Top 20 Nutrition startups in USA

Oct 24, 2025 | By Jason Kwon

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Funding: $373M
Virta is the first clinically-proven treatment to safely and sustainably reverse type 2 diabetes without medications or surgery.
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Funding: $301M
Viome has developed technology aimed at balancing microorganisms in the gut. With Viome, you can fine-tune the function of your gut microbiome with a personalized diet to minimize the production of harmful metabolites and maximize the production of beneficial ones, so that you experience increased energy and general well-being, all while reaching and maintaining a healthy state of balance.
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Funding: $200M
Viome Life Sciences offers a total body intelligence test for users to obtain food recommendations and create custom-formulated supplements and probiotics, which the company also develops and distributes.
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Funding: $132M
Found is dedicated to improving people’s overall wellbeing by making evidence-based weight loss accessible and affordable.
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Funding: $127.6M
Calibrate is a digital metabolic health business that provides a virtual program for weight loss.
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Funding: $118M
Zoe is leading the world’s largest ongoing nutritional research project in collaboration with scientists from universities including Harvard, King's College London, Massachusetts General Hospital, Oxford and Stanford.
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Funding: $115M
Athletic Greens is a high-growth, organically funded start-up that provides a proprietary range of natural health supplements.
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Funding: $109.7M
Equip is a virtual eating disorder treatment program
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Funding: $85.2M
Soda provides a tech platform that allows health plans to reimburse for goods and services that aren't supported by traditional medical claims, like healthy foods, over-the-counter drugs and transportation.
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Funding: $75M
Fay is helping people eat better, and live better by connecting them with dietitians covered by their health insurance.
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Funding: $67M
Faeth Therapeutics is a data-driven company that focuses on using metabolism to rethink the science of cancer.
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Funding: $43.6M
Season is a food recommendation platform that offers personalized nutrition planning for consumers.
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Funding: $37M
Signos offers continuous data and recommendations designed to drive healthy and sustained weight loss.
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Funding: $36.1M
Parsley Health is redesigning primary care by creating boutique medical practice, integrating the latest in medical testing, technology and nutrition research.
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Funding: $23M
Vessel is an at-home wellness tracker that helps in accessing, understanding, and optimizing health and wellness from the comfort of home.
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Funding: $20.8M
Culina Health making nutrition accessible & sustainable for everyone.
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Funding: $20.4M
Vivoo is a wellness assistant that provides custom nutrition advice to the users based on their urine sample analysis.
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Funding: $8.4M
Ombre is a provider of a microbiome testing kit designed to incorporate personalized probiotics and microbiome testing.
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Funding: $6.7M
Discover the best new vitamins, supplements, healthy snacks and so much more. The Original Bulu Box helps you discover great new products in sports nutrition, immunity, digestive health, wellness and more!
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Funding: $825K
Fitly is the creator of SmartPlate, the world's only intelligent nutrition platform that uses advanced photo recognition and AI technology to identify, analyze, and track everything you eat in mere seconds. Say goodbye to manual data entry – say hello to SmartPlate TopView.
Editor: Jason Kwon
Jason Kwon is a senior editor for MedicalStartups. He has previously covered the pharmaceutical and medical research industries for FDAnews and worked as a head of marketing for medical startup Sonic Therapeutics. Before that, he co-founded a startup consulting business for emerging entrepreneurial hubs in Asia. Jason graduated from St. Bonaventure University’s journalism school. In his free time, Jason enjoys yoga, watching movie trailers, traveling to places where he can't get cell service. You can contact Jason at jaskwon(at)medicalstartups(dot)com