Recipe Startup Ideas

9 months ago

A recipe finder, with a focus on healthy food.

1,246

3 years ago

If you’re a food blogger, you need to know how to cook. The startup helps you do just that with a workflow that allows you to take photos of food you’re cooking and then create a recipe card that you can share with your readers.

181

3 years ago

A digital store of recipes and ideas for cooking

172

2 years ago

Building machine learning into the platform that allows users to create and edit their own recipes and share them with others.

172

3 years ago

A "social media for food" that brings restaurants and chefs together to create new menus and recipes.

163

3 years ago

A company that makes customized, local, dog treat recipes. The startup is making a recipe book for pet owners.

162

3 years ago

A startup for baristas to easily create and share coffee recipes

160

2 years ago

A startup that helps restaurants and bars with their POS systems, and provides them with recipes, ordering, and payment integration.

151

3 years ago

A digital platform that provides what its founders call a “dynamic ‘recipe’—a step-by-step process that guides users through every step of the creative process from start to finish.”

142

3 years ago

A startup that sells a variety of cookbooks with recipes that are easy to make and also donates a portion of their proceeds to charity

140

3 years ago

A way to create a custom electronic “recipe” for how to do things, so you could, for instance, create an app to play a specific video file, or need to know how to cook a certain dish.

136

1 year ago

A digital fermentation starter kit, which allows users to test the effectiveness of their recipes before they make the leap to a commercial scale. The startup makes it so that anyone with a smart phone can take a picture of a recipe and instantly begin the fermentation process, allowing them to get the same results from their recipes without having to buy expensive equipment or deal with the hassle of an expensive commercial scale.

127

1 year ago

This startup is building an automated recipe-writing app that allows cooks to create recipes in a simple, drag-and-drop interface, and has hundreds of thousands of users. The startup wants to build the recipe writing platform for professional chefs, and is currently working on a way to scale it.

120

3 years ago

A web app for making artisanal soap, in which users can set up recipes and create their own soap. The startup’s founder says it’s like an online Tupperware party for soap-makers.

113

1 year ago

A startup that lets people input their own recipes and have them combined with other people’s recipes by AI and other human chefs to create new recipes.

112

9 months ago

A platform for restaurants to publish and manage recipes, photos, etc.

112

2 years ago

A platform that allows users to create their own personalized recipes within the app. The startup is trying to make it easier for people to make their own meal plans and recipes.

94

3 months ago

Portion is a tool for creating and sharing recipes to help people cook more healthfully. It integrates with other apps like Instagram and Buffer to get a recipe posted to social media automatically. Portion is on the App Store.

88

2 years ago

A subscription-based service that provides fake fake recipes to help people cook healthier meals. The startup says it can help people make 300-400 meals with these fake recipes, compared to the 10-15 meals they’d make in the normal course of their day.

87

1 year ago

A startup for people who care about their health and fitness, but don’t have time to make the investments. The app provides meal plans, exercises, and recipes.

85

2 years ago

A tool for managing a household’s information, from bills to schedules to grocery lists to recipes. The startup is building out a family social network.

84

10 months ago

A personalized recipe app for Chinese cooking

84

10 months ago

A place for home cooks to share their recipes and get feedback. The company has built a community of chefs and foodies who are making the recipes and giving feedback. Today, the company has over 10,000 recipes on hand, and its users are writing in at a rate of 10 recipes per day.

80

2 years ago

This is a site that shares recipes for healthy, delicious, and inexpensive meals.

79

10 months ago

IFTTT, the company that makes your favorite web services work better together, has a new app that helps you find and share recipes, with the goal of making meal planning easier.

79

2 years ago

This is a tool to help restaurant cooks manage their recipes better, through a unified recipe book that combines all of their existing recipes across different platforms.

78

2 years ago

A mobile app that allows home cooks to more easily search and share recipes, and more.

78

1 year ago

A startup that wants to make it easier for people to create their own dog food. Its software helps you create a recipe for your dog, and then run an online analysis to see if the food is safe for your pet.

76

1 year ago

A company that makes a device for testing an individual’s taste preferences and then uses the data to create recipes for their food

74

4 months ago

A web app that lets users create their own recipes using ingredients from a curated list of ingredients, and then share them on social media or email.

70

11 months ago

A startup that helps restaurants make sense of their supply chain using recipes, data, and analytics.

66

1 year ago

A startup for chefs to track the exact amount of water and other ingredients in a recipe.

65

9 months ago

A personalized shopping service for people who want to get customized recipes for their local grocery store.

