# Food Tech Market Map Los Angeles 2026: 31 Startups in 3 Segments

> 31 food tech startups in Los Angeles, mapped in 3 segments: drinks, alternative and functional foods and restaurant tech and more.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/market-maps/food-tech-los-angeles-market-map (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

## Drinks

15

- [Fruitist](https://millionrounds.com/company/fruitist)
- [Belliwelli](https://millionrounds.com/company/belliwelli)
- [Sauz](https://millionrounds.com/company/sauz)
- [Holey Grail Donuts](https://millionrounds.com/company/holey-grail-donuts)
- [Zevia](https://millionrounds.com/company/zevia)
- [Masienda](https://millionrounds.com/company/masienda)
- [Chamberlain Coffee](https://millionrounds.com/company/chamberlain-coffee)
- [AMASS Botanics](https://millionrounds.com/company/amass-botanics)
- [Maxine's Heavenly](https://millionrounds.com/company/maxine-s-heavenly)
- [Habiza](https://millionrounds.com/company/habiza)
- [Laurel's Coffee](https://millionrounds.com/company/laurel-s-coffee)
- [Sunnie](https://millionrounds.com/company/sunnie)
- [Tolago](https://millionrounds.com/company/tolago)
- [Fishwife](https://millionrounds.com/company/fishwife)
- [Avocadomilk](https://millionrounds.com/company/avocadomilk)

## Alternative and functional foods

12

- [Califia Farms](https://millionrounds.com/company/califia-farms)
- [Daring Foods](https://millionrounds.com/company/daring-foods)
- [Soylent](https://millionrounds.com/company/soylent)
- [Hiyo](https://millionrounds.com/company/hiyo)
- [*A* AquaHydrate](https://millionrounds.com/company/aquahydrate)
- [Alice Mushrooms](https://millionrounds.com/company/alice-mushrooms)
- [Pulp Culture](https://millionrounds.com/company/pulp-culture)
- [Grounded Foods Co.](https://millionrounds.com/company/grounded-foods-co)
- [Paul’s Table](https://millionrounds.com/company/paul-s-table)
- [The Mushroom Meat Co.](https://millionrounds.com/company/the-mushroom-meat-co)
- [Hummii](https://millionrounds.com/company/hummii)
- [Dream Pops](https://millionrounds.com/company/dream-pops)

## Restaurant tech

4

- [Stellar Pizza](https://millionrounds.com/company/stellar-pizza)
- [Sauce](https://millionrounds.com/company/sauce)
- [How do you roll?](https://millionrounds.com/company/how-do-you-roll)
- [Best Food Trucks](https://millionrounds.com/company/best-food-trucks)

## Segment by segment

### Drinks

15 startups · $218M raised

- [**Fruitist**](https://millionrounds.com/company/fruitist) Fruitist is a global superfruit platform and premium consumer brand that specializes in sourcing, cultivating, and distributing hi United States $150M
- [**Belliwelli**](https://millionrounds.com/company/belliwelli) BelliWelli is a health-focused consumer brand that specializes in gut-health products, combining daily fiber and probiotics to enh United States $15M
- [**Sauz**](https://millionrounds.com/company/sauz) SAUZ is a pasta sauce company based in Los Angeles, co-founded by Troy Bonde and Winston Alfieri. United States $12M
- [**Holey Grail Donuts**](https://millionrounds.com/company/holey-grail-donuts) Holey Grail Donuts is a Hawaii-based food and beverage company known for its artisanal, taro-forward donuts. United States $9.4M
- [**Zevia**](https://millionrounds.com/company/zevia) At Zevia, we get up every day to create a world of better-for-you flavor, better for people and better for the planet. United States $6.7M
- [**Masienda**](https://millionrounds.com/company/masienda) Masienda offers vertically-coordinated supply chain solution for non-GMO heirloom corn and companion crops. United States $6.4M
- [**Chamberlain Coffee**](https://millionrounds.com/company/chamberlain-coffee) Chamberlain Coffee is a lifestyle coffee brand founded by Emma Chamberlain, an internet personality and filmmaker. United States $4.6M
- [**AMASS Botanics**](https://millionrounds.com/company/amass-botanics) AMASS Botanics is a manufacturer of botanic gin, spirits, and apothecary. United States $3.4M

### Alternative and functional foods

12 startups · $499M raised

- [**Califia Farms**](https://millionrounds.com/company/califia-farms) Califia Farms is a prominent plant-based beverage company founded in 2010 by Greg Steltenpohl and a farmer’s co-op from California United States $325M
- [**Daring Foods**](https://millionrounds.com/company/daring-foods) Daring Foods provides plant-based chicken products as a food alternative. United States $65M
- [**Soylent**](https://millionrounds.com/company/soylent) Soylent is a pioneer in food tech, producing delicious, functional foods, w/ complete nutrition that are good for the body & the p United States $50M
- [**Hiyo**](https://millionrounds.com/company/hiyo) Hiyo is a Los Angeles-based food and beverage company founded in April 2019. United States $21M
- [*A* **AquaHydrate**](https://millionrounds.com/company/aquahydrate) AQUAhydrate is performance water brand that delivers a healthy balance of alkalinity, electrolytes and trace minerals. United States $20M
- [**Alice Mushrooms**](https://millionrounds.com/company/alice-mushrooms) Alice Mushrooms is a female-founded company that specializes in functional mushroom chocolates. United States $8.0M
- [**Pulp Culture**](https://millionrounds.com/company/pulp-culture) Pulp Culture is a beverage company that creates fermented, functional hard-pressed juices designed to support active and healthy lifestyles. United States $7.0M
- [**Grounded Foods Co.**](https://millionrounds.com/company/grounded-foods-co) Grounded Foods Co. United States $2.5M

### Restaurant tech

4 startups · $23M raised

- [**Stellar Pizza**](https://millionrounds.com/company/stellar-pizza) Stellar Pizza is a robotic-powered mobile pizza-making restaurant. United States $17M
- [**Sauce**](https://millionrounds.com/company/sauce) Sauce is a digital platform that uses AI to improve deliveries for restaurants. United States $5.3M
- [**How do you roll?**](https://millionrounds.com/company/how-do-you-roll) How Do You Roll? United States $1.0M
- [**Best Food Trucks**](https://millionrounds.com/company/best-food-trucks) Best Food Trucks connects food trucks to customers through locations and catering with online ordering. United States $522K

**How this map is made.** Every startup here has raised money in rounds we track, and is based in Los Angeles. It joins the map when its sectors, read from its rounds, or the opening of its own description say it works in food tech, and goes to the first segment whose words it carries. Each segment shows its best-funded first. Rebuilt nightly; updated 15 November 2026.

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