You asked about Food Tech
1,957 people built something like it. 294 are gone.
That is 17% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 222 were acquired.
| 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 |
| 2010-06-01 | YCPresto Digital meets physical for big chain restaurants · presto.com | acquired |
| 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 |
| 2016-01-01 | To make food a renewable resource, for everyone · inevitabletech.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | Virtual Restaurants & Stores for Africa · getfoodcourt.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCSkio Subscriptions for Shopify · skio.com | acquired |
| 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 |
| 2012-06-01 | YCSoylent Soylent is a simple, nutritious, and affordable food that possesses… · soylent.com | acquired |
| 2011-06-01 | YCCaviar Uber for food. · trycaviar.com | acquired |
| 2019-06-01 | YCCuboh We help restaurants manage their online orders. · cuboh.com | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | YCBoostly Premier growth platform for restaurants · boostly.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCHedgehog Building robotic mushroom farms · hedgehogfoods.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 |
| 2022-01-01 | On demand provider of meat to households and food businesses · sendme.ng | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | Makes guilt-free plastics from food waste · genecis.co | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | AI customer reputation & performance management for restaurant chains. · superorder.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCOlaClick Restaurant Solution (E-commerce via WhatsApp + POS + CRM/Marketing) · olaclick.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCKingdom Clinically-validated ingredients from natural microbes · kingdomsuperculture.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCUnfurl A virtual food hall that delivers · unfurlcuisine.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | YCCopia Copia's a for-profit technology company that solves food waste &… · gocopia.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCOvipost Automated insect farming · ovipost.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCKaso AI group purchasing for restaurants · kaso.ai | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCPoloTab Restaurant software that actually works · polotab.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCVoosh Making Restaurants more data-driven! · voosh.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCOffbeast We make plant-based steaks with an authentic texture · offbeast.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | A brand-new blend of sugars – made from plant fiber! · supplant.com | gone |
| 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 |
| 2015-06-01 | YCPlateJoy PlateJoy is building the technology to power disease prevention and… · platejoy.com | acquired |
| 2015-01-01 | YCNomiku Wave our food in front of your Nomiku and have dinner for everyone… · nomiku.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | YCGoodybag An online tool for companies to order food from restaurants and… · goodybag.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | Patent-pending enzymes to break down common dietary triggers · fodzyme.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCMobydish MobyDish, a tech-enabled service, allowing anyone to place a catering… · mobydish.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | Direct Ordering Software for Restaurants · tablevibe.co | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | YCALT TEX Biodegradable and carbon neutral textiles, engineered from food waste. · thealttex.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | AI-Driven Tech & Space Optimization to Scale Restaurants · onestopkitchen.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Helping food brands and retailers reduce food wastage · fountain9.com | acquired |
| 2018-01-01 | Lucy’s mission is to reduce tobacco-related harm to zero. We provide… · lucy.co | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Tasty and scalable cultivated meat at price parity · orbillion.com | acquired |
| 2019-06-01 | We build robotic workforces for the food & beverage industry. · yummy-future.com | 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 | YCAttain One-Stop Shop for Convenience Store Inventory · joinattain.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Making 'REAL' Cow and Human Milk! · unrealmilk.com | still up |
| 2025-06-01 | YCburnt Agentic Operating System for Food Supply Chain · getburnt.ai | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | Last-mile delivery for perishables. · bentocart.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCChoppy! FAST FLAVORFUL PROTEIN · eatchoppy.com | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | We put farms inside restaurants, so customers get healthier food and… · claytonfarms.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCOrigin Keurig for healthy smoothies. · eatorigin.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | Marketplace enabling social commerce for brands and content creators. · globalbelly.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | Personalized liquid supplements based your health data · mynutrigene.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Technologies for scaling up cultured/clean meat production · micromeat.com | gone |
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.