This article showcases our top picks for the best California based Organic Food companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Organic Food industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top California Organic Food Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Califia Farms
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Califia Farms operates as a natural beverage company.
SunBasket
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SunBasket is a healthy cooking service that delivers organic ingredients and customized recipes weekly to customers’ doors.
Veestro
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Veestro is the newest concept in Food Commerce.
GOOD Meat
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GOOD Meat provides cultured cell-based meat instead of slaughtered livestock.
Thistle
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Thistle is a food and juice company that delivers fully-prepared, plant-forward meals to the doorsteps of its customers.
Back to the Roots
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Back to the Roots offers gardening kits to grow organic and gourmet mushrooms at homes.
Buffalo Market
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Buffalo Market is a smart food distributor.
Miyoko’s Kitchen
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Miyoko’s Kitchen is a food production company that produces artisan cultured Vegan cheese and butter.
Revolution Foods
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Revolution Foods delivers ready-to-eat meal kits for school children and families.
Harmless Harvest
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Harmless Harvest is a progressive food & beverage initiative set to demonstrate that ecosystem-based businesses.
Beyond Meat
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Beyond Meat is a food processing company that specializes in providing plant-based meat.
Eat Just
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Eat Just offers a plant-based egg substitute intended to provide healthy and nutritional food alternatives.
Urban Remedy
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Urban Remedy is a plant-based organic food company that makes eating ultra-fresh and clean easier
Hippeas
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Hippeas is a operator of natural snack food companies.
Better Brand
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Better Brand is a food tech startup marking a new era of nutrition by driving innovation in the multi-trillion-dollar refined carb industry.
Koia
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Koia is a food and beverage company that specializes in the production of plant-based protein drinks.
GEM
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GEM is a consumer life science company that offers edible nutritional supplements.
Suja Life
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Suja is a producer of cold-pressed juices that help people transform their lives through conscious nutrition.
Impossible Foods
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Impossible Foods focuses on developing plant-based substitutes for meat, dairy, and fish products.
Mozza
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Mozza engages in developing the science to create real dairy cheese from plants.
FarmX
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FarmX offers a precision agriculture platform for optimizing costs and increasing yields for farmers.
Hooray Foods
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Hooray Foods produces plant-based meats offering consumers a vegan alternative to meat products.
Dang Foods
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Dang Foods is a producer of organic snacks intended to offer whole foods into healthy and flavorful snacks.
Vive Organic
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Vive Organic is an organic, function focused line dedicated to providing the highest quality wellness shots.
CAULIPOWER
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Caulipower produces vegetable-based pizzas and pizza crusts that are gluten-free.
Right Rice
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RightRice provides a tasty rice grain that’s made from vegetables.
Amara Organic Foods
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Amara Organic Foods is a food technology company that offers families the benefits of fresh homemade goods.
Yumi
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Yumi offers a science-based early childhood meal delivery program.
Goodmylk
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Goodmylk is a provider of beverage used intended to make raw, organic, and homemade plant-based milk and creamers.
Umaro Foods
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Umaro Foods specializes in developing a plant-based protein source from ocean-farmed seaweed.
Berri Fit
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Berri Fit provides quality organic, plant-based nutrition for individuals and families worldwide.
Pop & Bottle
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Pop & Bottle is a producer of flavored almond beverages intended to offer variety of delicious flavored milk beverages.
SafeTraces
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SafeTraces provides on-food traceability solutions that trace the product, not the package.
4th & Heart
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4th & Heart is an artisan producer of organic ghee, or clarified butter.
ReGrained
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ReGrained is a producer of snacks intended to upcycle crunchy puffs from nutritious food.
Foodstirs
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Foodstirs is an omni-channel junk-free baking brand that helps people connect through the power of better-for-you sweet baked goods.
Spero Foods
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Spero Foods specializes in the fields of big data, food tech, plant-based products, and predictive modeling.
Clif Bar
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Clif Bar is a producer of nutritional and organic food and drinks.
Misha’s Kind Foods
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Misha’s Kind Foods is a plant-based food and lifestyle brand that produces non-dairy spreadable cheese.
Maxine’s Heavenly
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Maxine’s Heavenly Cookies are a safer option to mom’s delectable baked cookies, gluten-free, non-GMO, soy-free, vegan, & natural nutrition.
M2 Ingredients
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M2 Ingredients is a food production company that produces organic and whole food powdered and medical mushrooms.
Petit Pot
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Petit Pot brings renowned French dessert traditions to the Bay Area.
Pulp Pantry
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Pulp Pantry transforms upcycled ingredients like juice pulp into classic junk food favorites, made healthier from fruits and vegetables.
New Barn
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The Leading National Organic Almond Milk Brand .
Miravel
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Miravel designs automated indoor wall gardens that beautifully grow fresh greens and herbs in any home environment.
Bonafide Provisions
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Bonafide Provisions is a family-run company sells organic frozen bone broth using traditional cooking methods.
Love With Food
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Love With Food is a marketing and market research platform for CPG food brands.
Alec’s Ice Cream
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Alec’s Ice Cream is a frozen food manufacturing company that offers organic, creamy, and delicious ice creams.
Ashland Hard Seltzer
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Ashland Hard Seltzer creates craft hard seltzer with all-natural, organic ingredients, and alkaline water for outstanding taste and purity.
OCHO Candy
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OCHO Candy provides an organic alternative to traditional candy bars.
