Best Food Tech Companies in Japan
The 99 best Food Tech companies in Japan in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Dely.
When you're mapping the best Food Tech companies in Japan by disclosed equity funding and recent funding momentum, the numbers set the stakes fast. The global Food Tech market sits at $105.3B in 2024 and is forecast to reach $224.3B by 2032 at a 9.9% CAGR. That's a doubling of the prize pool inside eight years. And on the app side, median installs across food and foodtech apps are growing at roughly +20% YoY, which tells you consumer appetite is moving faster than most traditional food businesses can follow. The curve's bending upward, hard.
Japan's slice of that story is still early-stage but real. Our directory tracks 99 companies with $480M in total disclosed funding, zero unicorns yet, and a top of the table led by New Innovations at $42M, Tsukurioki.jp at $21M and Favy at $10M. I find it telling that no single company has broken away from the pack, which means the consolidation phase hasn't started. Strategic acquisitions are already reshaping food tech globally, and Japan won't stay insulated from that pressure long. Backers like Coral Capital, Global Brain and Mizuho Capital are active here, so the infrastructure for bigger rounds exists.
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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 Japan
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Founder | Employees | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dely Mobile-based recipe video discovery platform | $62M | 101 mo ago | — | 89 | Node.jsHighchartsGSAP+17 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 2 | Dinii Provider of restaurant management solutions, including POS, mobile ordering, and more | $51M | 20 mo ago | Mao Yamada CEO | 16 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+29 | Top 1M | — | — |
| 3 | New Innovations Provider of AI cafe robot development services | $42M | 2 mo ago | Keito Nakao CEO & CTO | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+15 | Top 10M | 4 patents Automated beverage dispensing and production equipment for commercial drink preparation | — |
| 4 | Toreta Provider of reservation management, mobile ordering, and digital stamp card services | $41M | 89 mo ago | Hitoshi Nakamura Co-Founder & CEO | 100 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+35 | Top 5M | 2 patents Integrated restaurant reservation and payment processing platform | — |
| 5 | Star Festival Operator of food delivery malls | $38M | 143 mo ago | Yusuke Kishida CEO | 150 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+14 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 6 | DELISH KITCHEN Online recipe aggregator | $36M | 46 mo ago | Taisei Yoshida CEO | — | EcForceCart FunctionalityRuby+40 | Top 5k | — | — |
| 7 | KAMINASHI Provider of software suite solutions for food businesses | $34M | 38 mo ago | Hiroto Oka Founder & CEO | — | STUDIOFirebaseNode.js+25 | Top 5M | — | 1 job opening · 2 launchs |
| 8 | Retty Autonym Gourmet SNS | $23M | 118 mo ago | kazuya takeda CEO | 257 | PHPVarnishVue.js+26 | Top 10k | — | — |
| 9 | Tsukurioki.jp Platform offering chef-made food delivery services | $21M | 6 mo ago | Megumi Maejima CEO | — | HubSpot CMS HubEnvoyGoogle Ads+21 | Top 500k | — | — |
| 10 | TechMagic Developer of AI-based food cooking robots | $17M | 26 mo ago | Yuji Shiraki Founder & CEO | 19 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+32 | Top 5M | 72 patents Automated food portioning, ingredient supply, and cooking equipment for commercial kitchens | — |
| 11 | 10X Online meal planning platform for homemakers | $15M | 13 mo ago | Masatake Yamoto CEO | 73 | Hatena BlogSentryFacebook Login+14 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 12 | Favy Platform offering restaurant management solutions | $10M | 1 mo ago | — | 27 | TurbopackApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+28 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 13 | Snack Me Internet first restaurant offering healthy snacks | $10M | 39 mo ago | Shintaro Hattori CEO | 85 | NotionSuper BuilderTurbopack+14 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 14 | Nippon Shokuhin Provider of table management & reservation solutions for restaurants | $9M | 94 mo ago | Lu Dong Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | Connected Robotics Provider of AI-based food preparation robotic arms | $9M | 39 mo ago | Tetsuya Sawato CEO | 20 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+16 | Top 5M | 12 patents Robotic kitchen automation for dishwashing, cooking, and material handling | — |
