Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best English Food and Beverage companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Food and Beverage industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies 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
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Top English Food and Beverage Startups
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Deliveroo
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Deliveroo is an online food delivery service that allows users to order restaurant meals using the web and mobile.
Collectiv Food
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Collectiv Food is an automated and sustainable food supply chain that provides businesses with transparency and lower costs of ingredients
Just Eat
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Just Eat provides convenient and easy access to a huge variety of delivery restaurants and order food online.
Too Good To Go
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Too Good To Go develops an app for fighting food waste and saving delicious food.
HungryPanda
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HungryPanda is a Chinese food and grocery delivery company with extensive market coverage.
THIS
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THIS is a plant-based product brand that provides alternative meat products for meat lovers.
Taster
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Taster is a food delivery company that operates dozens of restaurants that only exist on food delivery platforms.
Karma Kitchen
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Karma Kitchen is a provider of shared and private kitchen spaces used for businesses to grow and scale.
OLIO
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OLIO is a global food sharing app connecting neighbors, volunteers, and businesses.
Oddbox
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Oddbox is a provider of fruit and veg box delivery service intended to reduce food waste.
Slerp
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Slerp is an e-commerce platform for the hospitality industry.
Mindful Chef
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Mindful Chef delivers all the fresh ingredients you need to create delicious, heathy meals.
Unilever
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Unilever produces and supplies fast-moving consumer goods in food, home, and personal care product categories worldwide.
Arborea
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Arborea is industrialising photosynthesis to expand the world’s food supply
Dishpatch
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Bringing the UK’s best restaurants home. Exclusive menus, delivered across the country.
LEON
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Leon belives that food should taste good and do you good.
Pho
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Pho is a UK-based independent restaurant group that specializes in Vietnamese street food.
Feast It
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Feast It is an online marketplace that allows its customers to book independent caterers for their work or social events.
Pasta Evangelists
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Pasta Evangelists is freshly made by Italian hands every day.
YHANGRY
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YHANGRY is a private chef platform where users can book a professional chef to come cook for them at home.
Good Club
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An online store making sustainable staples accessible to every household
Gousto
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Gousto is an online meal-kit manufacturer and retailer, using AI and automation to provide extensive choice and personalisation.
Better Dairy
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Building the future of food, starting with dairy.
YETiCO
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We build software for card machines that solves real world problems.
Better Nature
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By leveraging proprietary technologies, Better Nature is one of the UK’s fastest growing clean-label meat alternative startups.
The Ethical Butcher
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The Ethical Butcher is a startup specialised in the ethical meat industry
TRIP
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TRIP is a CBD drinks and oils brand with products that brings an amazing flavor for a more productive and less stressed feeling.
City Pantry
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City Pantry is an online marketplace where users can discover interesting food for next event.
Kitche
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Kitche is a free app to reduce food waste and save money.
Vita Mojo
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Vita Mojo’s menu allows anyone to eat for anyones’ individualized needs.
Market Halls
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Market Halls are elevating street food, bringing you restaurant quality food with food hall prices and convenience.
Grind
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Founded in Shoreditch in 2011, Grind & Co. has since opened espresso bars, cocktail bars, restaurants and recording studios across London.
Mimica
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Temperature-sensitive labels and caps that indicate food’s true freshness
Black Sheep Coffee
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Black Sheep Coffee is a coffee shop chain.
mySupermarket
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mySupermarket designs a supermarket shopping and comparison website that helps users to compare prices across different stores.
HigherSteaks
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HigherSteaks is about providing with that juicy, tender, and delicious meat they love but without harming their health, planet, and animals.
Preoday
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B2B pre-ordering platform for integrated e-commerce solutions for businesses serving food and beverages
SENS Foods
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SENS Foods aims to make sustainable insect protein super-tasty and the most affordable high-quality protein.
Pip&Nut
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Pip & Nut Makers of delicious all-natural nut butter.
Finisterre
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Finisterre is a cold water surf company that designs products for cold water surfers around the world.
Mighty Pea
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Mighty Pea provides a smooth and creamy, dairy-free alternative to cow’s milk.
Piccolo
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Piccolo is an organic baby food range and guaranteed to tickle tiny tastebuds.
Dash Water
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Dash Water is a provider of mainstream fizzy soft drinks.
London Food Production
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London Food Production is a food delivery business offering healthy, high-quality lunches.
Honest Burgers
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A burger restaurant inspired by great British produce
BEPPS Snacks
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BEPPS Snacks are chickpea snacks with black-eyed pea inclusions that pack a flavourful punch.
Small Giants
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Small Giants is a pioneer in the development of insect-based food products.
Propercorn
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“Done Properly” extends far beyond our popcorn
HonestBrew
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HonestBrew is an online craft beer retailer, sourcing and stocking the best craft beers from independent breweries.
