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Best Food and Agriculture Tech Companies in Pays de la Loire, France

The 37 best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Pays de la Loire, France in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: VitamFero.

37companies tracked
$20.1Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
8have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · FOOD AND AGRICULTURE TECH × PAYS DE LA LOIRE

Our analysis of 50 Food and Agriculture Tech companies

$2.6b in tracked funding; 72% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2022.

50companies analysed
72%cloud-native stacks
2022funding peak (by rounds)
1unicorns
2017median founding year
80kcombined LinkedIn audience
58%of audience held by top 3
3companies hiring publicly (12 mo)

Ranked: Best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Pays de la Loire

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1VitamFero
Patented immunostimulating vaccines for livestock animals
$7M120 mo agoDeadpooledAlain De La Bigne
Co-Founder & Partner
2005—50 patents
Lyophilization of biologics and sarcocystidae-based recombinant vaccine vectors.
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2Aptimiz
Provider of application to track the working efficiency of farmers
$3M40 mo agoSeries AArmand Sachot
Co-Founder & President
2018WordPressMySQLPHP+2814 patents
Precision agriculture workforce tracking and scheduling analytics using location and image data
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3Vite Mon Marche
Online retailer of groceries
$3M86 mo agoSeedNicholas Hoddevik
Co-Founder
2017———
4AI Herd
Provider of AI-based livestock monitoring solutions for farmers
$2M42 mo agoSeedTristan Gauvain
Co-founder
2020WebflowAmazon Web ServicesMatomo Analytics+8——
5Easilys
Provider of restaurant management solutions
$2M100 mo agoAcquiredEmmanuel Grelaud
Co-Founder & CEO
2014———
610 Vins
Provider of RFID technology based wine brewing solution
$2M124 mo agoSeedLuis Silva
Co-Founder & CTO
2012—20 patents
Beverage tasting preparation systems and container-opening mechanisms for wine and drinks
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7AlgoSource
Vertically integrated business for cultivation and processing of algae and research related to algae…
$477K92 mo agoFunding RaisedOlivier Lepine
CEO
2004Cart FunctionalityShopifyElement UI+2346 patents
Algal-derived bioactive extracts for neuropathy relief and apicomplexan infection therapies
—
8uSeed
Manufactures and supplies digitally connected indoor farming system
—110 mo agoDeadpooledGuillaume Ruiz
Co-Founder
2017———

Top 8 Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Pays de la Loire

#1
Series A · Angers, Pays de la Loire · founded 2018 · 12 employees
$3.4Mraised
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Aptimiz is a provider of digital solutions to measure, analyze & optimize working hours in agriculture. Users can connect their mobile devices to web interface, and get an exact calculation of their working hours. The application is available on Android & iOS platform.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 5k LinkedIn followers — 5.9% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • May 2023Series A$3.4M
Founders & team
Armand SachotCo-Founder & PresidentMatthieu CarpentierCo-Founder & VP
Investors
Demeter, Asterion, Le Village by CA
Tech stack
AxeptioBackbone.JsBootstrapCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCloudflare Browser Insights
#2
Seed · Nantes, Pays de la Loire · founded 2020 · 14 employees
$2.2Mraised
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Provider of AI-based livestock monitoring solutions for farmers. It offers solutions related to daily management, reproduction, health, and performance like video surveillance, occupancy statistics, mastitis and lameness detection, body condition score, heat detection, and calving detection.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers — 3.3% of this cohort's audience · 42 engagements/post (1.8× cohort median)
Funding rounds
  • Feb 2023Seed$2.2M
Founders & team
Tristan GauvainCo-founder
Investors
Bpifrance
#3
Deadpooled · Angers, Pays de la Loire · founded 2005 · 14 employees
$6.7Mraised
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VitamFero utilizes its patented technology Toxo KO in which it uses immunostimulatory properties of Toxoplasma Gondii to develop vaccines for livestock animals. The company claims that Toxoplasma Gondii strains induce cross-protection against various infectious organisms by activating adaptive immunity & production of cytokines in the infected organism. Products under development include vaccines against ovine toxoplasmosis, bovine neosporosis, canine leishmaniasis, and protozoan equine myeloid encephalitis (EPM).

