AKA FOODS Overview
AKA Foods develops an AI-powered platform that streamlines new product development (NPD) for the food industry. Its technology assists food companies in rapidly designing and prototyping innovative, sustainable products by optimizing ingredient selection, ensuring clean label compliance, and advancing sustainability goals. By standardizing customer data into structured formats that capture deep domain knowledge in industrial food engineering, AKA Foods' AI-powered expert systems provide intelligent decision support throughout the process. This approach enhances texture and taste performance while keeping pace with evolving market demands. The company's services cater to various challenges in the food industry, including cost optimization, regulatory compliance, and plant-based transformation
Cumulative Funding Raised Over Time ($)
$357KFeb 2022
$5.4MJul 2025
Latest News
In our latest webtalk, industry leaders delved into the transformative potential of AI in the food sector, highlighting its game-changing role in new product development and waste reduction. Panelists shared their “AI moments,” revealing how advancements in artificial intelligence are accelerating development timelines—from 9 months to as little as 90 days and less—and enabling companies to stay competitive by optimizing processes and improving efficiency.
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Israeli Food Technology Companies to Watch 2025
The article profiles Israels food-technology ecosystem and highlights Remilk as a leading precision-fermentation company producing real dairy proteins without cows. It explains Israel’s innovation strengths and describes broader sector trends—alternative proteins, fermentation, AI-driven product development, sustainability, and supply-chain solutions. Remilk is noted for achieving regulatory approvals across Israel, the U.S., Singapore and Canada and for producing milk proteins at commercial scale in multiple locations, positioning it for global expansion. The piece also lists other Israeli startups to watch in 2025 and cites multinational food companies and organizations (Nestlé, PepsiCo, Unilever, Startup Nation Central, GrowingIL) as active partners or supporters of the ecosystem.
Product StagePartnersExpand
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AKA Foods, not ChatGPT, has the answers for product developers
AKA Foods’ new cloud-based NPD enablement platform helps product development labs with AI adoption.
AKA Foods, an Israeli startup, is leveraging AI to revolutionize product development in the food industry. The company has developed a cloud-based web application that serves as a digital NPD workbench, helping food developers build recipes, design processes, and evaluate prototypes. Despite initial challenges with data sharing, AKA Foods built its own sensory labs to generate necessary data for training AI models. The platform, which integrates customer-specific knowledge, is available for licensing and offers an outsourced service for new product development. This initiative is seen as growth-positive, as it addresses the industrys need for sustainable and efficient product development tools.
Product StageCustomers
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AKA FOODS: Powering food innovation with Google Cloud
AKA Foods, leveraging Google Cloud and Vertex AI, has significantly enhanced its data processing capabilities, enabling it to handle 50 times more data and reduce onboarding costs for new customers by 90%. This partnership has accelerated the companys ability to deliver AI-driven insights, thereby supporting food scientists and manufacturers in developing sustainable and nutritious food products. The collaboration with Google Cloud has allowed AKA Foods to expand its services, offering a powerful platform for rapid prototyping and innovation in the food technology sector. This strategic move positions AKA Foods for continued growth and expansion in the global food technology market.
