Best Food and Agriculture Tech Companies in Austria
The 138 best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Austria in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Arkeon.
Austria's Food and Agriculture Tech scene is smaller than Berlin or Amsterdam by raw deal count, but the 138 companies we're tracking here are ranked by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum — and the numbers tell a focused story. Total disclosed funding sits at $54M across the directory, with Arkeon pulling well ahead of the pack at $14M, followed by Tree.ly and Orderlion at $5M each. No unicorns yet, but the concentration at the top is sharp. The global food and ag tech market was valued at roughly $4,200B in 2023 and is compounding at 4.7% CAGR, so even Austria's tight funding pool sits inside a market moving serious weight. Backers like EIC Fund, INiTS, and Europa are doing the most active work here, which tells you something about where the institutional appetite is pointing.
So what's the texture of this market right now? Across 504 food, foodtech, and agriculture apps, median install growth is running at roughly +20% year-on-year — consumer engagement is real, not hypothetical. Demand drivers worth watching include water conservation, plant-based category simplification, and functional ingredients, all of which map neatly onto what Austrian founders are building. Smáxtec's livestock monitoring angle and Revo Foods' alt-protein positioning both reflect that shift toward efficiency and ingredient transparency. If you're scanning this directory for partnership targets or investment leads, the funding gaps between the top handful and the rest of the 138 are wide enough to suggest the next breakout round is overdue.
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Our analysis of 414 Food and Agriculture Tech companies
$46.7b in tracked funding; 86% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2021.
Ranked: Best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Austria
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Stage | Founder | Employees | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Refarmo Develops software platform and algorithms for precision irrigation plans using satellite imaging | — | $59K | Funding Raised | Tomaz Scavnicar Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | AequatorLED LED plant lighting for strong growth and a profitable harvest | — | — | Unfunded | Philipp Gartlehner CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Agora Vino Online retailer of alcoholic beverages | — | — | Deadpooled | Leopold Kiem CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | AgrarCommander Provider of SaaS-based compliance management software for farmers | — | — | Unfunded | Hannes Schauer Managing Director | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+20 | — | — |
| 5 | Agrarcopter Provider of drone-based services for farm analysis | — | — | Unfunded | Daniel Hubl Founder & Owner | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | Agri Spectra Provider of an AI-powered platform for spectral analysis in agriculture | — | — | Unfunded | Shehroz Ali Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | Agrotech Gartenbautechnik Supplier of greenhouse vegetable production of crops | — | — | Acquired | Roman Kolbl CEO & MD | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Alpion Manufacturer of cattle management ear tags for health and position tracking | — | — | Unfunded | Clemens Leitner Founder | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Austria
#1
Seed · Vienna, Vienna · founded 2020 · 29 employees$1.8Mraised▾
Plant-based seafood provider using 3D food printing. The company uses Pea Protein, Algae Extracts, Plant Oils, and Citrus Fibers. The product offered includes smoked salmon spread.
- Aug 2025Seed$1.9M
- 2024Seed$1.4M
- Nov 2022Grant (prize money)$208.6K
- Apr 2021Seed$1.8M
#2
Seed · Graz, Styria · founded 2006 · 94 employees$4.1Mraised▾
SmaxTec provides an integrated hardware and software platform for real-time monitoring of cattle animals' rumen and data analytics to detect health-related issues. The hardware is an edible bolus which measures temperature, pH, and heating data on a real-time basis. Each bolus is allocated to a specific cattle and the company claims that no other animal identification infra is required. The data is pushed to a cloud and can be seen through the software platform. The data can be visualized for the detection of any health-related issues and for identifying calving periods for animals.
- Jan 2025Seed—
- Jan 2019Grant (prize money)$1.4M
- Feb 2017Grant (prize money)$1.4M
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$1.3M
#3
Seed · Dornbirn, Vorarlberg · founded 2019 · 10 employees$5.4Mraised▾
Provider of forest based management services
- Jul 2024Seed$5.4M
- Oct 2019Grant (prize money)$239.6K
#4
Seed · Vienna, Vienna · founded 2020 · 23 employees$1.8Mraised▾
Innovative cafeteria solutions. It offers healthy meals, beverages, snacks, and more food directly at the workplace. It allows employees to have food without pre-ordering.
