5+ Top 3D Food Printing Companies and Startups to Watch [2026]

Executive Summary: Which are the Top 5+ 3D Food Printing Startups to Watch?

1. Lasercook – Original patented laser printer producing plant-based meals from powder ingredients
2. Biokraft Foods – 3D printing of cell biolink with creating a meat-like structure with similar organoleptic properties
3. La Pâtisserie Numerique – Proprietary culinary 3D printer, Patiss3, designed for pastry chefs & culinary school instructors
4. Ediform – Safe and enjoyable dining experience for people with swallowing difficulties through 3D food printing
5. Torr FoodTech – Proprietary iWeld technology producing minimally processed snacks with ultrasonic energy and high pressure
6. Gastronology – Producing a variety of vegetable, fish, and chicken purees for easy 3D-printed food production
7. Happy Plant Protein – High-throughput extrusion technology to provide plant-based high-protein ingredients to additive food manufacturers

Global Startup Heat Map highlights Emerging 3D Food Printing Startups to Watch

Through the Big Data & Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered StartUs Insights Discovery Platform, covering over 7M+ startups, 20K+ technology trends plus 150M+ patents, news articles & market reports, we identified 65+ 3D food printing startups.

The Global Startup Heat Map below highlights emerging 3D food printing companies you should watch in 2026, as well as the geo-distribution of 65+ startups & scaleups we analyzed for this research.

According to our data, we observe high startup activity in Western Europe and India, followed by Southeast Asia. The top 5 Startup Hubs for 3D food printing are Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Ann Arbor, Atlanta, and Bend.

Explore Emerging 3D Food Printing Startups to Watch in 2026

We hand-picked startups to showcase in this report by filtering for their technology, founding year, location, funding, and other metrics. These emerging 3D printing food companies work on solutions ranging from 3D-printed snacks and 3D food printers for culinary schools to minimally processed snack production and high-protein plant-based ingredients.

1. Lasercook

• Founding Year: 2023
• Location: Kyoto, Japan
• Use For: 3D-Printed Snacks

Lasercook is a Japanese startup that builds a proprietary 3D food printer. It turns unused seafood and agricultural produce into familiar foods and snacks.

The AISO1S printer, based on a patent developed at Yamagata University, employs laser processing to create custom-shaped meals from powdered ingredients. Lasercook’s solution contributes to sustainable food consumption.

2. Biokraft Foods

• Founding Year: 2023
• Location: Mumbai, India
• Use For: 3D-Printed Meat

Indian startup Biokraft Foods offers 3D-printed meats. It covers the process all the way from cell sourcing in the lab to producing cooking-ready pieces of meat.

The startup extracts cells from chicken eggs to immortalize the sourced material in a lab setting where the cells continue to divide. The next step is cell cultivation, where the original material is proliferated with an antibiotic-free nutrient medium.

Further, the biomaterial is structured into biolink cellular scaffolding to serve as a print-ready food-grade material. The biolink is 3D-printed into structures that retain all the organoleptic properties of natural meat. Biokraft Foods enables sustainable and cruelty-free meat production.

3. La Patisserie Numerique

• Founding Year: 2019
• Location: Louviers, France
• Use For: 3D Food Printer for Culinary Schools

La Patisserie Numerique is a French startup that develops Patiss3, a culinary printer. It allows restaurant chefs and culinary schools to personalize and experiment with their pastry recipes.

Patiss3 utilizes wheat and macaroon powder to shape them into user-suggested designs. The produced food components are ready for further culinary processing or garnishing. Further, Patiss3 comes with 150 ready-to-use designs for chefs new to innovative recipes.

4. Ediform

• Founding Year: 2023
• Location: Norwich, UK
• Use For: 3D Printed Meals for People with Swallowing Difficulties

UK-based startup Ediform makes eating accessible and pleasurable for those affected by swallowing disorders. Its 3D food printing solution manipulates food texture while making it easy to consume. It also fine-tunes taste and nutritional value.

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5. Torr FoodTech

• Founding Year: 2020
• Location: Yakum, Israel
• Use For Minimally Processed Snack Production:
• Funding: USD 12M in Series A funding round in 2022

Israeli startup Torr FoodTech produces snacks with a proprietary food-welding technology. Its process, iWeld, employs a patented device to blast ready-to-eat ingredients with ultrasonic energy to weld them together without changing their form or taste.

This results in minimally processed snacks to avoid any taste losses. The welding process also allows for the combination of flavors from different ingredients and a unique texture to combine both unity of form and diversity of taste.

6. Gastronology

• Founding Year: 2021
• Location: Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands
• Use For: 3D-Print-Ready Purees

Dutch startup Gastronology produces print-ready purees and finished 3D food products. Its purees are made from vegetables, chicken, or fish to provide variety in flavor and nutritional value. It processes initial ingredients in a way that maximizes taste and nutritional value. Further, the minced material is loaded in industrial-grade food printers to construct a 3D product layer by layer.

Gastronology balances freshness and structural integrity of its foods by managing the production from gathering the initial ingredients all the way to freezing prepared materials or products. It offers print-ready pre-mixes, semi-finished products, or printed end-products for cost-efficient integration in food manufacturing lines.

7. Happy Plant Protein

• Founding Year: 2024
• Location: Helsinki, Finland
• Use For: High-Protein Plant-based Ingredient
• Funding: Secured EUR 1.8M in Seed Funding Round in November 2024

Finnish startup Happy Plant Protein uses food extrusion to produce high-protein plant-based ingredients.

Its sustainable process generates a product with high protein content for use as feedstock in 3D food printers, like purees or mycoproteins. Happy Plant Protein uses whole flour to make its product minimally processed and attractive to clean-label consumer preferences.

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