Best Food and Agriculture Tech Companies in Malaysia
The 175 best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Malaysia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Nutrition Technologies.
Food and Agriculture Tech in Malaysia is a sector worth tracking closely right now, and this directory ranks the 175 companies we follow by disclosed equity funding and recent funding momentum. Total disclosed funding sits at $111M across the field, which sounds modest until you see how concentrated it is: Nutrition Technologies alone has pulled in $34M, and Pop Meals follows at $27M, meaning those two companies account for over half the capital raised.
So where does that leave everyone else? Mostly scrapping for smaller rounds, which is honestly where the interesting bets are. Food Market Hub has $12M, FeedMe has $5M, and the long tail runs down to sub-$1M raises like Qarbotech's $700K. That spread tells you the ecosystem is early and still sorting itself out. On the consumer-app side, median install growth is running around plus-20% year-on-year across food and agritech apps globally, which suggests real user pull is building even if institutional capital hasn't caught up yet. The global Food and Agriculture Tech market was valued around $4.2 trillion in 2023 with a 4.7% CAGR projected, and demand drivers like water conservation and functional-ingredient trends are giving Malaysian operators a real tailwind if you're building in those categories. Investors like 500 Global and 1337 Ventures are the ones to watch here.
- ResearchAndMarkets.com
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 Malaysia
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Tech stack | Web popularity | Founder | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nutrition Technologies Provider of insect-based products for agriculture and livestock | $34M | 35 mo ago | 163 | — | — | Nick Piggott Founder & CEO | — |
| 2 | Pop Meals Internet-first restaurant offering on-demand food | $27M | 75 mo ago | 84 | Cart FunctionalityFacebook LoginGoogle Sign-in+26 | Top 5M | Jonathan Weins CEO & Co-Founder | 2 job openings · 1 internship |
| 3 | Yolek B2B online platform distributing farm produce and fresh fruits and vegetables | $13M | 103 mo ago | — | AlgoliaZohoReact+28 | Top 100k | Justin Qi CEO | — |
| 4 | Food Market Hub Cloud-based inventory management solution for restaurants | $12M | 54 mo ago | 90 | Webflow EcommerceWebflowYouTube+21 | Top 5M | Anthony See CEO & CO-Founder | — |
| 5 | FeedMe Provider of a smart AI-based POS system for restaurants | $5M | 7 mo ago | — | Node.jsThree.jsHeadless UI+17 | Top 5M | Squall Tan Co-Founder & CEO | 1 job opening · 1 award |
| 6 | Fefifo Online platform offering farming and consulting services | $3M | 56 mo ago | 16 | Squarespace CommerceSquarespaceWistia+8 | Top 50M | Kelveen Soh Co-Founder & CEO | — |
| 7 | Jocom App-based offering groceries order and delivery service | $3M | 69 mo ago | 2 | — | — | Joshua Sew Ceo | — |
| 8 | PLANT CARTRIDGE Vertically integrated company focused on providing tech enabled solutions | $3M | 50 mo ago | 29 | — | — | Michael Mak Co-Founder / Chief Operating Officer | — |
| 9 | Meals in Minutes Online platform provides ready-to-cook meal kits | $2M | 29 mo ago | — | WordPress Block EditorElementorCart Functionality+35 | Top 50M | Khiara Mia Co-Founder | — |
| 10 | Signature Market Digital retail platform for organic products | $1M | 89 mo ago | 87 | — | Top 500k | — | 1 expansion |
| 11 | One Lazuli Online retailer for multi-category livestock farming inputs and equipment | $1M | 75 mo ago | — | CS CartPHPApache HTTP Server+9 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 12 | Potboy Groceries Online grocery store with delivery service | $1M | 61 mo ago | 21 | — | — | Fenn Wong Co-Founder | — |
| 13 | Offpeak.my Online platform for restaurant booking at discounted prices | $800K | 117 mo ago | — | — | — | — | — |
| 14 | Qarbotech Agritech company that develops biocompatible solutions to enhance the photosynthesis rate of plants and… | $700K | 23 mo ago | 6 | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | Top 10M | Syazwan Rahman Co-Founder | — |
| 15 | Premiumlogy Plantation Provider of digital agricultural solutions for durian plantation | $631K | 31 mo ago | — | — | — | EmLinda CEO | — |
| 16 | Hometaste Online platform to order home-chef made meals | $601K | 57 mo ago | 21 | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+30 | Top 1M | Win Soh Tian Sheng Co-Founder | — |
| 17 | Slurp Provider of cloud based restaurant management software | $582K | 106 mo ago | 21 | WordPressMySQLPHP+33 | Top 100k | — | 1 partnership |
| 18 | PlateCulture Home dining marketplace | $391K | 117 mo ago | 11 | — | — | Audra Pakalnyte Co-Founder | — |
| 19 | Tableapp Online reservation booking at restaurants | $313K | 128 mo ago | 6 | PHPFacebook LoginLaravel+32 | Top 1M | — | — |
| 20 | Kravve.co Online marketplace for homemade food | $306K | 63 mo ago | 4 | — | — | Nic Chong Co-Founder | — |
| 21 | SupplyBunny B2B marketplace for wholesale grocery delivery | $300K | 117 mo ago | 13 | Cart FunctionalityRubyGoogle Maps+29 | Top 5M | Ognjen Regoje Co-Founder | — |
| 22 | Hawkr Online platform offering food ordering and delivery services | $150K | 58 mo ago | 3 | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Malaysia
#1
Series A · Petaling Jaya, Selangor · founded 2023$5Mraised▾
Provider of a smart AI-based POS system for restaurants. It offers features such as self-ordering, AI reports, facial recognition, and smart alerting systems. It also provides a QR code ordering system food and service.
