatz2eat

The idea behind this startup: Whatz2eat is a mobile application for cooking.

Headquarters: Palm Desert, California, United States

Industries: Cooking, Mobile Apps

Founders: Unknown

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14. MyKitchenNeeds

The idea behind this startup: MyKitchenNeeds is an online shop that delivers kitchenware and cooking equipment.

Headquarters: Brunssum, Limburg, The Netherlands

Industries: Consumer Electronics, Cooking, E-Commerce, Shopping

Founders: Unknown

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15. Heeren van de KooK

The idea behind this startup: Heeren van de KooK is a cooking studio and catering service provider.

Headquarters: Schijndel, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands

Industries: Catering, Cooking, Training

Founders: Unknown

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16. Cheffe

The idea behind this startup: Guided cooking, as easy as following Google Maps

Headquarters: Unknown

Industries: Cooking, Software

Founders: Unknown

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17. SUMMER-FRIDAY

The idea behind this startup: SUMMER-FRIDAY is an online bakery that provides cookies, cakes, and pastries.

Headquarters: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Industries: Bakery, Cooking, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage

Founders: Unknown

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18. DX.XI

The idea behind this startup: DX.XI is an online store for outdoor cooking accessories.

Headquarters: Berghem, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands

Industries: Cooking, E-Commerce, Sales

Founders: Unknown

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19. DONUTS-WINKEL

The idea behind this startup: DONUTS-WINKEL sells donuts, muffins, sugar waffles, and stroopwafels on the web.

Headquarters: Assen, Drenthe, The Netherlands

Industries: Cooking, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage

Founders: Unknown

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20. Panza

The idea behind this startup: The first mobile app in Latin America that connects artisan chefs and culinary entrepreneurs directly to their own local communities

Headquarters: Unknown

Industries: Cooking, Food and Beverage, Food Delivery, Social Media

Founders: Unknown

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21. OM Easy Cooking

The idea behind this startup: We’re all about good recipes, and about quality home cooking.

Headquarters: Unknown

Industries: Cooking, Organic Food, Recipes, Restaurants

Founders: Unknown

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22. YHANGRY

The idea behind this startup: YHANGRY is a private chef platform where users can book a professional chef to come cook for them at home.

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Cooking, Food and Beverage, Marketplace

Founders: Heinin Zhang, Siddhi Mittal

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23. Betaalbare Bento

The idea behind this startup: Betaalbare Bento is an online seller for bento picks and rings.

Headquarters: Woerden, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

Industries: Cooking, E-Commerce, Sales

Founders: Unknown

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24. Sweetly

The idea behind this startup: Dessert Baking Kit

Headquarters: Unknown

Industries: Bakery, Cooking, E-Commerce, Subscription Service

Founders: Sergio Stephano

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25. Parawan’s Thai Home Cooking Classes

The idea behind this startup: Come to learn to cook Thai food with Parawan in her home on Koh Tao, classes have a maximum of 4 students or take a private online course

Headquarters: Unknown

Industries: Cooking

Founders: Parawan Takasila

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