Best Food Tech Companies in Mexico
The 57 best Food Tech companies in Mexico in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Rappi.
Food Tech in Mexico is moving fast, and this directory ranks the 57 companies we track by disclosed equity funding and recent funding momentum. Total disclosed capital across the cohort hits $2.5 billion, though that number needs a footnote: Rappi alone accounts for $2.4B of it, which tells you something about how concentrated the outsized wins still are. The remaining field is genuinely scrappy, with Parrot Software at $10M, microTERRA at $5M, and early-stage bets like Cheaf and Polo still in the low six figures.
So where's the broader sector heading? The global Food Tech market sits at roughly $105.3B in 2024 and is forecast to nearly double by 2032 at a 9.9% CAGR, driven by population growth and the push toward sustainable agriculture. App-level signals back that up: median install growth is running around plus-20% year-over-year across food and food tech apps globally. I'd watch the alt-protein and B2B restaurant software angles in Mexico specifically, where investors like Y Combinator and 500 Global keep showing up at the cap table. Startups driving menu personalization are drawing particular attention right now, and that's a category where Mexico's consumer scale gives local founders a real edge. Want to find who's actually funded? Start here.
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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 Mexico
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rappi 🦄 Online food ordering and delivery platform | $2.4B | 10 mo ago | Series F | Simon Borrero Co-Founder & CEO | 2015 | DrupalPHPZoho+28 | — |
| 2 | Parrot Software Provider of cloud-based restaurant management solutions | $10M | 54 mo ago | Series A | Roberto Cebrian Founder | 2018 | — | — |
| 3 | microTERRA Manufacturer of sustainable plant-based protein products for the food industry | $5M | 23 mo ago | Series A | Marissa Cuevas Co-Founder & CEO | 2017 | — | — |
| 4 | SinDelantal.Mx Manufacturer of high-performance LED lighting solutions for residential and commercial applications | $3M | 155 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 2012 | — | — |
| 5 | Cheaf Online platform offering surplus products | $3M | 56 mo ago | Seed | Kim Durand Ceo & Founder | 2020 | Node.jsFirebaseBootstrap+14 | — |
| 6 | Polo Provider of POS solutions for food businesses | $125K | 37 mo ago | Seed | Juan Chomali Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer | 2022 | Webflow EcommerceWebflowcore-js+16 | — |
| 7 | PoloPay Provider of suite solutions for restaurants | $125K | 37 mo ago | Seed | — | 2022 | — | — |
| 8 | Micro Meat Producer of cultivated meat products using technology | $125K | 60 mo ago | Deadpooled | Anne-Sophie Mertgen Founder & CEO | 2013 | — | — |
| 9 | Fuddis Social food marketplace that enables to manage food business | $120K | 34 mo ago | Seed | Fernanda Leony Co-Founder | 2019 | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+29 | — |
| 10 | ComeCasero Online Marketplace for home made food. | $100K | 145 mo ago | Deadpooled | Martin Pommies Co-Founder | 2014 | — | — |
Top 12 Food Tech companies in Mexico
#1
Rappi 🦄Series F · Mexico City, Mexico City · founded 2015 · 6162 employees$2.4Braised▾
Online food ordering and delivery platform. It provides food delivery services from different nearby restaurants. It also enables users to buy medicines, liquor, groceries, and more. Its mobile application is available on Android and iOS platforms.
- Sep 2025Series F$25M
- Aug 2025Conventional Debt$100M
- Oct 2022Conventional Debt$112M
- Mar 2022Conventional Debt$144.6M
#2
Series A · Mexico City, Mexico City · founded 2017 · 11 employees$5.3Mraised▾
Manufacturer of sustainable plant-based protein products for the food industry. They produce their feeds using an aquatic plant, Lemna grown in a scalable, and sustainable way, in the existing aquaculture infrastructure, that lowers the production costs, at the same time gives farmers an extra revenue stream and promotes sustainable practices.
