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Best Food and Agriculture Tech Companies in Baden Wurttemberg, Germany

The 58 best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Baden Wurttemberg, Germany in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: AIPERIA.

58companies tracked
$18.6Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
10have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · FOOD AND AGRICULTURE TECH × BADEN WURTTEMBERG

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.

414companies analysed
86%cloud-native stacks
2021funding peak (by rounds)
19unicorns
2017median founding year
1.7Mcombined LinkedIn audience
99%of audience held by top 3

Ranked: Best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Baden Wurttemberg

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1AIPERIA
AI-based software solutions for food manufacturers
$8M26 mo agoSeries AFranz Seubert
Co-Founder & Managing Director
2021WordPressMySQLPHP+19——
2Subitec
Technology for cultivation of micro algae
$6M167 mo agoSeries APeter Ripplinger
CEO
2000WordPressMySQLPHP+1811 patents
Air‑purifying bioreactors that capture pollutants and generate valuable bioproducts
—
3smark
Platform offers automated shopping stations for digital grocery retail
$3M72 mo agoSeries AMaximilian Ittermann
Co-Founder
2016—5 patents
Automated warehouse material handling and hybrid bearing technologies for storage/retrieval.
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4Computomics
Provider of data analysis services for next-generation sequencing data for the crop science industry
$551K56 mo agoSeries A—2012ContaoMicrosoft WordPHP+6—1 partnership
5Tsenso
Solution to monitor temperature of temperature sensitive goods
$130K88 mo agoSeedMatthias Brunner
Co-Founder & CEO
2015—2 patents
Food property analysis using sensor-based measurement techniques for quality assessment
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6Forstware
Developer of software solutions for the wood and forestry industries
$73K117 mo agoFunding RaisedBjoern Ruff
Managing Director
1986———
7MyCouchbox
Online platform to order snacks and confectioneries
$34K121 mo agoSeedSarah Haide
Co-Founder & CEO
2014———
8Organifarms
Provider of automation technology for indoor farming
$27K37 mo agoFunding RaisedMarian Bolz
CTO & Co-Founder
2020WixSentryBootstrap+13——

Top 11 Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Baden Wurttemberg

#1
Series A · Tauberbischofsheim, Baden Wurttemberg · founded 2021
$8Mraised
▾

AI-based software solutions for food manufacturers. It provides analytics solutions for food manufacturers including supply-chain management, demand forecasting, sales prediction, and more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2024Series A$8M
Founders & team
Franz SeubertCo-Founder & Managing DirectorJan MellerCo-Founder & Managing DirectorFabian TaigelCo-Founder & Managing Director
Investors
ETF Partners, LBBW Venture Capital, Earlybird
Tech stack
Apache Http ServerBorlabs CookieCore-JsDownload MonitorElementorHello Elementor
#2
Series A · Tubingen, Baden Wurttemberg · founded 2012 · 13 employees
$551Kraised
▾

Provider of data analysis services for next-generation sequencing data for the crop science industry. It applies AI to genetics, phenotype, microbiome, and environmental datasets that helps navigate the complexities of grain, vegetable, fruit, and other genomes. Its bioinformatics services provide clients with quality NGS data interpretation from genomics tools and technologies. Its services include Genome assembly, Genome annotation, Genomic variance, Epigenetic, and Metagenomic analysis.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. Chapel54) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Oct 2021Series A—
  • Sep 2020Grant (prize money)$117.2K
  • May 2020Grant (prize money)$55.5K
  • Jan 2020Grant (prize money)$117.2K
Investors
Europa, EIC Fund, BASF, Amathaon, HTGF, FoodBytes
Tech stack
Apache Http ServerContaoHstsJqueryJquery UiMatomo Analytics
#3
Series A · Stuttgart, Baden Wurttemberg · founded 2016 · 26 employees
$3.5Mraised
▾

Platform offers automated shopping stations for digital grocery retail. It includes a system where users can order items via a smartphone app or an on-site touchscreen.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Jun 2020Series A$3.5M
Founders & team
Maximilian IttermannCo-FounderPhilipp HoeningCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Mutschler Ventures, Start-up BW, P² Invest
#4
Series A · Stuttgart, Baden Wurttemberg · founded 2000 · 9 employees
$6.3Mraised
▾

Subitec was founded in 2000 as a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial and Biotechnology (IGB). Started actual operations in 2007. It has developed technology for cultivation of micro-algae. The technology involves use of special photobioreactor called Flat Panel Airlift (FPA) reactor which it claims offers more cellular density compared to open pond cultivation.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2012Series A$5.5M
  • Jun 2007Seed$824K
Founders & team
Peter RipplingerCEO
Investors
Fraunhofer Venture, Kfw, eCAPITAL, HTGF
Tech stack
Animate.CssBootstrapContact Form 7GsapJqueryJquery Migrate
#5
Funding Raised · Konstanz, Baden Wurttemberg · founded 2020 · 10 employees
$26.9Kraised
▾

