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Best Food and Agriculture Tech Companies in Lazio, Italy

The 44 best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Lazio, Italy in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Cosaporto.

44companies tracked
$12.8Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
11have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · FOOD AND AGRICULTURE TECH × LAZIO

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

Ranked: Best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Lazio

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackRecent signals
1Cosaporto
Platform offering grocery supplies
$7M45 mo agoSeries AStefano Manili
Founder & CEO
2016Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+31—
2Moovenda
Food delivery from local restaurants
$2M102 mo agoDeadpooled—2015WordPressMySQLPHP+11—
3Wineowine
Online retailer of wine
$1M124 mo agoSeedFederico Laurentino De Cerchio
Co-Founder & CEO
2013——
4Nodriver
Provider of AI and satellite-based irrigation management solutions for farmers
$850K45 mo agoDeadpooledLuca Calacci
Co-Founder
2019——
5Ittinsect - Feed for the Ocean
Provider of insect-based aquaculture feed
$802K42 mo agoSeedAlessandro Romano
Founder & CEO
2020——
6Direttoo
Online marketplace for the farmers to sell their produce to restaurants
$296K114 mo agoSeed—2016——
7Deliverart
Provider of delivery management solutions
$6K45 mo agoSeedEleonora Bove
Co-Founder & CEO
2019WordPressMySQLPHP+31—
8Soonapse
IoT based platform providing smart irrigation solutions
—27 mo agoFunding RaisedMarco Ciarletti
CEO
2015——

Top 11 Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Lazio

#1
Series A · Rome, Lazio · founded 2016 · 26 employees
$7.3Mraised
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Cosaporto is a platform offering grocery supplies. It offers bakery products, drinks, and gourmet foods. It offers products such as desserts, ice creams, flowers, drinks, cakes, and many more. Also, it offers beauty products such as toiletries, perfumes, cosmetics, body care products, and others.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 8k LinkedIn followers — 26.2% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2022Series A$5.1M
  • Apr 2021Seed$2.2M
Founders & team
Stefano ManiliFounder & CEO
Investors
Azimut, B Heroes, JF Capital
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesApache Http ServerBootstrapCart FunctionalityCloudflare
#2
Seed · Rome, Lazio · founded 2020 · 7 employees
$801.9Kraised
▾

Provider of insect-based aquaculture feed. It develops its feed through biotech treatment of ingredients like insects, microalgae, and agricultural by-products. Its feature includes constant growth, a better immune system, avoid of digestive system inflammation.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2023Seed$668.2K
Founders & team
Alessandro RomanoFounder & CEO
Investors
Indico Capital Partners, CDP Venture Capital, Katapult, LVenture Group
#3
Deadpooled · Rome, Lazio · founded 2019
$850Kraised
▾

Provider of AI and satellite-based irrigation management solutions for farmers. Its satellite-based platform enables farmers to deal with the issue of precision irrigation. It estimates water needs in advance based on phenological stage, soil composition, and climatic conditions. It also facilitates crops with the correct amount of water while offering the correct level of moisture deep in the soil.

Funding rounds
  • Nov 2022Seed$850K
Founders & team
Luca CalacciCo-FounderAndrea PomenteCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Primo Ventures
#4
Deadpooled · Rome, Lazio · founded 2015 · 11 employees
$2.3Mraised
▾

Moovenda provides a mobile app for ordering food from restaurants for home delivery. Based on location, it gives a list of restaurants or take away joints, people can choose from the available options and place an order. Has a crowdsourced fleet of messengers for making the deliveries. Offers real-time tracking of orders. Also, restaurants can sign up on the platform to act as partners and people can sign up to provide delivery services.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2018Angel$1.2M
  • Oct 2017Seed—
  • Mar 2017Angel$354.9K
  • Aug 2016Seed$167.1K
Investors
Club Acceleratori, LVenture Group, Luiss Enlabs, SS Lazio, JCP, R-301 Capital
#5
Seed · Rome, Lazio · founded 2013 · 13 employees
$1.2Mraised
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Wineowine is an online retailer of wine. Its product offerings include red wine, white wine, rose wine etc. Allows users to search for wines on the basis of category, reviews, color, price, rarity, name, region, vintage, cellar etc. The company offers worldwide delivery services.