64

1 year ago

A cloud-based e-commerce platform for restaurants, which also includes a loyalty program, recipe sharing and ordering, and a restaurant finder.

62

1 year ago

A startup for home cooks that allows them to network with each other and get inspiration for new recipes.

60

1 year ago

The food delivery startup’s goal is to help the average American cook at home. The startup helps families cook dinner by delivering food in bulk and with recipes.

57

7 months ago

A recipe-sharing app that helps users find new recipes while also sharing their own. The idea is that users can share their favorite dishes with friends or the wider community and receive positive feedback and suggestions.

56

7 months ago

A tool for creating custom cocktail recipes that use ingredients from local markets

56

1 year ago

A way to turn your Pinterest boards into tangible products, allowing you to make physical terrariums with your floral pins, or turn your recipe pins into cooking supplies or even a box of cupcakes.

55

1 year ago

"A social network for your diet", offering nutrition advice, recipes and lists.

55

1 year ago

Chefs create recipes, and users of the platform can order food from them. The system also tracks and analyzes the food in real time.

55

3 months ago

A company that lets people pay for their favorite recipes, which they can then print out for their household. The company has a free tier, but each additional recipe costs $.99.

55

1 year ago

A startup that lets users search for nearby food and specialty ingredients, and then pay for them in an app. It’s access to these ingredients can be used in recipes or to make products. The startup, which is rapidly growing, is still in the pre-launch stage.

54

4 months ago

This startup wants to help small businesses create natural products. The app will help users choose from a list of natural ingredients and ingredients from around the world and then the app will automatically create a custom recipe using the chosen ingredients.

54

9 months ago

A subscription-based service that lets you create and distribute your own recipes for home use. It also lets you connect with other people who have created recipes.

53

1 year ago

This startup is building a “digital kitchen” that enables chefs to make and review recipes on the fly.

52

7 months ago

A direct-to-consumer subscription service that delivers food that’s been packaged using plant-based ingredients, as well as a meal plan and recipes to follow. The startup sells to individuals and offices and offers a one day delivery window.

52

1 year ago

A company that builds “smart” tools for home cooks and foodies. They’re looking to develop a web-based platform for those who want to cook, with a calendar, shopping list and recipe editor.

51

1 year ago

A browser-based tool that helps you create, organize, and share your favorite recipes.

51

1 year ago

A mobile app for making and sharing recipes for food, featuring over 30,000 recipes

50

9 months ago

A platform for home cooks to sell their recipes online. They target high-end consumers looking to buy a one-of-a-kind product.

49

1 year ago

A startup that aims to make it easy to share a meal without needing to learn how to cook or give a recipe. It’s a bit like Grubhub, but for the home.

48

1 year ago

A startup that helps people learn how to cook, with a focus on recipes that use ingredients they’ve never used before.

48

11 months ago

As an extension of its first-generation product, Foodpad is building a way for people to share their favorite recipes and meals with others in an easy-to-use format. Foodpad has been in beta since May.

47

1 year ago

A startup that helps people who have difficulty losing weight by giving them a recipe and a shopping list to make all of their meals ahead of time. People can choose which recipes to follow, and all the ingredients and their costs are included.

46

1 year ago

A platform for sharing food recipes. The startup wants to disrupt the food-recipe industry by allowing anyone to create a recipe and share it with others.

45

1 year ago

One of the most-followed accounts on Instagram is a personal food blog from a female scout leader, who shares recipes and photos of food. Cookbook.me wants to build a crowdsourced site that crowdsources content from bloggers and chefs.

44

1 year ago

A food delivery app for home cooks and chefs, with a new feature that allows people to create and share recipes.

43

11 months ago

A startup that lets you search for recipes online, then send them to friends via email or SMS

40

6 months ago

A “smart” mortar and pestle that treats the ingredients of each recipe before grinding them for you.

40

1 year ago

A free, batch addition of a small number of ingredients. The startup is building a tool to help users figure out the right recipe for an individual ingredient.

34

1 year ago

A startup for visually tracking cooking, with a chat tool for a community of food lovers. The app aims to help users cook more efficiently, with features like measuring and recipe creation.

33

4 months ago

A business that pairs retail stores with home cooks. You can find recipes for your favorite store items and have them delivered to your home.

30

2 months ago

This app helps people connect with local culinary artists. The app connects users with local artists who can create custom meals from scratch, complete with recipes.

24

4 months ago

A startup that generates recipes from other recipes on the internet, pairing different ingredients with different foodstuffs and even food types.

