Sam Udotong, 26, and Krish Ramineni, 26

After working 20-hour days for years, living on the cheap while bootstrapping a company in San Francisco, Sam Udotong discovered something about his body. “I had trained myself to stop really enjoying food,” he says. That meant he could subsist entirely on Domino’s pizza and the meal replacement drink Soylent, and maintain focus. “It let me work more hours every day.”

That was 2016. By now, years later, he expected life to be different—or, at least, to come with better food. He and his cofounder, Krish Ramineni, have raised nearly $5 million in venture funding for,” Udotong says.