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Recipe Startup Ideas

3 years ago

A recipe finder, with a focus on healthy food.

1,259

4 years ago

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

195

5 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.

192

5 years ago

A digital store of recipes and ideas for cooking

178

4 years ago

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

171

5 years ago

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

168

5 years ago

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

168

5 years ago

A startup for baristas to easily create and share coffee recipes

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3 years 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.

158

5 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.”

146

3 years ago

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

144

5 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

143

5 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.

143

3 years 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.

143

3 years 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.

136

5 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.

119

2 years 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.

113

4 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.

99

4 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.

94

3 years 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.

93

3 years ago

A personalized recipe app for Chinese cooking

93

3 years ago

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

93

3 years 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.

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4 years ago

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

89

4 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.

88

4 years 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.

86

4 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.

84

3 years 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.

83

4 years ago

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

80

2 years 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.

77

4 years 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

76

2 years ago

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

76

3 years ago

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

73

2 years 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.

73

4 years ago

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

70

3 years ago

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

69

4 years ago

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

67

2 years 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.

63

3 years 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.

62

3 years ago

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

62

3 years 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.

60

3 years 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.

59

3 years 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.

59

2 years 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.

59

2 years 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.

59

3 years ago

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

58

3 years ago

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

58

3 years 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.

58

3 years 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.

56

3 years 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.

55

3 years 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.

54

4 years ago

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

53

3 years ago

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

53

4 years 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.

52

3 years 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.

51

3 years ago

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

51

3 years 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.

49

3 years 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.

48

3 years ago

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

48

2 years ago

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

41

3 years 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.

37

3 years 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.

37

2 years 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.

36

2 years 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.

32

2 years ago

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

29

2 years ago

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

27

2 years ago

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

26

2 years 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.

26

2 years 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.

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4 days ago 18 views

A startup that uses AI to analyze and optimize home cooking recipes based on a user's fridge contents, allergies, and taste preferences via a simple photo upload.

23

2 years 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.

21

2 years 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.

16

2 years ago

A company that lets you take a photo of your meals and then cook them in the app, with recipes that are curated by a chef.

14

5 years ago

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

9

5 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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4 days ago

A platform that connects urban apartment dwellers with local rooftop farmers for weekly fresh produce subscriptions, including recipe kits from the farmer's own harvest.

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19 hours ago

A platform for freelance chefs to create and sell pop-up meal kits with live virtual cooking classes, bridging the gap between home cooks and professional recipes.

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1 day ago

A B2B service for small farms to create subscription "farm boxes" with AR labels that scan to reveal real-time stories, recipes, and sustainability metrics about the produce inside.

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4 days ago

A platform that turns family recipe books into interactive cooking apps with AR guidance, voice commands from grandma's recorded instructions, and automatic grocery list generation.

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4 days ago

A startup that turns family recipe books into interactive digital experiences, allowing users to scan handwritten recipes and get step-by-step video guidance, ingredient substitutions, and shopping lists.

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2 days ago 2 views

An AI-powered recipe generator for home cooks that scans your fridge contents via photo and suggests zero-waste meals tailored to dietary needs, partnering with grocery delivery for missing ingredients.

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3 days ago

A startup that turns family recipe books into interactive digital experiences, complete with AR cooking guidance, shopping lists, and shared family cooking sessions.

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