CustomersPartners
| Sector | Agriculture & Food Technologies |
Funding
| Total funding | $5.36M |
| Last funding | $5M |
| Stage | Seed |
| Rounds | 3 |
| Investors | 1 |
Team Members
2
Employees: 11-50
Web & Social Links
| Website | www.aka-food.com/ |
| Careers | Careers page |
Locations
Haifa, Israel
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AKA FOODS Business
Business models
B2B
Product stage
Beta
Employees
11-50
Sector
Agriculture & Food TechnologiesFood TechNovel Food & IngredientsTarget Customer
Agriculture & FoodProcessed FoodsIngredientsCommerce & RetailConsumer GoodsCore Technology
Platforms & InterfacesSoftwareArtificial IntelligenceDeep LearningTags (5)
plant-proteinfoodtechdeep-learningartificial-intelligencerestaurantsGeographic Markets
EuropeAsiaNorth AmericaAKA FOODS Financials
$5.36M
Total funding
Undisclosed
Capital raised
$5M
Last funding
Seed
Funding stage
3
Total rounds
1
Investors
Cumulative Funding Raised Over Time ($)
$357KFeb 2022
$5.4MJul 2025
Private Equity Funding
Seed
Jul 2025
$5M
Undisclosed Round
Feb 2022
$357K
Axess Ventures
Non-Equity Funding
GrantEvent
Aug 2023
Undisclosed
Israel Innovation Authority
AKA FOODS Lifecycle
Cumulative Funding Raised Over Time
$357KFeb 2022
$5.4MJul 2025
All Events
Seed
Jul 2025
$5M
Undisclosed Round
Feb 2022
$357K
Axess Ventures
GrantEvent
Aug 2023
Undisclosed
Israel Innovation Authority
AKA FOODS News
4 articlesIn our latest webtalk, industry leaders delved into the transformative potential of AI in the food sector, highlighting its game-changing role in new product development and waste reduction. Panelists shared their “AI moments,” revealing how advancements in artificial intelligence are accelerating development timelines—from 9 months to as little as 90 days and less—and enabling companies to stay competitive by optimizing processes and improving efficiency.
growth-positive
Israeli Food Technology Companies to Watch 2025
The article profiles Israels food-technology ecosystem and highlights Remilk as a leading precision-fermentation company producing real dairy proteins without cows. It explains Israel’s innovation strengths and describes broader sector trends—alternative proteins, fermentation, AI-driven product development, sustainability, and supply-chain solutions. Remilk is noted for achieving regulatory approvals across Israel, the U.S., Singapore and Canada and for producing milk proteins at commercial scale in multiple locations, positioning it for global expansion. The piece also lists other Israeli startups to watch in 2025 and cites multinational food companies and organizations (Nestlé, PepsiCo, Unilever, Startup Nation Central, GrowingIL) as active partners or supporters of the ecosystem.
Product StagePartnersExpand
growth-positive
AKA Foods, not ChatGPT, has the answers for product developers
AKA Foods’ new cloud-based NPD enablement platform helps product development labs with AI adoption.
AKA Foods, an Israeli startup, is leveraging AI to revolutionize product development in the food industry. The company has developed a cloud-based web application that serves as a digital NPD workbench, helping food developers build recipes, design processes, and evaluate prototypes. Despite initial challenges with data sharing, AKA Foods built its own sensory labs to generate necessary data for training AI models. The platform, which integrates customer-specific knowledge, is available for licensing and offers an outsourced service for new product development. This initiative is seen as growth-positive, as it addresses the industrys need for sustainable and efficient product development tools.
Product StageCustomers
growth-positive
AKA FOODS: Powering food innovation with Google Cloud
AKA Foods, leveraging Google Cloud and Vertex AI, has significantly enhanced its data processing capabilities, enabling it to handle 50 times more data and reduce onboarding costs for new customers by 90%. This partnership has accelerated the companys ability to deliver AI-driven insights, thereby supporting food scientists and manufacturers in developing sustainable and nutritious food products. The collaboration with Google Cloud has allowed AKA Foods to expand its services, offering a powerful platform for rapid prototyping and innovation in the food technology sector. This strategic move positions AKA Foods for continued growth and expansion in the global food technology market.
CustomersPartners
Employee Info
| Employees (range) | 11-50 |
| Exact count | 26 |
| Team members | 2 |
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| Confidence | 89/100 |
| Missing | video or image, markets, not claimed |
| BI Verification | Ortal Wein |
| Registrar ID | 516426152 |
| Creator | Ortal Wein |
| Creator email | ortalw@sncentral.org |
| Last updater | Ortal Wein |
| Updater email | ortalw@sncentral.org |
| Last update | 2022-08-21T00:00:00.000Z |
| Created | 2022-08-21T00:00:00.000Z |
| Claimed | Yes |