This article showcases our top picks for the best Canada 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 Canada Food and Beverage Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Ritual
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Ritual is an ordering app that taps networks of co-workers & colleagues for fast & easy pick up & pay at local eateries and coffee shops.
Fed
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Fed is a food as medicine startup that designs, prepares, and delivers nutritionally-focused meals to your door.
Flow Capital
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Flow Capital provides founder-friendly growth capital for high-growth companies.
Goodfood
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Goodfood is a home meal solutions company that delivers fresh ingredients and recipes with free delivery.
Flow Water
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Flow Water is a social water brand, dedicated to the pursuit of positive experience and providing the highest quality water in the world.
Open Farm
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Open Farm is a pet food company that focuses on producing premium, healthy food, and treats for pets.
SunOpta
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SunOpta specializes in the design, construction, ownership, and operation of biomass conversion equipment and facilities.
SmartSweets
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SmartSweets is driving innovation through creation of the first candy products that kick sugar Naturally.
P&P Optica
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P&P Optica combines in-line smart imaging technology with data analytics in a novel way to help ensure the food they eat is safer.
Noblegen
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Noblegen produces nutritional and functional plant-based food and ingredients using revolutionary “cell-to-solution” technology.
Chef’s Plate
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Chef’s Plate is an online platform that enables users to get fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and chef-inspired recipes to their homes.
Sustainable Produce Urban Delivery
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Sustainable Produce Urban Delivery is an internet grocer of organic and natural foods.
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.
Province Brands of Canada
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Province Brands of Canada is a beverage technology & branded products company.
Evive
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Evive specializes in producing frozen smoothie cubes with nutritious ingredients and plant-based proteins.
Fresh Prep Foods
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Fresh Prep Foods is a weeknight dinner solution providing meal kit delivery service for busy people.
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.
Sollio Cooperative Group
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La Coop fédérée is an agri-food federation of cooperatives that represent agricultural producers and consumers.
KitchenMate
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Reshaping your food experience with the only automated restaurant for your workplace. Stay safe, stay on-site with real food, cooked anytime
PlantX
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PlantX is the digital face of everything plant-based utilizing the power of education and accessibility.
Give and Go
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A manufacturer of baked goods based in Toronto
General Assembly Pizza
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General Assembly Pizza operates as a simple, fast, and casual pizza restaurant.
Chinova Bioworks
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Chinova Bioworks uses a natural and effective antimicrobial chitosan polymer with broad spectrum protection.
Fody Food
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Fody Food creates a delicious, gut-friendly, low FODMAP foods.
Provision Analytics
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Provision Analytics creates practical and precise software for food processors and manufacturers.
TruLeaf
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TruLeaf Smart Plant Systems® are an innovative technology that leverages multi-level farming for biomedical and food markets.
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.
SOL Cuisine
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SOL Cuisine is a Toronto vegetarian restaurants Service Provider Company.
Partake Brewing
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Partake Brewing is the craft non-alcoholic beer brand.
GreenSpace Brands
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GreenSpace Brands is a brand ideation team that develops, markets and sells premium natural food products to consumers.
DAVIDsTEA
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DAVIDsTEA is a web platform offering a variety of tea blends and accessories.
Else Labs Inc
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Else is a startup focused on developing technologies that give people freedom to choose how they spend their time.
CENTR
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CENTR is a beverage lifestyle brand that produces and distributes sparkling CBD beverages.
YPC Technologies
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YPC Technologies is a startup in food robotics with the vision to make good food more accessible.
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.
Savormetrics
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Savormetrics makes sensors and air cleaning systems to reduce food spoilage.
Trendi
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Trendi uses robotics to rescue and upcycle excess and misfit food that was headed for landfills or compost.
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.
Chickapea
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Chickapea is a pasta product made entirely from organic chickpeas and lentils.
Performance Kitchen
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Performance Kitchen provides a range of Mediterranean diet-inspired global flavors.
Fruit d’Or inc
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Fruit d’Or inc. is Canada’s leading producer and processor of organic cranberries and blueberries
Dose Juice
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Dose Juices creates and markets cold pressed juices, organic smoothies and nut milks
QuantWave Technologies
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QuantWave was established to pursue the growing demands of intelligent sensing platform for industrial IoT applications.
Mercer International
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Mercer International operates as a pulp business and produces NBSK market pulp.
BevCanna Enterprises
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BevCanna Enterprises develops and manufactures cannabinoid-infused beverages and consumer products.
Sweet Reason Beverage
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Sweet Reason Beverage is a CBD-infused beverage company
Parachute Coffee
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Parachute Coffee offers subscription service coffee shipped directly to its customers’ doorsteps.
