50 Best Cooking Companies to Watch in 2026

The most prominent cooking companies ranked by global prominence, funding activity, and market position. Showing the top 50 out of 579 companies tracked on Fsome.

579
Total Companies
$3.6B
Total Funding
$6.2M
Avg Funding
New York
Top Location
# Company Location Employees Total Funding Last Round Last Funded
1
Food52
Food52 is an online portal that provides a curated shop, content, and community …
New York 251 - 500 $176.2M Private Equity 2021-12-14
2
Fresco
Fresco is the only neutral, cross-brand platform that seamlessly brings applianc…
Dublin 101 - 250 $62.4M Series C 2025-12-10
3
LEON
Leon belives that food should taste good and do you good.
London 501 - 1K $32.6M Series Unknown 2017-05-19
4
HexClad
HexClad is an e-commerce portal that provides cookware set online.
Los Angeles 101 - 250 $100.0M Corporate Round 2024-03-25
5
Great Jones
Great Jones is a modern kitchen company that equips, encourages, and inspires pe…
New York 1 - 10 $5.1M Seed 2021-08-20
6
Tovala
Tovala is a food-tech company that offers a meal service paired with a counterto…
Chicago 101 - 250 $68.6M Series C 2022-08-18
7
Gobble
Gobble is a weekly dinner kit delivery service that helps busy people cook dinne…
San Francisco 11 - 50 $29.9M Convertible Note 2018-09-18
8
SideChef
SideChef is an online platform that provides step-by-step recipes for new and am…
San Francisco 11 - 50 $7.0M Series B 2023-03-01
9
Material
Material manufactures kitchenwares for the modern kitchen.
New York 1 - 10 $6.3M Series A 2023-04-01
10
Last Crumb
Last crumb offers premium cookies baked with fresh ingredients and sold in weekl…
Los Angeles 1 - 10 $3.0M Seed 2022-07-12
11
SunBasket
SunBasket is a healthy cooking service that delivers organic ingredients and cus…
San Francisco 1K - 5K $143.1M Convertible Note 2020-01-10
12
Goodbytz
Goodbytz creates intelligent robotic kitchen assistants that give chefs more tim…
Hamburg 51 - 100 $15.5M Series Unknown 2024-12-01
13
BURN
BURN is a manufacturer of eco-friendly cookstoves to promote clean and safe cook…
Ruiru 1K - 5K $130.5M Debt Financing 2025-06-23
14
Tastemade
Tastemade is a media company that creates content focused on food, travel, and h…
Santa Monica 101 - 250 $115.3M Series E 2018-10-17
15
Salted
Salted is a platform for developing and scaling better-for-you, QSR brands.
Los Angeles 11 - 50 $38.9M Series B 2023-10-17
16
Tso Chinese Takeout & Delivery
Chinese-American restaurant running on a custom built vertically streamlined e-c…
Austin 51 - 100 $10.5M Seed 2023-05-25
17
ATEC
ATEC solves clean cooking and climate change through disruptive technology.
Castlemaine 101 - 250 $19.2M Series Unknown 2025-09-18
18
Traeger Pellet Grills
Traeger Pellet Grills is a manufacturer of wood pellet grills for outdoor cookin…
Salt Lake City 501 - 1K $180.0M Private Equity 2013-07-02
19
Rotimatic
Rotimatic is a consumer-technology company that develops an automated kitchen ro…
Singapore 101 - 250 $48.5M Series C 2018-04-17
20
Suvie
Suvie builds a multi-zone cool to cook kitchen robot that makes 5 star meals wit…
Cambridge 11 - 50 $726K Series A 2020-11-12
21
Tinychef
Tinychef is a voice-recognition culinary platform that allows users to create me…
New York 11 - 50 $2.8M Convertible Note 2022-08-08
22
Williams-Sonoma
Williams-Sonoma is a retailer of home furnishings and gourmet cookware that offe…
San Francisco c 10001 max $3.9M Post Ipo Equity 2023-09-22
23
Misen
Misen manufactures and sells quality tools that are essential for great cooking.
Brooklyn 11 - 50 $7.0M Series Unknown 2020-08-19
24
Cookd
Cookd provides step-by-step cooking lessons and kits for kitchen meals.
Chennai 11 - 50 $2.8M Seed 2025-06-30
25
Chunmi Technology
Chunmi Technology is a kitchen appliance maker.
