Best Food Tech Companies in Italy
The 159 best Food Tech companies in Italy in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Deliveristo.
Food Tech in Italy is the focus here, with 159 companies ranked by disclosed equity funding and recent funding momentum across the sector. The global prize is already enormous: the Food Tech market sits at $105.3B in 2024 and is forecast to hit $224.3B by 2032, compounding at 9.9% annually. That curve is bending fast. And on the consumer side, median app installs across 501 food and foodtech apps grew roughly 20% YoY on the Play Store, which tells you exactly where attention and habit are moving.
Italy's disclosed funding pool totals $39M across these 159 tracked companies, with no unicorns yet but real concentration at the top. Deliveristo leads at $13M raised, followed by TomaPaint at $3M and Qodeup at $2M. So the leaderboard is tight, and the gap between the front-runners and the rest is wide. I'd watch how investors like LVenture Group, CDP Venture Capital and H-FARM keep deploying here, especially as consolidation picks up globally and acquirers start circling proven operators. If you're mapping where the early value is accumulating in Italian Food Tech, the funding data below is your starting point.
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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 Italy
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deliveristo Platform offering digital tools for restaurant operations, ordering, and delivery management | $13M | 46 mo ago | 45 | Lorenzo Tassone Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | New Gluten World Platform offers technology to transforms gluten into a bioactive protein | $3M | 91 mo ago | — | Carmen Lamacchia CEO & President | — | — | 38 patents Detoxification of gluten proteins from cereal grains for safe food and medical use | — |
| 3 | TomaPaint Provider of solutions to convert tomato waste into bio-resin | $3M | 42 mo ago | 3 | Tommaso Barbieri Co-Founder | — | — | 4 patents Extraction and purification of tomato-derived cutin biopolymers from processing waste | — |
| 4 | Qodeup Provider of digital menu solutions for restaurants | $2M | 44 mo ago | — | Fabio Marniga Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | Qodeup Developer of a digital restaurant application intended to help people to browse the restaurant menu by… | $2M | 44 mo ago | 32 | — | WordPressPleskMySQL+25 | Top 500k | — | — |
| 6 | Moovenda Food delivery from local restaurants | $2M | 100 mo ago | 11 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+11 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 7 | Wenda Offering supply chain visibility & collaboration platform for the food and beverage industry | $2M | 64 mo ago | 25 | Mattia Nanetti Co-Founder | DatoCMSstyled-componentsEmotion+22 | Top 50M | 3 patents Sensor-based monitoring and data analysis for liquid food quality control. | — |
| 8 | WIB Provider of vending machines and automated retail solutions | $2M | 127 mo ago | 15 | Alfonso Correale CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | Top 50M | 6 patents Automated warehouse logistics systems and modular vending machine technology | 1 partnership |
| 9 | EatsReady Online marketplace for restaurant discovery and online ordering | $1M | 94 mo ago | 11 | Giacomo Alpago Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | FrescoFrigo FrescoFrigo is a smart fridge solution that offers automated, reliable, and scalable plug&play fridges for… | $1M | 85 mo ago | 26 | Enrico Pandian Founder & Co-CEO | PleskVideoJSReact+13 | Top 10M | 3 patents Vending machine product dispensing systems and related distribution methods | — |
| 11 | Cesarine Provider of offering community platform of home cooks | $1M | 56 mo ago | 29 | — | PrismicTurbopackNode.js+34 | Top 500k | — | — |
| 12 | Foorban Internet first restaurant serving ready-to-eat meals | $1M | 109 mo ago | 45 | Stefano Cavaleri Co-founder & Chief Sales and Marketing Officer | Node.jsMUINext.js+22 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 13 | Rysto Social platform for the restaurant and hospitality labor market | $1M | 154 mo ago | 2 | Massimo Fabrizio Co-founder | PHPBootstrapNginx+12 | Top 5M | — | 9 job openings |
| 14 | FIXE Online platform for restaurant bookkeeping | $678K | 19 mo ago | 31 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+40 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 15 | Diet To Go Internet first restaurant serving healthy meals for weight loss | $500K | 113 mo ago | 5 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 16 | RiCaMo Manufacturer of oxygen-free bottling | $480K | 119 mo ago | 30 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 17 | Vado Provider of vending automatic delivery operations services | $432K | 20 mo ago | 11 | Alberto Luison Co-Founder | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+15 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 18 | MiSiedo Restaurant table booking service | $375K | 163 mo ago | 17 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 19 | Dishcovery Provider of software solution for restaurants | $283K | 77 mo ago | 19 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+24 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 20 | Stamp.it Loyalty platform for SMBs | $225K | 159 mo ago | — | Martin Herd Founder | — | — | 5 patents Tooling for metal sheet dent repair, die casting, and injection molding with undercuts | — |
| 21 | Vita Meals Online platform offering subscription-based meals | $204K | 65 mo ago | 23 | Andrea Lippolis Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 22 | Kilogram Provider of AI-based nutrition tracking solutions | $163K | 26 mo ago | — | Victor Osorio Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 23 | Eathic Provider of an app for managing restaurant reservations | $134K | 35 mo ago | 3 | Cosmin Meresanu Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Food Tech companies in Italy
#1
Seed · Venice, Veneto · founded 2019 · 31 employees$677.5Kraised▾
Online platform for restaurant bookkeeping. It delivers financial reports, weekly reports, bookkeeping, automation, and more.
