Best Food Tech Companies in Malaysia
The 88 best Food Tech companies in Malaysia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Pop Meals.
Food Tech in Malaysia is more competitive than the funding numbers suggest: 88 companies tracked, $48M in total disclosed capital, and no unicorns yet, but the momentum is real. Pop Meals leads the pack at $27M raised, Food Market Hub sits at $12M, and FeedMe at $5M, with a long tail of early-stage bets from active investors like 500 Durians and East Ventures. Globally, the sector's on a clear trajectory, forecast to reach $224.3B by 2032 at a 9.9% CAGR, and the regional picture is following that pull.
What's interesting to me is how much of the action here clusters around operational infrastructure rather than pure consumer apps. Food hub operations and agricultural venture capital are the hot editorial themes right now, which maps neatly onto what you see in the directory. That consolidation instinct is global too: Compass Group's move on SmartQ signals that institutional players are hunting for operational food tech assets, not just delivery apps. Median app install growth across food tech sits at roughly 20% YoY, so user appetite is there. The question is which Malaysian founders can convert that into fundable scale before the next wave of regional capital arrives.
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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 Malaysia
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pop Meals Internet-first restaurant offering on-demand food | $27M | 75 mo ago | Series B | Jonathan Weins CEO & Co-Founder | 2015 | Cart FunctionalityFacebook LoginGoogle Sign-in+26 | 2 job openings · 1 internship |
| 2 | Food Market Hub Cloud-based inventory management solution for restaurants | $12M | 54 mo ago | Series A | Anthony See CEO & CO-Founder | 2017 | Webflow EcommerceWebflowYouTube+21 | — |
| 3 | FeedMe Provider of a smart AI-based POS system for restaurants | $5M | 7 mo ago | Series A | Squall Tan Co-Founder & CEO | 2023 | Node.jsThree.jsHeadless UI+17 | 1 job opening · 1 award |
| 4 | Offpeak.my Online platform for restaurant booking at discounted prices | $800K | 117 mo ago | Series A | — | 2014 | — | — |
| 5 | Hometaste Online platform to order home-chef made meals | $601K | 57 mo ago | Seed | Win Soh Tian Sheng Co-Founder | 2017 | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+30 | — |
| 6 | Slurp Provider of cloud based restaurant management software | $582K | 106 mo ago | Series A | — | 2013 | WordPressMySQLPHP+33 | 1 partnership |
| 7 | PlateCulture Home dining marketplace | $391K | 117 mo ago | Deadpooled | Audra Pakalnyte Co-Founder | 2013 | — | — |
| 8 | Tableapp Online reservation booking at restaurants | $313K | 128 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2013 | PHPFacebook LoginLaravel+32 | — |
| 9 | Kravve.co Online marketplace for homemade food | $306K | 63 mo ago | Seed | Nic Chong Co-Founder | 2017 | — | — |
| 10 | Hawkr Online platform offering food ordering and delivery services | $150K | 58 mo ago | Seed | — | 2021 | — | — |
Top 12 Food Tech companies in Malaysia
#1
Series A · Petaling Jaya, Selangor · founded 2023$5Mraised▾
Provider of a smart AI-based POS system for restaurants. It offers features such as self-ordering, AI reports, facial recognition, and smart alerting systems. It also provides a QR code ordering system food and service.
- Nov 2025Series A$5M
#2
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—
#3
Series A · Petaling Jaya, Selangor · founded 2017 · 90 employees$12.5Mraised▾
Food Market Hub provides cloud-based inventory management solutions for restaurants. It provides features for managing inventory, purchase, procurement, suppliers, food cost, food wastage, etc. It also generates real-time reports and sends automatic notifications via SMS, mail to suppliers, and stakeholders. The application can be integrated with POS and accounting systems such as SQL Accounting, Quickbook, Autocount, and more.
- Dec 2021Series A$8.5M
- Nov 2020Series A$4M
- Sep 2019Seed—
- Jun 2018Seed—
#4
Seed · Malaysia · founded 2017 · 21 employees$601Kraised▾
Online platform to order home-chef made meals. Customers need to pre-order meals by selecting a location, cuisine type, and home-chefs. Also offers dinner and lunch meals on a weekly subscription basis. Payment needs to be done during the delivery of the first order. Hometaste offers its services in major Malaysian cities such as Bangsar, Puchong, Petaling Jaya, and Kuala Lumpur.
- Aug 2021Seed$578.7K
- May 2017Seed$25K
#5
Series A · Petaling Jaya, Selangor · founded 2014$800Kraised▾
Online platform for restaurant booking at discounted prices. The platform allows users to book restaurants based on their time preferences and the number of people. The platform also provides online blogs about restaurants.
- Sep 2016Series A—
- Dec 2015Grant (prize money)$117.4K
- Jun 2015Series A$800K
#6
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—
#7
Series A · Bangi, Selangor · founded 2013 · 21 employees$582Kraised▾
Provider of cloud-based restaurant management software. The platform provides a cloud-based solution to manage orders, sales, and inventory in restaurants. It can be used to manage multiple locations from a single point.
- Aug 2017Series A$582K
#8
Seed · Malaysia · founded 2021 · 3 employees$150Kraised▾
Developer of an online platform intended to deliver home-cooked meals to communities. The company's platform creates micro-cloud kitchens which makes it easier for home cooks to provide food service, enabling users to order and deliver fresh home-made food products.
- Aug 2021Seed$150K
#9
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—
#10
Acquired · Ampang, Selangor · founded 2013 · 6 employees$313Kraised▾
TableApp is an app for restaurant reservation service in Malaysia and Thailand. As in Nov'15, the platform had listing of more than 380 restaurants in Malaysia and 100 restaurants in Thailand. The company has recently partnered with RHB Banking Group where of RHB’s cardholders can get several discounts and privileges when booking through TableApp.
- Oct 2015Series A$235K
- Aug 2014Seed$78K
#11
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
#12
Deadpooled · Rawang, Selangor · founded 2014$13.5Kraised▾
Malysia based MakanSharing is an online marketplace that connects food lovers, with budding chefs and home cooks.The platform allows interested cooks to register and host the event at their own location with their own menu. Once an event is set up by the chef, registered foodies on MakanSharing can opt to attend the event to try and review the new cuisine experiences. Potential chefs are interviewed by MakanSharing team to validate their credentials and safety of the location.
- May 2015Seed$13.5K
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.