23

6 months ago

A social platform for millennials where they can share their favorite stories, recipes, and more.

20

3 months ago

A mobile application for on-the-go baking. The startup aims to give home bakers a place to share recipes, sell their products, and take orders.

19

1 month ago

The founder of Crest, a food delivery platform (and former YC company), is helping a new startup get off the ground with recipe software.

17

1 month ago

A startup that wants to improve your cooking with a recipe-sharing app.

16

1 month ago

A digital assistant for home cooks. The startup wants to create a way for people to find recipes and grocery lists online, and use voice commands to bring them to life.

13

10 days ago

A recipe app for the home cook, with a focus on the Asian market. The startup sells itself as a “hobby” — a term that the founders say is an important part of the company’s appeal.

8

3 years ago

A startup that sells a box of healthy snacks and monthly recipe boxes

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3 years ago

A startup that sells a book where you can find a recipe for every possible food you can imagine

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Recipe Startup Ideas

A recipe finder, with a focus on healthy food.

If you’re a food blogger, you need to know how to cook. The startup helps you do just that with a workflow that allows you to take photos of food you’re cooking and then create a recipe card that you can share with your readers.

A digital store of recipes and ideas for cooking

Building machine learning into the platform that allows users to create and edit their own recipes and share them with others.

A "social media for food" that brings restaurants and chefs together to create new menus and recipes.

A company that makes customized, local, dog treat recipes. The startup is making a recipe book for pet owners.

A startup for baristas to easily create and share coffee recipes

A startup that helps restaurants and bars with their POS systems, and provides them with recipes, ordering, and payment integration.

A digital platform that provides what its founders call a “dynamic ‘recipe’—a step-by-step process that guides users through every step of the creative process from start to finish.”

A startup that sells a variety of cookbooks with recipes that are easy to make and also donates a portion of their proceeds to charity

A way to create a custom electronic “recipe” for how to do things, so you could, for instance, create an app to play a specific video file, or need to know how to cook a certain dish.

This startup is building an automated recipe-writing app that allows cooks to create recipes in a simple, drag-and-drop interface, and has hundreds of thousands of users. The startup wants to build the recipe writing platform for professional chefs, and is currently working on a way to scale it.

A web app for making artisanal soap, in which users can set up recipes and create their own soap. The startup’s founder says it’s like an online Tupperware party for soap-makers.

A startup that lets people input their own recipes and have them combined with other people’s recipes by AI and other human chefs to create new recipes.

A platform for restaurants to publish and manage recipes, photos, etc.

A platform that allows users to create their own personalized recipes within the app. The startup is trying to make it easier for people to make their own meal plans and recipes.

Portion is a tool for creating and sharing recipes to help people cook more healthfully. It integrates with other apps like Instagram and Buffer to get a recipe posted to social media automatically. Portion is on the App Store.

A subscription-based service that provides fake fake recipes to help people cook healthier meals. The startup says it can help people make 300-400 meals with these fake recipes, compared to the 10-15 meals they’d make in the normal course of their day.

A startup for people who care about their health and fitness, but don’t have time to make the investments. The app provides meal plans, exercises, and recipes.

A tool for managing a household’s information, from bills to schedules to grocery lists to recipes. The startup is building out a family social network.

A personalized recipe app for Chinese cooking

A place for home cooks to share their recipes and get feedback. The company has built a community of chefs and foodies who are making the recipes and giving feedback. Today, the company has over 10,000 recipes on hand, and its users are writing in at a rate of 10 recipes per day.

This is a site that shares recipes for healthy, delicious, and inexpensive meals.

IFTTT, the company that makes your favorite web services work better together, has a new app that helps you find and share recipes, with the goal of making meal planning easier.

This is a tool to help restaurant cooks manage their recipes better, through a unified recipe book that combines all of their existing recipes across different platforms.

A mobile app that allows home cooks to more easily search and share recipes, and more.

A startup that wants to make it easier for people to create their own dog food. Its software helps you create a recipe for your dog, and then run an online analysis to see if the food is safe for your pet.

A company that makes a device for testing an individual’s taste preferences and then uses the data to create recipes for their food

A web app that lets users create their own recipes using ingredients from a curated list of ingredients, and then share them on social media or email.

A startup that helps restaurants make sense of their supply chain using recipes, data, and analytics.

A startup for chefs to track the exact amount of water and other ingredients in a recipe.

A personalized shopping service for people who want to get customized recipes for their local grocery store.

A cloud-based e-commerce platform for restaurants, which also includes a loyalty program, recipe sharing and ordering, and a restaurant finder.