- Nov 2024Seed$677.5K
#2
Seed · Torino, Piedmont · founded 2020 · 11 employees$432.3Kraised▾
Provider of vending automatic delivery operations services. It creates a menu based on the products inside the vending machine and connects delivery platforms and vending machines to sell the products through home delivery applications and e-commerce platforms.
- Oct 2024Conventional Debt$54.9K
- Oct 2024Seed$432.3K
- 2022Seed—
#3
Series B · Milan, Lombardy · founded 2017 · 45 employees$12.6Mraised▾
Platform offering digital tools for restaurant operations, ordering, and delivery management. It helps manage menus, orders, and customer interactions through a centralized system, enabling smoother communication between restaurants, customers, and delivery channels. It is built to simplify day-to-day restaurant management and improve efficiency across digital food service processes.
- Aug 2022Series B$7.1M
- Dec 2020Series A$5.5M
#4
Funding Raised · Parma, Emilia Romagna · founded 2019 · 3 employees$2.8Mraised▾
Provider of solutions to convert tomato waste into bio-resin. It processes and converts tomato bio-resin that is used to produce a bio-lacquer to be applied on the internal and external surfaces of metal food containers.
- Dec 2022Grant (prize money)$289.6K
- Oct 2022Grant (prize money)$49.8K
- Nov 2020Grant (prize money)$2.4M
#5
Seed · Turin, Piedmont · founded 2022$162.9Kraised▾
Provider of AI-based nutrition tracking solutions. It allows customers to scan food image and provides food nutrition and diet information. It also provides weight prediction and micronutrients information for customers.
- Apr 2024Seed$162.9K
#6
Seed · Castegnato, Lombardy · founded 2019$2.4Mraised▾
Provider of digital menu solutions for restaurants. The user can scan the QR code through the smartphone camera. A digital menu appears and the user can choose preferred language and food preferences. The request is sent directly to the kitchen. The company claims that the solution helps to reduce paper waste. The solution is also offered for hotels and bars.
- Oct 2022Seed$2.4M
- 2021Seed—
#7
Seed · Italy · founded 2019 · 32 employees$2.4Mraised▾
Developer of a digital restaurant application intended to help people to browse the restaurant menu by scanning. The company offers a digital menu that is approved by the Italian Chefs Federation (ICF) for more innovative, careful, and safe catering, enabling customers to get a digital menu and helps in saving paper by not creating paper menus.
#8
Seed · Castel Maggiore, Emilia Romagna · founded 2015 · 25 employees$1.9Mraised▾
Wenda offers a supply chain visibility & collaboration platform for the food and beverage industry. It offers a collaborative platform to govern food traceability data from the cold and hot chains. It automatically collects, analyzes, and shares supply chain data by integrating with existing measurement tools, data loggers and management, etc. It shares the temperature and track & trace data from production to consumer, supporting tracking devices and monitoring systems. It offers for industries like beverage, fruits & vegetables, meat & fish, milk &derivatives, and more.
- Jan 2021Seed$697K
- May 2020Seed$1.2M
- Mar 2019Seed—
- Jun 2018Seed—
#9
Seed · Bologna, Emilia Romagna · founded 2004 · 29 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Provider of offering community platform of home cooks. The platform offerings include traditional lunches & dinners, hands-on cooking classes, market tours, and more. It also offers recipes with step-by-step instructions, ingredients required, and more.
- Sep 2021Seed$1.3M
#10
Seed · Jesolo, Veneto · founded 2021 · 3 employees$133.6Kraised▾
Provider of an app for managing restaurant reservations. Its features include an automated waiting list, event and experience, and more.
- Jul 2023Seed$133.6K
#11
Deadpooled · Rome, Lazio · founded 2015 · 11 employees$2.3Mraised▾
Moovenda provides a mobile app for ordering food from restaurants for home delivery. Based on location, it gives a list of restaurants or take away joints, people can choose from the available options and place an order. Has a crowdsourced fleet of messengers for making the deliveries. Offers real-time tracking of orders. Also, restaurants can sign up on the platform to act as partners and people can sign up to provide delivery services.
- Feb 2018Angel$1.2M
- Oct 2017Seed—
- Mar 2017Angel$354.9K
- Aug 2016Seed$167.1K
#12
Deadpooled · Foggia, Provincia Di Foggia · founded 2015$2.8Mraised▾
Platform offers technology to transforms gluten into a bioactive protein. It modifies gluten proteins, alter its structure and reduce antigenic capacity.
- Oct 2018Grant (prize money)$1.4M
- Nov 2016Grant (prize money)$1.4M
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 Italy
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 1,457 Italy-affiliated papers.
- University of Bologna95
- University of Naples Federico II83
- University of Milan73
- University of Parma70
- European Food Safety Authority68
- Food processing2→14
- Food safety2→13
- Food science3→8
- Food safety7→77
- Food processing4→62
- Food science2→47
- Agriculture3→38
- Shelf life3→36
- Food safety16→169
- Sustainability5→59
- Food security12→58
- Food systems2→47
- Food processing7→50
Where food tech is researched across Italy
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
Sweetie watches where the money and the users are piling in. She covers sector wealth and momentum — the install curves and revenue pools that show which corners of the market are quietly on fire.