Best Food Tech Companies in Ireland
The 58 best Food Tech companies in Ireland in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Flipdish.
Food Tech in Ireland has a funding story worth paying attention to: 58 companies tracked, $313M in total disclosed capital, and one unicorn already on the board. Flipdish leads the pack at $157M raised, with Fresco ($45M) and Manna ($41M) rounding out the top tier. That's a concentrated pool, but the momentum underneath it is real. Median app install growth is running at roughly +20% YoY across food and foodtech platforms globally, which tells you consumer adoption isn't slowing down anytime soon.
The broader market backs that read. Global Food Tech is sitting at roughly $105.3B in 2024 and forecast to nearly double to $224.3B by 2032, a 9.9% CAGR driven by population growth, sustainability pressures and faster tech cycles. I'd flag that Ireland punches well above its size here, with Enterprise Ireland and Elkstone among the most active backers keeping early-stage deal flow alive. And the themes heating up right now, from menu personalization at scale to industry-wide transformation strategies, map almost perfectly onto what Nory AI and SynergySuite are already building for. So if you're scanning this space for where capital is moving, Ireland's Food Tech cluster is a sharper signal than its size suggests.
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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 Ireland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Market signals (1y) | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Allogen Biotech Manufacturer of food contamination and allergen-testing sensors | — | — | 2 | Derek Graydon Founder & COO | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | Atrium Provider of POS solutions for restaurants | — | — | — | Francesco Lisandro Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Banba Platform offering online ordering solution for restaurants | — | — | 5 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | BlendnGo Internet first brand offering USB rechargeable portable blender | — | — | — | Cillian O’Malley Founder | Cart FunctionalityShopifyElement UI+40 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 5 | CBE Provider of POS solutions for retail businesses | — | — | 180 | — | WordPressMySQLRedis+26 | Top 10M | — | 2 job openings · 1 award |
| 6 | CHIPMONGERS App-based platform for ordering takeaway foods | — | — | — | Michael Ferris Owner | Cart FunctionalityNode.jsMUI+13 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 7 | Craft Nation Customer engagement and loyalty solutions for breweries | — | — | — | Jay Reilly Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Credo Online Pizza delivery | — | — | — | Alex Gorsky CEO & Chairman | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Food Tech companies in Ireland
#1
Series B · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2019 · 120 employees$40.7Mraised▾
Operator of air delivery services for medical equipment and food. The company provides delivery of medical supplies and food items. It focuses on offering quiet, regulated, and private services. The business model supports local businesses and aims to create more jobs.
- Apr 2026Series B$50M
- Mar 2025Series A$30M
- Mar 2023Series A—
- Nov 2022Grant (prize money)—
#2
Series C · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2012 · 62 employees$44.9Mraised▾
Online platform offering food recipes for smart appliances. The platform offers recipes for different appliance models with timers, temperatures, and other factors.
- Dec 2025Series C$17.5M
- Apr 2022Series B$20M
- Jun 2020Series A$13.3M
#3
Series B · Ireland · founded 2019 · 29 employees$25.6Mraised▾
AI-powered restaurant management software optimizing operations, margins, and reducing waste. It is a comprehensive, cloud-based platform designed to give restaurants full control of their business. The system offers modules for business intelligence, inventory management, workforce management, and payroll, all integrated to streamline operations and boost profitability. It provides solutions for independent brands, franchise networks, multi-location brands, and enterprise groups. The platform uses AI-driven insights to guide restaurant teams toward success, maximize margins, reduce waste, and streamline supply chain management. It helps onboard, engage, and reward teams effectively, and automates the entire payroll process seamlessly. The software offers integrations with existing tools for a seamlessly connected ecosystem. It provides AI recommendations to help teams make smarter decisions, day after day. The platform offers features like login, book a chat, and resources like a blog and podcast. It is a SaaS platform that helps restaurants make better decisions and protect their margins, freeing them up to grow on their own terms.
- Sep 2025Series B$37M
- May 2024Series A$16M
- May 2023Seed$7.6M
- Apr 2021Seed$2M
#4
Series B · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2011 · 13 employees$16.6Mraised▾
AI-powered restaurant management software for streamlined operations and increased profitability. This is a comprehensive, module-based platform designed to optimize back-of-house operations for restaurants, pubs, and multi-unit franchises. The software offers a suite of tools including AI ordering and forecasting, inventory management, purchasing, labor and scheduling, reporting and analytics, operations, food safety, cash management, and HR. It provides real-time data, automated insights, and mobile apps to empower teams and improve efficiency across all locations. The platform is translatable and localized for global solutions, helping businesses predict smarter, operate faster, and waste less. It integrates with existing POS, payroll, and HR systems to unify operations and empower teams with a single source of truth. This is a SaaS solution that simplifies complex tasks, ensures compliance, and drives data-driven decisions to grow your business.
