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Best Food Tech Companies in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

The 35 best Food Tech companies in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Foodics.

35companies tracked
$430.9Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
22have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · FOOD TECH × RIYADH

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.

100companies analysed
88%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
6unicorns
2018median founding year
961kcombined LinkedIn audience
79%of audience held by top 3
1companies hiring publicly (12 mo)

Ranked: Best Food Tech companies in Riyadh

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackRecent signals
1Foodics
Cloud-based POS and restaurant management system for efficient operations
$198M13 mo agoSeries CMosab Alothmani
Co-Founder
2014WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+41—
2HungerStation
Platform delivering multi-category products and food from restaurants
$100M164 mo agoAcquiredHossein Bukhamseen
Co-Founder & CTO
2012WordPress Block EditorWordPressSentry+43—
3TABsense
Developer of an AI-powered point of sale system for restaurants
$45M11 mo agoSeries AMohammad Khleifat
Co-Founder
2024Webflow EcommerceWebflowPriority Hints+131 award
4Jahez
Online platform for food discovery and ordering
$36M57 mo agoSeries AGhassab Mandeel
CEO
2016Google MapsBootstraptoastr+15—
5Almenu
Provider of QR-based contactless menu for restaurant business management
$10M23 mo agoSeries B—2020ZohoSupersizedAnimate.css+15—
6Siwar
Platform offering home-cooked meals
$7M59 mo agoSeries A—2003GoDaddy Website BuilderReactRequireJS+7—
7DailyMealz
Provider of subscription-based healthy food delivery platform
$7M53 mo agoSeedMotaz Abuonq
Co-Founder
2015WordPressMySQLPHP+35—
8NOMU Group
Provider of supply chain management solutions for food and beverages businesses
$5M38 mo agoSeedKarim Chaaban
Co-Founder
2022——
9Koinz
App based platform for food order and delivery
$5M66 mo agoSeries AAhmed Said
Co-Founder & CTO
2019FirebaseBootstrapGoogle Analytics+3—
10WOSUL
Provider of SaaS-based point of sales solutions for restaurants, cafes, and food carts
$3M40 mo agoSeed—2018PleskPHPBootstrap+17—
11Yalla Plus
Provider of QR-based digital menu software solutions for restaurant and food businesses
$3M25 mo agoSeedAbdullah Alrabeh
Co-founder & CEO
2021WebflowCart FunctionalityHubSpot+18—
12Matbakhi
Platform offering cloud kitchen solutions for restaurant businesses
$2M43 mo agoSeedRodolph Njeim Cfa
COO and Co-Founder at Matbakhi
2022——
13N•go
Mobile-based self-ordering and payment app for restaurants
$2M58 mo agoSeedIbrahim Aljuraywi
Co-Founder
2020——
14Slide
Provider of online ordering software solutions for restaurant businesses
$2M46 mo agoDeadpooledFaisal Albaraiki
Co-Founder & CEO
2020——
15The Chefz
Online platform for food discovery and ordering
$2M79 mo agoAcquiredAbdulrahman Alshabanat
Founder & CEO
2016WordPressMySQLPHP+111 partnership
16Blend
Provider of cloud-based delivery management solutions for restaurants
$1M25 mo agoSeedOmar Alluhayyan
CEO
2022Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+17—
17Order
Provider of software suite solutions for restaurant and food businesses
$1M46 mo agoSeedEssam Abdel-Sabour
CTO & Co-Founder
2016WordPressMySQLZoho+30—
18Mithu
App-based reward management platform for food businesses
$500K25 mo agoSeedShahrukh Sheikh
Founder
2024WordPressMySQLPHP+24—
19Kitchenara
Provider of online ordering solutions for restaurants
$380K30 mo agoSeedUmair Khalid
Co-Founder & CEO
2023——
20Twlm
Provider of software suite solutions for restaurants
$270K25 mo agoSeedAbdulaziz Al-Rashoud
Co-Founder
2023Framer SitesReactPriority Hints+5—

Top 12 Food Tech companies in Riyadh

#1
Series C · Riyadh, Riyadh Province · founded 2014 · 716 employees
$198Mraised
▾

