Best Food Tech Companies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The 33 best Food Tech companies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Pop Meals.
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 Kuala Lumpur
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pop Meals Internet-first restaurant offering on-demand food | $27M | 80 mo ago | Series B | Jonathan Weins CEO & Co-Founder | 2015 | Cart FunctionalityFacebook LoginGoogle Sign-in+26 | — |
| 2 | PlateCulture Home dining marketplace | $391K | 122 mo ago | Deadpooled | Audra Pakalnyte Co-Founder | 2013 | — | — |
| 3 | Kravve.co Online marketplace for homemade food | $306K | 67 mo ago | Seed | Nic Chong Co-Founder | 2017 | — | — |
| 4 | Runningman Online platform to discover and deliver food from restaurants | $44K | 92 mo ago | Series A | Andrew Chee Founder | 2014 | — | — |
| 5 | auRELIA AI-powered food safety compliance platform for food manufacturers | — | — | Funding Raised | Arvindran Salyah Co-Founder & COO | 2025 | — | — |
| 6 | Cooked App Home cooked meal delivery | — | — | Deadpooled | Nikolay Khokhlov Co-Founder & COO | 2016 | — | — |
| 7 | COOX Operator of hybrid cloud kitchens offering dine-in, delivery, and takeaway | — | — | Unfunded | Ken Lee Founder | 2021 | Cart FunctionalityTypeScriptGraphQL+22 | — |
| 8 | CubeValue Developer of cloud platform providing business process and data management | — | — | Unfunded | Daniel Ra CEO | 2015 | — | — |
Top 4 Food Tech companies in Kuala Lumpur
#1
Series B · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur · founded 2015 · 84 employees$27.2Mraised▾
Internet-first restaurant offering on-demand food. Its food offerings include chicken pasta, fish curry, desserts, drinks and beverages, and more. Its mobile application is available on Android and iOS platforms.
- Feb 2020Series B$18M
- May 2019Series A$5M
- Jan 2018Series A$2.6M
- 2017Seed—
#2
Seed · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur · founded 2017 · 4 employees$306.2Kraised▾
Kravve is an online marketplace for homemade food. It enables users to buy and sell various types of foods which include cookies, meats, noodles, jams, oats, fruits & nuts, and more.
- Mar 2021Seed$306.2K
- Feb 2020Seed—
#3
Deadpooled · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur · founded 2013 · 11 employees$390.7Kraised▾
PlateCulture is a marketplace that connects people who love cooking & hosting dinners with people who love eating authentic home cooked meals. Guests have an opportunity to try an authentic home cooked meal at the hosts‘s home and hosts can showcase their culinary skills and meet interesting people without leaving the comfort of their kitchen.
- Sep 2016Seed$390.7K
- Angel—
#4
Series A · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur · founded 2014$43.5Kraised▾
Online platform to discover and deliver food from restaurants. The platform allows users to order their food (even late at night) through their web platform with just a few clicks or over call and promise to deliver within an hour.
- Feb 2019Series A—
- Aug 2016Seed$43.5K
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 Malaysia
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 837 Malaysia-affiliated papers.
- Universiti Putra Malaysia148
- Universiti Teknologi MARA105
- National University of Malaysia69
- Ministry of Agriculture50
- Ministry of Health46
- Food safety1→7
- Food safety2→65
- Food processing1→53
- Production (economics)1→28
- Food industry1→28
- Quality (philosophy)1→27
- Food safety6→72
- Production (economics)1→36
- Food processing1→34
- Agriculture2→31
- Quality (philosophy)2→22
Where food tech is researched across Malaysia
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.