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Best Food and Agriculture Companies in Veneto, Italy

The 90 best Food and Agriculture companies in Veneto, Italy in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Zonin.

90companies tracked
$124.9Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
3have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · FOOD AND AGRICULTURE × VENETO

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
229kcombined LinkedIn audience
49%of audience held by top 3
1companies hiring publicly (12 mo)

Ranked: Best Food and Agriculture companies in Veneto

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1Zonin
Italian winemaking family producing high-quality wines with prestigious awards and a focus on prosecco
$74M90 mo agoLate Stage—1821WordPressMySQLPHP+18——
2Pasta Zara
Manufacturer & brand of pasta
$29M57 mo agoSeries B—1898WordPressMySQLPHP+21——
3Rigoni Di Asiago
Producer and distributor of organic condiments
$18M14 mo agoEarly Stage—1923———
4La Collina dei Ciliegi
Retailer of wines
$3M40 mo agoSeries AMassimo Gianolli
Owner
2000WordPressMySQLPHP+17—2 partnerships
5Turatti Group
Manufacturer of food processing equipment
—51 mo agoAcquiredAlessandro Turatti
CEO
1869WordPress Block EditorWordPressPlesk+282 patents
Vegetable washing, sterilization, and drying equipment for food processing
—
6Poke Scuse
Chain of restaurant serving diversified dishes
—53 mo agoSeedChristopher Clementi
CEO
2019———
7FORNO D'ASOLO
Manufacturer of frozen Ready to bake products
—64 mo agoAcquired—1985Adobe Experience ManagerApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+16——
8Latteria e Caseificio Moro
Cheese and diary products processing company
—79 mo agoLate Stage—1900WordPressMySQLPHP+22——

Top 12 Food and Agriculture companies in Veneto

#1
Early Stage · Asiago, Veneto · founded 1923 · 118 employees
$18.5Mraised
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Rigoni di Asiago is an Italian producer and distributor of organic condiments. The product portfolio comprises Italian honey, jam, choco spread, natural sweeteners, and fruit nectars. The company controls the supply chain from the organic cultivation of the raw materials to the packaging of the finished products. The company sells its products through offline distribution channels. Rigoni di Asiago along with Ferrero and Barilla won the Best Brands Italy in 2016.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 30k LinkedIn followers — 13.2% of this cohort's audience · 203 engagements/post (2.4× cohort median)
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. Natù Arance) announced in 12 mo
Investors
Fondo Italiano d'Investimento, Kharis Capital, Europa, Banco BPM, UniCredit, Illimity
Tech stack
Google Tag ManagerCloudflare
#2
Series B · Riese Pio X, Veneto · founded 1898 · 450 employees
$29.5Mraised
▾

Pasta Zara is a manufacturer & brand of pasta in a variety of types such as classic, special, trafilata, fantasies, maxi, biological integral etc.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 6k LinkedIn followers — 2.4% of this cohort's audience
Investors
AMCO
Tech stack
Cart FunctionalityCloudflareCore-JsHstsHttp/3Open Graph
#3
Late Stage · Vicenza, Veneto · founded 1821
$73.7Mraised
▾

Italian winemaking family producing high-quality wines with prestigious awards and a focus on prosecco

Investors
21 Invest
Tech stack
Apache Http ServerBackbone.JsContact Form 7CookiebotGoogle Font ApiJquery
#4
Series A · Grezzana, Veneto · founded 2000
$3.2Mraised
▾

Retailer of wines

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 2 partnerships (incl. Fondazione Arena di Verona) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Feb 2023Series A$3.2M
Founders & team
Massimo GianolliOwner
Tech stack
Aruba.ItContact Form 7Google Tag ManagerGsapHttp/3Iubenda
#5
Acquired · Cavarzere, Veneto · founded 1869 · 30 employees
—raised
▾

Manufacturer of food processing equipment

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 product launches · 1 partnerships (incl. Walterfield Limited) announced in 12 mo
Founders & team
Alessandro TurattiCEO
Investors
Entangled Capital
#6
Seed · Jesolo, Veneto · founded 2019 · 24 employees
—raised
▾

Chain of restaurant serving diversified dishes

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2022Seed—
Founders & team
Christopher ClementiCEO
Investors
I-RFK
#7
Acquired · Maser, Veneto · founded 1985 · 350 employees
—raised
▾

Manufacturer of frozen Ready to bake products

Investors
Itago, Rothschild & Co
Tech stack
Adobe Client Data LayerAdobe Experience ManagerAmazon AlbAmazon SesAmazon Web ServicesApple Icloud Mail
#8
Late Stage · Motta di Livenza, Veneto · founded 1900 · 60 employees
—raised
▾

Cheese and diary products processing company

Investors
Argos Wityu
Tech stack
Contact Form 7Ewww Image OptimizerGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font ApiGoogle Tag ManagerHttp/3
#9
Funding Raised · Quinto Vicentino, Veneto · founded 2003
—raised
▾

Offers research and training services to agricultural sector

Founders & team
Adriano AltissimoCEO & PresidentElena BerdinCEO
Investors
EIC Fund, Europa
#10
Acquired · Fossalta di Piave, Veneto · founded 1928 · 72 employees
—raised
▾