Funding rounds
  • Aug 2016Grant (prize money)$55.8K
  • Mar 2016Grant (prize money)$54.5K
  • May 2015Series C$1.7M
  • Sep 2014Series C$3.5M
Founders & team
Alain De La BigneCo-Founder & Partner
Investors
EIC Fund, Europa, Capagro, GO CAPITAL, Karista
#4
Seed · Nantes, Pays de la Loire · founded 2017 · 8 employees
$3.3Mraised
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Vite My Market is an online retailer of groceries. Its product offerings include fish, meat products, fruits, vegetables, creamery, desserts, dairy products, sauces, wine, tapenade, tea, bakery products, oil, wine etc. The company also offers information regarding various recipes on the website. The company claims to deliver its products within an hour of placing the order. The company delivers its products in Nantes, France.

Funding rounds
  • Jul 2019Seed$2.6M
  • Apr 2018Seed$738.5K
Founders & team
Nicholas HoddevikCo-Founder
Investors
West Web Valley, GO CAPITAL, Épopée Gestion
Tech stack
Cart FunctionalityShopifySentryBootstrapAccentuate Custom FieldsApple Pay
#5
Acquired · La Roche sur Yon, Pays de la Loire · founded 2014 · 86 employees
$2.1Mraised
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Easilys provides restaurant management solutions. It allows users to manage orders, stocks, inventories, costs, menu, recipes, production, and compliance needs. It also offers solutions to manage kitchen equipment and control maintenance costs. Users can also sell, buy, and exchange kitchen equipment on their marketplace platform. Additionally, offers food waste management, online order management, and purchase management solutions.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 5k LinkedIn followers — 5.7% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • May 2018Series A$2.1M
Founders & team
Emmanuel GrelaudCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Sodero Gestion, Bpifrance, GO CAPITAL, ShakeUpFactory, FoodBytes
#6
Seed · Nantes, Pays de la Loire · founded 2012 · 43 employees
$1.7Mraised
▾

Provider of RFID technology-based wine brewing solution. Offers a wine-by-glass tasting machine that aerates and heats the wine from bottles. The company claims that the machine reads a microchip on the vial to determine proper decanting and temperature instructions. Allows users to insert their bottle, install a glass and pierce the bottle when the green LED present in the machine stops flashing.

Funding rounds
  • May 2016Seed$1.4M
  • 2015Seed$364.2K
Founders & team
Luis SilvaCo-Founder & CTOJerome PasquetCo-Founder
Tech stack
MagentoCart FunctionalityMysqlPhpYoutubeNginx
#7
Funding Raised · Saint Nazaire, Pays de la Loire · founded 2004 · 36 employees
$476.8Kraised
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AlgoSource is a vertically integrated business involved in algae cultivation, research & development related to algae cultivation and processing, and consulting and engineering services for algae producers. The company cultivates and supplies 15 algae strains through its subsidiary Alpha BioTech. Moreover, the company provides consulting and services for photosynthesis of microalgae and biosequestration of CO2 to other algae producers through its subsidiary GeaPea. Furthermore, it provides services for the industrialization of algae cultivation facilities through its subsidiary ENKI Innovation and business strategy consulting for algae businesses through its subsidiary Strate Org.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 12k LinkedIn followers — 15.1% of this cohort's audience · 37 engagements/post (1.6× cohort median)
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2019Grant (prize money)$476.8K
Founders & team
Olivier LepineCEO
Investors
Europa, GO CAPITAL, Pays de la Loire Participations, Sodero Gestion, Main Sequence
Tech stack
Alpine.JsAosCart FunctionalityCloudflareCore-JsElement Ui
#8
Deadpooled · Nantes, Pays de la Loire · founded 2017
—raised
▾

U'Seed manufactures and supplies digitally connected indoor farming system. The system can be used to cultivate any crop of the user choice and monitored remotely through the mobile application available on Android and iOS store.

Funding rounds
  • Jun 2017Seed—
Founders & team
Guillaume RuizCo-Founder
Investors
1Kubator

Funding & investor landscape

$20.1Mtotal disclosed funding
7companies funded
13disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
GO CAPITAL5 rounds
Novapuls5 rounds
1Kubator2 rounds
Bpifrance2 rounds
Europa2 rounds
Le Village by CA2 rounds
ShakeUpFactory2 rounds
Sodero Gestion2 rounds
Asterion1 rounds
Capagro1 rounds