John’s Incredible Pizza Company
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John’s Incredible Pizza is a chain of restaurants offering pizza and other food items, big screen TVs, themed rooms, games and rides.
Miss Jones Baking
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Miss Jones Baking is a baking company that makes organic ready-to-use frostings and best-tasting baking mixes.
Trupo Treats
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Trupo Treats is a vegan chocolate company committed into recreating childhood favorites.
TCHO
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TCHO is New American Chocolate. A new kind of chocolate company for a new generation of chocolate enthusiasts.
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Online Marketplace for Sustainable Food / Whole Foods for the 99%
From The Field Trading
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From The Field Trading offers gourmet, single-origin, and equitably sourced Bourbon vanilla beans.
Alokino Gelato
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Alokino Gelato produces plant-based and preservative-less artisanal ice creams.
Fuego Box
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Fuego Box is a hot sauce of the month club focused on craft & small-batch hot sauces.
NuttZo
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NuttZo is an all-natural and organic food brand that creates a nutritionally dense premium nut and seed-based snacks and butter.
Nomva
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Fueling & inspiring you to live your best life. Discover our healthy, delicious & organic food.
Mill It
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Mill It is a producer of plant-based products used to offer alternative option for a vegan diet.
Potli
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Potli is the premium purveyor for the modern, cannabinoid enhanced kitchen pantry.
Al Jazeera Agricultural
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Al Jazeera Agricultural manufactures and distributes poultry and livestock feed.
Wild For
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Wild For also known as Love Grain, produces and sells gluten-free teff products such as grain breakfast mixes and chips.
Local Grown Salads
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Everyday, we grow, harvest, package, and deliver Organic Ready-To-Eat Salads to National Retailer with our Vertical Growing System.
Trader Joe’s
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Trader Joe’s is a chain of neighborhood grocery stores committed to providing customers with amazing, high quality products at great prices.
Bissy
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Bissy is a powerful caffeine boost from the ancient Kolanut Fruit, mixed in a tasty blend of all-natural, plant-based ingredients.
Everflux Technologies
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Everflux develops technologies that promote cradle-to-cradle resource recycling, regenerative farming and landscaping
Hakuna Banana
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Hakuna Banana is a 100% plant-based, paleo-friendly frozen dessert that’s sweetened with whole fruit, not refined sugars.
FLY BY JING
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FLY BY JING is a food and beverage company.
Yae! Organics
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Yae! Organics offers raw, organic, vegan, glute- free, and non-GMO juice powders.
Taylor Farms
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Taylor Farms is a food company offering a collection of healthy, great tasting fresh salads, and snacks packed with nutrients.
Erewhon
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Erewhon is a food and beverage company specializes in make healthy,pure and nutrient rich foods and products.
Driscoll’s
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Driscoll’s is a global market provider of fresh strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries.
HappyCow
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HappyCow, a global, searchable, vegetarian dining guide and health food store directory featuring vegetarian and vegan restaurants and more.
Reliant Foodservice
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Reliant Foodservice is a “niche” distributor specializing in products for frozen yogurt, juice and smoothie, and specialty coffee retailers.
Rau Chocolate
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Rau Chocolate building bold and epic chocolate beverages to positively impact the health of people.
12 Tides
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Tasty, better-for-you, and ocean-friendly snacks made with kelp from regenerative ocean farms.
Numi Tea
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Numi Organic Tea blends premium organic teas and herbs with only 100 percent real ingredients, allowing nature to speak for itself.
Nekter Juice Bar
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Nekter Juice Bar aims to inspire a community of kids and adults to live an active, well-balanced, health-minded and compassionate life.
Food Bank of Contra Costa & Solano
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The Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano is an NGO that provides fresh food, fruits, and vegetables for hungry people.
Better Nutritionals
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Better Nutritionals produces gummy and chocolate supplements.
Del Monte Foods
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Del Monte Foods is one of the country’s largest and most well-known producers, distributors and marketers of premium quality, branded food
Plum Organics
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Plum Organics is organic baby food and toddler snack brand in the nation.
organicgirl
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organicgirl provides greens and salad dressings is an organic food company.
Alter Eco
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Alter Eco distributes imported food products through retail chains.
Sundial Foods
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Sundial Foods utilizes a macro and microstructural engineering approach to create plant-based meat alternatives for conscious consumers.
The Coconut Cult
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The Coconut Cult believes in good health, and good health starts in the gut. Let the coconut culture you.
Bon Appétit Management Company
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Bon Appétit Management Company is an on-site restaurant company that offers full food-service management to clients.
Moku Foods
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Moku Foods provider of vegan jerky intended to offer cruelty-free plant-based meat products.
think
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think is a creating nutritious food products that help support overall wellness.
Au Bon Broth
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Au Bon Broth is food production company that produces and sells organic beef bone broth, chicken bone broth, and turkey bone broth.
Yuhmmy
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Yuhmmy is the world’s 1st taste-technology brand redefining & crafting new human taste-experiences with a network powered by people.
Earthbar
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Earthbar is holistic healthy supply co. and a way of life, providing a one-stop-shop for all our wellness needs.
Annie’s
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Annie’s is a leader in natural and organic foods. It is known for its premium, great-tasting products.
Farm Fresh To You
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Farm Fresh To You delivers organically-grown fruits and vegetables in most of the Bay area.