Cloud-based POS and restaurant management system for efficient operations. Offers a comprehensive suite of solutions designed to streamline restaurant management, from point of sale to accounting. Their offerings include features like online ordering, waiter apps, kitchen display screens, and customer loyalty programs. They provide tools for businesses to manage payments, inventory, and customer relationships effectively. The platform integrates various applications through an app marketplace, enhancing business capabilities in areas like marketing, accounting, delivery, and online ordering. They empower restaurants to optimize daily operations, improve customer service, and gain valuable business insights through business intelligence tools. They offer resources like a help center, blog, and partner programs, supporting businesses in the food and beverage industry. They provide pricing options and demo requests, catering to diverse business needs with solutions like self-ordering, pay at table, and Foodics Pay.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 414k LinkedIn followers — 43.1% of this cohort's audience · 52 engagements/post (3.9× cohort median)
Funding rounds
  • Aug 2025Series C—
  • Apr 2022Series C$170M
  • Feb 2021Series B$20M
  • Apr 2019Series A$4M
Founders & team
Mosab AlothmaniCo-FounderAhmad AlzainiCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
STV, Derayah Venture Capital Fund, Elm, Sanabil, Endeavor, Raed Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailChart.JsCloudflare
#2
Series A · Riyadh, Riyadh Province · founded 2024
$45Mraised
▾

Developer of an AI-powered point of sale system for restaurants. The system provides tools for managing operations, automating tasks, and analyzing data. It offers features such as fraud detection, menu pricing optimization, and customer review analysis. The system integrates with existing platforms to streamline sales, preparation, and communication processes.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 product launches · 1 partnerships · 1 awards (incl. Tadum.sa) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Oct 2025Series A$45M
Founders & team
Mohammad KhleifatCo-FounderShadi DaboorCo-Founder & CCOMohamad AbabatainCo-Founder
Investors
Jasoor Ventures
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Browser InsightsGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font ApiGoogle Hosted LibrariesGoogle Tag Manager
#3
Series B · Riyadh, Riyadh Province · founded 2020
$10.3Mraised
▾

Provider of QR-based contactless menu for restaurant business management

Funding rounds
  • Oct 2024Series B$10.3M
Investors
Al-Majidiyah Investment Company
Tech stack
CloudflareGoogle Font ApiNginxPdf.JsReactReact Router
#4
Seed · Riyadh, Riyadh Province · founded 2021
$2.7Mraised
▾

Provider of QR-based digital menu software solutions for restaurant and food businesses. The solutions provided are the development of a QR-code-based digital menu customizable according to brand aesthetics with features to add logos, style, photos, and other design elements, POS Compatible payment system integration, reports & analysis in multi-lingual mode to track and manage all sales data, allergen & unavailable dishes tag on menus, and other management solutions. It caters to restaurants, cafes, bars, hotels, and other food industries.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 21k LinkedIn followers — 2.2% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Aug 2024Seed$2.7M
Founders & team
Abdullah AlrabehCo-founder & CEO
Investors
Merak Capital, Isometry Capital, Khwarizmi Ventures
Tech stack
Apache Http ServerCart FunctionalityCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Tag Manager
#5
Seed · Riyadh, Riyadh Province · founded 2022
$1.3Mraised
▾

Provider of cloud-based delivery management solutions for restaurants. The platform provides multi-branch food collection and delivery services. Features includes menu updation, order management, merchant application, campaigns, reports, and more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. TABsense) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Aug 2024Seed$1.3M
Founders & team
Omar AlluhayyanCEO
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Browser InsightsCloudflare ZarazCrazy EggDatadogEmotion
#6
Series A · Riyadh, Riyadh Province · founded 2016 · 206 employees
$36.5Mraised
▾

Online platform for food discovery and ordering. The company claims that users can discover restaurants through their app and order food and can also choose the delivery time and can also track the order. It also provides a platform for restaurants to list their business and receive orders. Their app can be downloaded for both android and ios.

Funding rounds
  • Dec 2021Series A—
  • Jun 2020Series A$36.5M
Founders & team
Ghassab MandeelCEO
Investors
Impact46
Tech stack
AmplitudeAngularBackdropBootstrapCdnjsCloudflare
#7
Seed · Riyadh, Riyadh Province · founded 2022 · 20 employees
$5Mraised
▾

Provider of supply chain management solutions for food and beverages businesses. It provides a supply chain management platform for hotels, restaurants, and catering.

Funding rounds
  • Jul 2023Seed$5M
Founders & team
Karim ChaabanCo-FounderShehab MokhtarCo-Founder & CEOAhmed EldemerdashCo-Founder
Investors
DIV Capital, PURITY, Shurfah, Core Vision
#8
Acquired · Riyadh, Riyadh Province · founded 2012
$100Mraised
▾

Platform delivering multi-category products and food from restaurants. The platform allows users to order food from multiple restaurants in the city. It offers users to order multi-category products such as

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 162k LinkedIn followers — 16.8% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2013Seed—
Founders & team
Hossein BukhamseenCo-Founder & CTOEbrahim Al-JassimFounder & Managing DirectorAli AldamanhoriChief Executive Officer
Investors
Oqal
Tech stack
6SenseAlpine.JsAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesAngularApple Icloud Mail
#9
Seed · Riyadh, Riyadh Province · founded 2024
$500Kraised
▾

App-based reward management platform for food businesses. The platform enables customers discover nearby local restaurants. It also enables customers to earn and redeem rewards on multiple food outlets. It offers rewards application for restaurants, cafes, and retail stores. Its mobile application is available on the Android platform.