Shanghai 251 - 500 $67.0M Series D 2021-05-08
26
Typhur Technology
Typhur Technology is the first all-in-one sous vide appliance made for home kitc…
San Jose 1 - 10 $20.0M Seed 2022-10-06
27
CookinGenie
CookinGenie is a digital restaurant enabling culinary experts to shop and cook f…
Hudson 1 - 10 $2.0M Seed 2022-06-29
28
The Cheesecake Factory
The Cheesecake Factory crafts every dish fresh and from scratch daily to ensure …
Calabasas c 10001 max $700.0M Post Ipo Debt 2025-02-25
29
Blackstone Products
Blackstone Products is an e-commerce platform that serves kitchen appliances and…
Logan 101 - 250 $75.0M Debt Financing 2022-04-11
30
Qummy
Robotic cooking. Up to 7 minutes, no cooks or kitchen. For dark stores, gas stat…
Krasnodar 101 - 250 $6.1M Seed 2022-09-02
31
Chefclub
Chefclub is a cooking channel that shows and broadcasts cooking recipes on telev…
Paris 51 - 100 $23.9M Series B 2021-01-25
32
SmartyPans
We are the cookware brand for fitness focused home cooks. Our patented cookware …
San Mateo 1 - 10 $1.3M Seed 2017-05-24
33
Mindful Chef
Mindful Chef delivers all the fresh ingredients you need to create delicious, he…
London 51 - 100 $12.0M Series A 2019-01-07
34
Gronda
Gronda is a platform for chefs to show their talent on a global scale for better…
Wattens 11 - 50 $2.8M Undisclosed 2022-04-01
35
Ember Cookware
Ember Cookware is a cookware brand focused on non-toxic, non-stick products.
Bangalore 11 - 50 $3.2M Seed 2025-09-10
36
Cook it
Cook it is a ready-to-cook meal company.
Montréal 501 - 1K $10.0M Undisclosed 2021-10-27
37
Suggestic
Suggestic accelerates health innovation, launching AI-powered personalization in…
San Francisco 11 - 50 $1.2M Seed 2022-12-01
38
Mama
Mama Foods serves authentic Venezuelan cuisine created by expert chefs.
Aventura 1 - 10 $5.3M Seed 2024-03-20
39
Zest
An intuitive way to get better at cooking
Chicago 1 - 10 $195K Pre Seed 2023-10-01
40
InnerChef
InnerChef is an Indian food tech company that offers online food discovery and d…
Gurgaon 51 - 100 $15.5M Debt Financing 2020-03-03
41
The Food Lab
The Food Lab is a KaaS cloud kitchen operator that offers food and beverage serv…
Cairo 101 - 250 $4.7M Seed 2023-07-01
42
On2Cook
On2Cook is a revolutionary patent granted smart cooking device.
Gandhinagar 11 - 50 $2.8M Seed 2024-06-14
43
Mangkokku
Mangkokku is a culinary startup that offers professional chef-level dishes in th…
Jakarta 501 - 1K $11.2M Series Unknown 2022-09-23
44
Talent Host
En Talent ayudamos a los dueños de negocios de hostelería a transformarlos en em…
Madrid 11 - 50 $1.2M Equity Crowdfunding 2022-08-13
45
L'atelier des Chefs
L`atelier des Chefs is a cooking school that offers hands-on cooking classes wit…
London 11 - 50 $7.0M Series Unknown 2022-07-12
46
CocuSocial, Inc.
CocuSocial is a marketplace for unique culinary experiences like cooking, baking…
New York 11 - 50 $120K Pre Seed 2017-08-23
47
Rafinera Cloud Kitchen
Rafinera Cloud Kitchen operates a dark kitchen that provides meal plan service w…
Istanbul 51 - 100 $3.9M Corporate Round 2024-12-27
48
Huoji
Huoji offers kitchen appliances products to its customers.
Hangzhou $10.9M Series A 2020-08-31
49
ANINA Culinary Art
ANINA Culinary Art is a food tech that provides innovative technology and design…
Ashdod 1 - 10 $3.3M Seed 2021-10-01
50
Carrot
Carote is a well-known brand of home cookware, including cooking pots and water …
Hangzhou 101 - 250 $40.0M Series Unknown 2024-09-23