Best Food Tech Companies in Hong Kong, China
The 41 best Food Tech companies in Hong Kong, China in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: DayDayCook.
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 Hong Kong
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DayDayCook Online discovery platform for food recipes | $70M | 14 mo ago | Public | Norma Chu Founder & CEO | 2012 | Google Sign-inNginxPrebid+21 | — |
| 2 | Aigens Provider of suite solutions for restaurants | $14M | 44 mo ago | Series A | Peter Liu Co-Founder & CTO | 2012 | Cart FunctionalityWordPressMySQL+33 | 2 partnerships |
| 3 | Avant Meats Developer of cell-based meat and animal protein food products | $14M | 50 mo ago | Series A | Kai Chan Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | JoomlaPHPVimeo+7 | — |
| 4 | SynchroLife Blockchain based restaurant review platform | $3M | 75 mo ago | Series A | Tomochika Kamiya Founder & CEO | 2017 | — | — |
| 5 | Delivery Republic On demand food delivery service | $2M | 129 mo ago | Deadpooled | Floria Fong Co-Founder & COO | 2015 | — | — |
| 6 | ALLKLEAR Provider of plant based functional salads | $1M | 60 mo ago | Seed | Angus Au Co-Founder | 2018 | — | — |
| 7 | BistroChat Platform offering restaurant booking & loyalty application | $1M | 55 mo ago | Seed | Alexandre Sonier Co-Founder & COO | 2018 | BootstrapGoogle CloudAmazon Web Services+17 | — |
| 8 | DimPOS Provider of cloud-based POS management software for restaurants | $125K | 53 mo ago | Seed | Ben Wong Co-Founder | 2019 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+22 | 1 partnership |
Top 10 Food Tech companies in Hong Kong
#1
Public · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 2012 · 104 employees$70.5Mraised▾
Online discovery platform for food recipes. Its app allows users to experience diverse culinary delights through video tutorials, pictures, and interactive sharing features aimed at inspiring daily cooking. The platform offers mobile applications for Android and iOS platforms.
- Jul 2025Post IPO$27M
- Jul 2022Series C$500K
- Feb 2021Series C$25M
- Aug 2020Series C$20M
#2
Series A · Kowloon, Hong Kong · founded 2012 · 120 employees$14Mraised▾
Provider of suite solutions for restaurants. Features solutions for order management, menu management, payment management, reporting, CRM & loyalty program, self-ordering kiosk, and more.
- Dec 2022Series A$14M
- Jun 2021Seed—
#3
Series A · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 2018 · 21 employees$13.9Mraised▾
Developer of cell-based meat and animal protein food products. The platform offers cultivated fish products such as fish fillet, fish maw & other fish products.
- Jun 2022Series A$10.8M
- Jan 2021Seed—
- Dec 2020Seed$3.1M
- 2019Seed—
#4
Series A · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 2017$2.6Mraised▾
SynchroLife is a blockchain-based restaurant review platform. It sources reliable restaurant reviews, information anywhere in the world. Users get crypto-based rewards for the reviews. It provides a decentralized restaurant database having up to date information. SynchroLife uses artificial intelligence to recommend restaurants based on food likes and dining preferences. It offers various features like interacting with foodies and more. The mobile app is available for both Android and iOS devices.
- Jun 2020Series A$2.6M
#5
Seed · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 2018$1.3Mraised▾
Provider of plant based functional salads. The company uses technology to turn salads drinkable. The platform offers sachets of salad turned into a powder form that has to be dissolved in water.
- Aug 2021Seed$1.3M
#6
Seed · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 2018$1Mraised▾
Platform offering restaurant booking & loyalty application. The customers can browse restaurants and book directly within the application. Its features include review & rating, check restaurant events, book by chatting directly with the staff, and more. The company offers mobile applications for Android and iOS platforms.
- Jan 2022Seed$1M
#7
Deadpooled · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 2015 · 3 employees$2Mraised▾
Delivery republic is smart-phone based app available on both Android and iOS providing food delivery for restaurants. Request can be placed using the phone after signing up. A driver is dispatched once all the details are provided. Has a local delivery network for fulfilling the requests. Claims to provide delivery in 60 minutes
- Nov 2015Seed$2M
#8
Seed · Kowloon, Hong Kong · founded 2019 · 70 employees$125Kraised▾
Provider of cloud-based POS management software for restaurants. The platform offers a DimPOS system that includes order management, payment management, profit reporting, ingredient control, and real-time restaurant information. It offers POS systems for Chinese restaurants, cafes, buffet restaurants, and more.
- Mar 2022Seed$500K
#9
Seed · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 2009—raised▾
Developer of computer vision software for retail audience measurement analytics. This technology captures and processes real-time data regarding customer interactions and preferences within physical retail environments. The system utilizes anonymous unique identifiers to track engagement time and footfall patterns. These insights facilitate the delivery of targeted advertising content on digital displays based on viewer characteristics. The platform integrates hardware and software components to monitor shopper behavior and provide actionable metrics for marketing and operational decision-making.
- Feb 2024Seed—
#10
Deadpooled · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 2017—raised▾
Internet first restaurant offering food delivery
- 2018Angel—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Food Tech 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 China
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 3,976 China-affiliated papers.
- Jiangnan University167
- China Agricultural University142
- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology136
- Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences125
- Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs125
- Food safety3→110
- Detection limit1→59
- Food packaging1→26
- Food spoilage1→24
- Food science1→21
- Food safety8→343
- Food processing3→228
- Shelf life2→153
- Food science7→132
- Food industry2→123
- Food safety15→310
- Food processing9→156
- Food security12→147
- Agriculture13→136
- Production (economics)5→89
Where food tech is researched across China
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.
Who's filing food tech patents in China
China food tech patent filing is accelerating — 143 filings from 224 assignees (2016–2025), led by Guangdong Midea Consumer Electri, Qiulei HU, Midea Group; annual filings 8→14.
- Guangdong Midea Consumer Electri13
- Qiulei HU12
- Midea Group10
- Whirlpool10
- SO KWOK KUEN8
- Gushwa David J7
- Hefei Hualing6
- Hefei Midea Refrigerator6
Common questions
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