Best Food and Agriculture Tech Companies in Netherlands
The 624 best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Netherlands in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Picnic.
Food and Agriculture Tech in the Netherlands has never been a quiet corner of the market, and if you want to know where the real money is sitting, this page ranks the country's leading companies by disclosed equity funding and recent funding momentum. We're tracking 624 companies here, with $4.3B in total disclosed capital behind them.
Picnic alone accounts for $1.5B of that, which tells you something about how concentrated the outsized bets are. Mosa Meat ($151M) and Crisp ($162M) round out the top tier, with the rest of the field fighting for position well below those watermarks. So what's pulling capital in? A global Food and Agriculture Tech market sitting at roughly $4,200B and growing at 4.7% CAGR gives investors a long runway to justify the check sizes. And as shown in 2019 research on cultivated meat science, the underlying biology is maturing fast enough to make bets like Mosa Meat look less speculative than they did five years ago. Demand drivers are shifting too, toward water conservation and plant-based simplicity, which maps neatly onto what Dutch founders are actually building. I'd watch the mid-tier closely this quarter. Median app install growth across food and agritech is up 20% year over year, and that consumer pull tends to precede the next funding round.
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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 Netherlands
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Market signals (1y) | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Picnic 🦄 App based platform for ordering groceries and delivery services | $1.5B | 6 mo ago | Series E | 10,000 | Daniel Gebler Founder & CTO | — | — | 1 internship |
| 2 | Just Eat Takeaway Online platform offering food delivery services | $1.3B | 58 mo ago | Acquired | 15,855 | Jitse Groen Founder and CEO | 17 signals ▼19% Leadership · Announcements · M&A | — | — |
| 3 | Crisp Online retailer offering multi-category grocery products | $162M | 11 mo ago | Series C | 900 | Eric Klaassen Co-Founder | 8 signals ▼47% Funding · Leadership · Capital raise | — | 1 launch · 1 partnership · 2 awards |
| 4 | Mosa Meat Produces and supplies meat alternative | $151M | 5 mo ago | Series C | 163 | Peter Verstrate Co-founder & COO | — | 67 patents Cultured meat production: cell culture media, bioreactors, hydrogel scaffolds, progenitor cells | 1 job opening · 1 award |
| 5 | Koppert Provider of biological crop protection and pollination solutions for growers | $150M | 28 mo ago | Late Stage | 2,380 | Peter Koppert Co-Founder & Owner | 4 signals ▲300% Leadership · Contracts | 290 patents Patents concentrated in health & consumer products | 1 award |
| 6 | Protix Insect based edible protein manufacturer | $126M | 28 mo ago | Series D | 152 | Kees Arts Founder & Director | — | 259 patents Insect-derived protein, lipid, and biomass production plus invertebrate rearing technologies | 1 job opening |
| 7 | Takeaway.com Online ordering platform for takeaway orders | $119M | 146 mo ago | Public | — | Jitse Groen Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 8 | Meatable Developer of proprietary technology for producing meat without using livestock | $100M | 18 mo ago | Series B | 100 | Jeff Tripician CEO | — | 29 patents Patents concentrated in chemistry & materials | — |
| 9 | PlantLab Indoor farming innovator, radically changing agriculture through technology and plant science | $80M | 51 mo ago | Series C | 88 | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | DNA Genetics Online retailer of cannabis seeds including feminized, regular, and autoflower varieties | $48M | 78 mo ago | Series B | 40 | Aaron Yarkoni Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 11 | In Ovo Provider of a solution for determining the sex of day-old chicks to prevent culling | $38M | 31 mo ago | Series B | 39 | — | — | 33 patents Non‑destructive in‑ovo optical detection of avian sex, viability, and developmental stage. | — |
| 12 | Source Provider of AI solutions for optimized greenhouse cultivation and management | $37M | 7 mo ago | Series B | 94 | Ernst Bruggen Co-Founder & CPO | — | — | 1 launch · 1 award |
| 13 | The Kingfish Sustainable aquaculture company delivering premium Kingfish with a commitment to excellence | $35M | 35 mo ago | Series C | — | Vincent Erenst CEO | — | — | — |
| 14 | Vivici Provider of animal-free dairy proteins | $34M | 15 mo ago | Series A | — | Stephan Fiet CEO | — | 8 patents Patents concentrated in health & consumer products | 2 awards |