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2016Seed$902.6K
  • 2014Seed$338K
Founders & team
Federico Laurentino De CerchioCo-Founder & CEOEros DuranteCo-Founder & CTO
Investors
Pi Campus, LVenture Group, Angel Partner Group, iStarter
#6
Seed · Rome, Lazio · founded 2019 · 7 employees
$6.5Kraised
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Deliverart is a provider of delivery management solutions. The company claims to offer its services to restaurants, ice cream shop, pizza parlor, etc. ITs features include digitizing the orders, monitoring real-time statistics on current shifts, delivery tracking, organizing & recruiting new couriers, analyzing the detailed history of orders, etc.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 979 LinkedIn followers — 3.2% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2022Grant (prize money)$6.5K
  • 2022Seed—
Founders & team
Eleonora BoveCo-Founder & CEOBryan NatavioCo-Founder
Investors
Startup Wise Guys, Europa, MassChallenge, Techstars, Capital Venture Consulting
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesApache Http ServerCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementContact Form 7Core-Js
#7
Seed · Rome, Lazio · founded 2016 · 8 employees
$296.5Kraised
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Direttoo has developed an online platform for restaurants to manage their supply chain and purchase their requirements directly from the farmers. The platform allows the aggregation of orders from various restaurants and claims to provide more discount as a result of that. Moreover, long-term orders can be placed with separate delivery at fix intervals. Direttoo handles the logistics of orders placed on the platform.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2017Seed$296.5K
Investors
LVenture Group
#8
Funding Raised · Rome, Lazio · founded 2015
—raised
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Soonapse provides an IoT-based platform providing smart irrigation solutions. Known as Ploovium, it uses the condition of the crop, sensor data, artificial intelligence and weather forecasts to automatically generate planning processes & manage irrigation. Provides soil water balance detection, type of crop & its phenological phase knowledge generation, and soil geolocation & soil composition solutions. Partners include LYNX, S2S, LA COSA and more.

Funding rounds
  • May 2024Grant (prize money)—
Founders & team
Marco CiarlettiCEO
Investors
MassChallenge, Capital Venture Consulting, Eatable Adventures
#9
Seed · Rome, Lazio · founded 2021 · 3 employees
—raised
▾

Provider of an online SaaS platform intended to connect food producers and restaurants. The company's platform offers an online application that manages the entire catalog of all food orders, tracks all sales-related activities, and helps to turn inefficient and time-consuming processes into a fully manageable and proficient workflow, enabling businesses to operate efficiently and save time in the process.

Funding rounds
  • 2022Seed—
Investors
Startup Wise Guys
#10
Seed · Rome, Lazio · founded 2016 · 21 employees
—raised
▾

Elaisian provides an integrated hardware and software platform for real-time olive plants monitoring in olive groves and data analytics to provide insights to farmers and agribusinesses. The hardware is a sensor device deployed in the middle of each individual plant. Sensors collect the data of plants and transmit the same to a cloud where through data analytics using agronomic algorithms, the platform provides daily activity schedule and insights related to cultivation practices such as interventions required in the case of a disease outbreak in plants.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 5k LinkedIn followers — 16.5% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Oct 2016Seed—
Founders & team
Damiano AngeliciCEO & Co-Founder
Investors
Startupbootcamp
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesAnimate.CssAutoptimizeBootstrapCdnjsCloudflare
#11
Acqui-Hired · Rome, Lazio · founded 2011 · 10 employees
—raised
▾

Cibando is an iPhone application that makes it easy to find Rome, Milan, Florence and other cities in Italy. claims to be the most restaurant downloaded discovery app in Italy.

Funding rounds
  • Dec 2011Seed—
Investors
Point Nine, Xandas
Tech stack
Cart FunctionalityPhpGoogle Sign-InEnvoyReactStyled-Components

Funding & investor landscape

$12.8Mtotal disclosed funding
7companies funded
13disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
LVenture Group9 rounds
Capital Venture Consulting5 rounds
DOCK33 rounds
CDP Venture Capital2 rounds
Demetra Holding2 rounds
MassChallenge2 rounds
Primo Ventures2 rounds
Startup Wise Guys2 rounds
Startupbootcamp2 rounds
Angel Partner Group1 rounds

Notable founders

Stefano Manili
Founder & CEO · Cosaporto
Alessandro Romano
Founder & CEO · Ittinsect - Feed for the Ocean
Luca Calacci
Co-Founder · Nodriver
Andrea Pomente
Co-Founder & CEO · Nodriver
Federico Laurentino De Cerchio
Co-Founder & CEO · Wineowine
Eros Durante
Co-Founder & CTO · Wineowine
Eleonora Bove
Co-Founder & CEO · Deliverart
Bryan Natavio
Co-Founder · Deliverart
Marco Ciarletti
CEO · Soonapse
Damiano Angelici
CEO & Co-Founder · Elaisian
Prism market signals · Italy · country-scoped Prism corpus, 1,572,539 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 · Italy

