Best Food and Agriculture Companies in Dublin, Ireland
The 88 best Food and Agriculture companies in Dublin, Ireland in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Strong Roots.
Our analysis of 653 Food and Agriculture companies
$71.7b in tracked funding; 82% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Food and Agriculture companies in Dublin
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Strong Roots Chain of restaurants offering healthy food | $73M | 54 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2015 | ShopifySalesforceBootstrap+24 | 3 job openings |
| 2 | Fresh The Good Food Market Retailer of food products, also sells their own brand food products | $11M | 78 mo ago | Series A | Noel Smith Founder & Managing Director | 2006 | WordPressSentryMySQL+20 | 10 job openings |
| 3 | Wilde Irish Gin Brand offering cocktail products | $662K | 12 mo ago | Seed | Conor Quinn Founder / President | 2017 | — | — |
| 4 | Snack Farm Brand of nut & seed mixes | $303K | 66 mo ago | Seed | Mishka Staunton Founder | 2016 | — | — |
| 5 | The Shed Distillery Processor of alcoholic drinks | $261K | 113 mo ago | Seed | — | 2014 | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+35 | — |
| 6 | FoodCloud Provider of a surplus food redistribution platform | $152K | 32 mo ago | Seed | — | 2013 | WebflowTypekitLinkedin Insight Tag+10 | — |
| 7 | Vista Foods Provider of premium hand prepared chicken products for the foodservice sector | $73K | 278 mo ago | Seed | — | 2003 | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | — |
| 8 | Bord Bia Promote of Irish food, drink, and horticulture suppliers | — | 41 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 1994 | Optimizely Content ManagementSalesforceMicrosoft ASP.NET+28 | 1 award |
Top 12 Food and Agriculture companies in Dublin
#1
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2017$661.5Kraised▾
Producer of gins intended to provide a blend of botanicals with a delicious mouthfeel and delightfully rogue flavor. The company produces gins that are distilled by hand in small batches with two copper pot stills with an unexpected act of extraordinary legacy, irreverent, courageous, subversive, and beautiful, enabling consumers to experience better quality gin drinks at their leisure.
- May 2025Seed$390K
- Jun 2022Seed$271.5K
#2
Acquired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2015 · 47 employees$73.3Mraised▾
Chain of restaurants offering healthy food
- Dec 2021Series B$55M
- Sep 2019Series A$18.3M
#3
Series A · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2006 · 300 employees$11.1Mraised▾
Retailer of food products, also sells their own brand food products
#4
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2013 · 88 employees$152.4Kraised▾
Provider of a surplus food redistribution platform. This platform connects businesses with surplus food to communities in need. It utilizes technology to match supply and demand, simplifying the process and facilitating collaboration between partners. The platform also includes a network of hubs that support local food redistribution efforts. The organization's aim is to reduce food waste and improve food security.
- Sep 2023Grant (prize money)—
- Jan 2023Grant (prize money)$183.9K
- Jul 2020Seed$125.8K
- Nov 2017Grant (prize money)$683
#5
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2016 · 2 employees$302.8Kraised▾
Brand of nut & seed mixes
- Dec 2020Angel$302.8K
#6
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2014 · 80 employees$261.1Kraised▾
Processor of alcoholic drinks
- Dec 2016Seed$261.1K
#7
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2003$73.2Kraised▾
It is a leading supplier of hand-prepared chicken products in Ireland and the UK. They offer a wide range of premium quality chicken products that cater to various businesses. With a focus on value and choice, Vista Foods aims to continuously increase value for their customers in the perishable commodities market.
- Apr 2003Seed$73.2K
#8
Funding Raised · Dublin, Leinster · founded 1994 · 423 employees—raised▾
Promote of Irish food, drink, and horticulture suppliers
#9
Public · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2006—raised▾
Sustainable land use solutions provider, empowering customers to unlock land potential. Dedicated to championing sustainable land use, the company partners with farmers, landowners, and businesses to create innovative, technically-led solutions. They offer a holistic range of services for optimising fields for crops and farming, caring for diverse landscapes dedicated to ecology and environments, and perfecting green spaces primed for sports, culture, and wellbeing. Their portfolio delivers expert advice, leading products and services, and innovative technologies, tailored to customer needs. Committed to environmental and social sustainability, their strategy focuses on positively impacting customers, communities, and the planet through improving soil health, protecting biodiversity, and supporting local communities. They drive change that shapes the future of sustainable land use, addresses climate change, and creates value for customers, partners, and the environment through science, technology, and innovation.
#10
Late Stage · Dublin, Leinster · founded 1983 · 87 employees—raised▾
Confectionery importer, distributor, and manufacturer serving Ireland and Northern Ireland. The company specializes in importing, distributing, and manufacturing a wide range of confectionery and drinks. Their portfolio includes biscuits, cakes, chocolates, toffees, countlines, desserts, bakery items, freeze pops, gluten-free options, lollipops, marshmallows, wafers, novelty items, pre-packed goods, and sun exotic products. They offer various brands and dietary options, including halal, natural colors, natural flavors, sugar-free, and vegetarian choices. They cater to seasonal events like Christmas, Easter, Halloween, and Valentines. They provide wholesale and retail services with pre-sales representatives and direct van sales. The website offers features like sign-in, registration, compare, search, and a shopping cart. They also provide a newsletter subscription.
#11
Funding Raised · Dublin, Leinster · founded 1961 · 3000 employees—raised▾
Ornua procures and markets dairy products. The company uses milk from Irish grass-fed cows, processed and markets it. It markets its products under the brand names Kerrygold, Dubliner, Pilgrims Choice, Shannongold, Forto, and Beo. The company supplies its products to Ireland, UK, Germany, Europe, USA, Africa, Middle East and Asia.
#12
Public · Dublin, Leinster · founded 1991 · 2469 employees—raised▾
Brand of convenience food
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Food and Agriculture coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding flat · growth flat
What Dublin researches in agritech
University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, and Dublin City University lead Dublin's agritech research, dominated by AI-driven smart agriculture and IoT, with an optimistic but partially contested tone (mean stance 0.42).
- University College Dublin12
- Trinity College Dublin2
- Dublin City University1
- Technological University Dublin1
Common questions
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