Best Food Tech Companies in Belgium
The 106 best Food Tech companies in Belgium in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Deliverect.
Belgium's Food Tech ecosystem is worth knowing by its numbers before its names. This directory ranks Food Tech companies in Belgium by disclosed equity funding and recent funding momentum, tracking 106 ventures that have collectively pulled in $378M in disclosed capital.
Deliverect anchors that figure hard, having raised $332M of the total pile on its own. That's not a rounding error, that's concentration. The remaining 105 companies split roughly $46M between them, with Paleo at $13M and Those Vegan Cowboys and Apicbase each at $7M representing the next tier down. One unicorn has emerged from this cohort, and I'd argue that's a credible signal for a market this size. Globally, Food Tech is tracking toward $224.3B by 2032, up from roughly $105.3B in 2024 at a 9.9% CAGR, driven by population growth and the real economic pressure on sustainable agriculture. App-side momentum confirms the direction: median install growth across food and foodtech apps is running at roughly 20% YoY across 501 tracked apps. So if you're mapping where Belgian Food Tech sits globally, the funding is concentrated but the runway, for smaller players especially, looks increasingly acquirable.
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Our analysis of 100 Food Tech companies
$12.9b in tracked funding; 88% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Food Tech companies in Belgium
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deliverect 🦄 Streamlining restaurant and retail operations with end-to-end digital ordering solutions | $332M | 52 mo ago | Series D | Jan Hollez Co-Founder & CTO | 2018 | Cart FunctionalityContentfulApple iCloud Mail+28 | — | 2 launchs |
| 2 | Paleo Cell-based alternative animal protein provider | $13M | 39 mo ago | Series A | Hermes Sanctorum Co-Founder & CEO | 2020 | WordPressPleskMySQL+23 | 26 patents Heme (myoglobin) protein ingredients for flavor in meat alternatives, dairy, pet foods. | — |
| 3 | APICBASE Online SaaS-based back office kitchen management solutions for restaurants | $7M | 61 mo ago | Series A | Pieter Wellens Co-Founder & CTO | 2013 | — | 2 patents Integrated kitchen photo studio for on‑site food imaging and display | 1 partnership |
| 4 | Those Vegan Cowboys Provider of plant based cheese | $7M | 6 mo ago | Series A | Jaap Korteweg Co-Founder & CEO | 2008 | WordPressMySQLPHP+13 | — | 1 job opening · 1 partnership |
| 5 | Eat Casper Internet first restaurant to order and deliver food | $5M | 50 mo ago | Series A | Matthias Laga Managing Director | 2019 | — | — | — |
| 6 | mealhero Develops and offers smart steamer | $4M | 67 mo ago | Seed | Anton Claeys Co-Founder & CTO | 2017 | — | 4 patents Smart modular kitchen appliances integrating recipe guidance and compartmentalized heating. | — |
| 7 | Eurofir Provider of validated food composition and supporting information across Europe | $2M | 29 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2009 | WordPressMySQLPHP+16 | — | 2 launchs |
| 8 | Menu Next Door Ordering platform for home cooked food | $2M | 120 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Naplasol Provider of plant-based meat alternatives | $2M | 57 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2020 | — | — | 1 launch |
| 10 | Peace of Meat Online B2B supplier of plant-based meat | $1M | 68 mo ago | Acquired | Eva Sommer Co-Founder | 2019 | — | — | — |
| 11 | Youmeal Provider of personalized nutrition recommendations | $944K | 103 mo ago | Seed | Sophie Flagothier CEO & Co-fondatrice | 2016 | WordPressMySQLPHP+21 | — | — |
| 12 | Wakati Solar Powered device for extending shelf life of farm produce | $500K | 124 mo ago | Seed | Arne Pauwels Founder & CEO | 2013 | — | — | — |
Top 12 Food Tech companies in Belgium
#1
Series A · Zwijnaarde, East Flanders Province · founded 2008 · 23 employees$7.3Mraised▾
Provider of plant-based cheese. It manufactures cheese by means of precision fermentation, real casein is created. Casein is the unique protein that makes cheese cheesy. The company has built the Stainless Steel Cow through which the milking process has changed from hand milking, via the milking machine to fully automatic milking.
- Dec 2025Series A$7.3M
#2
Series D · Ghent, Flanders · founded 2018 · 80 employees$332Mraised▾
Streamlining restaurant and retail operations with end-to-end digital ordering solutions. This is a SaaS platform that empowers businesses to scale faster and more profitably by simplifying every step of the ordering process. The AI-powered, API-first platform streamlines operations across delivery, dine-in, take-out, drive-thru, and catering. It acts as a central hub, consolidating order and menu management into one streamlined platform, providing access to sales, performance, and third-party delivery data. The platform offers solutions for third-party ordering, first-party ordering, in-store service, and retail, including integrations for POS systems, delivery platforms, online ordering, kiosk, fulfillment, and retail. It focuses on higher efficiency, conversion, and margins through features like revenue protection, direct-to-consumer sales, and optimized last-mile delivery. The platform offers features like central management hub, revenue protection, delivery manager app, end-to-end online ordering, delivery partners on demand, courier app, self-serve ordering, table ordering, catalogue management, and pick and pack orders.