- Dec 2024Conventional Debt$1.6M
- Mar 2022Angel$217.3K
#5
Seed · Vienna, Vienna · founded 2021 · 35 employees$13.8Mraised▾
Developer of protein ingredients through carbon capture. The technique is carbon-negative, independent of agricultural land, and employs industrial CO₂ as a feedstock. It provides a sustainable alternative to traditional protein synthesis.
- Jan 2023Seed$3M
- Dec 2022Seed$4.2M
- Mar 2022Seed$6.5M
#6
Seed · Vienna, Vienna · founded 2018 · 29 employees$5.1Mraised▾
Provider of online ordering solutions for food distributors. The platform offers solutions for online order management, product promotions, marketing analytical reports, and more. The mobile application is available for Android and iOS platforms.
- Dec 2023Seed—
- Nov 2022Seed$4M
- Nov 2022Conventional Debt—
- Jan 2020Seed$1.1M
#7
Funding Raised · Linz, Upper Austria · founded 2023$8.7Mraised▾
Provider of nitrogen based crop nutrition. They claim they offer a range of products and solutions designed to support agricultural growth and industrial processes.
- Apr 2023Grant (prize money)$8.7M
#8
Funding Raised · Tulln, Lower Austria · founded 2021$2.5Mraised▾
Developers of bio-based super water-absorbing hydrogels. It offers a novel bio-based absorbent and agrochemical storage system for agricultural purposes. It claims that its products increase soil water holding capacity, organic matter/humus, and fertility & convert unproductive soils like sand soils into productive soils.
- 2023Grant (prize money)$54.6K
- Jul 2022Grant (prize money)$2.5M
#9
Acquired · Weibern, Upper Austria · founded 2009 · 60 employees$5.3Mraised▾
Provider of integrated solution for real-time livestock monitoring. It monitors the location of an animal, heating details through cow activity and rumination of cattle. The data is pushed to a cloud and can be accessed by the farm owner anytime through mobile or web interface. Notification push is done by the platform for important notifications regarding the cattle health or farming practices.
- Feb 2017Series A$5.3M
#10
Acquired · Kirchberg An Der Raab, Styria · founded 2011 · 30 employees$1.4Mraised▾
Innovative food safety, analyzing, and sorting technologies for a sustainable future. The company pioneers advanced solutions for the food processing industry, ensuring quality and minimizing waste. Specializing in Chemical Imaging Technology (CIT), they detect and remove defects with accuracy. Their machine series redefines efficiency and precision in food sorting and analysis. They offer versatile inspection technology with unmatched food safety, automation, and quality monitoring. They are committed to advancing food processing technology globally, focusing on innovation and integrity. They provide solutions for efficient and safe sorting, inline analysis, efficient monitoring, state-of-the-art technology, and optimized food safety. They are dedicated to sustainability and social responsibility, supporting initiatives like education for underprivileged children. They are a technology company that is part of a group of innovators shaping the future of the food industry.
- Jul 2021Grant (prize money)$59.4K
- Aug 2019Grant (prize money)$1.2M
- Oct 2018Grant (prize money)$56.8K
- Jul 2018Grant (prize money)$58.4K
#11
Seed · Vienna, Vienna · founded 2012 · 39 employees$314Kraised▾
Platform providing scientific-based data on the impact of grocery products. The app uses its proprietary technology that can track the user’s grocery basket to inform the CO2 impact of purchases. The company offers mobile applications for Android and IOS devices.
- Nov 2023Grant (prize money)$314K
- Oct 2023Seed—
#12
Deadpooled · Vienna, Vienna · founded 2021$228.7Kraised▾
Provider of shared vertical farms for urban spaces. It develops and operates micro-farms for urban residents to grow their own produce, such as green leafy vegetables, medicinal and aphrodisiac herbs, fruits, vegetables as well as edible flowers. Users can book and rent space on the farms using the web-based software.
- Jan 2024Grant (prize money)$228.7K
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Food and Agriculture Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Food Technology is moving in Austria
A read on the academic research around Food Technology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 194 Austria-affiliated papers.
- BOKU University44
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis33
- Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety19
- TU Wien13
- University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna12
- Agriculture3
- Sustainability2
- Food safety2
- Food science2
- Provisioning2
- Agriculture6
- Food processing6
- Mycotoxin6
- Food safety5
- Aflatoxin4
- Food security2→18
- Food safety3→15
- Agriculture5→14
- Production (economics)4→10
- Sustainability1→7
Where food tech is researched across Austria
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.