AKA FOODS
AI-Powered Platform for Food New Product Development
Startup Seed Agriculture & Food Technologies Est. 2021
Total Raised
$5.36M
Seed
Last Round
$5M
3 rounds
Investors
1
1 public
Team
2
11-50 employees
Confidence
89/100
News
4
articles
Patents
1
About
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
Classification
Sector
Agriculture & Food TechnologiesFood TechNovel Food & Ingredients
Core Technology
Platforms & InterfacesSoftwareArtificial IntelligenceDeep Learning
Target Customer
Agriculture & FoodProcessed FoodsIngredientsCommerce & RetailConsumer Goods
Business Model
B2B
Tags
plant-proteinfoodtechdeep-learningartificial-intelligencerestaurants
Funding & Events
Jul 2025
Seed $5M
Feb 2022
Undisclosed Round $357K
Axess Ventures
Aug 2023
Non-equity Undisclosed
Israel Innovation Authority
News (4)
Mar 20, 2025 · vegconomist.com
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.
Mar 2, 2025 · startupnationcentral.org
growth-positive
Israeli Food Technology Companies to Watch 2025
Product StagePartnersExpand
Feb 21, 2025 · insights.figlobal.com
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.
Product StageCustomers
Dec 2, 2024 · cloud.google.com
growth-positive
AKA FOODS: Powering food innovation with Google Cloud
CustomersPartners
Details
Product Stage
Beta
Employees
11-50
Exact Count
26
Founded
2021
Registrar
516426152
Locations
Haifa, Israel
Links
Website
LinkedIn
Careers
Admin
Last Update
Jul 28, 2025
Verified by
Ortal Wein
Claimed
Yes
Missing
video or image, markets, not claimed
Team (2)
Yosi Segal
CTO
Saul Abrahams
VP Business Development
Internal
Created by
Ortal Wein (ortalw@sncentral.org)
Created
2022-08-21T00:00:00.000Z
Last editor
Ortal Wein (ortalw@sncentral.org)