FoodJets
Description
Local restaurants delivered in as little as 15 minutes with $2.99 delivery.
Long Description

FoodJets offers on-demand food delivery…

If you’re hungry, FoodJets delivers! Actually, we deliver anyway, seven days a week!

We deliver the best local restaurants to your curb in as little as 15 minutes. And with our order tracking system, you’ll know exactly where your food is at all times. You will get a curb call and text when our driver is 2 minutes away to meet them at your curb. Meeting us at the curb saves us time, which saves you money.

Founder(s)
Darren McAdams
Founded
2015
City
Sacramento, CA
Foodom
Name
Description
Foodom is an online marketplace connecting local vetted cooks with people that want everyday meals prepared in their own kitchen, creating healthy and tasty meals tailored to customers'​ dietary needs.
Long Description

Foodom is an online marketplace connecting local vetted cooks with people that want everyday meals prepared in their own kitchen, creating healthy and tasty meals tailored to customers' dietary needs. Our mission is to make everyday home cooking services available and affordable for everyone and make the world a better place one meal at a time!
And with that, create millions of new jobs for people that are passionate about cooking; promote sustainable cooking and reduce food waste; promote healthy nutrition options, improve people's well being, reduce stress and help people focus on what they really like to do and are great at; We aim to connect the community, cooking and sourcing ingredients, locally because it takes a village, and we want to reduce the carbon footprint.

Founder(s)
Reneta Jenik
Stage
pre-seed
Contact Person
Reneta Jenik
Phone Number
408-391-9537
Needs
Grants and coders
Founded
2019
Female Founder/Co-founder
Yes
City
Sacramento, CA
Freedge
Name
Long Description

freedge promotes the installation of community fridges [public refrigerators] that are used to share food and ideas at the neighborhood level. It's a sharing mechanism aiming to reduce food waste and build a stronger community.

Founder(s)
Ernst Bertone Oehninger
Founded
2014
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
Davis, CA
Giving Garden
Description
Growing communities around food and food around communities w/ #Technology, awesome people and lots of love.
Long Description

GivingGarden is a northern California startup with a big, global mission to grow communities around food and food around communities. GivingGarden will be launching their first community gardening and local food enthusiast app in the Spring of 2017. The app will use realtime and crowdsourced data to help gardeners grow the right foods based on their location and community, will enable gardeners and local food lovers to give and get extra home-grown produce, and it will grow communities around food, through profiles and easy knowledge sharing tools. You can learn more about the app, the company and the founding team at GivingGarden.io.

Founder(s)
Deema Tamimi, Josh Livni, John Knoll, Scott Kirkland
Stage
MVP Launched
Contact Person
Deema Tamimi
Programs
Apps for Ag Hackathon 2016
Founded
2016
Female Founder/Co-founder
Yes
City
Davis, CA
Gray Mountain Sports Drinks
Description
We are a Nephrologist-founded sports drinks company to rehydrate your body, replete your electrolytes, and regenerate your energy!
Long Description

Gray Mountain Sports Drinks is a privately owned specialty beverage company that was founded by aNephrologist to achieve one goal: Improve hydration of athletes with the "right" electrolyte solutions.

Founder(s)
Sourabh Kharait
Founded
2017
Female Founder/Co-founder
Yes
City
Sacramento, CA
MealPro
Name
Description
A vertically integrated online meal prep and delivery service.
Long Description

MealPro is a food delivery service that specializes in pre-made meals for fitness. We own a state-of-the-art commercial kitchen serving the continental US.

Founder(s)
Andy Sartori
Contact Person
Andy Sartori
Phone Number
4082205926
Founded
2018
City
Citrus Heights
In the News

https://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2022/03/15/mealpro-citrus-heights-ethan-conrad.html, https://citrusheightssentinel.com/2022/03/20/mealpro-expanding-citrus-heights-headquarters-buys-building-for-3-2m/, https://news.ucsc.edu/2022/01/sartori-andy-mealpro.html

Long Description

PathLog is focused on data mining analytical tools and sensors for processing, financial analysis and tracking, risk assessment, and pathogen safety for vertically integrated food and agricultural producers including poultry and pork.

Founded
2015
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
Pheronym
Long Description

Pheronym is a biotechnology company that uses pheromones to control nematodes. Our initial product makes insect nematodes better bio-control.

Female Founder/Co-founder
Yes
RF Biocidics
Long Description

RF Biocidics, a food-safety technology company, produces equipment that safely eliminates harmful contaminants from foods using specialized radio frequency technology. The company provides an effective, chemical-free, and environmentally-friendly alternative to conventional steam heat or chemical pasteurization methods used by farmers, food processors, and packagers in the Central Valley and around the world.

Founded
2008
City
Sacramento, CA
Sostena Inc
Description
Sostena provides hybrid fruit and vegetable seed to world class growers around the globe.
Long Description

Sostena recognizes that creating more value in the agricultural supply chain is vitally important due to limitations in arable acres and other natural resources. As the global population continues its growth trajectory, supporting healthy business practices and finding ways to do more with less are absolute imperatives within the agricultural community.

 

Founder(s)
Tim Colin
Stage
Series A
Founded
2016