Best Food & Beverage Products Companies in Sweden
The 139 best Food & Beverage Products companies in Sweden in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Maurten.
Sweden's Food & Beverage Products scene is more crowded and more competitive than the headline number suggests. Our directory tracks 139 companies, with $34M in total disclosed funding — and Maurten alone accounts for $22M of that. So the real question is: what's everyone else working with? Hooked Foods ($6M) and Nordic SeaFarm ($5M) are the next tier, and then the drop-off is steep, with For Real! Foods sitting at under $1M and several founders operating on five-figure rounds. No unicorns yet, which tells you this market is still in its build-out phase.
And yet the momentum reads as real. Median install growth across food and foodtech apps is running at roughly +19% YoY, which, I'd argue, is the more honest signal here than funding totals. Consumer appetite is moving faster than capital is. Almi Invest and Kale United are among the most active backers in this cohort, and the themes drawing attention — alternative proteins, urban farming, functional nutrition — track closely with what 2013 research on dietary behavior shifts identified as durable structural demand, not just cycle noise. If you're mapping where to place a bet in Swedish food innovation, the funding concentration around Maurten is context, not the whole story.
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 Sweden
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maurten Brand of energy bars | $22M | 22 mo ago | Series B | Olof Sköld CEO | 2015 | Cart FunctionalityCraft CommerceCraft CMS+23 | 2 launchs |
| 2 | Hooked Foods Brand of seafood | $6M | 35 mo ago | Seed | Tom Johansson CEO & Co-Founder | 2019 | Wix eCommerceWixSentry+11 | — |
| 3 | Nordic SeaFarm Provider of plant based sea weed | $5M | 21 mo ago | Seed | Gunnar Cervin Founder | 2020 | Wix eCommerceWixSentry+15 | — |
| 4 | For Real! Foods Chain of full service restaurant offering pizza | $963K | 51 mo ago | Seed | Daniel Nowak Founder | 2020 | — | — |
| 5 | Johannas Stadsodlingar Brand of fish and vegetable food products | $52K | 64 mo ago | Seed | Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson Co-Founder & Managing Director | 2018 | — | — |
| 6 | Foodla Brand of spreads | $36K | 98 mo ago | Seed | John Gabrielsson Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | — | — |
| 7 | Childfood Factory Brand of multi category food products | $12K | 122 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2014 | — | — |
| 8 | Raging Pig Internet first brand of vegan | — | 20 mo ago | Seed | Adam Mikkelsen Co-Founder | 2019 | Cart FunctionalityShopifyVisa+24 | — |
Top 12 Food & Beverage Products companies in Sweden
#1
Series B · Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland County · founded 2015 · 50 employees$21.8Mraised▾
Brand of energy bars
- Jul 2024Series B$21.8M
#2
Seed · Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland County · founded 2020 · 16 employees$4.6Mraised▾
Provider of plant based sea weed. The company produces seaweed farming that includes growing crops through carbon dioxide and phosphorus. The company claims that the product includes nutrients, sugar kelp, antioxidants, and more.
- Aug 2024Seed$2.3M
- Feb 2022Seed$2.3M
- Oct 2021Grant (prize money)$981.7K
#3
Seed · Stockholm, Stockholm County · founded 2019 · 22 employees$6.2Mraised▾
Brand of seafood
- Jun 2023Seed$1M
- Sep 2021Seed$4.5M
- Dec 2020Seed$600K
- Oct 2020Seed$175.8K
#4
Seed · Skarhamn, Vastra Gotaland County · founded 2020$962.8Kraised▾
Chain of full service restaurant offering pizza
#5
Seed · Stockholm, Stockholm County · founded 2018 · 8 employees$51.7Kraised▾
Producers of fish and vegetables intended to operate sustainable circular food production systems. The company's products include salads and spices which are locally grown without toxins in a mini-ecosystem, where fish and natural processes in the biobeds work together with the vegetables to reduce both environmental impact and water consumption, enabling customers to avail natural and sustainable food products.
- Feb 2021Seed$51.7K
#6
Seed · Stockholm, Stockholm County · founded 2018 · 8 employees$35.5Kraised▾
Developer of a mobile application designed to connect buyers and sellers of organic goods within a local community. The company's application focuses on locally produced, organic goods, enabling clients to have convenient access to local goods and sellers to have a more efficient way to reach customers.
- Apr 2018Seed$35.5K
#7
Deadpooled · Lulea, Norrbotten County · founded 2014 · 1 employees$11.8Kraised▾
Brand of multi category food products
- Apr 2016Seed$11.8K
#8
Seed · Malmo, Skane County · founded 2019 · 7 employees—raised▾
Internet first brand of vegan
- Sep 2024Seed—
- Jan 2021Seed—
#9
Seed · Malmo, Skane County · founded 2019 · 5 employees—raised▾
Producer of vegan products intended to offer sustainable alternatives to meat and soy products. The company's products are made from locally grown lupin beans which are rich in plant protein and fibers, enabling customers to eat tasty, healthy, and good vegetarian sources of protein.
- Mar 2022Seed—
- Nov 2019Grant (prize money)—
#10
Acquired · Stockholm, Stockholm County · founded 2016 · 3 employees—raised▾
MODE Cold Brew is a brand of ready to drink coffee. Its product includes cold brew coffee. It claims that its products are natural and do not contain sugar, sweeteners or artificial additives. Its products are sold through retailers and independent stores. The company sells its majority of products in Sweden.
- Jan 2020Seed—
#11
Deadpooled · Ronninge, Stockholm County · founded 2013—raised▾
Developer of an online platform designed to provide natural and organic snacks and beauty products. The company offers full-sized products with good value as well as samples of new organic discoveries and the products get selected in order to be harmonized with the theme's spirit, enabling users to enjoy natural products.
- May 2016Seed—
#12
Seed · Lidingo, Stockholm County · founded 2000 · 3 employees—raised▾
Manufacturer of food products intended to offer nutritious foods for babies. The company's products are freshly prepared with organic raw materials and without the use of preservatives, enabling parents to get foods for their babies which are tasty as well healthy.
- 2012Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Food & Beverage Products coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Alternative Proteins is moving in Sweden
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 31 Sweden-affiliated papers.
- RISE Research Institutes of Sweden6
- Lund University4
- Stockholm University4
- Örebro University4
- Chalmers University of Technology3
- Chromatin2
- Transcription (linguistics)2
- Promoter2
- Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB)1
- Protein structure1
- Population5
- Food science3
- Sustainable agriculture3
- Consumption (sociology)2
- Product (mathematics)2
- Food science2
- Natural resource economics2
- Product (mathematics)2
- Sustainability2
- Path (computing)1
Where alternative proteins is researched across Sweden
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
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.