Pesky Fish
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Rebuilding the global seafood supply chain through tech and the transparency it enables. Currently based in UK.
Little Dish
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Make perfectly nutritionally balanced food for toddlers
MPowder
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MPowder is a producer of high protein vegan powders for women.
Deliciously Ella
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Deliciously Ella is a food company based in London.
NOVELTEA
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NOVELTEA is a premium alcoholic tea blend inspired by globetrotting travels.
ADONIS
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ADONIS is an innovation focused, plant based low sugar and keto snacking brand from London with mainly UK and EU wide distribution.
TRIBE
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Tribe Pack // Monday delivery of five nutrient-rich snacks and inspiration for runners. Run Tribe // Running community.
Everyman Media Group
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Everyman is an independent cinema group in terms of cinema venues, screens and admissions.
Pod Food Limited
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Pod Food Limited is one of the UK’s innovators of healthy fast-food.
CupClub
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CupClub is a returnable packaging service provider for drinks
East London Liquor Company
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East London Liquor Company is a distillery producing and importing a range of quality spirits including gin, vodka, rum and whisky.
Little Tummy
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Little Tummy is a meal plan delivery programme that provides parents with fresh, nutrient-dense and balanced baby food made from organic.
Ben & Jerry’s
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Ben & Jerry’s is a dairy company that produces ice cream, frozen yogurt, and sorbet novelty products.
AllPlants
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AllPlants is a VC-backed B-Corp on a mission to become Earth’s most forward-thinking food company.
Flight Club
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Flight Club is the home of Social Darts, Spectacular bar, Electric atmosphere, Mind-blowing experience.
The Wine List
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For the people who put off learning until tomorrow – knowledge & confidence for the wine explorers everywhere
The Vurger Co.
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The Vurger Co. is one of the UK’s fastest-growing vegan food brands.
Gresham House Ventures
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Gresham House Ventures is a growth equity investor and has made over 100 investments into growth businesses over 12+ years
MunchFit
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MunchFit is a food production company that provides customised meal plans for home delivery on subscription.
Nix & Kix
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Nix & Kix make better-for-you soft drinks for the growing craft adult soft drinks market.
Nez
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Nez is a local marketing channel for the eating and drinking out of home sector
Incipio Group
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Incipio Group is a restaurant and bar chain intended to offer exciting social venues concentrated around food and drink.
Doisy & Dam
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Doisy & Dam makes and package everything by hand in the UK, using globally sourced ingredients and the highest quality organic chocolate.
SUPERSONIC Food Company
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SUPERSONIC is a food-tech company and brand of products that replace traditional meals and beverages (meal replacement product)
GROUNDED
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GROUNDED makes functional plant-based drinks without the cr*p.
The Cookaway
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The Cookaway offers an exciting range of world cuisine menus put together by our expert chefs and available to buy as a recipe box.
Camden Town Brewery
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Camden Town Brewery is one of London’s biggest breweries.
Feastr
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Feastr is a family of cloud kitchens, delivering restaurant quality food straight to your door.
Skinny Tonic
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Skinny Tonic uses the most natural ingredients instead of anything artificial or ‘nasty’. Sweetened by plants instead of chemicals.
Gunna Drinks
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GUNNA is an award-winning range of craft soft drinks, with less sugar, but more flavour.
The Five Points Brewing Company
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The Five Points is one of London’s best known craft breweries
Rubies in the Rubble
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Rubies in the Rubble is a sustainable food brand, making high quality relishes and jams out of surplus supplies.
Serious Pig
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Award-wining, all British snacking salami- all in the best possible taste.
Eat Grub
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Eat Grub source and sell edible insects, host exciting insect food events, and develop delicious new insect recipes.
Harts Group
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Parent company of critically acclaimed Barrafina and Quo Vadis restaurants.
Something & Nothing
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Something & Nothing specializes in seltzer made from natural ingredients and low in calories.
AeroPowder
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AeroPowder is committed to ensuring that our future is built upon more sustainable foundations.
Wrap It Up
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Established in 2006 and operating in the growing healthy fast food market.
Sourced Market
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Sourced Market Bond incredibly proud of the suppliers that They work and believe Their role is seeking out & bringing to market the best.
Rejuvenation Water
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Enriched in amino acids, Rejuvenation Water is specifically designed to deal with the rigours of modern life.
Hackney Gelato
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Hackney Gelato provides gourmet ice cream for Michelin starred restaurants.
Daily Dose
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Daily Dose produces 100% fresh unprocessed cold pressed juices.
TheFoodMarket
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TheFoodMarket.com has a rigorous selection process; products must taste incredible, contain no unnecessary additives
Hunter & Gather Foods
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H&G created the first Avocado Oil Mayonnaise in the UK and Europe that is free from sugar, gluten, preservatives and harmful oils.
Remeo Gelato
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Remeo Gelato is the leading brand of Gelato & Sorbetto in the UK.