- Nov 2025Series A$5M
#2
Series A · Johor Bahru, Johor · founded 2016 · 163 employees$34Mraised▾
Producer of animal feed ingredients and biofertilizers larvae products intended to offer sustainable high-grade proteins and oils and to upcycle low-grade organic material into bioactive ingredients for animals & plants for the agriculture sector. The company's products include an insect meal that is produced in a sustainable, cost-saving, and high-quality alternative to a fish meal used to recycle nutrients from agricultural and food processing by-products specializes in tropical production systems, optimizing the ambient climate for optimal production conditions, whilst minimizing energy consumption, making it the most sustainable, and lowest cost global producer, enabling farmers to improve their animal growth and health due to the rich composition of medium-chain fatty acids in its protein.
#3
Seed · Puchong, Selangor · founded 2018 · 6 employees$700Kraised▾
Agritech company that develops biocompatible solutions to enhance the photosynthesis rate of plants and increase crop yield. The technology can increase plant growth and reduces crop yield. It offers innovative solutions for sustainable agriculture and horticulture.
- Jul 2024Seed$1.5M
- Feb 2024Seed$700K
#4
Series B · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur · founded 2015 · 84 employees$27.2Mraised▾
Internet-first restaurant offering on-demand food. Its food offerings include chicken pasta, fish curry, desserts, drinks and beverages, and more. Its mobile application is available on Android and iOS platforms.
- Feb 2020Series B$18M
- May 2019Series A$5M
- Jan 2018Series A$2.6M
- 2017Seed—
#5
Series A · Petaling Jaya, Selangor · founded 2017 · 90 employees$12.5Mraised▾
Food Market Hub provides cloud-based inventory management solutions for restaurants. It provides features for managing inventory, purchase, procurement, suppliers, food cost, food wastage, etc. It also generates real-time reports and sends automatic notifications via SMS, mail to suppliers, and stakeholders. The application can be integrated with POS and accounting systems such as SQL Accounting, Quickbook, Autocount, and more.
- Dec 2021Series A$8.5M
- Nov 2020Series A$4M
- Sep 2019Seed—
- Jun 2018Seed—
#6
Seed · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur · founded 2020$1.5Mraised▾
Online platform provides ready-to-cook meal kits. It offers vacuum-packed customized meal portions and cooking instructions. It also provides meal kit delivery services on a subscription basis.
- Jan 2024Seed$1.5M
#7
Acqui-Hired · Malaysia$13Mraised▾
B2B online platform distributing farm produce and fresh fruits and vegetables. The platform connects farmers, suppliers, and businesses, facilitating bulk purchases and streamlined logistics. It supports order management, product tracking, and efficient distribution across multiple locations.
#8
Seed · Puchong, Selangor · founded 2011$630.7Kraised▾
Provider of digital agricultural solutions for durian plantation. They focuse on durian fruit cultivation employing a proactive approach to promote healthier tree growth and superior fruit quality. They offer services such as data irrigation system,data analysis and drones and remove sensing technology for monitoring.
- Oct 2023Seed$630.7K
#9
Seed · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur · founded 2015 · 29 employees$3Mraised▾
It provides tech enabled solutions to farmers. Its solutions span across different stages of agriculture
- Mar 2022Seed$3M
#10
Series A · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur · founded 2019 · 16 employees$3.2Mraised▾
Fefifo is an online platform offering farming and consulting services. The company claims to offer services like providers of greenhouse land spaces, providing infrastructures to farmers, providers of data & R&D services, consulting services, etc. The company claims to transform B40 small farmers into Agropreneurs.
- Oct 2021Series A$3.1M
- Mar 2021Seed$61.8K
#11
Seed · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur · founded 2011 · 2 employees$3.2Mraised▾
App-based offering groceries order and delivery service. The app facilitates users to search for the required products using the stand search feature or by scanning the QR code printed on the product. JOCOM claims to deliver the order within 24 hrs from the point of purchase. The company offers mobile applications for Android and iOS platforms.
- Aug 2020Seed$1.2M
- Dec 2019Seed$2M
#12
Seed · Seri Kembangan, Selangor · founded 2016 · 21 employees$1Mraised▾
Potboy offers an online retail platform for groceries. Categories listed include cooking ingredients such as rice, sugar, oil, snacks, spaghetti, flour, canned foods and extends to beverages, personal care products, baby care products, and pet care products. The company claims to offer free shipping over the purchase of a minimum amount.
- Apr 2021Seed$781K
- Mar 2019Seed$245.2K
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 Malaysia
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 837 Malaysia-affiliated papers.
- Universiti Putra Malaysia148
- Universiti Teknologi MARA105
- National University of Malaysia69
- Ministry of Agriculture50
- Ministry of Health46
- Food safety1→7
- Food safety2→65
- Food processing1→53
- Production (economics)1→28
- Food industry1→28
- Quality (philosophy)1→27
- Food safety6→72
- Production (economics)1→36
- Food processing1→34
- Agriculture2→31
- Quality (philosophy)2→22
Where food tech is researched across Malaysia
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.