| 15 | TRACT Sustainability management solutions for food and agro businesses | $33M | 7 mo ago | Series A | — | Ioana Matei Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 16 | Overstory Tech Provider of AI-powered vegetation management software for electric utility companies 69Funding top 27%Talent top 28%Growth top 35%AI top 35% All 9 signals ▾Fundingtop 27% Talenttop 28% Growthtop 35% AItop 35% Newstop 36% Moattop 39% Techtop 46% Globalbottom 48% Marketbottom 41% Funding: Raised $25.0M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 6 yrs (0.8/yr) Talent: 4 named leaders on record · 4 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 69/100 | $25M | 6 mo ago | Series B | 31 | Indra den Bakker Co-Founder & CEO | 3 signals Funding | — | 1 award |
| 17 | Tebi Unified hospitality tech: POS, reservations, payments, and insights for smoother service | $22M | 12 mo ago | Series B | — | Rob Vonk CTO / Co-founder | — | — | — |
| 18 | SAIA Developer of autonomous indoor farming technology for controlled environment agriculture | $22M | 7 mo ago | Series A | — | Ruud Barth Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 19 | Solynta Developer of hybrid breeding technology for disease-resistant and nutritious potato varieties | $19M | 11 mo ago | Acquired | 100 | Johan Trouw Co-Founder | 3 signals Funding | — | 4 job openings |
| 20 | Byborre Online B2B platform offering e-commerce software suite for fashion businesses | $18M | 40 mo ago | Series B | 50 | Borre Akkersdijk Co-Founder | — | — | 2 partnerships |
| 21 | Pieter Pot Online retailer of package-free groceries, beverages, and household cleaning supplies | $13M | 54 mo ago | Series A | 52 | Martijn Bijmolt Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 22 | Land Life Company Tech-driven nature restoration and reforestation for climate, biodiversity, communities 60Tech top 30%Growth top 35%Funding top 36%Product top 46% All 7 signals ▾Techtop 30% Growthtop 35% Fundingtop 36% Producttop 46% Marketbottom 47% Globalbottom 38% Newsbottom 22% Tech: 30 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare, Vercel Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 60/100 | $13M | 17 mo ago | Series B | 86 | — | — | — | 1 job opening |
| 23 | 30MHz Data and sensor platform empowering sustainable horticulture with actionable insights | $12M | 54 mo ago | Series B | 35 | — | — | 3 patents Agricultural soil temperature sensing and monitoring systems | 1 job opening |
| 24 | Phycom Producer of algae-based sustainable ingredients for animal and human consumption 42Growth top 30%Funding top 42%Innovation top 43%Product top 46% All 7 signals ▾Growthtop 30% Fundingtop 42% Innovationtop 43% Producttop 46% Techbottom 41% Globalbottom 36% Marketbottom 30% Growth: Web rank 50,000,000 → 10,000,000 YoY Funding: Raised $11.6M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 3 yrs (0.7/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 42/100 | $12M | 28 mo ago | Series A | 21 | — | — | — | — |
| 25 | ChainCraft Platform for converting food waste into circular chemicals | $11M | 36 mo ago | Series B | — | Niel Stralen Founder & Chief Growth Officer | — | 2 patents Fatty‑acid based agricultural pesticide formulations for crop protection | 1 partnership |
| 26 | Doktar Provider of digital agriculture technologies and services for agronomic decision-making | $9M | 11 mo ago | Series A | 78 | — | — | — | 1 award |
| 27 | Formitable Provider of SaaS-based software suite solutions for restaurants | $8M | 45 mo ago | Seed | 60 | Cyril Mestrom Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 28 | Grassa Processes grass and raw materials for animals | $7M | 14 mo ago | Series A | 7 | Bram Koopmans Co-Founder | — | 15 patents Protein extraction from leaf juice for ruminant feed production | 1 launch · 1 award |
| 29 | Vosbor Online commodity trading marketplace for agricultural products | $7M | 37 mo ago | Seed | 25 | Maarten Elferink Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 30 | FarmTrace Provider of an app-based livestock farm intelligence and analytics platform | $7M | 36 mo ago | Series A | 50 | Chris Berg Founder | — | — | 1 job opening |
| 31 | NoPalm Ingredients Developer of a microbe-based oil as an alternative of palm oil | $7M | 22 mo ago | Seed | 15 | Lars Langhout Co-Founder and CEO | — | 8 patents Microbial oil production using engineered yeast fermentation of biomass | 2 job openings · 3 awards |
| 32 | Farmless Developer of fermentation-based novel food ingredients | $7M | 18 mo ago | Seed | 6 | Adnan Oner Founder | — | — | — |
| 33 | OneThird Provider of food waste prevention solution for offline businesses | $6M | 16 mo ago | Series A | 19 | — | — | — | 1 job opening · 1 internship · 1 partnership |
