Best Food Service Chains Companies in Sweden
The 51 best Food Service Chains companies in Sweden in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Boulebar.
- Mordor Intelligence
- Future Market Insights
Our analysis of 50 Food Service Chains companies
$8.5b in tracked funding; 90% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Food Service Chains companies in Sweden
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boulebar Online retailer of home textiles, electronics, apparel, and sporting goods | $24M | 101 mo ago | Late Stage | Henrik Kruse Founder | 2001 | PrismicNode.jsSvelteKit+27 | — |
| 2 | Wheelys Caf Restaurant chain or cafe operating on the street side with bicycles | $3M | 119 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2013 | — | — |
| 3 | For Real! Foods Chain of full service restaurant offering pizza | $963K | 53 mo ago | Seed | Daniel Nowak Founder | 2020 | — | — |
| 4 | Espresso House Cafe coffee chain | — | 57 mo ago | Acquired | Charles Asker Co-Founder | 1996 | SanityApple iCloud MailNode.js+15 | 1 launch · 2 partnerships · 1 expansion |
| 5 | O’Learys Chain of casual dining restaurant offering food & liquor | — | 100 mo ago | Late Stage | Anne Leary Founder | 1988 | — | 1 expansion |
| 6 | Zocalo Chain of Mexican fast food restaurants | — | 157 mo ago | Seed | Einar Örn Einarsson CEO | 2012 | Webflowcore-jsjQuery+9 | — |
| 7 | Almänna Galleriet 925 Owner and operator of a restaurant. The company operates a restaurant, nightclub and bar in Stockholm. | — | — | Acquired | — | 2004 | — | — |
| 8 | Anderson Bakery Operator of a bakery intended to provide frozen and fresh baked products. | — | — | Acquired | — | 1984 | — | — |
Top 7 Food Service Chains companies in Sweden
#1
Seed · Skarhamn, Vastra Gotaland County · founded 2020$962.8Kraised▾
Chain of full service restaurant offering pizza
#2
Late Stage · Stockholm, Stockholm County · founded 2001 · 160 employees$24Mraised▾
Online retailer of home textiles, electronics, apparel, and sporting goods. It offers a wide selection of products across various categories, including home textiles, motorcycle parts, clothing, electrical equipment, team sports gear, mobile phones, and accessories. The platform facilitates online shopping with features such as product browsing, account creation, and order tracking. Customers can browse products and make purchases through a user-friendly interface. The company provides a secure payment gateway for transactions.
#3
Deadpooled · Nacka, Stockholm County · founded 2013 · 30 employees$3Mraised▾
Wheelys is a chain of organic bicycle cafés, enabling young people without money to open their own cafés, shops, and restaurants. started in 2013, Wheelys has sold over 400 cafés in 50+ countries. They are currently developing a second version of their current bicycle.
- Aug 2016Seed$350K
- Apr 2016Angel$2.5M
- Aug 2015Seed—
- Jul 2015Seed$120K
#4
Acquired · Stockholm, Stockholm County · founded 1996 · 7000 employees—raised▾
Espresso House runs a chain of coffee bars. Have about 190 locations in Sweden, 23 locations in Norway and three in Finland. Owned by JAB Holding Company as of Feb 2019.
#5
Late Stage · Stockholm, Stockholm County · founded 1988 · 215 employees—raised▾
Aproximando Ciência e Pessoas: A Olearys, empresa que usa técnicas baseadas em agricultura de precisão, desenvolve aplicativos para incentivar a adoção de práticas agrÃcolas sustentáveis. Com sua plataforma de serviços PontoAll, ajuda a evitar uso excessivo de agrotóxicos na produção de alimentos, economizar água e energia demandadas na irrigação, reduzindo os impactos ambientais. Inovadora no ramo, a Olearys presta serviços a produtores de soja, milho, feijão, tomate, batata, café, uva, trigo, maça e inúmeras outras culturas, ajudando-os a monitorar as condições do clima em suas lavouras e indicando-lhes se as condições são favoráveis ou não ao surgimento de doen
#6
Seed · Stockholm, Stockholm County · founded 2012 · 38 employees—raised▾
Zocalo is a restaurant chain with specialization in Mexican cuisines. It offers Taqueria, salads, burritos, Quesadilla, Tacos, and beverages. Displays all ingredients of the food on bill. As of Sept 2019, they have 6 restaurants in Sweden. 1 in Uppsala, one in Malmo and 4 in Stockholm.
- 2013Seed—
#7
ICA 🦄Unfunded · Solna, Stockholm County · founded 2006 · 35788 employees$12.5Braised▾
Chain of limited service restaurant serving multi-category food
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Food Service Chains coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Food Technology is moving in Sweden
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 356 Sweden-affiliated papers.
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences120
- Lund University33
- Uppsala University33
- Stockholm University21
- National Food Administration18
- Agriculture4
- Food safety3
- Food science3
- Mediterranean diet3
- Mediterranean climate3
- Food safety1→15
- Food security1→8
- Agriculture1→8
- Food waste1→5
- Quality (philosophy)1→4
- Food safety2→36
- Food security4→37
- Food processing4→36
- Production (economics)2→27
- Agriculture2→26
Where food tech 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.