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Restaurants Startups

Updated July 2026

Restaurant industry startups serving operators with POS, online ordering, kitchen automation, loyalty, staffing, ghost kitchens, and food-supply platforms. Customers range from independents to multi-unit franchises.

Explore 570 recently funded restaurants companies with verified founder contact information and fundraising data.

Total Companies
570
Total Funding
$1.1B
Avg Funding
$42.0M
Global Reach
10
countries

Top Cities for Restaurants

Toronto
Mexico City
Los Angeles
Brisbane
Great Brickhill
Paris

Recently Funded Companies

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Toronto, Canada

TouchBistro is an iPad-based restaurant point-of-sale system enabling owners to manage reservations and take orders instantly.

$110.1M raised
Nov 2022

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Mexico City, Mexico

Hitter Brands creates and adquires digitally native brands to create an unprecedented delivery experience

$1.0M raised
Nov 2021

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Los Angeles, United States

CloudKitchens is a real estate company that provides smart kitchens for delivery-only restaurants.

$850.0M raised
Nov 2021

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Brisbane, Australia

East Forged operates as a tea specialist.

$225K raised
Nov 2025

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Great Brickhill, United Kingdom

The Calzone Kitchen offers handcrafted calzones and bake-at-home products through direct service, retail, and catering.

$343K raised
Nov 2024

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Paris, France

Bagel Corner is a privately held Fast food chain specializing in bagel takeaway.

$280K raised
Nov 2023

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Jackson, United States

Roadhouse Brewing operates a brewery that offers beers and eatery items.

$1.0M raised
Nov 2022

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

São Paulo, Brazil

ZAK is an All-in-One management platform for the digitization and financial empowerment of restaurants.

$15.0M raised
Nov 2021

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Syosset, United States

Foodie Card is a dining subscription firm.

$4.7M raised
Jan 2023

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Monterrey, Mexico

Parrot Software helps restaurants migrate their systems to their own platform to provide the latest technologies, like automates sales.

$9.5M raised
Jan 2022

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

San Jose, United States

Next Bite Ventures is a company that operates restaurants.

$3.4M raised
Oct 2025

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Nassau, Bahamas

Tropical Gyros is a casual/fast food restaurant.

$272K raised
Oct 2022

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

City Of Industry, United States

Tigawok is a restaurant comapany that offers food and dining services.

$1.9M raised
Oct 2023

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Canton, United States

Trillium Brewing is a company that provides a wide range of wine, beer, and food with a good ambiance.

$445K raised
Oct 2023

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

New York, United States

Simple Venue creates, markets, licenses and operates micro F&B concepts to transform real estateSISim spaces into recurring revenue centers.

$1.2M raised
Oct 2023

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Paris, France

Cala is the first scalable restaurant platform, using software and robotics to make real food more accessible.

$6.4M raised
Oct 2021

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Birmingham, United States

Red Eye Louie's is a blended spirit firm, which crafts smoothest and original spirit by experimenting different mixtures of spirits.

$180K raised
Oct 2022

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Madrid, Spain

An AI copilot for restaurant discovery, providing hyper-personalized and curated restaurant recommendations and bookings

$1.1M raised
Oct 2022

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Galway, Ireland

Ordú is an online ordering platform specially designed for multi-location restaurants, QSRs, dark kitchens, hotels, cafes, and pubs.

$1.7M raised
Oct 2024

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Los Angeles, United States

Stellar Pizza is a robotic-powered mobile pizza-making restaurant.

$16.5M raised
Oct 2022

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Los Angeles, United States

L.A. Grocery & Café is a restaurant and retail company the offers in house dining, cafe as well as grocery retail services.

$225K raised
Oct 2024

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Encino, United States

Claudine Kitchen & Bakeshop is a bakery and café serving baked goods, coffee, and all-day brunch meals.

$750K raised
Oct 2024

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Orlando, United States

Virtual Dining Concepts is the leader in celebrity restaurant brands.

$20.0M raised
Oct 2021

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Miami, United States

Select improves our members' lives by improving the way businesses and customers connect.

Oct 2022

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

São Paulo, Brazil

Liv Up is a direct to consumer healthy foodtech brand based in Brazil.

$4.9M raised
Oct 2022

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

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About the Restaurants Startup Ecosystem

The restaurants sector is an active area of startup innovation and venture capital investment. Companies in this space are developing new technologies, platforms, and services that address evolving market needs and create new business opportunities.

Funding Trends in Restaurants

Restaurants companies raise capital across various funding stages, from early seed rounds to late-stage growth financing. Investor interest in this sector is driven by the size of the addressable market, the pace of technology adoption, and the potential for scalable business models.

Growth Outlook

The restaurants sector is expected to continue evolving as technology advances, market dynamics shift, and new opportunities emerge. Companies that demonstrate strong product-market fit, efficient growth, and clear competitive advantages are well-positioned to attract continued investment.

Restaurants Funding Breakdown

Here is how funding is distributed among the 570 restaurants companies tracked in the VCBacked database.

Average Funding
$42.0M
Total Funding Tracked
$1.1B
Countries Represented
10

Distribution by Funding Stage

Other25 companies

Top Cities for Restaurants

1.Los Angeles
3 companies$866.7M
2.Paris
2 companies$6.6M
3.São Paulo
2 companies$19.9M
4.Toronto
1 companies$110.1M
5.Mexico City
1 companies$1.0M

Related Industries

Companies in the restaurants sector often overlap with or complement businesses in adjacent industries. Exploring related verticals can help you discover additional companies, identify partnership opportunities, and understand the broader competitive landscape.

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