| 16 | Chompy Platform offering food delivery services | $7M | 59 mo ago | — | 14 | HugoFirebaseGoogle Font API+7 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 17 | Aroma Bit Developer of odor imaging sensors | $7M | 64 mo ago | Shunichiro Kuroki Founder & CEO | 5 | WordPressMySQLPHP+14 | Top 50M | 48 patents Electronic nose systems for odor detection, analysis, and data processing | — |
| 18 | SHAREDINE Online marketplace for booking cooks for different occasions | $6M | 9 mo ago | — | 20 | Node.jsSalesforceTailwind CSS+18 | Top 500k | — | — |
| 19 | Wada FoodTech Manufacturer of vending machines | $6M | 12 mo ago | Jason Chen Co-Founder & CEO | — | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+15 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 20 | Okage Provider of online ordering and PoS solutions for restaurants | $5M | 63 mo ago | Yoshihisa Uchida CEO | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+30 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 21 | Tablecross Provider of restaurant reservation platform | $4M | 6 mo ago | Kaoru Joho Founder & CEO | — | UbuntuApache HTTP ServerCloudflare+7 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 22 | byFood Food platform that offers food experiences, restaurant reservations, and e-commerce | $4M | 6 mo ago | Serkan Toso Co-Founder | 16 | Cart FunctionalityNode.jsFacebook Login+28 | Top 500k | — | — |
| 23 | TableCheck Online platform to make restaurant reservations | $3M | 6 mo ago | Johnny Shields Founder and Chief Technology Officer | 120 | ZohoSalesforceRuby+19 | Top 50k | — | — |
| 24 | NOMU Platform developing customizable beverages | $3M | 8 mo ago | Baku Morikuni CEO | — | — | — | — | — |
| 25 | GINKAN Blockchain and AI-based solutions | $3M | 60 mo ago | — | 9 | — | — | 5 patents Digital payment processing and NFT/non‑fungible token management platforms | — |
| 26 | Gurirasu Producer of edible cricket protein products using automatic breeding systems | $3M | 51 mo ago | Takato Watanabe CEO | 45 | — | — | — | — |
| 27 | CO-NECT Provider of cloud-based online ordering solutions for businesses | $2M | 48 mo ago | Yusuke Taguchi CEO | 15 | — | — | — | — |
| 28 | NOW ROOM App-based marketplace for accommodations | $2M | 72 mo ago | Fumio Chiba Founder & CEO | — | Node.jsChakra UITailwind CSS+14 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 29 | KitchHike Online platform connecting Japanese cooks and travellers | $2M | 13 mo ago | — | 24 | RubyRuby on RailsNginx+10 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 30 | Ruffl Real-time restaurant discovery | $2M | 151 mo ago | Aaron Ross CEO and founder | — | — | — | — | — |
| 31 | Best Beer Japan Provider of barrel tracking software for beer industry | $1M | 18 mo ago | — | 3 | STUDIOFirebaseNode.js+13 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 32 | QBIT Robotics Provides a robotic cafe system | $1M | 84 mo ago | Shuichi Hiroya Co-Founder & CTO | 5 | — | — | 6 patents AI-driven robotic manipulation and data processing for automated manufacturing tasks | — |
| 33 | Homeal Platform offering food delivery services for infants | $844K | 51 mo ago | Sho Oniumi CEO | — | Cart FunctionalityShopifySentry+38 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 34 | Rakmy Developer of a restaurant management platform to streamline ordering processes | $722K | 42 mo ago | Kengo Ito CEO | — | RubyQuillChart.js+23 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 35 | NINZIA Developer of food texture creation technology and related consumer and commercial products | $678K | 9 mo ago | Masahiro Yoritama CEO & CRO | — | Cart FunctionalityShopifySentry+32 | Top 10M | — | 1 expansion |
| 36 | DIRIGIO Online platform to pre-order at restaurants | $625K | 59 mo ago | Hiiro Onoda Co-Founder & COO | 10 | — | — | — | — |
| 37 | Ubiregi Provider of point-of-sale solutions for restaurants | $200K | — | — | 12 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+21 | Top 5M | — | — |
Top 12 Food Tech companies in Japan
#1
Series B · Koto, Tokyo-to · founded 2019$42.3Mraised▾
Provider of AI cafe robot development services. It offers a system and allows users to order from the app and receive coffee brewed from the locker.
- Mar 2026Conventional Debt$11M
- May 2025Series B$8.1M
- Apr 2023Series A$19.6M
- Apr 2023Conventional Debt$20.8M
#2
Series D · Shinjuku, Tokyo · founded 2015 · 27 employees$9.9Mraised▾
Platform offering restaurant management solutions. Its solutions includes mobile order management, subscription management, digital marketing, designing, consulting, operation management, social media management, feedback management, and more. It also provides digital agency services.
