This article showcases our top picks for the best British Columbia based 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
Top British Columbia Food and Beverage Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
CubicFarm Systems
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CubicFarm Systems is an ag-tech company that automates the controlled-environment to grow fresh produce and nutritious livestock feed.
Fresh Prep Foods
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Fresh Prep Foods is a weeknight dinner solution providing meal kit delivery service for busy people.
Pontus Protein
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Pontus specializes in highly scalable indoor vertical farming of water lentils that use 95 percent less water than traditional agriculture.
SmartSweets
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SmartSweets is driving innovation through creation of the first candy products that kick sugar Naturally.
Fed
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Fed is a food as medicine startup that designs, prepares, and delivers nutritionally-focused meals to your door.
PlantX
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PlantX is the digital face of everything plant-based utilizing the power of education and accessibility.
Sustainable Produce Urban Delivery
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Sustainable Produce Urban Delivery is an internet grocer of organic and natural foods.
Vegano Foods
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Vegano Foods is a plant-based meal kit delivery service that uses high-quality ingredients sourced from local farmers and producers.
Trendi
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We use AI-driven robotics to help the far and food industry rescue and upcycle food waste into delicious products.
Freshline
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Freshline is an eCommerce & fulfillment SaaS software made for perishable food. We work with food suppliers and enable them to sell online.
CENTR
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CENTR is a beverage lifestyle brand that produces and distributes sparkling CBD beverages.
Performance Kitchen
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Performance Kitchen provides a range of Mediterranean diet-inspired global flavors.
A&W Food Services of Canada
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A&W is a restaurant that serves a delicious combination of great-tasting burgers, onion rings and frosted mugs of famous A&W root beer.
BevCanna Enterprises
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BevCanna Enterprises develops and manufactures cannabinoid-infused beverages and consumer products.
Renaissance BioScience
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Renaissance BioScience, a biotechnology company, develops yeast-based proprietary technology solutions for food and beverage manufacturers.
UpMeals
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UpMeals is a food technology company that empowers organizations to provide healthy, branded food solutions to their customers or employees.
Mercer International
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Mercer International operates as a pulp business and produces NBSK market pulp.
Canuck Eats
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Franchised Locally Owned & Operated Food Delivery Service
Oco Meals
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Oco Meals delivers ready-to-eat meals at the doorstep on a weekly basis.
Avanti Commerce
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Avanti is a global distribution system for both digital marketing channels and restaurant operators in the food & beverage industry.
TMRW Foods
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TMRW Foods is a Canadian producer of plant-based proteins, producing out of their wholly owned HACCP certified facility.
SunSelect Produce
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SunSelect produseces greenhouse-grown bell peppers and other vegetables in North America.
Swiss Water
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Swiss Water Process removes caffeine from coffee for leading coffee roasters throughout the United States.
Taynton Bay Spirits
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Taynton Bay Spirits have created a line of spirits that are distilled in Invermere BC from locally grown wheat.
Central City Brewers + Distillers
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Central City Brewers + Distillers is a brewery and distillery company producing craft beer, cider, spirits and ready-to-drink beverages.
Mealime
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Mealime is a simple, healthy, and delicious free way to cook at home
DishPal
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DishPal brings local restaurant cuisine to busy eaters who love delicious food through local food couriers.
Laid Back Snacks
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Laid Back Snacks is a healthy snack food company based in Vancouver, BC.
Daiya Foods
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Daiya is a rapidly growing plant-based food platform.
FoodBanks BC
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Food Banks BC responsible for distributing funds to individual food banks.
Consolidated Biofuels
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Consolidated Biofuels produces Biodiesel from a variety of feed stocks that exceed the fuel requirements
JustKitchen
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JustKitchen allows delivery-only restaurants and food brands to reach more customers, lower overhead costs, and reduce food wastage.
Naledo
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Naledo is making the best turmeric paste on earth, making a positive impact on health, communities and the environment.
