Best Food and Agriculture Companies in Sweden
The 496 best Food and Agriculture companies in Sweden in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Boulebar.
Sweden's Food and Agriculture sector, ranked here by disclosed equity funding and recent funding momentum, tells a story that's worth your attention right now. Across 496 tracked companies, total disclosed funding sits at $107M, with Maurten leading the pack at $22M, Lignin at $7M, and Melt&Marble at $6M. One unicorn has cleared the threshold. And the investor base, anchored by Almi Invest, Uppsala Innovation Centre, and Ideon Innovation, signals a ecosystem that's methodical rather than frothy.
So what's actually moving? App-layer adoption gives you a real-time read: median install growth across 504 food and foodtech apps is running at roughly +20% YoY, which tells me digital engagement with this sector isn't theoretical. The CAGR for Food and Agriculture is tracking around 5.5%, driven by economic developments and soil-monitoring demand, and the thematic conversation is shifting toward food rescue, composting infrastructure, and agricultural extension outreach. Key practices for food and agriculture investing right now emphasize exactly these operational fundamentals over pure growth plays. Coverage overall is flat, but the hot corners are loud.
- prnewswire.com
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 Sweden
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boulebar Online retailer of home textiles, electronics, apparel, and sporting goods | $24M | 99 mo ago | 160 | Henrik Kruse Founder | PrismicNode.jsSvelteKit+27 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 2 | Maurten Brand of energy bars | $22M | 22 mo ago | 50 | Olof Sköld CEO | Cart FunctionalityCraft CommerceCraft CMS+23 | Top 500k | — | 2 launchs |
| 3 | Svenska Brasserier Provider of large restaurant and entertainment services | $11M | 47 mo ago | 400 | Niklas Johansson CEO | RubyAnimate.cssTailwind CSS+13 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 4 | Lignin Provider of fossil-based plastic and fiber solutions | $7M | 13 mo ago | 17 | Christopher Carrick CTO | — | — | — | 1 launch · 3 partnerships |
| 5 | Hooked Foods Brand of seafood | $6M | 35 mo ago | 22 | Tom Johansson CEO & Co-Founder | Wix eCommerceWixSentry+11 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 6 | Melt&Marble Platform offering plant-based meat alternative products | $6M | 6 mo ago | 20 | Florian David Co-Founder | WixSentryBootstrap+12 | Top 50M | 22 patents Patents concentrated in chemistry & materials | — |
| 7 | Xylophane AB A sustainable barrier for food packaging | $5M | 164 mo ago | — | Lisa Bindgård Founder | — | — | 13 patents Biodegradable hemicellulose-based polymer films and coatings for sustainable packaging | — |
| 8 | Nordic SeaFarm Provider of plant based sea weed | $5M | 21 mo ago | 16 | Gunnar Cervin Founder | Wix eCommerceWixSentry+15 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 9 | Wheelys Caf Restaurant chain or cafe operating on the street side with bicycles | $3M | 118 mo ago | 30 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | Buddy Private label brand of subscription-based dog food | $2M | 71 mo ago | 14 | Erik Gustafsson Co-Founder | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+36 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 11 | Tielman Provider of paper baking packing solutions | $2M | 60 mo ago | 31 | — | WordPress Site EditorWordPressMySQL+22 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 12 | Cerve Distributor of food products to wholesalers | $2M | 18 mo ago | 6 | — | Framer SitesReactCloudflare+15 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 13 | Vivitaly Provider of bioorganic and eco friendly products services | $2M | 34 mo ago | — | Oreste Pirro Owner | — | — | — | — |
| 14 | Agteria Provider of sustainable feed additives for livestock | $2M | 26 mo ago | — | Martin Blomberg Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | Mackmyra Whisky Brand of whisky | $2M | 176 mo ago | 55 | Magnus Dandanell Founder & CEO | Squarespace CommerceCart FunctionalitySquarespace+16 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 16 | Tebrito Manufacturer of protein food | $1M | 66 mo ago | 12 | Asa Marten Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 17 | Re meat Provider of meat processing services | $1M | 15 mo ago | — | Gittan Schiold Co-Founder & CCO | — | — | — | 1 partnership |
| 18 | For Real! Foods Chain of full service restaurant offering pizza | $963K | 51 mo ago | — | Daniel Nowak Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 19 | Micvac Manufacturer of steel belts and belt systems for diverse industrial applications | $891K | 294 mo ago | 18 | Joel Haamer Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+29 | Top 50M | 122 patents Food packaging and processing: one-way valve systems and preparation methods for food products | 1 award |
| 20 | Havredals Brand of ready to drink alcoholic drinks | $795K | 72 mo ago | 13 | Per-Johan Thorn Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 21 | 3TEMP Manufacturer of tools and equipment for the coffee industry | $752K | 18 mo ago | 10 | — | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+25 | Top 10M | 9 patents Automated beverage brewing and extraction systems for coffee and related drinks | 1 launch |
| 22 | Musselfeed Produces food ingredients | $603K | 54 mo ago | 9 | Odd Lindahl Founder | — | — | 7 patents Mussel-derived animal feed ingredient production for aquaculture nutrition | — |
| 23 | Logscom Provides timber marketing systems | $203K | 103 mo ago | — | Martin Englund Founder | — | — | 7 patents Wood piece marking and identification systems for forestry and timber tracking. | — |
| 24 | Sweden Food Tech Food ingredients processing company | $131K | 28 mo ago | — | Anders Sewerin Co-Founder | — | — | — | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
Top 12 Food and Agriculture companies in Sweden
#1
Series A · Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland County · founded 2014 · 20 employees$6.2Mraised▾
Platform offering plant-based meat alternative products. The company uses precision fermentation to create animal fats. It uses synthetic biology and metabolic engineering allowing to build of proprietary yeast strains. Its microbial metabolism can dictate the structure and properties of the fats that the microbes are producing, allowing to mimic the fat structure.