| 34 | Rival Foods Platform for creating next-generation plant-based meat alternatives | $6M | 11 mo ago | Series B | 19 | Birgit Dekkers Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 35 | Hudson River Biotechnology Developer of DNA-free CRISPR technology for crop resilience and yield improvement | $6M | 26 mo ago | Series A | 30 | — | — | 4 patents Encapsulation particles for delivering hydrophilic/amphiphilic bio‑compounds | — |
| 36 | Vesper Provider of commodity intelligence for grocery businesses | $6M | 30 mo ago | Series A | 83 | — | — | — | — |
| 37 | BBLeap Online platform offering controlled environment farm management software | $6M | 2 mo ago | Series A | 16 | Hendrikus Kampman Co-Founder & Leap Developer | — | — | — |
| 38 | VanderSat Provider of soil monitoring and testing solutions | $5M | 44 mo ago | Acquired | 38 | Robbert Mica Co-Founder | — | 7 patents Enhancing resolution of sensor data via advanced image processing and data fusion techniques. | — |
| 39 | Odd.Bot Developer of autonomous robots for chemical-free weeding in agricultural settings | $5M | 17 mo ago | Seed | 36 | — | — | 8 patents Autonomous robotic systems for precision weeding in agriculture | 1 job opening |
| 40 | Sous Provider of tools to grow traffic, boost sales, and retain guests | $5M | 2 mo ago | Seed | — | Devon Scoulelis Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 41 | Collie Provider of virtual cow guidance system for managing production in grazing | $4M | 16 mo ago | Seed | — | Kibet Kipkemoi Co-Founder | Digital Shepherd | — | — | — |
| 42 | Cheflix Provider of safety testing services | $3M | 31 mo ago | Seed | 15 | Rene Manen Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 43 | Antonie Provider of soil health monitoring and analysis solutions for agriculture | $2M | 3 mo ago | Seed | — | Jerome Mol Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 44 | Cano-ela Provider of plant-based food ingredients 6Funding top 49%Global bottom 29%Market bottom 19% All 3 signals ▾Fundingtop 49% Globalbottom 29% Marketbottom 19% Funding: Raised $1.8M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 4 yrs (0.5/yr) Global: Single-market focus (Netherlands) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 6/100 | $2M | 15 mo ago | Seed | 5 | — | — | — | — |
| 45 | Agurotech Provider of sensor technology and precision agriculture solutions for farming | $2M | 16 mo ago | Series B | 14 | Joelle Brand Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 46 | Orbisk Provider of AI-based food waste monitoring system | $1M | 18 mo ago | Series A | 37 | Bart Arnhem Co-Founder & CTO | — | — | — |
| 47 | Hendrix Genetics Provider of breeding programs for multiple animal species and related technologies | $856K | 26 mo ago | Acquired | 3,500 | — | — | 23 patents Pooled sample methods for high‑throughput genetic and biological assay diagnostics | 1 job opening |
| 48 | Merqato AI-based predictive analytics solutions for the fruit and vegetable manufacturer | $372K | 20 mo ago | Seed | — | Claire Benard Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 49 | PATS Indoor Drone Solutions Developer of microquadcopter drones to keep crops insect free | $274K | 9 mo ago | Seed | 45 | Sjoerd Tijmons Co-Founder | — | — | 1 launch · 2 awards |
| 50 | SOUS Platform offering discovery and ordering of chef-prepared meals | $181K | 13 mo ago | Seed | 9 | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Netherlands
#1
Picnic 🦄Series E · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2015 · 10000 employees$1.5Braised▾
App based platform for ordering groceries and delivery services. It enables users to order groceries for home delivery. Users can view the available products on the app and place an order. Claims to deliver the products on the next day of placing the order. The mobile application is available for Android and iOS users.
- Nov 2025Series E$495.6M
- Jan 2024Series D$388.6M
- Sep 2021Series D$708.8M
- Nov 2019Conventional Debt$55.1M
#2
Series C · Maastricht, Limburg · founded 2015 · 163 employees$150.7Mraised▾
Produces and supplies meat alternatives. Its product offering is lab-cultured beef. The company claims to develop its product from a single cow cell processing it in a bioreactor.
- Dec 2025Series C$17.7M
- Feb 2025Series C$2.9M
- Apr 2024Series C$42.6M
- Sep 2022Grant (prize money)$51K
#3
Series C · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2018 · 900 employees$162.3Mraised▾
Online retailer offering multi-category grocery products. The product catalog includes eggs, meat, seafood, fruits, vegetables, milk, beverages, honey, snacks, grains, flour, nuts, and more. The application is available on both iOS and Android platforms.