A startup for home cooks that allows them to network with each other and get inspiration for new recipes.

The food delivery startup’s goal is to help the average American cook at home. The startup helps families cook dinner by delivering food in bulk and with recipes.

A recipe-sharing app that helps users find new recipes while also sharing their own. The idea is that users can share their favorite dishes with friends or the wider community and receive positive feedback and suggestions.

A tool for creating custom cocktail recipes that use ingredients from local markets

A way to turn your Pinterest boards into tangible products, allowing you to make physical terrariums with your floral pins, or turn your recipe pins into cooking supplies or even a box of cupcakes.

"A social network for your diet", offering nutrition advice, recipes and lists.

Chefs create recipes, and users of the platform can order food from them. The system also tracks and analyzes the food in real time.

A company that lets people pay for their favorite recipes, which they can then print out for their household. The company has a free tier, but each additional recipe costs $.99.

A startup that lets users search for nearby food and specialty ingredients, and then pay for them in an app. It’s access to these ingredients can be used in recipes or to make products. The startup, which is rapidly growing, is still in the pre-launch stage.

This startup wants to help small businesses create natural products. The app will help users choose from a list of natural ingredients and ingredients from around the world and then the app will automatically create a custom recipe using the chosen ingredients.

A subscription-based service that lets you create and distribute your own recipes for home use. It also lets you connect with other people who have created recipes.

This startup is building a “digital kitchen” that enables chefs to make and review recipes on the fly.

A direct-to-consumer subscription service that delivers food that’s been packaged using plant-based ingredients, as well as a meal plan and recipes to follow. The startup sells to individuals and offices and offers a one day delivery window.

A company that builds “smart” tools for home cooks and foodies. They’re looking to develop a web-based platform for those who want to cook, with a calendar, shopping list and recipe editor.

A browser-based tool that helps you create, organize, and share your favorite recipes.

A mobile app for making and sharing recipes for food, featuring over 30,000 recipes

A platform for home cooks to sell their recipes online. They target high-end consumers looking to buy a one-of-a-kind product.

A startup that aims to make it easy to share a meal without needing to learn how to cook or give a recipe. It’s a bit like Grubhub, but for the home.

A startup that helps people learn how to cook, with a focus on recipes that use ingredients they’ve never used before.

As an extension of its first-generation product, Foodpad is building a way for people to share their favorite recipes and meals with others in an easy-to-use format. Foodpad has been in beta since May.

A startup that helps people who have difficulty losing weight by giving them a recipe and a shopping list to make all of their meals ahead of time. People can choose which recipes to follow, and all the ingredients and their costs are included.

A platform for sharing food recipes. The startup wants to disrupt the food-recipe industry by allowing anyone to create a recipe and share it with others.

One of the most-followed accounts on Instagram is a personal food blog from a female scout leader, who shares recipes and photos of food. Cookbook.me wants to build a crowdsourced site that crowdsources content from bloggers and chefs.

A food delivery app for home cooks and chefs, with a new feature that allows people to create and share recipes.

A startup that lets you search for recipes online, then send them to friends via email or SMS

A “smart” mortar and pestle that treats the ingredients of each recipe before grinding them for you.

A free, batch addition of a small number of ingredients. The startup is building a tool to help users figure out the right recipe for an individual ingredient.

A startup for visually tracking cooking, with a chat tool for a community of food lovers. The app aims to help users cook more efficiently, with features like measuring and recipe creation.

A business that pairs retail stores with home cooks. You can find recipes for your favorite store items and have them delivered to your home.

This app helps people connect with local culinary artists. The app connects users with local artists who can create custom meals from scratch, complete with recipes.

A startup that generates recipes from other recipes on the internet, pairing different ingredients with different foodstuffs and even food types.

A social platform for millennials where they can share their favorite stories, recipes, and more.

A mobile application for on-the-go baking. The startup aims to give home bakers a place to share recipes, sell their products, and take orders.

The founder of Crest, a food delivery platform (and former YC company), is helping a new startup get off the ground with recipe software.

A startup that wants to improve your cooking with a recipe-sharing app.

A digital assistant for home cooks. The startup wants to create a way for people to find recipes and grocery lists online, and use voice commands to bring them to life.

A recipe app for the home cook, with a focus on the Asian market. The startup sells itself as a “hobby” — a term that the founders say is an important part of the company’s appeal.

A startup that sells a box of healthy snacks and monthly recipe boxes

A startup that sells a book where you can find a recipe for every possible food you can imagine