Eureka93
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Eureka93 is one of the largest hemp cultivation and CBD extraction operations in North America.
Herve Edibles
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Herve Edibles produces exquisite desserts, macarons, candies and chocolates that combine contemporary design with spectacular flavors.
Feedback
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Mobile App, Marketplace, Food & Beverage, Dynamic Pricing
Bonne O
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Bonne O operates as an innovative beverage system developer.
Mother Raw
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Mother Raw is a line of plant-powered dressings, marinades, dips, condiments and quesos.
ClickDishes
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ClickDishes partners with local restaurants to enable their consumers to order and pay directly through their phones.
Alasko
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Alasko Foods specializes in the supply of branded and private label frozen fruits & vegetables.
SimplyProtein
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SimplyProtein is a natural foods company that offers a line of plant-based snacks.
Renaissance BioScience
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Renaissance BioScience, a biotechnology company, develops yeast-based proprietary technology solutions for food and beverage manufacturers.
Mud Foods Limited
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Mud Pies are created using only the very finest, fresh and natural ingredients grown or reared in the sunny South Downs.
FreshSpoke
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FreshSpoke platform gives wholesale food buyers the ability to buy direct from local suppliers and delivering using the excess capacity.
Drinkable
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Drinkable is utilizing breakthroughs in electrochemistry to provide effortless, affordable, and accurate drinking water testing.
Avena Foods
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Avena Foods is a producer of pure, uncontaminated, organic certified, gluten-free oats through its Purity Protocol farm.
Cove Kombucha
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Cove Kombucha is a food and beverage company that specializes in kombucha, a fermented tea beverage.
Natrix Separations
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Natrix Separations delivers multi-cycle disposable chromatography products to the life science, food, beverage and water markets.
Dr. Oetker Canada
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Dr. Oetker Canada is the Canadian division of the Oetker Group, an international food and foodservices corporation.
Steam Whistle
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All natural, craft brewed, Canada’s Premium Pilsner. Do one thing really, really well.
Well Juicery Canada
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Well Juicery specializes in the fields of manufacturing, distribution, sales, marketing, food science, infusion, and farm to market.
Bench Brewing Co.
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Bench Brewing Co. is an award-winning craft brewery company.
PivoHub
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PivoHub is a B2B craft beer ordering platform that allows brewers to easily sell their products to retailers.
Oco Meals
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Oco Meals delivers ready-to-eat meals at the doorstep on a weekly basis.
Oatbox
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Oatbox offers delivery service of healthy, tasty breakfast cereals, including handcrafted granola, oatmeal, breakfast bars, and more.
Culcherd
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Culcherd is a dairy alternative company making delicious, kind, plant-based foods that are rich in probiotics.
Quality Green
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Quality Green is an ACMPR-Licensed Producer based in Canfield, Ontario.
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.
Ribitt
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Ribitt is a mobile rewards application that discovers local shops in every neighborhood.
Canadian Food Innovators Network (CFIN)
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Canadian Food Innovators Network (CFIN) is an initiative aimed to boost product development
CCL Industries
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CCL is the largest label company in the world and provides innovative solutions.
Coconuts Naturally
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Coconuts Naturally is a Cornwall-based Company.
Silversmith Brewing Company
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An independently owned craft brewery in Niagara .
Good Food For Good
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Good Food For Good is an organic food B corp certified company.
Primo Water Corporation
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Primo Water Corporation (PRMW) is a producers of beverages on behalf of retailers, brand owners and distributors.
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.
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.
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.
Pacini
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Pacini uses the new spelling recommended by the Superior Council of the French language and approved by the French Academy.
Flourish Pancakes
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Flourish Pancakes is a whole foods company that focuses on creating delicious Protein Pancakes with Non-GMO, All-Natural, Ingredients.
DishPal
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DishPal brings local restaurant cuisine to busy eaters who love delicious food through local food couriers.
E.O.I Technologies
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E.O.I Technologies develops a remote laser-based vibration sensor intended for rapid and large-scale data collection.
Alimentation Couche-Tard, Inc.
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Alimentation Couche-Tard, Inc. operates and licenses convenience stores.
Dairy Queen
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Dairy Queen develops, licenses, and services a system of fast food stores in Canada.
La compagnie 2 Amériks inc
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La compagnie 2 Amériks inc specializes in production, import and distribution of quinoa-based products.
Tuf Candy Inc.
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Tuf Candy operates as a food marketing and innovation company that aims to create functional and environmentally-friendly food products.
Nise
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Nise offers an app-controlled sous vide circulator that makes cooking easy.
Saputo Inc.
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Saputo produces, markets, and distributes various dairy products.