101 Top Indian Food and Beverage Companies and Startups of 2021

July 2, 2021

This article showcases our top picks for the best Indian based Food and Beverage companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Food and Beverage 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 Indian Food and Beverage Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

Dodla Dairy

Dodla Dairy

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Dodla Dairy processes and supplies milk and value-added dairy products.

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Licious is an online meat and seafood ordering startup that follows an end-to-end business.

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Jumbotail

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Jumbotail is an operator of an online marketplace that simplifies food and grocery shopping.

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Milkbasket

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Milkbasket is a daily micro-delivery service, offering grocery and household needs for customers.

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Freshtohome

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Freshtohome is an e-commerce platform for fresh and chemical-free chicken, meat, and seafood.

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Wow! Momo

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Wow! Momo is a chain of fast-food restaurants that specializes in momos.

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Chai Point

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Chai Point is an omni-channel beverage brand that brings a perfectly brewed cup of chai.

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Country Delight

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Country Delight produces and distributes milk intended to provide good quality and unadulterated milk at doorstep.

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Box8

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BOX8 is an on-demand food delivery company serving meals in a convenient and easy-to-carry box.

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F5 Refreshement

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F5 Refreshement is a foods and beverages company.

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Bira 91

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Bira 91 is an India-based craft beer company that develops and produces several different varieties of craft beer.

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UrbanPiper

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The essential platform for restaurants to operate their online business

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Paper Boat

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Paper Boat is an e-commerce platform that sells beverages which are based on scientific observation and analysis of nature.

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HungerBox

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HungerBox is a full-stack B2B food and beverage technology company that provides food solutions for corporate.

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RAW Pressery

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RAW Pressery is a clean-label beverage brand that offers cold-press juices, smoothies, soups, and more.

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Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters

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Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters provides an online marketplace specifically to sell roasted coffee.

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FreshMenu

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FreshMenu offers food delivery service that provides fresh and tasty cuisines of the highest standard.

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Chaayos

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Chaayos is a Chai tea cafe chain that leverages technology to serve a personalised cup of chai

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Epigamia

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Epigamia is a premium all-natural Greek yogurt that helps to make healthier choice without sacrificing delicious taste.

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Petpooja

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The finest restaurant management platform

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Vahdam Teas

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Vahdam Teas is a vertically integrated online tea brand from premium garden fresh tea leaves.

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EazyDiner

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EazyDiner provides a guide to eating out that offers insider tips, exclusive and expert reviews by top critics.

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Biryani By Kilo

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Biryani By Kilo is a food services and delivery category company that prepares and delivers authentic dishes.

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Eggoz – Fresh and Healthy Egg Brand

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Eggoz is a brand of fresh and chemical-free eggs, sourced from fully integrated farmers & delivered to table within 36 hours.

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iD Fresh Food

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ID Fresh Food is a Bangalore-based company that offers Indian food.

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Veeba Foods

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Veeba Foods is a manufacturer of specialty food ingredients.

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White Owl Brewery

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White Owl Brewery is a microbrewery specializes in handcrafting beer using natural ingredients.

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Sasta Sundar

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Buy Genuine prescription medicine online & save big with free home delivery. India’s fastest growing & most trusted Online Pharmacy.

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Holachef

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Holachef is a Mumbai-based food services company that offers chef-crafted fresh meals to consumers.

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Parag Milk Foods

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India’s elite private sector dairy company

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Foodpanda India

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Foodpanda India is a food delivery marketplace, enabling users to place orders at local restaurants online.

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Wingreens Farms

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Wingreens Farms sells a range of food products and is retailed in the market and online.

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True Elements

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Clean label Brand building an ecosystem of Whole Food plant based Nashta

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Teamonk

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India’s Finest Specialty Tea company.

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Fingerlix

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Fingerlix is a semi-cooked food delivery app that creates delightful experience for customers.

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Charcoal Eats

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CharcoalEats FoodTech delivers Indian flavors to its patrons across the country across snack and meal times at affordable prices.

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Daalchini Technologies

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Daalchini provides affordable, quality home-food instantly via smart vending machines.

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Patanjali Ayurved

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Patanjali Ayurved Ltd is not a company. It is a concept that links the rising destiny of millions of rural masses.

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AgNext Technologies

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AgNext is working at the intersection of hardware, software and analytics for quality estimation in agriculture and food.

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Bigspoon

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Bigspoon is a cloud kitchen startup that has an omni-channel approach to ordering and delivery.

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FreshVnF

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FreshVnF is a precision agriculture platform that leverages data to pick the finest produce from the best partners .

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myHQ

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myHQ turns your everyday coffee space into a perfect work zone. Get an amazing work environment without paying any rent.

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Sattviko

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Sattviko is a traditional food products brand where traditional recipes meet with modern food technology.

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Hoi Foods

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Hoi Foods provides multi-cuisine combination meals at affordable prices.

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Farmley

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Farmley is a digital B2B marketplace for non-perishable food commodities, including nuts, seeds, dry fruits, specialty grains, and honey.

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Teabox

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Teabox develops an online platform that offers organic tea and tea-based products direct from the source.

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Barbeque Nation Hospitality

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Barbeque Nation Hospitality is a restaurant and dining chain that offers over-the-table barbeque live grills for dinners.

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Absolute Foods

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Absolute Foods is a food production and agriculture company.

