You asked about Food Tech
1,881 people built something like it. 276 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
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.