Saje Natural Wellness
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Saje Natural Wellness is a producer of essential oil remedies.
CACTUS CLUB CAFE
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Cactus Club Cafe is a Canadian premium casual restaurant.
The Oppenheimer Group
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The Oppenheimer Group markets and distributes fresh fruits and vegetables to retail, wholesale, and food service customers.
Evanesce Packaging Solutions
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Evanesce Packaging Solutions is manufactures biodegradable food packaging solutions.
Epicure
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Epicure Explore clean food products, delicious recipes, and time-saving cookware.
Ollie Order
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Ollie Order is a distribution management software platform for British Columbian alcohol makers and buyers.
AlgaeCal Inc.
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AlgaeCal is a natural health supplements company that imports and distributes USDA certified organic plant calcium sourced from algae.
Panago Pizza
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Panago is a Canadian pizza delivery and takeout chain with over 180 locations
The Original Cakerie
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The Original Cakerie is a leading manufacturer of high quality frozen desserts for Retail and Foodservice customers across North America.
Susgrainable Health Foods
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Susgrainable produces healthy and sustainable flours using upcycled ingredients from beverage producers.
Kamloop Foods
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Kamloop food bank operates with the mission of “Sharing food. Feeding hope” to create a hunger free community.
WiZe Coffee Leaf
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Wize Coffee Leaf is the global leader in Coffee Leaf Tea production, research, and innovation.
Fine Choice Foods
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Fine Choice Foods is a Canadian-owned, family run business, delivers quality Asian foods for the North American Market.
Rocka Foods International Inc.
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Providing nutritious commercial meal kits to schools and other canteens in Africa, starting in Ghana.
Vitasave.ca
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Shop Canada’s top online vitamin and supplement store from hundreds of top brands of discount vitamins, supplements and health foods.
Overhill Farms
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Overhill Farms is a food & beverages company specializing in meat and fish specialties, pasta, soups
meowbox
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Meowbox is a monthly subscription box that consists of toys and food for cats.
Tait Labs
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Tait Labs is a sustainable ingredient developer for the food & beverage, dietary supplement and pharmaceutical industries.
Noble Jerky
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Effortless Plant Protein Snacking from a Former Meat Company
Naturo Group Investments
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Naturo Group Investments develops and manufactures beverages and consumer products for in–house brands and white label clients.
Mission Roots Cafe
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Mission Roots Cafe is a student-run, not-for-profit sustainable coffee shop characterized by its innovative “choose-your-charity” system.
T & T Supermarket
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T & T Supermarket is a beaut& food product company.
Quality Foods
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Quality Foods, Vancouver Island BC owned and operated since our first store in Qualicum Beach in 1982.
Tubify
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Tubify, is a one-of-a-kind freezie. Made with 100% fruit ingredients, coconut milk, gluten-free, vegan, all-organic, and naturally sourced.
Sun Rich Fresh Foods
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Sun Rich cuts and prepares made-to-order fresh fruit – packaged to ensure freshness, convenience and safety.
White Spot
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White Spot is a food and beverage delivery company located in W Vancouver.
Fit Foods Ltd
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Fit Foods Ltd provides research & development, manufacturing & distribution of nutritional supplements that include sports nutrition.
Fatso
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Fatso is a food production company that manufactures peanut butter and other spreads with plant based super fats.
Direct Tap
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Provide a better logistical service to craft liquor manufacturers in British Columbia.
Peqish Food Company
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Peqish is a food processing company that has nutritious ingredients, and delicious food created by doctors and chefs.
Gordon Food Service – Canada
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Gordon Food Service – Canada provides restaurant supply, food and beverage distribution, food service, retail stores and healthcare supply.
LYF Food Technologies
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LYF Food Technologies produces expertly crafted chocolate, confectionery, and baked cannabis-infused edibles.
Planted Meals
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Planted Meals is affordable and convenient ready to eat vegan meal delivery service to the greater Vancouver area in BC.
