Best Food and Agriculture Companies in Turkey
The 169 best Food and Agriculture companies in Turkey in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Reka Oil.
Food and Agriculture in Turkey is more competitive than the headline funding number suggests. Our directory tracks 169 companies with $47M in total disclosed funding, and two names account for the bulk of it: Reka Oil at $22M and IsıkTarım at $18M, which together pull nearly 85% of the capital pool. Everything else, Wastespresso, Mizanplus Kitchens, Saf Nutrition, operates on seed-stage budgets. No unicorns yet. But the 5.5% CAGR trajectory points to a sector that's building toward something, driven by soil-condition monitoring, economic tailwinds and rising consumer demand.
So what's actually moving? Across 504 food and agritech apps, median install growth is running at roughly +20% year-over-year, which tells you digital adoption is real even where funding is thin. Hot themes right now are food waste composting, food rescue donations and agricultural extension outreach, and I'd watch how backers like Mediterra Capital and FMO position around those. Key practices for ag investing point toward exactly this kind of patient, infrastructure-first approach. If you're mapping Turkey's food and agriculture startup map, the concentration at the top is sharp, but the long tail is wide open.
- 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 Turkey
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reka Oil Brand of oil | $22M | 128 mo ago | Funding Raised | Murat Reka CEO | 2010 | WordPressMySQLPHP+17 | — |
| 2 | IsıkTarım Company that specializes in the production and export of organic dried fruits and nuts | $18M | 22 mo ago | Late Stage | Altan Isik CEO | 1974 | PHPVue.jsNginx+13 | — |
| 3 | Wastespresso Processor of coffee waste | $5M | 34 mo ago | Series A | Kerem Acar Co-Founder | 2020 | Wix eCommerceWixSentry+19 | 2 job openings |
| 4 | Saf Nutrition Internet first brand of spices, cookies, chocolate & protein mixes | $750K | 42 mo ago | Seed | Tolga Tuncsav Co-Founder - Manager | 2019 | Cart FunctionalityShopifyAmazon Web Services+15 | — |
| 5 | Mizanplus Kitchens Operator of restaurant | $660K | 38 mo ago | Seed | A Harun Ozdemir Co-Founder & CEO | 2022 | Node.jsUbuntuMUI+10 | — |
| 6 | Kybele's Garden Biotechnology company specializing in algae-based solutions for agrifood and cosmetics | $250K | 26 mo ago | Seed | Aygen Alkan Co-Founder & CEO | 2021 | WordPress Block EditorElementorWordPress+19 | — |
| 7 | Malty Food Internet first brand offering snacks | $134K | 46 mo ago | Seed | Merve Yetis Co-Founder | 2021 | — | — |
| 8 | MAY Developer of seeds | — | 46 mo ago | Funding Raised | Mehmet Yormazoglu Founder | 1978 | Windows ServerMicrosoft ASP.NETIIS+14 | — |
Top 12 Food and Agriculture companies in Turkey
#1
Late Stage · Izmir, Aegean Region · founded 1974 · 800 employees$18Mraised▾
Manufacturer and exporter of organic dried fruits and nuts. The company has over 3,000 registered organic farmers in more than 150 different villages, covering 11,000 hectares of land and exports to more than 30 countries, including Australia, Canada, the countries of the European Union, Japan and the United States of America.
#2
Series A · Atasehir, Istanbul · founded 2020$4.6Mraised▾
Processor of coffee waste
- Aug 2023Series A—
- Jun 2023Series A$3M
- Sep 2020Seed$1.6M
#3
Seed · Cankaya, Ankara · founded 2021$250Kraised▾
Biotechnology company specializing in algae-based solutions for agrifood and cosmetics. It develops climate-friendly and circular products using algae power.
- Apr 2024Seed$250K
#4
Seed · Istanbul, Istanbul · founded 2022$660Kraised▾
Developer of a multi-brand cloud kitchen software system designed to manage various franchise brands and cloud kitchens and to provide service using data, technology and recipes. The company's software system specializes in turning an existing shop into a cloud kitchen or starting a new cloud kitchen, enabling clients to reach new customers by maintaining their current operation with new food types and minimizing waste by adding variety to their operation.
- Apr 2023Seed$660K
#5
Funding Raised · Tekirdag, Tekirdag · founded 2010$22.4Mraised▾
Reka Edible Oil Industry and Trade Inc. is a Turkish company that specializes in the production and trading of vegetable oils, including sunflower oil, safflower oil, and rapeseed oil. The company's main business is crushing, refining, trading, and distributing agricultural commodities, with a focus on the European and Middle Eastern markets. With a strong presence in Turkey and a growing global footprint, Reka Oil aims to provide high-quality products to its customers while maintaining a strong commitment to quality and sustainability.
- Sep 2015Conventional Debt$22.4M
#6
Seed · Maslak, Istanbul · founded 2019 · 14 employees$750Kraised▾
Internet first brand of spices, cookies, chocolate & protein mixes
- Dec 2022Seed$750K
#7
Seed · Istanbul, Istanbul · founded 2021$133.6Kraised▾
Internet first brand offering snacks
- Aug 2022Seed$133.6K
#8
Funding Raised · Bursa, Bursa · founded 1978 · 240 employees—raised▾
Developer of seeds
#9
Series A · Mugla, Mugla · founded 1990 · 2500 employees—raised▾
Kilic is a brand of canned fishes. Their products include various types of fishes such as Mediterranean sea bream, Mediterranean sea bass, meagre, rainbow trout, blue fin tuna and more. The company claims that it sells its products in 40 countries including Turkey and Europe.
#10
Funding Raised · Kayseri, Central Anatolia Region · founded 1955 · 266 employees—raised▾
Kayseri Seker processes and supplies sugarbeet products. The product offerings include crystal sugar and molasses. The company owns and operates 2 sugarbeet processing factories. Claims to procure beet through contract farming from producers of Kayseri, Sivas, Yozgat, and Nevsehir. The company is operational in Turkey.
#11
Series A · Besiktas, Istanbul · founded 2012 · 8500 employees—raised▾
Multi-brand restaurant group
- Mar 2018Series A—
#12
Public · Umraniye, Istanbul · founded 1969 · 18724 employees—raised▾
One of the leading producer of beer
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 Turkey
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 75 Turkey-affiliated papers.
- Atatürk University4
- Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi4
- Ondokuz Mayıs University4
- Bahçeşehir University3
- Bursa Uludağ Üni̇versi̇tesi̇3
- Agriculture4
- Embedded system2
- Agricultural engineering2
- Context (archaeology)1
- Overfitting1
- Agriculture1→21
- Agriculture1→9
Where agritech is researched across Turkey
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.