Best Food and Agriculture Tech Companies in Utrecht, Netherlands
The 37 best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Utrecht, Netherlands in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Phycom.
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 Utrecht
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 | 31 mo ago | Series A | — | 2009 | WordPressMySQLPHP+20 | — |
| 2 | Satelligence Provider of sustainable agricultural production towards zero deforestation, zero extinction, and zero… | $2M | 69 mo ago | Seed | Niels Wielaard Founder & CEO | 2016 | WordPressMySQLPHP+38 | — |
| 3 | Orbisk Provider of AI-based food waste monitoring system | $1M | 21 mo ago | Series A | Bart Arnhem Co-Founder & CTO | 2019 | WordPress Block EditorDiviWordPress+38 | — |
| 4 | FlorAccess Listing platform for flower suppliers | $934K | 103 mo ago | Seed | — | 2010 | Cart FunctionalityNode.jsSvelteKit+9 | — |
| 5 | The Ketchup Project Internet first brand offering sauces 11Talent bottom 49%Funding bottom 32%Global bottom 29% All 3 signals ▾Talentbottom 49% Fundingbottom 32% Globalbottom 29% Talent: 1 named leader on record · 1 C-suite/founder profile curated Funding: Raised $475k across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 4 yrs (0.2/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 11/100 | $475K | 50 mo ago | Seed | Anne Janssens Co-Founder | 2016 | — | — |
| 6 | Carble Provider of carbon footprint management for the coffee industry | $299K | 46 mo ago | Deadpooled | Sander Reuderink Founder / CEO | 2021 | — | — |
| 7 | Urban Health Farms Operators of indoor farms for leafy produce production | — | 72 mo ago | Seed | Bernard Sleijster Founder | 2019 | — | — |
| 8 | MastiLine BV Hardware and software solutions for cattle health monitoring | — | 123 mo ago | Series A | Evert van de Werfhorst Director & CEO | 2015 | — | — |
Top 8 Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Utrecht
#1
Series A · Utrecht, Utrecht · founded 2019 · 37 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Provider of AI-based food waste monitoring system. It is a plug-and-play installation of the food waste monitor in the kitchen. The monitor system has a camera with AI image recognition, that recognizes the products being thrown away and gains insight into the food waste via an online report.
- Dec 2024Series A$8.4M
- Jan 2023Grant (prize money)$193.1K
- Mar 2022Grant (prize money)$2.7M
- Oct 2021Grant (prize money)$2.8M
#2
Series A · Veenendaal, Utrecht · founded 2009 · 21 employees$11.6Mraised▾
Producer of algae-based sustainable ingredients for animal and human consumption. It is convolved in the development of nutritional products that help in the enrichment of human food. It offers algae-based animal feed, that helps in improving the animal immune system.
- Feb 2024Series A$1.9M
- Sep 2023Series A$9.7M
#3
Seed · Utrecht, Utrecht · founded 2016 · 37 employees$2.3Mraised▾
Provider of sustainable agricultural production towards zero deforestation, zero extinction, and zero emissions. The company combines machine learning, satellite expertise, local knowledge, and human intelligence. The features include deforestation alerts, grievance monitors, and a progress tracker. The commodities that the company monitors include palm oil, cocoa, soy, coffee, pulp & paper, beef, etc.
- Nov 2020Seed$2.3M
- Nov 2020Grant (prize money)$698.8K
#4
Seed · Amersfoort, Utrecht · founded 2016$474.9Kraised▾
Internet first brand offering sauces. The brand sells different types of sauces like tomato ketchup, mango ketchup, smokey sauce, and more. It claims to use sun-ripened & dried produce and procures it from farmers to reduce their wastage.
- Jun 2022Seed$474.9K
#5
Deadpooled · Utrecht, Utrecht · founded 2021 · 5 employees$299.4Kraised▾
Provider of carbon footprint management for the coffee industry. It offers coffee brands to reduce their carbon footprint by rewarding coffee farmers for the carbon they store in forest canopies.
- Nov 2022Seed$299.4K
#6
Seed · Utrecht, Utrecht · founded 2010 · 10 employees$933.9Kraised▾
Flora Access provides an online platform to find the listings of flower producers. Producers are listed on the basis of categories of flowers they produce. Users can ask for quotes from a specific supplier through the platform. Varieties of flowers for which producers and suppliers are listed on the platform include cut flower, flower bulbs, foliages, plants, seeds, shrubs, trees, and young plants.
- Feb 2018Seed$933.9K
- Mar 2015Grant (prize money)$27.1K
- Dec 2014Grant (prize money)$12.5K
#7
Seed · Utrecht, Utrecht · founded 2019—raised▾
Operators of indoor farms for leafy produce production. They use quality control and proprietary technology to cultivate their produce. The product offering includes lettuce, spinach, mint, and basil.
- Sep 2020Seed—
#8
Series A · Maarsbergen, Utrecht · founded 2015—raised▾
Mastiline provides hardware and software solutions for cattle health monitoring. The Sensor provides somatic cell count(SCC) which is transferred to the cloud on the real time basis. Somatic cell counts are considered the indicator of mastitis in cattle. The farmer can see the recording history in the software platform for decision-making purposes.
- Jun 2016Series A—
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What Utrecht researches in food tech
- Utrecht University25
- University Medical Center Utrecht9
- University of Applied Sciences Utrecht1
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