You asked about Food Tech
1,441 people built something like it. 0 are gone.
That is 0% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-01 | YCRappi On-demand delivery and financial services for Latin America. · rappi.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | AI-powered technology enabler and digital transformer of American… · grubmarket.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Food delivery service in Africa · beudelivery.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCLezzoo Lezzoo is an on-demand delivery Superapp for Iraq. · lezzoo.com | still up |
| 2011-01-01 | Zerocater is revolutionizing how companies feed their employees · zerocater.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCChari B2B e-commerce and fintech platform for traditional proximity stores · chari.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Robots for longer-lasting, better-tasting fish at scale. · shinkei.systems | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Virtual Restaurants & Stores for Africa · getfoodcourt.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCShef Shef is a Marketplace for Homemade Food · shef.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | Taking from 1 to 100 the premade food industry in LATAM · todoscomemos.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | Cheese and dairy products from plant-derived dairy proteins · nobellfoods.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCHedgehog Building robotic mushroom farms · hedgehogfoods.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCBoostly Premier growth platform for restaurants · boostly.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCPositive B2B supplier of fresh/healthy packaged food · positive.co | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Juicy marbles makes thick juicy and marbled plant based steaks. · juicymarbles.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | Makes guilt-free plastics from food waste · genecis.co | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCOlaClick Restaurant Solution (E-commerce via WhatsApp + POS + CRM/Marketing) · olaclick.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | AI customer reputation & performance management for restaurant chains. · superorder.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCKingdom Clinically-validated ingredients from natural microbes · kingdomsuperculture.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCKaso AI group purchasing for restaurants · kaso.ai | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCCopia Copia's a for-profit technology company that solves food waste &… · gocopia.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCPoloTab Restaurant software that actually works · polotab.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCOffbeast We make plant-based steaks with an authentic texture · offbeast.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCVoosh Making Restaurants more data-driven! · voosh.ai | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | Automated factory to produce insect protein for farm animals. · entocycle.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | Rebellyous Foods is a food manufacturing technology and production… · rebellyous.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCALT TEX Biodegradable and carbon neutral textiles, engineered from food waste. · thealttex.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Patent-pending enzymes to break down common dietary triggers · fodzyme.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | We build robotic workforces for the food & beverage industry. · yummy-future.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Lucy’s mission is to reduce tobacco-related harm to zero. We provide… · lucy.co | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Building the next generation food ingredient champion. · planet-a-foods.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | Starbucks app for restaurants · joinforge.app | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Making 'REAL' Cow and Human Milk! · unrealmilk.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCAttain One-Stop Shop for Convenience Store Inventory · joinattain.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | Last-mile delivery for perishables. · bentocart.com | still up |
| 2025-06-01 | YCburnt Agentic Operating System for Food Supply Chain · getburnt.ai | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | We put farms inside restaurants, so customers get healthier food and… · claytonfarms.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | Asset Light Chipotle for Africa · chowcentral.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | Eclipse Foods is building the future of dairy using micelles, the… · eclipsefoods.com | still up |
| 2009-06-01 | YCStripe Economic infrastructure for the internet. · stripe.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCDeel The all-in-one HR and payroll platform for global teams · deel.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Redcliffe Labs is India's Largest Omni-channel Diagnostics platform · redcliffelabs.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | Online engineering college for India. Learn technical skills & get… · skill-lync.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCChaldal chaldal.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCRazorpay India's only full-stack financial solutions company for businesses. · razorpay.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCRippling One place to run all your HR, IT, and Finance. Globally. · rippling.com | still up |
| 2012-01-01 | YCWave Mobile money app for Africa · wave.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCZepto 10-Minute Grocery Delivery in India · zeptonow.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | India's Fastest Diagnostics Service · orangehealth.in | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | Every shift, Covered. · clipboardworks.com | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | YCAthelas Extensible, Integrated Technology that Simplifies Health Systems · athelas.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCPodium Get more leads. Make more money. · podium.com | still up |
| 2011-06-01 | We’re building the world’s bank payment network. · gocardless.com | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | YCClear Fintech SaaS platform for invoices, taxes, wealth management & credit. · clear.in | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | YCCheckr People infrastructure for the future of work · checkr.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | The 401(k) for small and medium-sized businesses. · humaninterest.com | still up |
| 2012-06-01 | Unlocking the power of biotech with modern software for modern science · benchling.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | YCCalii Full-stack grocery delivery in LatAm · calii.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCHogaru Hogaru is a tech-enabled home services platform in Latin America. · hogaru.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCXendit Provides payment infrastructure for Southeast Asia · xendit.co | still up |
How this compares
Y Combinator reports its own outcomes, including acquisitions. The other two are judged by asking the domain, so they are not measured the same way and are never averaged together.
Older launches have had longer to die, so this slope is expected. A year that broke it would mean something is wrong with the checking.
Matched on whole words in the title and description, so a launch can fall into two categories and plenty fall into none.
The register re-probes every domain it holds. Some that answered last month stop answering. We send that list — what went quiet, and what it was — once a month. Nothing else.
How this was made. Show HN entries are every post from 2021 to 2023 with at least five points that linked to its own domain; code hosts and free hosting are excluded, because a repository outlives the effort behind it. Product Hunt entries needed 100 votes — a far higher bar, so they are the promoted top slice rather than a like-for-like sample. Both are judged by asking the domain whether it still answers: gone means it no longer resolves, refuses the connection, serves a parking page, or says plainly that it shut down. An HTTP error is not counted as gone — a server answering 404 is one somebody still pays for, and an audit of 25 gone-calls found two such sites alive with only a moved homepage. Y Combinator entries use the status YC publishes itself, which is why only those can say acquired. Squatted domains — a lapsed name now serving somebody else's site — are not detected, so these figures run slightly low.