- Dec 2025Series A$8.5M
- Jul 2024Grant (prize money)$3M
- May 2022Seed$5.3M
- Aug 2021Seed$876.3K
#2
Series A · Knivsta, Uppsala County · founded 2018 · 17 employees$6.8Mraised▾
Provider of fossil-based plastic and fiber solutions. It converts lignin from various pulping industries so it can be blended with virgin materials to create renewable and functional bio-granulates. It is used to replace fossil-based plastics.
- May 2025Series A$4.3M
- Feb 2024Series A$2.4M
- Jul 2022Series A$4.4M
- Apr 2021Grant (prize money)$5.2M
#3
Series B · Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland County · founded 2015 · 50 employees$21.8Mraised▾
Brand of energy bars
- Jul 2024Series B$21.8M
#4
Seed · Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland County · founded 2020 · 16 employees$4.6Mraised▾
Provider of plant based sea weed. The company produces seaweed farming that includes growing crops through carbon dioxide and phosphorus. The company claims that the product includes nutrients, sugar kelp, antioxidants, and more.
- Aug 2024Seed$2.3M
- Feb 2022Seed$2.3M
- Oct 2021Grant (prize money)$981.7K
#5
Seed · Jonkoping, Jonkoping County · founded 2019 · 6 employees$2Mraised▾
Distributor of food products to wholesalers
- Dec 2024Seed$4.4M
- Apr 2022Seed$2M
- Seed—
#6
Seed · Malmo, Skane County · founded 2022$1.1Mraised▾
Provider of meat processing services
- Mar 2025Seed$1.1M
#7
Seed · Arvika, Varmland County · founded 2013 · 10 employees$751.6Kraised▾
Manufacturer of tools and equipment for the coffee industry
- Dec 2024Seed—
- Jun 2019Angel$751.6K
#8
Seed · Stockholm, Stockholm County · founded 2019 · 22 employees$6.2Mraised▾
Brand of seafood
- Jun 2023Seed$1M
- Sep 2021Seed$4.5M
- Dec 2020Seed$600K
- Oct 2020Seed$175.8K
#9
Series B · Stockholm, Stockholm County · founded 2013 · 400 employees$11.2Mraised▾
Provider of restaurant services based in Stockholm, Sweden. The company's service includes restaurant services, bar services, brasserie, takeaway food services, enabling customers to get a dining experience along with contemporary art and music.
- Jul 2022Series B$11.2M
#10
Seed · Stockholm, Stockholm County · founded 2023$1.5Mraised▾
Provider of sustainable feed additives for livestock
#11
Funding Raised · Stockholm, Stockholm County · founded 2018$1.9Mraised▾
Provider of bioorganic and eco friendly products services
- Jul 2023Grant (prize money)$863.8K
- Apr 2023Grant (prize money)$879.7K
- Feb 2021Grant (prize money)$161.9K
#12
Late Stage · Stockholm, Stockholm County · founded 2001 · 160 employees$24Mraised▾
Online retailer of home textiles, electronics, apparel, and sporting goods. It offers a wide selection of products across various categories, including home textiles, motorcycle parts, clothing, electrical equipment, team sports gear, mobile phones, and accessories. The platform facilitates online shopping with features such as product browsing, account creation, and order tracking. Customers can browse products and make purchases through a user-friendly interface. The company provides a secure payment gateway for transactions.
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 rising · growth rising
How research on Agritech is moving in Sweden
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 20 Sweden-affiliated papers.
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences8
- Lund University3
- Uppsala University2
- Linnaeus University2
- Stockholm Environment Institute1
- Agriculture3
- Climate change2
- Ecology2
- Food security1
- Livelihood1
- Agriculture1→4
Where agritech is researched across Sweden
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.
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.