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Best Food and Agriculture Companies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The 54 best Food and Agriculture companies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: ZUS Coffee.

54companies tracked
$92.6Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
5have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · FOOD AND AGRICULTURE × KUALA LUMPUR

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.

653companies analysed
82%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
12unicorns
2015median founding year

Ranked: Best Food and Agriculture companies in Kuala Lumpur

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackRecent signals
1ZUS Coffee
Provider of specialty coffee via a tech-driven platform
$57M22 mo agoSeries ALim how
Co-Founder
2019WordPress Block EditorElementorWordPress+27—
2Secret Recipe
Retail cafe chain based in SEA
$31M149 mo agoLate Stage—1997Cart FunctionalityBootstrapAmazon Web Services+22—
3Koppiku
Internet first brand of ready to drink coffee
$2M28 mo agoSeedMelissa Lim
Co-Founder
2023WordPressMySQLPHP+242 job openings · 1 launch
4Beingjuice
Provider of fresh, fruit and vegetable-based juices
$1M17 mo agoSeedSayantan Das
Co-Founder & CEO
2024Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+10—
5Kind Kones
Chain of ice-cream parlors
$753K13 mo agoSeries ASerina Bajaj
Co-Founder
2017ShopifyBootstrapYMQ Product Options Variant Option+21—
6Dadvance Agarwood Solutions
Provider of wood plantation, research, development, and other services
$436K43 mo agoSeedDavidoff Lim
Co-Founder & Group CEO
2008WordPress Block EditorwpBakeryElementor+24—
7Seafoody
Company is the sustainable seafood movement
—29 mo agoSeedZach Leong
Co-Founder
2023——
8Brahim's Holdings
In-flight food service provider
—69 mo agoPublic—2003WordPressMySQLPHP+10—

Top 9 Food and Agriculture companies in Kuala Lumpur

#1
Series A · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur · founded 2019
$57.3Mraised
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Provider of specialty coffee via a tech-driven platform. It offers high-quality coffee at affordable prices, emphasizing control over the entire process from bean to cup. The company utilizes a mobile application for ordering and delivery, streamlining the customer experience with pickup and delivery options. The focus is on convenient access to specialty coffee, removing traditional overhead costs to maintain affordability.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 85k LinkedIn followers — 37.0% of this cohort's audience · 325 engagements/post (13.2× cohort median)
Activity: 1 partnerships · 1 awards (incl. National Sports Council of Malaysia (Majlis Sukan Negara)) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2024Series A$57.3M
  • Mar 2023Seed—
Founders & team
Lim howCo-FounderIan ChuaCo-Founder
Investors
Choi’s Garden Restaurant, KV Asia Capital, Kumpulan Wang Persaraan, Kapalapi
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesAnt DesignAtomeBackbone.Js
#2
Series A · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur · founded 2017 · 24 employees
$753Kraised
▾

Chain of ice-cream parlors

Funding rounds
  • May 2025Series A—
  • Jan 2021Seed$753K
Founders & team
Serina BajajCo-FounderIshpal BajajCo-Founder
Investors
DSG Consumer Partners, Sabre Ventures, Epic Angels, Apricot Capital
Tech stack
Apple PayCart FunctionalityCdnjsCloudflareCore-JsFacebook Pixel
#3
Seed · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur · founded 2024
$1Mraised
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Provider of fresh, fruit and vegetable-based juices. The company sources ingredients from local farmers and handcrafts its juices daily. Products are designed to be nutritious and provide essential vitamins. The business operates through multiple retail locations and offers an app for ordering and rewards.

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2025Seed$1M
Founders & team
Sayantan DasCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
500 Global, Beenext
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesHstsNext.JsNext.Js App RouterNode.JsPriority Hints
#4
Seed · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur · founded 2023
$2.5Mraised
▾

Internet first brand of ready to drink coffee

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers
Hiring: 2 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · momentum +2 · hiring: Operations Management Trainee, Area Manager
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2024Seed$2.5M
  • Aug 2023Seed—
Founders & team
Melissa LimCo-FounderRajiv BhanotCo-Founder
Investors
Vertex Ventures, Reshape Ventures, First Move Fund
Tech stack
All In One SeoBootstrapCloudflareCloudflare Browser InsightsCore-JsElementor
#5
Late Stage · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur · founded 1997 · 415 employees
$30.7Mraised
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Operator of a chain of restaurants based in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. The company offers a wide range of cakes and pastries, fusion food and dining services for all meals, enabling customers to get quality gourmet food items..

Investors
Fosun
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesApache Http ServerBootstrapCart FunctionalityCdnjs
#6
Seed · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur · founded 2008
$436Kraised
▾

Provider of wood plantation, research, development, and other services

Founders & team
Davidoff LimCo-Founder & Group CEOAdrieent TanCo-Founder & Acting Managing Director
Tech stack
Animate.CssBootstrapContact Form 7Core-JsElementorFacebook Pixel
#7
Seed · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur · founded 2023
—raised
▾

Seafood Watch is a global leader in the sustainable seafood movement, providing science-based seafood recommendations to businesses, chefs, and consumers.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2024Seed—
Founders & team
Zach LeongCo-FounderSamantha OoiCo-FounderEleen KeeFounder/CEO
Investors
Antler
#8
Public · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur · founded 2003 · 531 employees
—raised
▾