Chillidash
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Chillidash provides a white-labeled website with online ordering, dashboard, and marketing tools to restaurants, bars, and cafes
Tealeaves
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TEALEAVES is one of the very few tea blenders in the world, known for crafting the highest quality teas in small batches by hand.
Rumble Supershake
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Rumble Supershake is a hunger-fighting all natural protein shake.
Silver Hills Bakery
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Silver Hills Bakery is a food and beverage and wholesale company located in Abbotsford.
Shambhala Music Festival
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Shambhala Music Festival was born from a vision as grassroots as it gets.
Donnelly Group
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Donnelly Group operates public houses, cocktail inns, taverns and pubs including online food delivery, dining and hospitality services.
Caffè Artigiano
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Caffè Artigiano is a Italian style artisan coffee house & roaster.
NutraEx Food
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NutraEx food provides sweeteners from natural source ingredients for different applications.
Fresh Direct Produce
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Fresh Direct Produce is a distributor of fresh, ethnic, tropical, organic, and speciality produce.
T&T Supermarket
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T&T Supermarket is a Canadian supermarket featuring Asian foods including uniquely Asian foods not available elsewhere.
The Amarna Company
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Amarna, a maker of release products and spray systems used in food applications.
Marine Harvest Canada
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Worldwide, Marine Harvest employs 7,500 people and produces one third of the world’s farmed salmon and trout at facilities in Norway,
Brookside Foods Ltd
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Brookside Foods Ltd., a privately held confectionery company based in Abbotsford, British Columbia.
Spread EM Kitchen
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SPREAD’EM KITCHEN makes nut based dairy-alternatives like cheese, spreads, dips and butter.
Urban Cultivator
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Urban Cultivator is the perfect indoor garden that gives you fresh herbs and microgreens 365 days a year.
Tosuta International Sales
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Tosuta International Sales is an importer and distributor of gummies, sours, hard and soft candies, throat lozenges, and chocolate.
Holy Crap Foods
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Holy Crap Foods is a high-fiber breakfast cereal with the name that’s a promise, located in Sechelt, BC, Canada.
All Nature
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All Nature is a pet food company that delivers pet food and treats.
Horizon Distributors
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Horizon Distributors is a national distributor of organic and natural products in the dry, chill and frozen categories
FoodMesh
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FoodMesh is a B2B marketplace that matches surplus food to a verified network of businesses and charities.
BLCO
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BLCO is a large KFC and Taco Bell franchise operator in Western Canada.
Windset Farms
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Windset Farms vegetable production company that produces peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce, and specialty items.
Scrapless
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Scrapless prevents food waste by connecting hungry individuals with suppliers having excess food through its food marketplace application.
Golden Boy Foods
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Golden Boy Foods is a family owned company selling roasted nuts, raw nuts and dried fruit.
Whole Food Trading
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Whole Food Trading is a wholesale supplier of Asian food, seafood, alcohol beverage and restaurant supplies.
Cellderm Technologies Inc.
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Cellderm Technologies Inc. produces high quality natural products promoting wellness and fighting disease.
English Bay Batter
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English Bay Batter, a Vancouver-based bakery business.
Canterbury Coffee
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Canterbury Coffee business is the roasting, packaging, and sale of specialty grade coffees and related beverage products to the foodservice.
nutriFoodie
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nutriFoodie is an organization focused on nutrition education through food-literacy, multi-cultural cooking skills, intuitive eating.
Bean Around The World Coffees
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Bean Around The World Coffees is a coffee roasting company located in North Vancouver.
Boned Broth
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Boned Broth is committed to produce freshest, and most nutrient-packed broths in the world.
Fuud
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Fuud delivers easy to prepare chef-inspired recipe kits to busy people who want to rediscover the joy of cooking.
The Island Fishermen’s Cooperative Association
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Association coopérative des pêcheurs de l’Île ltée is a food processing company which sells processed seafood products.