Best Food and Agriculture Companies in Guangdong Province, China
The 34 best Food and Agriculture companies in Guangdong Province, China in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: HEYTEA.
Our analysis of 49 Food and Agriculture companies
$9.5b in tracked funding; 20% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2020.
Ranked: Best Food and Agriculture companies in Guangdong Province
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HEYTEA 🦄 Owns and operates a chain of tea shops 40Funding top 31%Market top 42%Moat top 47%Talent bottom 49% All 8 signals ▾Fundingtop 31% Markettop 42% Moattop 47% Talentbottom 49% Techbottom 44% Globalbottom 36% Growthbottom 35% Newsbottom 21% Funding: Raised $578M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 10 yrs (0.3/yr) Market: Top-1,000,000 web property · Unicorn (valued $1.3B) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 40/100 | $578M | 64 mo ago | Series C | Nie Yunchen Founder | 2012 | SentryZendeskVideoJS+5 | — |
| 2 | Hsu Fu Chi International Limited information available 57Market top 32%Funding top 44%Growth top 45%Global bottom 48% All 6 signals ▾Markettop 32% Fundingtop 44% Growthtop 45% Globalbottom 48% Techbottom 24% Newsbottom 22% Market: 10,000 employees (top 3% of Food and Agriculture) · Top-10,000,000 web property Funding: Raised $135M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 17 yrs (0.1/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 57/100 | $135M | 203 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2002 | Microsoft ASP.NETfullPage.jsjQuery+2 | — |
| 3 | Grain Mill Food Group Manufacturer of natural nutrition health food using non-GM food ingredients 65Market top 33%Funding top 34%Global bottom 36% All 3 signals ▾Markettop 33% Fundingtop 34% Globalbottom 36% Market: 694 employees (top 17% of Food and Agriculture) Funding: Raised $131M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 7 yrs (0.1/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 65/100 | $131M | 86 mo ago | Late Stage | — | 2008 | — | — |
| 4 | Niu Daji Retailer of beef products 45Funding top 47%Market top 49%Talent bottom 49%Global bottom 29% All 4 signals ▾Fundingtop 47% Markettop 49% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 29% Funding: Raised $27.3M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 4 yrs (0.5/yr) Market: 95 employees (top 39% of Food and Agriculture) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 45/100 | $27M | 33 mo ago | Series B | Wu Haijin Founder | 2019 | — | — |
| 5 | Little Sheep Group Owns and operates full service restaurants, catering services, and sale of related food products | $25M | 244 mo ago | Series B | — | 1999 | Microsoft ASP.NETGSAPSwiper+2 | — |
| 6 | Panda Does Not Go Online brand offering cakes | $15M | 61 mo ago | Deadpooled | Yang Zhenhua Founder & CEO | 2017 | — | — |
| 7 | Komori Rihe Internet first brand offering snacks and convenience food | — | 54 mo ago | Seed | Li Shangshang Founder | — | — | — |
| 8 | Taste BACK Multicategory food and beverage company | — | 102 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2016 | — | — |
Top 10 Food and Agriculture companies in Guangdong Province
#1
Series B · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2019 · 95 employees$27.3Mraised▾
Retailer of beef products
- Jan 2024Series B$11.6M
- Mar 2022Series A$15.7M
#2
HEYTEA 🦄Series C · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2012$578.4Mraised▾
Hi Tea owns and operates a chain of tea shops. The company offers cheese topped tea, fruit tea, manche cheese tea, almond coffee, cocoa milk tea, tea milk cover, sun moon lake lemon black tea, milk cap imperial tea, and tiramisu milk tea. It also offers green tea cake, strawberry pudding, and gong gong. The company is based in Bejing, China.
- Jun 2021Series C$500M
- Mar 2020Series C—
- Jul 2019Series B—
- May 2018Series B—
#3
Deadpooled · Huizhou, Guangdong Province · founded 2017 · 2000 employees$15.5Mraised▾
Online brand offering cakes. It provides cakes for various occasions such as celebrations, birthdays, etc. It also offers various flavors like mango, chocolate, strawberry, and more.
- Sep 2021Series B$15.5M
- Mar 2020Series A—
- Nov 2019Seed—
#4
Late Stage · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2008 · 694 employees$131Mraised▾
Manufacturer of natural nutrition health food using non-GM food ingredients
- Jul 2019PE$131M
#5
Acquired · Dongguan, Guangdong Province · founded 2002 · 10000 employees$135Mraised▾
Limited information available
- Oct 2009PE$135M
#6
Series B · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 1999 · 14047 employees$25Mraised▾
Little Sheep Group is engaged in the operation of full-service restaurants chain, provision of catering services, and sale of related food products. It operates Chinese hot pot restaurants. The company also involved in the production of soup-based seasonings and sale of lamb meat and provision of slaughtering and meat processing services. It operates and franchises full-service restaurants chain under the Little Sheep brand in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau.
- Jun 2006Series B$25M
#7
Seed · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province—raised▾
Internet first brand offering snacks and convenience food
#8
Deadpooled · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2016 · 30 employees—raised▾
BACK is a multicategory food and beverage company. Its products include chips, beef jerky, tea, cakes, pepper, and more. The company sells its products online. The company sells the majority of products in China.
- Apr 2018Seed—
#9
Late Stage · Maoming, Guangdong Province · founded 1991 · 23 employees—raised▾
Integrated agrochemical and veterinary medicine company focused on research, production, and sales. It is a modern enterprise group specializing in the research, production, and sales of agrochemical and veterinary medicine raw materials and formulations. The company develops, manufactures, and distributes a wide range of products including fungicides, insecticides, herbicides, and veterinary drugs. With a global presence, the company serves markets across Asia, the Americas, Africa, Europe, and Australia. Committed to quality and sustainability, the company holds certifications in quality management, environmental management, occupational health and safety, energy management, information technology, industrial integration, and intellectual property management. The company focuses on biological technology to improve the quality of life, and is dedicated to innovation and continuous improvement in technology, products, markets, safety, and environmental protection.
- Jan 2015PE—
#10
Deadpooled · Chaozhou, Guangdong Province · founded 1983—raised▾
Brand of milk powder
- Jul 2010PE—
- Sep 2009PE—
Funding & investor landscape
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
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Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Agritech is moving in China
A read on the academic research around Agritech — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 828 China-affiliated papers.
- Nanjing Agricultural University38
- China Agricultural University27
- Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences27
- Chinese Academy of Sciences22
- South China Agricultural University22
- Agriculture3→52
- Robot1→20
- Computer vision2→8
- Agriculture46→144
- Robot14→38
- Food security2→18
- Agricultural economics7→22
- Production (economics)4→18
- Greenhouse gas1→9
- Food security1→8
- Sustainable agriculture1→4
- Adaptability1→4
- Sustainable development3→6
Where agritech is researched across China
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing agritech patents in China
China agritech patent filing is steady — 27 filings from 22 assignees (2017–2025), led by FJ Dynamics TECH, UNIV WEST Anhui, WU CHEN; annual filings 1→1.
- FJ Dynamics TECH5
- UNIV WEST Anhui3
- WU CHEN2
- UNIV Qingdao Agricultural2
- Nanjing Institute Of Agricultura2
- Intel2
- Shenzhen Fangpeng TECH1
- Ningbo Techmation Software1
Common questions
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