In-flight food service provider

Investors
Focus Dynamics
Tech stack
Apache Http ServerGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Hosted LibrariesImagely Nextgen GalleryJqueryJquery Migrate
#9
Public · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur · founded 2002 · 1500 employees
—raised
▾

Chain of casual dining restaurants offering food and drinks

Investors
Rockstead, Tremendous Asia Partner
Tech stack
Apache Http Server

Funding & investor landscape

$92.6Mtotal disclosed funding
6companies funded
4disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
500 Global1 rounds
AEI1 rounds
Affinity Equity Partners1 rounds
Antler1 rounds
Apricot Capital1 rounds
Beenext1 rounds
CVC1 rounds
Choi’s Garden Restaurant1 rounds
DSG Consumer Partners1 rounds
Epic Angels1 rounds

Notable founders

Lim how
Co-Founder · ZUS Coffee
Ian Chua
Co-Founder · ZUS Coffee
Serina Bajaj
Co-Founder · Kind Kones
Ishpal Bajaj
Co-Founder · Kind Kones
Sayantan Das
Co-Founder & CEO · Beingjuice
Melissa Lim
Co-Founder · Koppiku
Rajiv Bhanot
Co-Founder · Koppiku
Davidoff Lim
Co-Founder & Group CEO · Dadvance Agarwood Solutions
Adrieent Tan
Co-Founder & Acting Managing Director · Dadvance Agarwood Solutions
Zach Leong
Co-Founder · Seafoody
Samantha Ooi
Co-Founder · Seafoody
Prism market signals · Malaysia · country-scoped Prism corpus, 160,694 docs

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 rising · growth rising

RESEARCH SIGNALS · Malaysia

How research on Agritech is moving in Malaysia

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 130 Malaysia-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
201820232025
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 39% → 60% across 2018–2025.
top research entities
  • Universiti Putra Malaysia19
  • National University of Malaysia13
  • Multimedia University13
  • Universiti Teknologi MARA13
  • University of Technology Malaysia10
leading researchers
Redmond R. Shamshiri · Cornelia Weltzien · Ibrahim A. Hameed · Lenka Pitonakova · Siva K. Balasundram · Ian J. Yule · Tony E. Grift · Aqeel Mahmood Jawad
▲ Breakthroughs10 · 8%
▲ 0%→10% share
1 median citations90% since 2021mostly methods-led
Agriculture research newly emerged with 7 papers, driving Breakthroughs field-share from 0% to 10%.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Agriculture7
  • Agricultural engineering3
  • Artificial neural network2
  • Particle swarm optimization1
  • Path loss1
Newly emergingAgriculture 0→7
Landmark Accurate Empirical Path-Loss Model Based on Particle Swarm Optimization for Wireless Sensor Networks in Smart Agricultur · 127 cites
◆ Advancements75 · 58%
▲ 0%→55% share
2 median citations71% since 2021mostly methods-led
IoT agritech advancements intensifying — 12 new papers pushed field-share from 0% to 55%.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Agriculture44
  • Internet of Things16
  • Field (mathematics)11
  • Robot11
  • Agricultural engineering10
Newly emergingAgriculture 0→36 · Internet of Things 0→12 · Agricultural engineering 0→7
Landmark Wireless Power Transfer With Magnetic Resonator Coupling and Sleep/Active Strategy for a Drone Charging Station in Smart · 138 cites
▼ Concerns28 · 22%
▲ 0%→20% share
1 median citations71% since 2021mostly reviews
Agriculture-linked concerns rising sharply — papers grew from 2 to 15, reaching 20% field-share.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Agriculture2→15
Landmark Research and development in agricultural robotics: A perspective of digital farming · 507 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Malaysia

Where agritech is researched across Malaysia

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.

Kuala Lumpur28 · +0.22
Hot · AutomationAdvancing · Agricultural engineeringOpportunity · Precision agricultureConcern · Agriculture
Seri Kembangan19 · +0.16
Hot · RoboticsAdvancing · SoftwareConcern · Precision agriculture
Malacca17 · +0.46
Hot · AgricultureOpportunity · Internet of Things
Shah Alam16 · +0.45
Hot · Internet of ThingsAdvancing · AgricultureOpportunity · Agricultural economics
Bangi13 · +0.35
Hot · AgricultureOpportunity · Motion planning
Johor Bahru10 · +0.35
Hot · AgricultureOpportunity · Internet privacy
George Town9 · +0.39
Hot · AgricultureAdvancing · Internet of Things
Petaling Jaya6 · +0.43
Hot · AgricultureOpportunity · Internet of Things

Common questions

How many Food and Agriculture companies are there in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia?
Radar tracks 54 indexable Food and Agriculture companies headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Food and Agriculture companies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia?
The Food and Agriculture companies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on this list have raised a combined $92.6M in disclosed equity funding across 6 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Food and Agriculture company in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia?
ZUS Coffee is the highest-funded Food and Agriculture company in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with $57.3M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Food and Agriculture companies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia are funded?
6 of the 54 Food and Agriculture companies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Food and Agriculture unicorns are there in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia?
None of the Food and Agriculture companies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Food and Agriculture companies?
The most active investors in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Food and Agriculture companies on this list include 500 Global, AEI, Affinity Equity Partners, Antler, Apricot Capital.
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