
Ate is a mindful food journaling app designed to support sustainable, balanced lifestyles by focusing on self-reflection, healthy habits, and listening to the body's signals rather than calorie counting. It offers a photo journal for easy meal tracking and AI-driven insights to guide users toward intuitive eating and emotional awareness around food. The platform also includes Ate Coach, a tool for health professionals to engage with clients, increase accountability, and deepen communication through meal tracking and in-app messaging. Ate emphasizes a nonjudgmental, evidence-based approach to improve users' relationship with food and promote long-term physical, mental, and emotional health.

Ate is a mindful food journaling app designed to support sustainable, balanced lifestyles by focusing on self-reflection, healthy habits, and listening to the body's signals rather than calorie counting. It offers a photo journal for easy meal tracking and AI-driven insights to guide users toward intuitive eating and emotional awareness around food. The platform also includes Ate Coach, a tool for health professionals to engage with clients, increase accountability, and deepen communication through meal tracking and in-app messaging. Ate emphasizes a nonjudgmental, evidence-based approach to improve users' relationship with food and promote long-term physical, mental, and emotional health.
Product: Mindful food-journaling mobile app with photo-based logging, reflective prompts, and AI-driven insights.
B2B / Pro offering: Ate for Coaches — a coaching dashboard and in-app messaging for health professionals.
Founder / CEO: Tamas P. Kiss (referred to as Tom) — Co‑Founder & CEO.
Founded: 2016 (Redwood City, California).
Funding signal: Pre-Seed round announced 2019-02-04; lead investor: Techstars.
Team size: Approximately 15 employees.
Mindful eating, nutritional habit formation, and behavioral support for healthier relationships with food.
2016
Health & Wellness
Round listed on funding databases with lead investor Techstars; amount not disclosed/obfuscated in available records.
“Techstars (lead investor)”