How research on Food Technology is moving in Italy

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 1,457 Italy-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
201020192026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 19% → 34% across 2010–2026.
top research entities
  • University of Bologna95
  • University of Naples Federico II83
  • University of Milan73
  • University of Parma70
  • European Food Safety Authority68
leading researchers
Barcenilla, Coral · Cobo-Díaz, José F. · Puente, Alba · Valentino, Vincenzo · De Filippis, Francesca · Ian Crawford Dewhurst · Simone Belluco · Teresa D’Amore
▲ Breakthroughs86 · 6%
6%→6% share
▲1.0× share momentum0 median citations88% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are cooling (6%→6% of field), led by Food processing.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Food processing2→14
  • Food safety2→13
  • Food science3→8
Newly emergingSustainability 0→9 · Biosensor 0→6 · Food products 0→5
Landmark Novel foods in the European Union: Scientific requirements and challenges of the risk assessment process by the European · 131 cites
◆ Advancements457 · 31%
▲ 23%→33% share
▲1.4× share momentum1 median citations92% since 2021mostly empirical
Advancements are rising (23%→33% of field), led by Food safety.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Food safety7→77
  • Food processing4→62
  • Food science2→47
  • Agriculture3→38
  • Shelf life3→36
Newly emergingFood industry 0→43 · Sustainability 0→39 · Food spoilage 0→20
Landmark The STARTEC Decision Support Tool for Better Tradeoffs between Food Safety, Quality, Nutrition, and Costs in Production · 1,182 cites
▼ Concerns543 · 37%
▼ 48%→35% share
▼0.7× share momentum2 median citations83% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are cooling (48%→35% of field), led by Food safety.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Food safety16→169
  • Sustainability5→59
  • Food security12→58
  • Food systems2→47
  • Food processing7→50
Newly emergingAflatoxin 0→12 · Government (linguistics) 0→11 · Fish 0→10
Landmark Heavy metals in agricultural soils of the European Union with implications for food safety · 1,568 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Italy

Where food tech 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.

Rome166 · +0.21
Hot · Food safetyAdvancing · AntimicrobialOpportunity · Risk analysis (engineering)Concern · Public health
Milan127 · +0.18
Hot · Food securityAdvancing · NutraceuticalOpportunity · Food productsConcern · Supply chain
Bologna98 · +0.15
Hot · Hydrostatic pressureAdvancing · ListeriaOpportunity · ContaminationConcern · Pesticide
Naples94 · +0.12
Hot · MicrobiomeAdvancing · Active packagingOpportunity · Food microbiologyConcern · Metagenomics
Turin68 · +0.12
Hot · Sample (material)Advancing · Shelf lifeOpportunity · Food productsConcern · Identification (biology)
Padua62 · +0.19
Hot · Food wasteAdvancing · Food industryOpportunity · Food productsConcern · Food safety
Pisa36 · +0.11
Hot · DeliverableAdvancing · Food safetyOpportunity · Food processingConcern · Contamination
Florence27 · +0.07
Hot · AgricultureAdvancing · Food processingOpportunity · European unionConcern · Food security
Genoa9 · +0.29
Hot · Food safetyOpportunity · Antioxidant

Common questions

How many Food and Agriculture Tech companies are there in Lazio, Italy?
Radar tracks 44 indexable Food and Agriculture Tech companies headquartered in Lazio, Italy that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Lazio, Italy?
The Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Lazio, Italy on this list have raised a combined $12.8M in disclosed equity funding across 7 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Food and Agriculture Tech company in Lazio, Italy?
Cosaporto is the highest-funded Food and Agriculture Tech company in Lazio, Italy, with $7.3M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Lazio, Italy are funded?
7 of the 44 Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Lazio, Italy on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Food and Agriculture Tech unicorns are there in Lazio, Italy?
None of the Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Lazio, Italy on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Lazio, Italy Food and Agriculture Tech companies?
The most active investors in Lazio, Italy Food and Agriculture Tech companies on this list include LVenture Group, Capital Venture Consulting, DOCK3, CDP Venture Capital, Demetra Holding.
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