- Jul 2025Conventional Debt$32.5M
- Nov 2023Series C$38M
- Oct 2022Series C$73M
- Mar 2021Series B$36.2M
#4
Series B · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2020 · 94 employees$37Mraised▾
Provider of AI solutions for optimized greenhouse cultivation and management. The company offers tools for data gathering, yield prediction, and strategy simulation. It also provides solutions for automated irrigation and precise greenhouse control. These solutions aim to enhance productivity and support autonomous execution for growers.
- Nov 2025Series B$17.5M
- Jun 2023Series A$4M
- Feb 2023Series A$23M
- Mar 2022Seed$10M
#5
Series B · Netherlands · founded 2018 · 31 employees$25Mraised▾
Provider of AI-powered vegetation management software for electric utility companies. The software helps optimize resources and mitigate vegetation risk to improve infrastructure management. It combines artificial intelligence with remote sensing data from satellite and aerial imagery. The software helps utilities build data-driven vegetation management programs.
- Nov 2025Series B$43M
- Oct 2023Series A$14M
- Nov 2022Seed$5.2M
- Nov 2021Seed$3.9M
#6
Series A · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2022$32.8Mraised▾
Sustainability management solutions for food and agro businesses. It analyzes supply chain sustainability performance and provides insights for food manufacturers.
- Oct 2025Series A$21.6M
- Nov 2024Series A$11.2M
#7
Series A · Rijen, North Brabant · founded 2019 · 16 employees$5.8Mraised▾
Online platform offering controlled environment farm management software. They provide systems to make farming possible on a plant level. They create technologies and systems that enable farmers to give each plant what it needs. They offer nozzle control technology to control spray quantity on the plant level, bridging different sources of data to prescription maps. The product offering includes Leapbox, Leapcat, Leapjet, etc.
- Mar 2026Series A$5.8M
#8
Series A · Ede, Gelderland · founded 2017$21.7Mraised▾
Developer of autonomous indoor farming technology for controlled environment agriculture. It focuses on addressing the increasing demand for fresh produce and the challenges posed by climate change to traditional farming. The technology aims to provide controlled climate conditions and increased yields. It seeks to make indoor farming more accessible by reducing labor dependency through automation.
- Nov 2025Series A$11.6M
- Dec 2022Seed—
- 2022Grant (prize money)$10.1M
- Dec 2020Seed—
#9
Seed · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2022$4.6Mraised▾
Provider of tools to grow traffic, boost sales, and retain guests. The company offers solutions for restaurants to manage their online presence and reputation. It helps restaurants show up on search engines. The company also provides tools to turn interest into orders and transform first-time customers into regulars.
- Mar 2026Seed$4.6M
#10
Acquired · Wageningen, Gelderland · founded 2007 · 100 employees$19.1Mraised▾
Developer of hybrid breeding technology for disease-resistant and nutritious potato varieties. This technology focuses on cross-pollination to generate offspring with predictable characteristics. The company offers true potato seeds tailored to meet the needs of consumers, farmers, and the industry. The seeds are clean, disease-free, scalable, and offer a long shelf life.
- Jul 2025Venture Debt$23.2M
- Sep 2022Grant (prize money)$121.9K
- Aug 2021Series C$24.9M
- Aug 2018Grant (prize money)$297.9K
#11
Seed · Netherlands · founded 2017$2.4Mraised▾
Provider of soil health monitoring and analysis solutions for agriculture. It offers insights into soil’s biological properties using nematode-based indices. The company’s solutions guide improvements in soil health and drive long-term sustainability. It delivers automated crop inspections and cyst nematode detection.
- Feb 2026Seed$2.4M
- Seed—
#12
Series B · Leiden, South Holland · founded 2018 · 100 employees$100.1Mraised▾
Developer of proprietary technology for producing meat without using livestock. This process utilizes cellular biology to create animal protein products. The business model focuses on licensing this production method to external entities. The technology aims to reduce environmental impacts associated with traditional agricultural practices by removing the need for animal farming.
- Nov 2024Series B—
- Oct 2024Grant (prize money)$8.5M
- Aug 2023Series B$35M
- Mar 2021Series A$47M
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 the Netherlands
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 660 Netherlands-affiliated papers.
- Wageningen University & Research370
- Food & Nutrition26
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam26
- Utrecht University25
- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment25
- Food processing1→6
- Food safety6→40
- Agriculture1→17
- Risk assessment1→9
- Environmental health1→9
- Novel food1→7
- Food safety13→72
- Food systems3→42
- Sustainability4→38
- Food security7→38
- Food processing20→44
Where food tech is researched across Netherlands
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.