- Jan 2022Series D$208M
- Apr 2021Series C$65M
- Apr 2020Series B$17.6M
- Apr 2019Series A$3.4M
#3
Funding Raised · Brussels, Brussels · founded 2009$2.4Mraised▾
Provider of validated food composition and supporting information across Europe. The organization facilitates access and cooperation among national food composition database compilers. It offers access to food composition data, recipe calculation tools, and plant bioactive compound composition information. The organization also provides standardized vocabularies for food composition data processing.
- Jan 2024Grant (prize money)$553.2K
- Oct 2019Grant (prize money)$750.1K
- Oct 2018Grant (prize money)$173.7K
- Nov 2017Grant (prize money)$224.7K
#4
Series A · Diest, Flanders · founded 2020 · 4 employees$12.8Mraised▾
Cell-based alternative animal protein provider. It provides animal protein by using yeast fermentation technology. It provides meat and seafood alternative products.
- Mar 2023Series A$12.8M
#5
Series A · Ghent, Flanders · founded 2019 · 117 employees$5.4Mraised▾
Internet first restaurant to order and deliver food. The users can discover a wide range of food from chicken rolls, soups, chicken burgers, BBQ wings, cheese meatballs, and more. The platform offers door-step delivery or pick-up services.
- Apr 2022Series A$5.4M
#6
Series A · Antwerp, Flanders · founded 2013 · 24 employees$7.4Mraised▾
APICBASE offers online SaaS-based back office kitchen management solutions for restaurants. Its solutions include professional food photography, allergen tracking & nutritional values, media management, recipe management, marketing, menu building, procurement & supply chain management, food costing, multiple kitchen management, and more. The company offers solutions on the subscription-based policy.
- May 2021Series A$4.9M
- Jun 2019Series A$1.7M
- Jun 2017Seed$795.1K
#7
Seed · Ghent, Flanders · founded 2017 · 2 employees$4.1Mraised▾
Develops and offers smart steamer. The device is connected to a mobile app through which users can select recipes. It also offers personalized meal recommendations and offers insights into the nutritional values of the food. Its device can be purchased online through the website.
- Nov 2020Angel$3M
- Jan 2020Grant (prize money)$55.1K
- Oct 2019Grant (prize money)$54.7K
- Oct 2018Seed—
#8
Funding Raised · Bree, Flanders · founded 2020 · 4 employees$1.6Mraised▾
Provider of plant-based meat alternatives. It offers mycoprotein-based proteins for providing delicious plant-based food options.
- Sep 2021Grant (prize money)$1.6M
- Dec 2019Grant (prize money)$55.1K
#9
Acquired · Antwerp, Flanders · founded 2019 · 8 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Peace of Meat is an online B2B supplier of plant-based meat. The company claims that it uses cultured fat to make its products and also claims its products to be antibiotic-free.
- Oct 2020Seed$1.2M
#10
Deadpooled · Brussels, Brussels · founded 2015 · 25 employees$2Mraised▾
Menu Next Door is a platform that enables users to discover and order food from home chefs situated close to their location. Chefs put up their menus and users can order food and then collect it from the chef's address. Menu Next Door doesn't charge any commission from either the chefs or the users. They also help in selecting the appropriate packaging materials from their curated and approved list of suppliers. Currently operational in Paris, Brussels and London.
- May 2016Seed$2M
- 2015Seed—
#11
Seed · Brussels, Brussels · founded 2016 · 3 employees$944.5Kraised▾
Youmeal is a provider of personalized nutrition recommendations. It allows users to analyze real-time food recipes with ingredient information and also provides information regarding allergens, macronutrients, micronutrients, and others. It uses software technology to manages their order of ingredients, mercurials, inventory management, costs etc. It also provides various solutions including recipe optimization, consumer information, nutritional profiles, environmental impacts, data enrichment and more.
- Nov 2017Seed$944.5K
#12
Seed · Antwerp, Flanders · founded 2013 · 6 employees$500Kraised▾
Wakati is focused on reducing post harvest losses for small farmers. The company has designed a solar powered device for storage of farm produce that provides a sterile micro climate that helps in extending shelf life in potentially sub optimal climate and temperature conditions. The company has introduced the product in select companies in Tanzania and Kenya for beta testing with the help of non profit organisations.
- Feb 2016Seed$500K
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