Best Food Tech Companies in Kerala, India
The 46 best Food Tech companies in Kerala, India in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Masala Box.
Our analysis of 50 Food Tech companies
$6.8b in tracked funding; 84% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2021.
Ranked: Best Food Tech companies in Kerala
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Masala Box Online marketplace for homemade tiffin delivery services | $749K | 79 mo ago | Acquired | Liya Verghese Co-Founder | 2014 | — | — |
| 2 | Errando Online marketplace platform offering food delivery services | $66K | 52 mo ago | Deadpooled | Shameer Pathayakandi Co-Founder | 2015 | — | — |
| 3 | Foaps Provider of online ordering solutions for restaurants | $32K | 53 mo ago | Seed | Abdul Salah Co-Founder & COO | 2017 | Cart FunctionalityWordPressMySQL+30 | — |
| 4 | Appetizer - Club Restaurant management solution | — | — | Deadpooled | Mathews Alexander Co-Founder | 2015 | — | — |
| 5 | Billingko Pos POS and management system for restaurants | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2023 | — | — |
| 6 | Butomy App-based platform offering food delivery | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2020 | — | — |
| 7 | Bytes Delivery App-based platform for food order and delivery | — | — | Funding Raised | Mohammed KM Co-Founder | 2022 | — | — |
| 8 | Caspo Connected stovetop | — | — | Deadpooled | Vimal Gopal Co-Founder & CEO | 2012 | — | — |
Top 3 Food Tech companies in Kerala
#1
Deadpooled · Kozhikode, Kerala · founded 2015 · 1 employees$66Kraised▾
Online marketplace platform offering food delivery services. The customers can choose the restaurant, order the products, and make online payments. It also offers others services like grocery, stationery, bakery, medicine, and more. The company offers mobile applications for Android and iOS platforms.
- Mar 2022Angel$66K
#2
Seed · Kochi, Kerala · founded 2017 · 8 employees$32Kraised▾
Foaps provides online ordering solutions for restaurants. It offers a restaurant operating system that enables food businesses to receive food orders online by integrating multiple food delivery applications. Users can accept and manage orders received from various platforms using their dashboard.
- Mar 2022Angel$25.9K
- Jul 2019Seed$32K
#3
Acquired · Kochi, Kerala · founded 2014 · 5 employees$749Kraised▾
MasalaBox is an online marketplace for homemade tiffin delivery services cooked by chefs. The company claims to use plant-based biodegradable trays, recycled paper, plastic products as packaging material. Orders can be made via the platform.
- Dec 2019Angel$469.5K
- Nov 2017Angel$189.2K
- Jul 2015Angel$90.3K
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 rising
How research on Food Tech in Kerala is moving
A read on the academic research around Food Tech in Kerala — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 54 papers.
- Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University22
- Kerala Agricultural University15
- Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies6
- Kerala University of Health Sciences5
- Government of Kerala3
- Biogeochemical cycle1
- Ecosystem1
- Nutrient1
- Productivity1
- Agriculture1
- Food safety5
- Production (economics)4
- Transformative learning3
- Animal welfare3
- Food processing3
- Food processing5
- Production (economics)4
- Sustainability3
- Food security3
- Food safety2
Common questions
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