Provider of automation technology for indoor farming. It offer image recognition software and modern robotic technology to predict harvest times of strawberries. It also detects if the fruit has ripened or not, sorts them into different quality classes. It use tactile end effectors to pollinate strawberries without manual and bee interference. It uses AI vision systems to detect plant health.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 6k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. Kwekerij 't Woudt B.V.) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • May 2023Grant (prize money)$26.9K
Founders & team
Marian BolzCTO & Co-FounderHannah BrownCo-Founder & CMODominik FeidenCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
TechFounders, Rockstart
Tech stack
BootstrapGoogle CloudGoogle Cloud CdnGsapHstsHttp/3
#6
Seed · Stuttgart, Baden Wurttemberg · founded 2015 · 3 employees
$130Kraised
▾

Tsenso has developed solution to measure in real-time and relay the temperature of goods whether food or other temperature sensitive products. The solution consists of connected sensors, a cloud where all the readings are logged and a user-facing application to keep user updated about temperature. The solution is used for measuring temperature of food storage units and for containers in last mile delivery.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2019Grant (prize money)$56.9K
  • Nov 2018Grant (prize money)$57K
  • 2016Seed$130K
Founders & team
Matthias BrunnerCo-Founder & CEORahul TomarCo-Founder & CTO
Investors
EIC Fund, Techstars, Europa, Xcel, FInish Accelerator, MXcel
#7
Funding Raised · Meersburg, Baden Wurttemberg · founded 1986
$72.9Kraised
▾

Developer of software solutions for the wood and forestry industries. The company provides software for data collection and visualization on smartphones and tablets. Their offerings include systems for natural and harvest planning, and communication throughout the logistics chain. The software is available as a client-server system or a standalone version with integrated cartography.

Funding rounds
  • Oct 2016Grant (prize money)$72.9K
Founders & team
Bjoern RuffManaging Director
Investors
Europa
#8
Seed · Stuttgart, Baden Wurttemberg · founded 2014
$34Kraised
▾

My Couch Box is a German company that allows the customer to order snacks, confectioneries, and other food items online. It offers products of various brands and its own curated snack boxes. The company also targets corporate customers with weekly snack boxes for their employees. As of August 2016 the company has started operations in Austria.

Funding rounds
  • May 2016Grant (prize money)$34K
  • Seed—
Founders & team
Sarah HaideCo-Founder & CEO
Tech stack
Nginx
#9
Deadpooled · Walldorf, Baden Wurttemberg · founded 2019
—raised
▾

Smart Forest is an online platform for investing in trees. It enables users to digitally own trees in forests and make a profit from them

Funding rounds
  • 2022Seed—
Founders & team
Alexey RudometovCo-Founder & CEOIwa PawlakCo-Founder
Investors
Village Capital, GLOBAL ACCELERATION ACADEMY, SDG Impact Accelerator, BGI
#10
Seed · Grossrinderfeld, Baden Wurttemberg · founded 2021 · 21 employees
—raised
▾

Developer of AI-based fresh food planning platform designed to ensure more sustainability in food retail. The company's platform offers integrated, fully automatic planning from food production to the supermarket shelf, enabling suppliers to plan precisely and deliver only the quantities to retailers.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers
Founders & team
Franz SeubertFounderFabian TaigelFounderJan MellerFounder
Investors
Earlybird, Delivery Hero, InnoWerft
#11
Seed · Stuttgart, Baden Wurttemberg · founded 2018 · 2 employees
—raised
▾

Farmee is an online agriculture information dissemination platform. It enables farmers, urban growers, home gardeners, etc. to choose the type of farm they possess and provides them with suitable best farming practices. It offers solutions for open farming, greenhouse cultivation, and controlled-environment farming systems.

Funding rounds
  • May 2018Seed—
Founders & team
Steffen AbelCo-Founder & CTOJens SchmelzleCo-Founder & CEOFlorian HasslerCo-Founder & CMO
Investors
WorldStartup, Start-up BW, Alexis Togel

Funding & investor landscape

$18.6Mtotal disclosed funding
8companies funded
16disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Europa3 rounds
Grundermotor3 rounds
STIHL Digital3 rounds
EIC Fund2 rounds
Earlybird2 rounds
HTGF2 rounds
InnoWerft2 rounds
Rockstart2 rounds
Start-up BW2 rounds
Alexis Togel1 rounds

Notable founders

Franz Seubert
Co-Founder & Managing Director · AIPERIA
Jan Meller
Co-Founder & Managing Director · AIPERIA
Maximilian Ittermann
Co-Founder · smark
Philipp Hoening
Co-Founder & CEO · smark
Peter Ripplinger
CEO · Subitec
Marian Bolz
CTO & Co-Founder · Organifarms
Hannah Brown
Co-Founder & CMO · Organifarms
Matthias Brunner
Co-Founder & CEO · Tsenso
Rahul Tomar
Co-Founder & CTO · Tsenso
Bjoern Ruff
Managing Director · Forstware
Sarah Haide
Co-Founder & CEO · MyCouchbox
Alexey Rudometov
Co-Founder & CEO · Smart Forest
Prism market signals · Germany · country-scoped Prism corpus, 2,134,378 docs

