Best Food Tech Companies in Lombardy, Italy
The 40 best Food Tech companies in Lombardy, Italy in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Deliveristo.
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 Lombardy
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deliveristo Platform offering digital tools for restaurant operations, ordering, and delivery management | $13M | 49 mo ago | Series B | Lorenzo Tassone Co-Founder | 2017 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Qodeup Provider of digital menu solutions for restaurants | $2M | 46 mo ago | Seed | Fabio Marniga Co-Founder & CEO | 2019 | — | — | — |
| 3 | WIB Provider of vending machines and automated retail solutions | $2M | 130 mo ago | Seed | Alfonso Correale CEO | 2013 | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | 6 patents Automated warehouse logistics systems and modular vending machine technology | — |
| 4 | EatsReady Online marketplace for restaurant discovery and online ordering | $1M | 97 mo ago | Acquired | Giacomo Alpago Co-Founder & CEO | 2017 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Vita Meals Online platform offering subscription-based meals | $204K | 68 mo ago | Seed | Andrea Lippolis Co-Founder & CEO | 2011 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Qromo Cloud-based software solutions for restaurants | — | 28 mo ago | Seed | Francesco Basile Founder & CEO | 2020 | Cart FunctionalityApple iCloud MailReact+11 | — | — |
| 7 | Mymenu Online platform to order food and delivery | — | 145 mo ago | Acquired | Edoardo Tribuzio Co-Founder & CEO | 2013 | — | — | — |
| 8 | restOpolis Restaurant reservation service | — | 150 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2011 | — | — | — |
Top 8 Food Tech companies in Lombardy
#1
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
#2
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—
#3
Seed · Milan, Lombardy · founded 2013 · 15 employees$1.7Mraised▾
Provider of vending machines and automated retail solutions. The platform offers lockers and vending machines for businesses.
- Nov 2015Seed$672.5K
- Mar 2014Seed$1M
#4
Acquired · Milan, Lombardy · founded 2017 · 11 employees$1.4Mraised▾
EatsReady is an online marketplace for restaurant discovery and online ordering. It allows users to discover local restaurants, browse menus, place orders, select pickup time, and make payments. It offers food from various cuisines such as sushi, burgers, pizza, ice-cream, piadina etc. Its app is available for Android and iOS platform. The company offers its services in Milan, Italy.
- Jul 2018Seed$1.4M
#5
Seed · Milan, Lombardy · founded 2011 · 23 employees$204.4Kraised▾
Online platform offering subscription-based meals. The platform allows users to customize ingredients and arranges meals based on requirements. The meals can be stored for up to days and months in the refrigerator or freezer. The user has to select the duration of the subscription and the number of meals. The company claims that the products are packed in recycled material.
- Dec 2020Seed$204.4K
#6
Seed · Milano, Lombardy · founded 2020—raised▾
Cloud-based software solutions for restaurants. The platform provides solutions including a QR code digital menu, POS, delivery management, payment, and order management. It also offers solutions for pizzerias and cafes.
- Apr 2024Seed—
#7
Acquired · Milan, Lombardy · founded 2013 · 29 employees—raised▾
Online platform to order food and delivery. Users can search for restaurants on the basis of location, browse through menus, place orders, and make payments. It allows users to make payments via PayPal. The company is operational in Bologna, Brescia, Modena, Padua, and Verona in Italy.
- Jul 2014Seed—
#8
Deadpooled · Milan, Lombardy · founded 2011 · 13 employees—raised▾
Restopolis operates an online and smartphone app that allows users to book restaurants in real time, access to promotions, as well as publish reviews about restaurants. As of Feb 2014, it had partnered with more than 800 restaurants with over 35.000 users.
- Feb 2014Angel—
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
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.