Best Food and Agriculture Tech Companies in Shenzhen, China
The 55 best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Shenzhen, China in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Shenzhen Pudu Technology.
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 Shenzhen
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founded | Founder | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AI Farming Technology AI-powered farm monitoring solutions provider | — | — | Funding Raised | 2018 | Philip Ng Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 2 | AidMax Internet first brand offering smart thermometer | — | — | Deadpooled | 2016 | Anthony Dentice Founder | — | — |
| 3 | Baocai Internet first restaurant serving tea on demand | — | — | Deadpooled | 2014 | Wu Qilin Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 4 | Batian Innovative ecological compound fertilizer solutions for healthy agriculture and sustainable development | — | — | Public | 1998 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Cidly Manufacturer of LED grow lights | — | — | Deadpooled | 2009 | Yang Founder | — | — |
| 6 | Eagle Brother Battery and fuel-powered drones for agriculture | — | — | Unfunded | 2015 | Li Caisheng Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 7 | Ecospeed Manufacturer and supplier of LED grow lights for indoor agriculture | — | — | Unfunded | 2012 | John Carter Co-Founder | Cart FunctionalityShopifyYouTube+15 | — |
| 8 | eLOL App-based smart self-checkout solution for offline retailers | — | — | Unfunded | 2018 | San Ratnayake CEO | — | — |
Top 12 Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Shenzhen
#1
Series D · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2016 · 203 employees$192.5Mraised▾
Provider of delivery robots for restaurants. The company developed different products including the chatbot, universal delivery robot, and delivery robot. The companys products are applied in different industries, including restaurants, coffee shops, hospitals, schools, office buildings, shopping malls, hotels, and factories.
- Apr 2026Series D$150M
- May 2023Series C—
- Feb 2023Series C$15M
- Sep 2021Series C$77M
#2
Series B · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2021$13Mraised▾
Provider of AI-driven digital kitchen solutions for global businesses. Its robots are designed to automate cooking processes and offer precise digital controls for replicating recipes.
- Apr 2026Series B$50M
- Apr 2025Series B—
- Jul 2023Series A$13M
- Dec 2022Seed—
#3
Series C · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2016 · 500 employees$279.5Mraised▾
Provider of an indoor catering robot. It provides delivery robots include intelligent delivery capabilities with safety performance and loading efficiency. It provides robots can fulfill delivery tasks by placing food on the tray and starting delivery on the table number. Company are equipped with obstacle identification and response mechanisms, improving stability even during emergencies. Company robots can handle multiple delivery tasks and provide status updates via a watch. It offer customized voice announcements for promotions at restaurants, enhancing the overall delivery experience.
- May 2024Series C$69.5M
- May 2023Series C—
- Feb 2023Series C$14.6M
- Sep 2021Series C$78M
#4
Series B · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2009$101.4Mraised▾
Platform offering plant-based meat products. The company specializes in developing plant-based meat products using plant protein, providing consumers with healthy meat alternatives. The company extracts meat molecules from plants, using molecular sensory to interact between flavor substances, and claims not using antibiotics, flavors, and other chemicals.
- Jan 2022Series B$100M
- Aug 2020Series A—
- Mar 2020Seed$1.4M
#5
Series C · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2014 · 43 employees$73.3Mraised▾
Innovative agricultural service platform providing solutions for farmers and agricultural businesses. The platform offers a range of services including an agricultural e-commerce marketplace, smart agriculture solutions, and production management services. It caters to individual farmers, large farms, government entities, and research institutions. The company focuses on improving agricultural production efficiency and quality through technology and comprehensive service offerings. Services include precision agriculture, digital agriculture infrastructure, and agricultural Internet of Things technologies. The platform also supports local agricultural industries through technology promotion, talent development, and brand building. It provides a suite of smart agriculture solutions, including technical support, equipment application, and training, leveraging AI and big data for precise environmental analysis and yield prediction. The company aims to empower the agricultural sector with technology-driven solutions and comprehensive support services.
- Mar 2019Series C—
- Aug 2018Series B$29.1M
- Jun 2017Series B$44.2M
- Jan 2016Series A—
#6
Series C · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2009 · 149 employees$44.6Mraised▾
Wine9 is an online retailer of imported wine, beef and sea food. Started by Zhang Huijun, a former employee of technology giant Huawei. Wine9 has 4 million registered users online and 80 offline franchises. More than 200 European chateaux supply wine to this company. The company has recently acquired 60% of an imported beer retailer in China.
- Dec 2014Series C$24M
- Jul 2012Series B$16.7M
- Jun 2011Series A$3.9M
#7
Series B · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2000 · 470 employees$15.5Mraised▾
Provider of multiple solutions for retail and catering industries. Its an internet O2O technology platform and operational service provider focusing on the retail and restaurant industry offering POS-ERP management software, cashier management systems, aggregated mobile payments, omnichannel marketing, artificial intelligence solution, and more.
- Feb 2021Series B$15.5M
#8
Deadpooled · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2016$14.5Mraised▾
Online platform offering multi-category grocery products
- Dec 2018Series A$14.5M
- Jun 2018Series A—
#9
Deadpooled · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2014$14.5Mraised▾
Online business-to-business distributor of agricultural produce. Its platform provides catering businesses and restaurants with one-stop solutions for vegetables and fruits. It also delivers meats and freshwater seafood to businesses.
- Jan 2016Series B—
- Jun 2015Series A$12.9M
- Jan 2015Seed$1.6M
#10
Series A · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2015$6Mraised▾
Nongfadai is a P2P platform for agricultural loans. Platform connects lenders with borrowers seeking agricultural loans. Offers loans for harvesting, agricultural credit, auto loans for farming, winter storage credit, dealers, and other agricultural supply chain financing.
- Jul 2016Series A$6M
- Mar 2016Seed—
- Mar 2015Angel—
#11
Series A · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2017$4.4Mraised▾
YoPoint provides smart vending machines for offline retailers. The company develops unmanned vending machines solutions based on sensors and computer vision technology. Its features include mobile payments, task management and control facilities, marketing tools and others. The company offers multiple vending machine equipments and cloud-based software platform for retailers.
- Aug 2018Series A$4.4M
#12
Deadpooled · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2015$3.3Mraised▾
Haosesalad is an internet first restaurant focussing on serving healthy salads and calories counted meals. Serve items that include salads and rich protein food for fitness enthusiasts. Raised Seed from IDG Capital and Next Big a chinese incubaotr and then went on to raise Series A from HongKong cooperative fund and Freesvc.
- Mar 2017Series B—
- Jul 2016Series A$3.3M
- Aug 2015Series A—
- 2015Angel—
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 Tech in Shenzhen is moving
A read on the academic research around Food Tech in Shenzhen — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 52 papers.
- Shenzhen University22
- Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen5
- Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen4
- Shenzhen Polytechnic University4
- Shenzhen Technology University3
- Lytic cycle2
- Aeromonas hydrophila2
- Aeromonas2
- Genome2
- Pathogen2
- Food processing1→3
- Food safety1→5
- Biotechnology1→3
Common questions
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