Notable founders

Armand Sachot
Co-Founder & President · Aptimiz
Matthieu Carpentier
Co-Founder & VP · Aptimiz
Tristan Gauvain
Co-founder · AI Herd
Alain De La Bigne
Co-Founder & Partner · VitamFero
Nicholas Hoddevik
Co-Founder · Vite Mon Marche
Emmanuel Grelaud
Co-Founder & CEO · Easilys
Luis Silva
Co-Founder & CTO · 10 Vins
Jerome Pasquet
Co-Founder · 10 Vins
Olivier Lepine
CEO · AlgoSource
Guillaume Ruiz
Co-Founder · uSeed
Prism market signals · France · country-scoped Prism corpus, 2,073,408 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 · France

How research on Food Technology is moving in France

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 897 France-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
201520212026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and steady — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 29% → 31% across 2015–2026.
top research entities
  • Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement180
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique103
  • Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire de l’Alimentation, de l’Environnement et du Travail79
  • Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement52
  • Ministry of Agriculture50
leading researchers
Allende, Ana · EFSA BIOHAZ Panel · Anthony Fardet · Abdo Hassoun · Tarek Ben Hassen · Dominique Turck · Jacqueline Castenmiller · Stefaan De Henauw
▲ Breakthroughs56 · 6%
▲ 0%→7% share
0 median citations98% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (0%→7% of field), led by Food safety.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Food safety12
  • Food processing10
  • Agriculture9
  • Food spoilage5
  • Food systems4
Newly emergingFood safety 0→12 · Food processing 0→9 · Agriculture 0→8
Landmark Applying the food-energy-water nexus approach to urban agriculture: From FEW to FEWP (Food-Energy-Water-People) · 86 cites
◆ Advancements234 · 26%
▲ 10%→26% share
▲2.6× share momentum0 median citations88% since 2021mostly empirical
Advancements are rising (10%→26% of field), led by Sustainability.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Sustainability1→23
  • Agriculture2→23
  • Food processing4→21
  • Food science4→18
  • Food packaging2→16
Newly emergingFood safety 0→36 · Production (economics) 0→28 · Population 0→12
Landmark Human health implications of organic food and organic agriculture: a comprehensive review · 453 cites
▼ Concerns368 · 41%
▼ 65%→40% share
▼0.6× share momentum0 median citations84% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are cooling (65%→40% of field), led by Food safety.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Food safety7→78
  • Agriculture6→69
  • Food security4→58
  • Food processing7→50
  • Sustainability1→31
Newly emergingFood systems 0→42 · Consumption (sociology) 0→23 · Context (archaeology) 0→20
Landmark The Next Generation of Sustainable Food Packaging to Preserve Our Environment in a Circular Economy Context · 515 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · France

Where food tech is researched across France

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.

Paris127 · +0.09
Hot · Food safetyAdvancing · ContaminationOpportunity · Food securityConcern · Treaty
Toulouse29 · +0.01
Hot · Public healthAdvancing · Food safetyOpportunity · SustainabilityConcern · Food consumption
Lyon18 · +0.04
Hot · AntimicrobialOpportunity · Food productsConcern · Agriculture
Grenoble16 · -0.04
Hot · Food systemsOpportunity · Agriculture
Marseille11 · -0.05
Hot · SustainabilityOpportunity · Food processingConcern · Food supply
PATENT SIGNAL · France

Who's filing food tech patents in France

France food tech patent filing is cooling — 16 filings from 28 assignees (2016–2025), led by SEB, AIR Liquide, Santos; annual filings 4→1.

16 filings28 assigneespeak 4/yr2016–2025
filing momentum (YoY 2016–2025)
top patent filers
  • SEB9
  • AIR Liquide9
  • Santos8
  • Goemar LAB5
  • CINQ Degres Ouest3
  • Tourney Alain3
  • Tournay Michael3
  • Dianaplantsciences S A S2

Common questions

How many Food and Agriculture Tech companies are there in Pays de la Loire, France?
Radar tracks 37 indexable Food and Agriculture Tech companies headquartered in Pays de la Loire, France that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Pays de la Loire, France?
The Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Pays de la Loire, France on this list have raised a combined $20.1M in disclosed equity funding across 7 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Food and Agriculture Tech company in Pays de la Loire, France?
VitamFero is the highest-funded Food and Agriculture Tech company in Pays de la Loire, France, with $6.7M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Pays de la Loire, France are funded?
7 of the 37 Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Pays de la Loire, France on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Food and Agriculture Tech unicorns are there in Pays de la Loire, France?
None of the Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Pays de la Loire, France on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Pays de la Loire, France Food and Agriculture Tech companies?
The most active investors in Pays de la Loire, France Food and Agriculture Tech companies on this list include GO CAPITAL, Novapuls, 1Kubator, Bpifrance, Europa.
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