- Aug 2024Series A$5.1M
- Mar 2021Seed$250K
- Jul 2019Seed—
- Seed—
#3
Series A · San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon · founded 2018 · 69 employees$10Mraised▾
Provider of cloud-based restaurant management solutions
#4
Seed · Ciudad de Mexico, Ciudad de Mexico · founded 2020 · 32 employees$3Mraised▾
Online platform offering surplus products. The company affiliates with businesses like stores and restaurants to offer surpluses at a discount price. The customers can find stores nearby and pick up the package at the store. The company offers mobile applications for Android and iOS platforms.
- Nov 2021Seed$3M
#5
Seed · Zapopan, Jalisco · founded 2019$120Kraised▾
Social food marketplace that enables to manage food business. It enables food creators to develop digital menus and manage operations. It offers QR menu, online store, loyalty program, administration, and payment management.
- Sep 2023Seed$120K
#6
Seed · Mexico City, Mexico City · founded 2022$125Kraised▾
Provider of POS solutions forffood businesses. Its features include insights, integration, menu management, and more. It offers solutions for restaurants, cafes, bars, pizzerias, and more.
- 2023Seed$500K
#7
Seed · Monterrey, Nuevo Leon · founded 2022 · 5 employees$125Kraised▾
Provider of suite solutions for restaurants. Its solutions offered are QR code digital menu creation, menu management, order tracking, analysis, order insights, and more.
- 2023Seed$500K
#8
Acqui-Hired · Mexico City, Mexico City · founded 2012 · 28 employees$3.3Mraised▾
Manufacturer of high-performance LED lighting solutions for residential and commercial applications. It designs and produces a variety of luminaires, including downlighting, cylinders, track lighting, and illuminated handrails. The company focuses on optical control and efficiency, providing high levels of visual comfort. Products are designed for seamless integration with lighting controls, offering flexible installation and dependable performance. They cater to both residential and hospitality sectors, providing solutions to enhance various environments.
- Jul 2013Seed$3.3M
#9
Deadpooled · Monterrey, Nuevo Leon · founded 2013 · 2 employees$125Kraised▾
Producer of cultivated meat products using technology. It offers meat based on animal cells, the muscle tissues are grown in bioreactors instead of in animals. It promotes sustainable products with no antibiotics, reduction in multi-resistant bacteria, less risk for zoonotic viruses causing epidemics and pandemics, and animal-friendlier products.
- 2021Seed$125K
#10
Seed · Zapopan, Jalisco · founded 2019 · 6 employees$50Kraised▾
Platform offering home-cooked meal delivery services. The platform helps the chef to create the profile & upload products and use the company shipping network for the delivery. It also offers features like reservation, scheduled orders, order & product management, and more. The company offers solutions on the subscription-based policy. The users can order meals from a nearby chef and get them delivered to the address. The company offers mobile applications for Android and iOS platforms.
- 2021Seed$50K
#11
Deadpooled · Mexico City, Mexico City · founded 2014 · 2 employees$100Kraised▾
Come Casero is a marketplace for home cooks to connect with foodies in the most convenient way. They provide the packaging, handle the legalities, vet the cooks and take care of the delivery. Company is an alumni of 500 Start ups Mexico.
- Jun 2014Seed$100K
#12
Acquired · Monterrey, Nuevo Leon · founded 2011$25Kraised▾
Online food ordering platform based out of Mexico. The platform allows users to discover restaurants and see what their friends have ordered. Also, allow restaurants to register and accept orders through the site.
- Sep 2012Seed$25K
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 Mexico
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 392 Mexico-affiliated papers.
- Universidad de León42
- Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo30
- Instituto Politécnico Nacional30
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México27
- Tecnológico de Monterrey24
- Food safety2
- Food processing2
- Essential oil2
- Shelf life2
- Food packaging2
- Food science3→16
- Shelf life1→13
- Antioxidant1→9
- Antimicrobial2→9
- Health benefits1→7
- Food security2→27
- Food safety1→19
- Food processing2→19
- Agriculture2→18
- Production (economics)1→16
Where food tech is researched across Mexico
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.