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

RESEARCH SIGNALS · Germany

How research on Food Technology is moving in Germany

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 963 Germany-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
201520212026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 19% → 30% across 2015–2026.
top research entities
  • Federal Institute for Risk Assessment68
  • German Institute of Food Technologies49
  • University of Bonn48
  • Technical University of Munich46
  • University of Hohenheim42
leading researchers
Shahida Anusha Siddiqui · Dietrich Knorr · Ndungu S. Nyokabi · Lisette Phelan · Gizachew Gemechu · Oliver Schlüter · Dirk W. Lachenmeier · Tomer J. Czaczkes
▲ Breakthroughs60 · 6%
6%→6% share
▲1.0× share momentum0 median citations82% since 2021mostly methods-led
Food processing breakthrough research is surging — German papers rose from 2 to 9, matching Agriculture and Food security gains.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Food processing2→9
  • Agriculture2→9
  • Food security2→8
  • Sustainability1→5
  • Product (mathematics)1→4
Landmark FoodOn: a harmonized food ontology to increase global food traceability, quality control and data integration · 334 cites
◆ Advancements267 · 28%
▲ 21%→29% share
▲1.4× share momentum0 median citations91% since 2021mostly empirical
Food safety advancements are intensifying — German institutional papers grew from 4 to 41, alongside newly emerging Food industry research (24 papers).
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Food processing4→62
  • Food safety4→41
  • Production (economics)2→31
  • Agriculture2→30
  • Sustainability1→28
Newly emergingFood industry 0→24 · Quality (philosophy) 0→17 · Consumption (sociology) 0→15
Landmark Contributing to food security in urban areas: differences between urban agriculture and peri-urban agriculture in the Gl · 424 cites
▼ Concerns411 · 43%
▼ 50%→41% share
▼0.8× share momentum1 median citations84% since 2021mostly empirical
Food security concern research is escalating sharply — German papers jumped from 6 to 87, with Climate change and Livelihood newly emerging.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Food security6→87
  • Food safety7→83
  • Agriculture13→74
  • Sustainability3→54
  • Food systems3→54
Newly emergingLivelihood 0→17 · Climate change 0→15 · Environmental health 0→15
Landmark Heavy metals in agricultural soils of the European Union with implications for food safety · 1,568 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Germany

Where food tech is researched across Germany

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.

Berlin84 · +0.03
Hot · Climate changeAdvancing · Food scienceOpportunity · Food securityConcern · Supply chain
Jülich/Bonn68 · -0.01
Hot · Food securityAdvancing · AgricultureOpportunity · SustainabilityConcern · Food packaging
Munich65 · +0.18
Hot · SustainabilityAdvancing · Sustainable agricultureOpportunity · Food productsConcern · Public health
Karlsruhe20 · -0.03
Hot · Risk assessmentOpportunity · Food safetyConcern · European union
Heidelberg13 · -0.04
Hot · Environmental healthAdvancing · Food processingOpportunity · SustainabilityConcern · Food safety
Dresden8 · +0.40
Opportunity · Agriculture
Aachen7 · -0.01
Opportunity · Food processing
Stuttgart6 · +0.45
Opportunity · Food packaging
PATENT SIGNAL · Germany

Who's filing food tech patents in Germany

Germany food tech patent filing is accelerating — 151 filings from 95 assignees (2016–2025), led by Vorwerk Interholding, Weber Maschb, BSH Hausgeraete; annual filings 10→15.

151 filings95 assigneespeak 24/yr2016–2025
filing momentum (YoY 2016–2025)
top patent filers
  • Vorwerk Interholding33
  • Weber Maschb21
  • BSH Hausgeraete18
  • Delonghi Braun Household18
  • Handtmann Albert Maschf18
  • Rational10
  • Nordischer Maschinenbau9
  • Hochland SE9

Common questions

How many Food and Agriculture Tech companies are there in Baden Wurttemberg, Germany?
Radar tracks 58 indexable Food and Agriculture Tech companies headquartered in Baden Wurttemberg, Germany that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Baden Wurttemberg, Germany?
The Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Baden Wurttemberg, Germany on this list have raised a combined $18.6M in disclosed equity funding across 8 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Food and Agriculture Tech company in Baden Wurttemberg, Germany?
AIPERIA is the highest-funded Food and Agriculture Tech company in Baden Wurttemberg, Germany, with $8M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Baden Wurttemberg, Germany are funded?
8 of the 58 Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Baden Wurttemberg, Germany on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Food and Agriculture Tech unicorns are there in Baden Wurttemberg, Germany?
None of the Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Baden Wurttemberg, Germany on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Baden Wurttemberg, Germany Food and Agriculture Tech companies?
The most active investors in Baden Wurttemberg, Germany Food and Agriculture Tech companies on this list include Europa, Grundermotor, STIHL Digital, EIC Fund, Earlybird.
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