Proxy Foods AI offers an agentic AI platform designed to accelerate food and beverage R&D, formulation, and commercialization for CPG, foodservice, and ingredient companies. The platform leverages institutional R&D knowledge and predictive models (including Expert Guided Bayesian Optimization) to reduce iterations, compress prototype timelines from months to days, and lower reformulation cost-of-goods by 2–10%, with customers reporting up to 80% fewer iterations. Customers and partners named include Barilla, Gefsinus, MISTA (owned by Givaudan), CAVA, and a Demo Day relationship with Tyson Foods; the company says its average platform customer has over $1B in annual revenue. Proxy Foods AI has established research collaborations with Stanford University, Food System Innovations, the Federal University of Paraná, McGill University, and work funded by the Good Food Institute on cultivated meat media development. The company also emphasizes enterprise-grade security, citing a partnership with Aperio Global to add a Zero Trust, quantum-resilient layer for computation on encrypted data. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., Proxy Foods AI maintains labs and offices in San Francisco and Greece and plans to continue expanding capabilities and global enterprise adoption.

Total raised

$6M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Aug 2026