- Aug 2025Conventional Debt—
- Aug 2025Series B$12M
- Jul 2021Conventional Debt—
- May 2021Series A$7M
#5
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2022 · 3 employees$4.7Mraised▾
Provider of software solutions for alcohol businesses. Its solutions include fulfillment, wharehousing, taxing, and more.
- Sep 2025Seed$4.7M
#6
Flipdish 🦄Series C · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2015 · 15 employees$157Mraised▾
All-in-one restaurant platform empowering restaurants with online ordering and management tools. This platform provides restaurants and takeaways with a suite of powerful tech solutions, including AI Phone Agent, online ordering, websites, mobile apps, POS, handheld POS, self-service kiosks, restaurant marketing, delivery integrations, and marketplace management. It simplifies operations with an all-in-one POS system, marketplace management, kitchen display system, real-time reporting, and AI efficiency tools. The platform turns insights into profits with AI-powered analytics, smart menu optimization, and predictive sales forecasting. It offers dedicated onboarding and ongoing customer success support. The platform helps restaurants grow their orders with branded websites and apps, loyalty and retention programs, automated upsell, delivery network, and marketing tools. It is a SaaS, software solution for the food industry.
- Jan 2022Series C$100M
- Feb 2021Series B$48.5M
- Dec 2018Series A$5.4M
- Jul 2018Series A$2.3M
#7
Seed · Roscommon, County Roscommon · founded 2020 · 12 employees$3.2Mraised▾
Provider of automated food waste monitoring for food businesses. The platform offers patent pending food waste sensors and food detection using AI. The automated food waste system tracks and logs all food waste created in all the kitchens using the scanner. It also provides reporting solution that provides tracks performance for multiple operations.
- Nov 2023Seed$2.5M
- Jun 2022Seed—
- 2022Seed—
- Sep 2021Seed—
#8
Acquired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2016 · 24 employees$8Mraised▾
Restaurant delivery management software optimizing efficiency, customer experience, and profitability. This is a SaaS platform designed to empower restaurants by streamlining their delivery operations. It offers features like order overflow management, real-time tracking, order stacking, and simple POS integrations. The software helps restaurants maximize fulfillment rates, reduce delivery times, and secure competitive delivery rates through fleet partnerships. It provides tools for driver communication via a delivery driver app, transparent pricing, and access to integrations. The platform focuses on improving the customer delivery experience and increasing revenue for restaurants through efficient delivery management. It is a cloud-based solution that offers features like subscription, blog, case studies, FAQ, support, API docs, terms of service, site map, control your data, data processing addendum, privacy policy, open app, book a demo, contact us, free trial, pricing, integrations, and newsletter.
- Sep 2021Series A$8M
#9
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2011 · 63 employees$3.1Mraised▾
Nutritics has developed a software for offering nutrition analytics. The user can manage recipes, analyze diets & activity, and create meal plans. The tools include a nutrient calculator, calorie counter, allergy monitor, meal planner, recipe analysis and food label analysis. The software provides insights to nutritional professionals to manage nutritional decision making in healthcare (clinics & hospitals), food services, sport, and education.
- Jan 2022Grant (prize money)$104.8K
- Dec 2021Seed$171.6K
- Apr 2021Seed$100.7K
- Mar 2021Seed$2.8M
#10
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2020$2Mraised▾
Online marketplace platform for restaurant booking. It allows its users to purchase and sell restaurant reservations and spots on waiting lists.
- Apr 2021Seed$2M
#11
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2020 · 6 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Platform offering dark kitchen solutions for food businesses. It offers multi-kitchen properties and software for restaurants to rent and fulfill online orders. Its software can process orders from multiple third-party delivery services such as Just Eat and Deliveroo. It offers essential services like electricity & gas, cleaning, pest control, and more.
- Aug 2021Seed$1.5M
#12
Series A · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2011 · 19 employees$2.3Mraised▾
Bizimply is a workforce management Solution for restaurants, bars and retail businesses. Provides features to view the the attendence records, working personnels, forcasting and labor scheduling, employee profile and payroll info, reports etc. Employees can clock in through pin into the app, view shift info and shift messages etc. Pricing based on number of employees.
- May 2017Grant (prize money)—
- Apr 2016Series A$2.3M
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 flat · growth flat
How research on Food Technology is moving in Ireland
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 403 Ireland-affiliated papers.
- University College Dublin108
- Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority86
- Technological University Dublin72
- University College Cork69
- Trinity College Dublin38
- Food safety5
- Metagenomics2
- Certification2
- Liability2
- Incentive2
- Food safety7→24
- Sustainability1→16
- Food processing1→15
- Food science2→13
- Food industry1→9
- Food safety6→26
- Food processing9→23
- Food science5→14
- Risk assessment1→8
- Biotechnology3→8
Where food tech is researched across Ireland
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.