Best Food and Agriculture Tech Companies in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
The 35 best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Aramune.
Our analysis of 61 Food and Agriculture Tech companies
$5.6b in tracked funding; 79% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2021.
Ranked: Best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Northern Ireland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aramune Provider of plant-derived animal feed materials | $5M | 54 mo ago | Seed | Brian Green Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer | 2021 | — | — | — |
| 2 | CropSafe Cloud-based agriculture production management software | $3M | 51 mo ago | Seed | — | 2018 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Cattle Eye AI-powered livestock monitoring for improved herd health and efficiency | $2M | 60 mo ago | Acquired | Terry Canning CEO | 2019 | WordPressMySQLPHP+16 | 23 patents Precision livestock monitoring and animal identification using autonomous IoT and computer‑vision systems. | — |
| 4 | Brewbot Smart personal brewery | $2M | 143 mo ago | Deadpooled | Jonny Campbell Co-Founder | 2013 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Machine Eye Developer of machine vision systems for industrial automation applications | $103K | 65 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2018 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Apptasia Online Food ordering system | — | — | Unfunded | Jason Wise CEO | 2012 | — | — | — |
| 7 | BatchBuddy Online platform offering cocktail kits | — | — | Funding Raised | Damian Cole Co-Founder | 2019 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Boyd Hampers Online retailer of gift hampers and baskets | — | — | Unfunded | Gareth Boyd Co-Founder | 2001 | — | — | — |
Top 5 Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Northern Ireland
#1
Seed · Belfast, Northern Ireland · founded 2021 · 3 employees$5Mraised▾
Provider of plant-derived animal feed materials. It is involved in producing feeds using natural compounds that are extracted from plants. The feeds help in building immune cell types and help in preventing many mono-gastric diseases in livestock including pigs, poultry birds, farmed fish, and crustacea.
- Feb 2022Seed$1.1M
- Jul 2021Seed$4M
#2
Seed · Magherafelt, Northern Ireland · founded 2018 · 5 employees$3Mraised▾
Cloud-based agriculture production management software. It offers a solution that enables farmers and agriculture landlords to manage fields. It features alerts on-farm condition via satellite, multiple member access, NFC-enabled card for credit lines enabling capital for farm operations, a dashboard for managing distributors, and more.
- May 2022Seed$3M
#3
Acquired · Belfast, Northern Ireland · founded 2019 · 11 employees$2.5Mraised▾
AI-powered livestock monitoring for improved herd health and efficiency. This company offers a cloud-based, hardware-free AI monitoring solution that uses video analysis to track the health and welfare of cows. The system provides insights into mobility and body condition, enabling early intervention and improved herd management. This technology helps reduce costs, increase efficiency, and ensure compliance with environmental standards. It delivers data directly to smartphones or herd management systems, facilitating real-time monitoring and data-driven decision-making. The platform offers a dashboard for visualizing key metrics and allows for data export for further analysis. This innovative approach transforms modern dairy farming by providing a comprehensive, autonomous livestock monitoring solution.
- Sep 2021Seed$2.5M
- Grant (prize money)—
#4
Funding Raised · Belfast, Northern Ireland · founded 2018 · 4 employees$103Kraised▾
Developer of machine vision systems for industrial automation applications. It provides solutions for inspection, guidance, and identification. The systems are designed to improve efficiency and quality control in manufacturing processes. The company focuses on creating adaptable and reliable machine vision technology.
- Apr 2021Grant (prize money)$103K
#5
Deadpooled · Belfast, Northern Ireland · founded 2013$1.5Mraised▾
Brewbot is a smart brewing appliance that can be controlled and monitored with a smartphone. Brewbot is aimed at amateurs, pubs that want to break into craft beers, and breweries that want to run pilot brews of new beers. It’s a self-contained, self-monitoring beer-brewing machine that fits in a home environment and is monitored by a smartphone. Beerbot was a huge success on crowdfunding platform, Kickstarter where it raised a sum total of $194K from more than 350 backers. Raised $1.5 million in seed funding led by Bebo cofounder Michael Birch, with participation from Bullet Time Ventures, Hallett Capital, TechStart NI, Galvanize, SparkLabs Global, and angel investor Federico Pirzio-Biroli.
- Oct 2014Seed$1.5M
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 United Kingdom
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 1,906 United Kingdom-affiliated papers.
- Queen's University Belfast77
- Institute of Food Science & Technology76
- University of Oxford67
- University of Birmingham64
- Natural Resources Institute56
- Food security1→13
- Food safety6→17
- Sustainability1→11
- Agriculture1→8
- Food systems2→5
- Food safety7→83
- Food processing3→66
- Agriculture1→55
- Food security1→52
- Production (economics)2→47
- Food safety23→232
- Food security25→165
- Food processing16→150
- Food systems19→147
- Agriculture16→120
Where food tech is researched across United Kingdom
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.
Who's filing food tech patents in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom food tech patent filing is accelerating — 116 filings from 60 assignees (2016–2025), led by Kenwood, Donaghy ENG, Thurne Middleby; annual filings 2→15.
- Kenwood59
- Donaghy ENG16
- Thurne Middleby12
- Citrox Biosciences11
- ITSY Products5
- Emanuel JOHN David4
- Checkit4
- AEW Delford Systems4
Common questions
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