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Svami

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Svami is the result of three seasoned drinkers extending their love for libations to the larger world of drinks.

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GO DESi

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GO DESi is a manufacturer of confectionery food products.

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ZappFresh

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ZappFresh is an online platform that delivers a variety of meat and seafood direct from farms and fisheries.

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Milk Mantra

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Milk Mantra is a dairy company offering natural milk products to its consumers.

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The Beer Café

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The Beer Café operates an alco-beverage restaurant chain in India.

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Slurrp Farm

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Slurrp Farm is a children health food brand.

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&ME

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&Me is a lifestyle nutrition brand creating bioactive beverages for women.

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Open Secret

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Open Secret is a food and beverages startup.

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Dairy Day Ice Cream

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Dairy Day is a manufacturer and supplier of dairy products.

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Massive Restaurants

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Massive Restaurants develops India’s premier brands of restaurants that specialize in targeting all segments of the market.

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Happilo

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Happilo operates as a healthy food brand.

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NIC Natural Ice Creams

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NIC Natural Ice Creams is a consumer packaged food company.

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24 Mantra Organic

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24 Mantra Organic is a specialty food shop for farmers’ livelihood, customers a sustainable lifestyle, and a sustainable planet.

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Wonderchef Home Appliances

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Wonderchef brings world-class cookware, exclusively designed and crafted for your daily kitchen requirements

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Kaching

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Kaching is an ingenious affiliate + referral product for restaurants, bars, retail, and beyond.

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qZense Labs

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qZense Labs is building the next-generation IoT solution for fresh food quality assessment and management.

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Sleepy Owl Coffee

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Sleepy Owl Coffee provides brew coffee in India.

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GoodDot

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Good Dot is a food-tech startup bringing plant-based meat to India.

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WayCool

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WayCool has adopted a tech-enabled supply chain approach to produce staples like rice, dairy, and value added products.

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Manna Foods

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Manufacture and sell ethnic millet based breakfast cereals, milk supplements, infant foods, dried fruits.

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Freshokartz

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Freshokartz Provides soil data based crop and Fertilisers recommendation to farmers and delivery seeds, pesticides and fertilisers.

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Jimmy’s Cocktails

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Jimmy’s Cocktails makes premium cocktails.

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Burger Singh

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Burger Singh is an India-based online food ordering web application.

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Otipy

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Otipy offers fresh fruits and vegetables sourced directly from farms.

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Our Food

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Our Food is a technology driven farmer franchising platform.

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Lil’Goodness

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Lil’Goodness is a children-focused food and nutrition startup.

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SmartQ

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SmartQ designs a mobile application that digitizes food courts and cafeterias and provide an enhanced experience.

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Yumlane

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YumLane is an online retailer that offers a range of on-the-go hot snacking and meals.

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Rage Coffee

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Rage Coffee is infused with plant based vitamins. These 100% natural extracts are typically found in foods.

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Scootsy

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Scootsy is an intra-city discovery and delivery platform that offers quality delivery service and experiences to anticipating consumers.

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Chai Kings

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Chai Kings is a tea retail chain

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Milky Mist Dairy

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Milky Mist Dairy specializes in premium quality dairy products.

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PopiCorn

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PopiCorn is a ready-to-eat popcorn brand that has 6 different flavors.

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Nourish Organics

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Buy organic food online at Nourish Organics . Browse through snacks, nutritional food products and more. Pay online across India.

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Wellversed

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Wellversed Health enables production of customised clinical food products specific to health requirements of a demography or an individual.

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Nirula’s

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Nirula’s is a fast food restaurant chain that offers burgers and pizzas.

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The Indus Valley

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The Indus Valley is a good kind of cookware is as important as the ingredients to make a healthy and tasty dish

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Soulfull

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Soulfull manufactures and retails ready to eat cereals intended to provide a healthy breakfast.

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The Mumum Co.

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The Mumum Co. is a healthful snack manufacturer brand for kids.

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UzhavarBumi

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Fresh Cow Milk Delivery Startup

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HipBar

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HipBar is an RBI-approved mobile wallet exclusively meant for transacting adult beverages.

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S4S Technologies

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S4S Technologies invents food processing machines and sells the machines to farmers or use them to produce best quality processed food.

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Rozzana

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Rozzana offers food and facility management services.

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Snackible

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Snackible operates a health-food production company designed to sell healthy snack food via online and offline channels.

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LT Foods

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LT Foods believe that nature will continue to nurture us until we as a species continue to breathe and live.

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Smoodies

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Smoodies owns and operates a food and beverage company intended to offer healthy drinks.

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Future Consumer

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Future Consumer is a data and tech-driven FMCG company that builds brands for India’s Fast Moving Consumer Generation.

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Prabhat Dairy

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Prabhat Dairy is an integrated milk and dairy products company in India, catering to institutional as well as retail customers.

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Monsoon Harvest

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Monsoon Harvest provides contemporary food products.

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Richcore

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Richcore develops and manufactures novel enzyme applications for the energy, food and water industries.

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Samosa Singh

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Samosa Singh offers samosa an Indian snack that has different varieties for every regional preference.

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Under the Mango Tree

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Under the Mango Tree is a hybrid social enterprise that produces natural, organic, and sustainable honey.

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Goodmylk

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Goodmylk is a dairy alternative maker.

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