Best Food and Agriculture Tech Companies in Louisiana, United States
The 38 best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Louisiana, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Waitr.
Our analysis of 81 Food and Agriculture Tech companies
$13.5b in tracked funding; 93% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Louisiana
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waitr App-based platform for food ordering and delivery services | $52M | 91 mo ago | Acquired | Carl Grimstad CEO & Chairman | 2013 | — | 4 patents Patents concentrated in transport & manufacturing processes | — |
| 2 | Dinner Lab Membership-based social dining service | $10M | 134 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2011 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Pine Biotech Technology platform for biotech companies to integrate the omics data types and data analysis to provide… | $2M | 110 mo ago | Seed | Elia Brodsky Founder & CEO | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 4 | BarrelSense Platform offering data of alcoholic beverages | $1M | 26 mo ago | Seed | Ethan Hirsh Co-Founder | 2022 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Mariposa Technology Developer of a digital platform for testing live hemp plants | $560K | 54 mo ago | Seed | John Roberts Co-Founder | 2021 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Aquaculture Systems Technologies Manufacturer of advanced water filtration systems for aquaculture and wastewater treatment | $500K | 182 mo ago | Public | Rick Malone Co-Founder & Managing Director | 1995 | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | — | — |
| 7 | Brewsy Online platform offering wine and cider-making kits | $250K | 49 mo ago | Seed | Liam Co-Founder | 2020 | Cart FunctionalityShopifySentry+37 | — | — |
| 8 | Louisiana Crawfish Online platform delivering fish at the doorsteps | $49K | 182 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 1985 | Cart FunctionalityBigCommerceReact+31 | — | — |
Top 8 Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Louisiana
#1
Seed · Lafayette, Louisiana · founded 2022$1.1Mraised▾
Platform offering data of alcoholic beverages. It provides an IoT-based platform to track and analyze the conditions of barrels used in the barrel-aged spirits industry, enabling optimization, predictive maintenance, and reduced waste.
- Jul 2024Seed$1.1M
#2
Acquired · Lafayette, Louisiana · founded 2013 · 752 employees$52.1Mraised▾
App-based platform for food ordering and delivery services. The platform allows users to order from restaurants based on their location. Its mobile app allows users to track their orders in real-time. Its mobile app is available for Android and iOS platforms. The platform also offers take-out and dine-in services.
- Jan 2019Post IPO$42.1M
- Mar 2017Post IPO$10M
#3
Deadpooled · New Orleans, Louisiana · founded 2011 · 45 employees$10.1Mraised▾
Dinner Lab is a membership-based social dining service that connects undiscovered chefs with adventurous diners. Each market hosts two dinners a week and feature up-and-coming culinary talent from the local community, as well as skilled chefs from around the country, for once-in-a lifetime dinner parties at remote locations that are disclosed to attendees the day before the events. Over the course of a year, the company may host up to 100 events in a single city. Dinner Lab members pay $100 – $175 for the annual membership and each even costs between $70 and $75. Founder Brian Bordainick was part of the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2012.
- Jul 2015Series A$7M
- Sep 2014Seed$1M
- May 2014Seed$2.1M
#4
Seed · Metairie, Louisiana · founded 2021 · 21 employees$560Kraised▾
Developer of a digital platform for testing live hemp plants. The company's technology utilizes a handheld Raman spectrometer, paired with a proprietary database, to provide affordable, accurate test results and enable self-testing to farmers.
- Feb 2022Seed$560K
#5
Seed · New Orleans, Louisiana · founded 2020$250Kraised▾
Online platform offering wine and cider-making kits. Its product catalog includes red wine, white wine, fruit wines, ciders, cranberry wine, honey wine, and more.
- Aug 2022Seed$250K
#6
Seed · New Orleans, Louisiana · founded 2014 · 41 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Pine Biotech has developed a platform named "T-Bio Platform" which integrates all of the omics data types that can be viewed through an interface. The platform through machine learning sorts the heterogeneous data and convert it into meaningful information for pharma or agriculture biotech companies.
- Jun 2017Seed$1M
- Mar 2014Seed$500K
#7
Public · New Orleans, Louisiana · founded 1995 · 43 employees$500.2Kraised▾
Manufacturer of advanced water filtration systems for aquaculture and wastewater treatment. These systems address various applications, including municipal, industrial, and agricultural wastewater treatment. Specific treatment capabilities include COD/BOD removal, TSS removal, and heavy metals removal, as well as nitrification and denitrification processes. The company also provides filtration solutions for aquaculture and fish hatcheries, seafood and lobster tanks, live bait holding, aquaponic systems, koi ponds, and aquariums. The focus is on engineering and manufacturing advanced water filtration solutions for high-volume applications.
- Jun 2011Grant (prize money)$77K
- Jan 2010Grant (prize money)$347.9K
- Apr 2008Grant (prize money)$75.4K
#8
Funding Raised · Natchitoches, Louisiana · founded 1985 · 53 employees$48.9Kraised▾
Online platform delivering fish at the doorsteps
- Jun 2011Grant (prize money)$48.9K
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
What Louisiana researches in food tech
- Louisiana State University Agricultural Center16
- Louisiana State University12
- Louisiana Department of Natural Resources4
- Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans1
- Louisiana Sea Grant1
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