Best Food & Beverage Products Companies in Netherlands
The 248 best Food & Beverage Products companies in Netherlands in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Strauss Coffee.
If you're mapping the Food & Beverage Products funding scene in Netherlands, this directory tracks 248 companies with $375M in total disclosed capital, ranked by equity raised and recent momentum. That's a meaningful pool, and the concentration at the top tells you something fast.
Strauss Coffee sits at $293M, which is nearly the entire directory's funding on its own. So what's everyone else doing? Organto has pulled $33M, Tony's Chocolonely $22M, and the rest of the pack clusters well below that, with Wakuli at $6M and Johnny Cashew at $2M. I find the spread genuinely striking. No unicorns yet, but investors like Oost NL, Abn Amro, and 3i Group are staying active, which signals conviction even without a breakout valuation story. And the digital layer is moving: median install growth across food and beverage apps is running around +19% year-over-year across 533 tracked apps, a sign that consumer-facing distribution is shifting faster than the funding tables might suggest. If you're evaluating where capital is flowing and which operators are building real digital reach, this list gives you a grounded starting point.
Our analysis of 150 Food & Beverage Products companies
$9.5b in tracked funding; 93% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2024.
Ranked: Best Food & Beverage Products companies in Netherlands
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1Bite Foods Brand of convenience drinks and snacks | — | — | Acquired | 30 | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | 5th Season Brand of snacks products | — | — | Funding Raised | 6 | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | A.L. Hoogesteger Fresh Specialist Producer of fresh fruit juices located in Zwanenburg, Netherlands. | — | — | Private | 81 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+19 | Top 50M | — | 1 job opening |
| 4 | ad van geloven Ad van Geloven is a branded producer of frozen snacks and meal components. | — | — | Acquired | 1,500 | DrupalApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+13 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 5 | AdalbaPro Provider of insect-based food protein alternatives | — | — | Unfunded | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | Adventure Food Ready-to-cook food brand | — | — | Acquired | — | Apache HTTP ServerMicrosoft 365jQuery | Top 5M | — | — |
| 7 | Alpen Food Group Multi-category food & beverage company | — | — | Unfunded | — | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Amsterdam Cheese Internet first brand of cheese, dips, and snacks | — | — | Acquired | — | Cart FunctionalityShopifyPageFly+35 | Top 5M | — | — |
Top 12 Food & Beverage Products companies in Netherlands
#1
Public · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2007 · 40 employees$33.1Mraised▾
Brand of fruits & vegetables
- Jul 2025Post IPO$5.8M
- Jun 2025Post IPO$735.2K
- Apr 2025Post IPO$3.8M
- Apr 2024Post IPO$417.8K
#2
Series A · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2019 · 36 employees$5.6Mraised▾
Internet-first brand offering coffee
- Dec 2025Series A$5.8M
- Dec 2025Conventional Debt—
- Apr 2024Conventional Debt$802K
- Apr 2024Series A$5.6M
#3
Series B · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2005 · 252 employees$21.9Mraised▾
Brand of chocolates. They sell their chocolates in their own stores. The company invests in long-term partnerships with farmer cooperatives and helps them professionalize.
- Apr 2024Angel—
- Jun 2023Series B$21.9M
- Feb 2020PE—
#4
Seed · Limmel, Limburg · founded 2023$625.4Kraised▾
Empowering women's wellbeing through functional mushrooms and microdosing. This company offers a range of products designed to support mental and physical health. Their offerings include functional mushroom syrups for enhanced energy and sleep, and a mindful microdosing program incorporating psilocybin truffles and a guided app. The program aims to promote calm, clarity, and joy, helping women manage stress, burnout, and other challenges. The company also provides educational resources and expert insights into the benefits of mushrooms for overall wellbeing.
- Dec 2024Seed$625.4K
#5
Late Stage · Amstelveen, North Holland · founded 2003 · 7500 employees$293Mraised▾
Strauss Coffee is a holding company and manufacturer of coffee products. The company holds multiple brands such as BeanZ, Elite Coffee, MK Cafe, Ambassador, Doncafe, Amigo, Doncafe, Chernaya Karta, Fort, and Chorna Karta. The company claims to sell the products in 23 countries including Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, and Israel.
- May 2008PE$293M
#6
Seed · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2020$2.4Mraised▾
Brand of cashew nuts. It offers a range of products, including organic cashews and flavored nuts. Its ingredients include salt, paprika, garlic, onion, and sugar.
- Feb 2024Seed$2.4M
#7
Seed · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2019$811.8Kraised▾
Brand of ice cream
- Mar 2024Seed$811.8K
#8
Seed · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2019 · 19 employees$2.1Mraised▾
Brand of cheese sauces
- May 2022Seed$2.1M
#9
Deadpooled · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2015$7.2Mraised▾
Natur is a brand of cold pressed juice. Offers products such as cold-pressed juices, cold-pressed shots, snacks, and supercharged juices. It claims that its products are 100% raw and natural. It sells its products online as well as through stores. The company sells its majority of products in UK and Netherland.
- Jul 2019Post IPO$7.2M
#10
Seed · Ede, Gelderland · founded 2021 · 8 employees$1.1Mraised▾
Internet-first brand offering substitutes for coffee. Its product offering includes coffee filter blends, coffee capsules, dark roast coffee, and more.
- Dec 2022Seed$1.1M
#11
Seed · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2018 · 7 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Operator of an organic goat milk brand intended to offer an alternative to a formula based on cow's milk. The company's brand formula is packed with whole goat's milk with extra iron and vitamins and also consists of organic GOS fibers from milk and Omega-3 DHA from algae, enabling customers to have additive-free milk.
- Jan 2022Seed$1.5M
#12
Seed · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2017 · 5 employees$531.7Kraised▾
Brand of healthy snacks. The company claims that its products are vegan and glutton-free products. It offers ready-to-heat meal packs and their recipes.
- Dec 2022Seed$531.7K
Funding & investor landscape
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
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How research on Alternative Proteins is moving in the Netherlands
A read on the academic research around Alternative Proteins — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 83 Netherlands-affiliated papers.
- Wageningen University & Research54
- Unilever Foods Innovation Centre8
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam6
- Maastricht University6
- Utrecht University5
- Food science15
- Amino acid3
- Digestion (alchemy)3
- In vitro3
- Leucine2
- Production (economics)1→4
Where alternative proteins 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
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