- Apr 2026Series D—
- Nov 2025Series D—
- Jul 2025Series A—
- Mar 2023Series A—
#3
Series D · Chiyoda City, Tokyo · founded 2019$21.1Mraised▾
Platform offering chef-made food delivery services. The users can choose the menu, decide the order details, and confirm the delivery date & notify. It uses seasonal ingredients and soups extracted from natural ingredients such as dried bonito, dried sardines, and kelp. The company delivers weekly menus.
- Nov 2025Series D$21.1M
- Apr 2021Seed—
#4
Series B · Chuo, Tokyo · founded 2014$4.1Mraised▾
Provider of restaurant reservation platform. The company provides a smartphone app that allows users to schedule culinary experiences, make restaurant reservations, watch films about Japanese food culture, and read articles about where and what to eat across the country.
- Nov 2025Series B$2.2M
- Apr 2023Series A$2.2M
#5
Series A · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2011 · 120 employees$3Mraised▾
TableCheck is an online platform to make restaurant reservations. It enables users to search for restaurants on the basis of cuisine, location, restaurant type, date, time, and price. Its mobile app is available for Android and iOS users. The company is operational in Japan.
- Dec 2025Conventional Debt$4.5M
- Mar 2025Series A$2.9M
- Jul 2019Series A$5.5M
- 2018Seed—
#6
Series B · Chuo-ku, Kyushu · founded 2019 · 16 employees$4.1Mraised▾
Food platform that offers food experiences, restaurant reservations, and e-commerce. It also offer food tours, cooking classes, dining experiences, and tastings. The company donate 10 school meals per guest to children in need when a booking or reservation is made.
- Nov 2025Series B$4.1M
#7
Series B · Minato City, Tokyo · founded 2017 · 20 employees$5.8Mraised▾
Online marketplace for booking cooks for different occasions. It allows customers to select the time and date and book one of the chefs available. It allows users to discuss menu with chefs.
- Aug 2025Series B$14.2M
- Nov 2024Series B$11.7M
- Sep 2022Conventional Debt—
- Sep 2022Series A$3.8M
#8
Series B · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2018 · 16 employees$51.2Mraised▾
Provider of restaurant management solutions, including POS, mobile ordering, and more. The company offers tools for customer management, mobile payment, and cashless transactions. It also provides time and attendance management solutions. The company aims to help restaurants increase sales and reduce costs through its integrated platform.
- Sep 2024Series B$48M
- Jul 2021Series A$3.2M
- Aug 2019Seed—
#9
Series B · Chuo City, Tokyo · founded 2017 · 73 employees$14.6Mraised▾
10X is an online meal planning platform for homemakers. It provides a mobile application, Tabery which allows users to provide the list of available ingredients and get recipe suggestions according to their tastes and preferences. It provides recipes of sides, main course dishes, and extras possible to cook with the available ingredients. Users can also build their grocery shopping lists and order groceries from the application. The mobile application is available for Android and iOS devices.
- Apr 2025Series B$14.6M
#10
Seed · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2023$3Mraised▾
Platform developing customizable beverages. The company offers smart micro-beverage factory that connects cloud platform to create personalized beverages based on individual tastes, preferences, and lifestyles.
- Oct 2025Seed$3M
- 2024Seed—
#11
Seed · Chuo-ku, Kyushu · founded 2018$5.5Mraised▾
Wada FoodTech is a decentralized foodservice platform that enables foodservice to expand to customers' doorsteps using AIoT hot-chain total solutions. The company offers hot-chain vending machine services in Osaka, Japan, and has partnerships to accelerate growth in Japan and beyond. Wada FoodTech aims to revolutionize the bento market with innovative AIoT technology.
- Jun 2025Seed$5M
- Sep 2023Seed$2.7M
- Sep 2022Seed$2.8M
#12
Series A · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2012 · 24 employees$1.8Mraised▾
KitchHike is an online platform connecting Japanese cooks and travellers. It provides a platform for travellers and tourists to search for Japanese cooks, chefs, and homemakers to get homemade meals. The mobile platform is available for Android and iOS users.
- Apr 2025Series A—
- Oct 2017Series A$1.8M
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