Brand of wines

Investors
DeA Capital
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailBootstrapCdnjsCloudflareContact Form 7Cookiebot
#11
Funding Raised · Campodarsego, Veneto · founded 1964 · 265 employees
—raised
▾

Maschio Gaspardo is a company that specializes in technology for agriculture 4.0. They offer innovative and effective cultivation techniques and have over 50 years of experience in producing power harrows. They have a global presence with sales branches in over 150 countries.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 42k LinkedIn followers — 18.3% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 3 expansions announced in 12 mo
Investors
Europa
Tech stack
Acconsento.ClickAlpine.JsAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesAngularCookiebot
#12
Acquired · Quinto di Treviso, Veneto · founded 2013 · 21 employees
—raised
▾

Buona Compagnia Gourmet produces and markets potato gnocchi and prepared sauces. Its product offerings include gnocchi, pasta, pesto, sauces, and gravies. It markets its products under the brand of Pestamore. The company is based in Quinto di Treviso, Italy.

Funding rounds
  • 2015PE—
Investors
Siparex Investments
Tech stack
Amazon AlbAmazon Web ServicesApache Http ServerBootstrapFancyboxGoogle Analytics

Funding & investor landscape

$124.9Mtotal disclosed funding
4companies funded
1disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Europa3 rounds
21 Invest1 rounds
3i Group1 rounds
AMCO1 rounds
Alcedo1 rounds
Anthilia Capital Partners1 rounds
Argos Wityu1 rounds
Arka Clothing1 rounds
Banco BPM1 rounds
DeA Capital1 rounds

Notable founders

Massimo Gianolli
Owner · La Collina dei Ciliegi
Alessandro Turatti
CEO · Turatti Group
Christopher Clementi
CEO · Poke Scuse
Adriano Altissimo
CEO & President · Landlab
Elena Berdin
CEO · Landlab
Andrea Cavagnis
CEO · Pavan
Prism market signals · Italy · country-scoped Prism corpus, 1,933,566 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 · Italy

How research on Agritech is moving in Italy

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 193 Italy-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
201420212025
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 38% → 64% across 2014–2025.
top research entities
  • University of Bologna15
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations13
  • University of Padua13
  • National Research Council10
  • University of Pisa9
leading researchers
Leslie Lipper · Solomon Asfaw · Stefano Giordano · Robert B. Zougmoré · Aslıhan Arslan · Francesco Marinello · Davide Adami · Sara Migliorini
▲ Breakthroughs43 · 22%
▲ 0%→25% share
4 median citations79% since 2021mostly methods-led
Precision agriculture newly emerged with 9 papers, driving Breakthroughs field-share from 0% to 25% in Italian agritech research.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Agriculture2→17
  • Context (archaeology)2→4
Newly emergingPrecision agriculture 0→9 · Internet of Things 0→6 · Robot 0→6
Landmark Climate smart agriculture rapid appraisal (CSA-RA): A tool for prioritizing context-specific climate smart agriculture t · 190 cites
◆ Advancements74 · 38%
▲ 33%→44% share
▲1.3× share momentum8 median citations74% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements field-share rose from 33% to 44%, led by Agriculture papers surging from 2 to 31 and Robot newly contributing 10 papers.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Agriculture2→31
Newly emergingRobot 0→10 · Sustainability 0→6 · Agricultural engineering 0→6
Landmark Sustainable intensification: What is its role in climate smart agriculture? · 543 cites
▼ Concerns50 · 26%
▼ 33%→20% share
▼0.6× share momentum9 median citations54% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns field-share cooled from 33% to 20%, though Agriculture papers intensified from 10 to 16 alongside rising Productivity and Natural resource economics.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Agriculture10→16
  • Natural resource economics2→4
  • Productivity2→4
Landmark IoT-Enabled Smart Agriculture: Architecture, Applications, and Challenges · 405 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Italy

Where agritech is researched across Italy

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.

Rome27 · +0.38
Hot · AgricultureAdvancing · Precision agricultureOpportunity · Embedded system
Bologna15 · +0.62
Padua13 · +0.06
Hot · AgricultureOpportunity · Agricultural engineering
Milan12 · +0.58
Hot · RobotOpportunity · Agriculture
Pisa9 · +0.47
Advancing · AgricultureOpportunity · Energy consumption
Turin7 · +0.10
Genoa6 · +0.75
Hot · AgricultureOpportunity · Sustainable agriculture

Common questions

How many Food and Agriculture companies are there in Veneto, Italy?
Radar tracks 90 indexable Food and Agriculture companies headquartered in Veneto, Italy that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Food and Agriculture companies in Veneto, Italy?
The Food and Agriculture companies in Veneto, Italy on this list have raised a combined $124.9M in disclosed equity funding across 4 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Food and Agriculture company in Veneto, Italy?
Zonin is the highest-funded Food and Agriculture company in Veneto, Italy, with $73.7M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Food and Agriculture companies in Veneto, Italy are funded?
4 of the 90 Food and Agriculture companies in Veneto, Italy on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Food and Agriculture unicorns are there in Veneto, Italy?
None of the Food and Agriculture companies in Veneto, Italy on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Veneto, Italy Food and Agriculture companies?
The most active investors in Veneto, Italy Food and Agriculture companies on this list include Europa, 21 Invest, 3i Group, AMCO, Alcedo.
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