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Top 28 Nutrition Startups

With the COVID-19 pandemic facilitating a huge surge in the health and wellness sectors, Medical Startups has published a list of the top 28 startups developing new nutrition technologies, methodologies and foods.

1

Impossible Foods

Country: USA | Funding: $387.5M
Impossible Foods develops a new generation of meats and cheeses made entirely from plants.

2

Noom

Country: Ukraine | Funding: $114.7M
Noom's fully-mobile programs prevent/manage/reverse chronic and pre-chronic conditions such as obesity, diabetes and hypertension.

3

Orig3n

Country: USA | Funding: $50M
Recent scientific breakthroughs are revolutionizing the way we think about DNA and health. Orig3n is on a mission to turn these discoveries into practical solutions and make them available to you.

4

Zipongo

Country: USA | Funding: $46M
Zipongo empowers people to make better decisions about what to eat—at home, at work, and on the go. Their digital nutrition platform includes tools that make it easier to select, purchase, and prepare healthy foods.

5

CareOf

Country: USA | Funding: $46M
CareOf is a healthcare technology company dedicated to simplifying consumer health, starting with a fully personalized vitamin pack.

6

Parsley Health

Country: USA | Funding: $36M
Parsley Health is redesigning primary care by creating boutique medical practice, integrating the latest in medical testing, technology and nutrition research.

7

Nuritas

Country: Ireland | Funding: €23.9M
Nuritas combines artificial intelligence and genomics to discover and unlock natural bioactive peptides with extraordinary health benefits.

8

TerraVia

Country: USA
TerraVia is a next-generation food, nutrition and specialty ingredients company that harnesses the power of algae.

9

Lifesum

Country: Sweden | Funding: $16.7M
Lifesum is a Swedish digital health startup that helps clients become healthier by using applied psychology and technology.

10

Viome

Country: USA | Funding: $15M
Viome has developed technology aimed at balancing microorganisms in the gut. With Viome, you can fine-tune the function of your gut microbiome with a personalized diet to minimize the production of harmful metabolites and maximize the production of beneficial ones, so that you experience increased energy and general well-being, all while reaching and maintaining a healthy state of balance.

11

Nutrino

Country: Israel | Funding: $10M
Nutrino is a leading provider of nutrition-related data services, analytics, and technologies. It uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to gain insights about its users’ response to foods based on various data points.

12

VirtuaGym

Country: Netherlands | Funding: $10.2M
An online fitness platform for consumers & professionals in the health industry.

13

Devicare

Country: Spain | Funding: €7.6M
Devicare has developed Lit-Control - the most advanced, comprehensive and effective medical treatment for kidney stones. Lit-Control is a family of four innovative medical foods that have been formulated to treat and manage the nutritional needs of patients with each of the four major groups of kidney stones (i.e. calcium, uric acid, infectious and cytine stones). And in combination with these medical foods, Lit-Control also incorporates a ground-breaking digital therapy to ease the follow-up of these patients.

14

FatSecret

Country: Australia
FatSecret is on a mission to get people to eat healthier. Over 35 million people have lost weight with FatSecret. Start your weight loss journey today and get access to the world's highest quality food and nutrition database.

15

Bulu Box

Country: USA | Funding: $6.7M
Discover the best new vitamins, supplements, healthy snacks and so much more. The Original Bulu Box helps you discover great new products in sports nutrition, immunity, digestive health, wellness and more!

16

Foodvisor

Country: France | Funding: €5.1M
Foodvisor app automatically tracks what you eat using deep learning.

17

Dricos

Country: Japan | Funding: ¥12M
Dricos has developed Health Server, which prepares supplement drinks to safekeep good health. Health Server is the extremely easy solution for modern people to maintain good health.

18

Baze

Country: Germany | Funding: $6M
Baze has developed the first personalized nutrient supplement service to address this. Pioneering a dynamic data-driven approach based on recurring comfortable blood analysis.

19

LifeFuels

Country: USA | Funding: $5M
LifeFuels is changing the way consumers approach hydration and nutrition by empowering them to create personalized beverages on the go. Their line of smart devices leverage patented fractional dispensing technology to deliver and track great-tasting functional beverages.

20

FitGenie

Country: USA | Funding: $20K
FitGenie is an app that offers self-adjusting macronutrient plans analyzed and delivered by the first and only smart calorie counter.

21

Nurturey

Country: UK | Funding: £1.3M
Nurturey develops intelligent assistant to manage health, stimulate mind and organise diary.

22

SmartPlate

Country: USA | Funding: $785K
Fitly is the creator of SmartPlate, the world's only intelligent nutrition platform that uses advanced photo recognition and AI technology to identify, analyze, and track everything you eat in mere seconds. Say goodbye to manual data entry – say hello to SmartPlate TopView.

23

Zoe

Country: USA
Zoe is leading the world’s largest ongoing nutritional research project in collaboration with scientists from universities including Harvard, King's College London, Massachusetts General Hospital, Oxford and Stanford.

24

SNAQ

Country: Switzerland
SNAQ automates the processing of food images. Send us an image, we will recognize all food items and calculate the portion size for each item. Link this information with a nutrition database in order to get the carbohydrate, calorie and protein content of a meal.

25

Food Genes and Me

Country: USA
Food Genes and Me provides free nutritional guidelines based on your genes.

26

Zen Eating

Country: Israel
Zen Eating develops a device that comfortably trains people to stop overeating.

27

Nutritantrums

Country: India
Nutritantrums is one of the Best nutrition clinics world-wide that have qualified and trained counsellors in this field who can interpret your genetic reports.

28

planmeal

Country: India
Planmeal revolutionise the way you plan your daily meal.

Source, May 23, 2020: Medical Startups

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