Funding rounds
  • Aug 2024Seed$500K
Founders & team
Shahrukh SheikhFounder
Investors
Adaverse
#10
Seed · Riyadh, Riyadh Province · founded 2018 · 31 employees
$3.2Mraised
▾

Provider of SaaS-based point of sales solutions for restaurants, cafes, and food carts. The company offers a point-of-sale cloud system that offers the following features All-in-one control screen for easy management of sales operations, inventory, and branch management, Cashier and multiple payment methods, Electronic bill sharing, and more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 12k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • May 2023Seed$3.2M
#11
Seed · Riyadh, Riyadh Province · founded 2015 · 63 employees
$7Mraised
▾

Provider of subscription-based healthy food delivery platform. It allows users to subscribe to week, two-week, or month-long subscription plans for getting healthy food delivered at the offices. The company offers mobile applications for Android and iOS devices.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 15k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2022Seed$5M
  • Mar 2021Seed$2M
  • Apr 2019Seed$150K
Founders & team
Motaz AbuonqCo-FounderAbdallah SaidCo-FounderMohamed ElzalabanyCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Seedra Ventures, Veda Holding, Saudi Airlines Catering, HALA Ventures, 500 Global, 500 MENA
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesAutoptimizeCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCloudflare Browser Insights
#12
Seed · Riyadh, Riyadh Province · founded 2023
$270Kraised
▾

Provider of software suite solutions for restaurants. The platform provides digital management solutions for food businesses. Solutions includes loyalty management, document management, dual layer encryption, customer database management, and more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Aug 2024Seed$270K
Founders & team
Abdulaziz Al-RashoudCo-FounderWalid Al-QarniCo-FounderAhmed AldakheelCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
B Capital

Funding & investor landscape

$430.9Mtotal disclosed funding
20companies funded
24disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
500 Global3 rounds
Endeavor2 rounds
Impact462 rounds
Raed Ventures2 rounds
STV2 rounds
Vision Ventures2 rounds
4DX Ventures1 rounds
500 MENA1 rounds
Adaverse1 rounds
Al-Majidiyah Investment Company1 rounds

Notable founders

Mosab Alothmani
Co-Founder · Foodics
Ahmad Alzaini
Co-Founder & CEO · Foodics
Mohammad Khleifat
Co-Founder · TABsense
Shadi Daboor
Co-Founder & CCO · TABsense
Abdullah Alrabeh
Co-founder & CEO · Yalla Plus
Omar Alluhayyan
CEO · Blend
Ghassab Mandeel
CEO · Jahez
Karim Chaaban
Co-Founder · NOMU Group
Shehab Mokhtar
Co-Founder & CEO · NOMU Group
Hossein Bukhamseen
Co-Founder & CTO · HungerStation
Ebrahim Al-Jassim
Founder & Managing Director · HungerStation
Shahrukh Sheikh
Founder · Mithu
Prism market signals · Saudi Arabia · country-scoped Prism corpus, 741,201 docs

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

RESEARCH SIGNALS · Saudi Arabia

How research on Food Technology is moving in Saudi Arabia

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 477 Saudi Arabia-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
202120242026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and steady — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 49% → 47% across 2021–2026.
top research entities
  • King Saud University83
  • King Faisal University72
  • Ministry of Health46
  • King Abdulaziz University30
  • Ministry of Education30
leading researchers
Esha Aslam · Fahad Al‐Asmari · Waseem Khalid · Nashi K. Alqahtani · Muhammad Usama Aslam · Muhammad Shahbaz · Muhammad Nadeem · Ayman Elbehiry
▲ Breakthroughs36 · 8%
▲ 0%→8% share
0 median citations97% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (0%→8% of field), led by Food safety.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Food safety8
  • Agriculture5
  • Sustainability4
  • Traceability3
  • Food packaging3
Newly emergingFood safety 0→7 · Agriculture 0→5
Landmark FoodOn: a harmonized food ontology to increase global food traceability, quality control and data integration · 334 cites
◆ Advancements206 · 43%
▲ 0%→43% share
0 median citations96% since 2021mostly empirical
Advancements are rising (0%→43% of field), led by Food safety.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Food safety1→31
  • Food processing1→29
  • Shelf life1→27
  • Preservative1→22
  • Food science3→20
Newly emergingAgriculture 0→28 · Sustainability 0→21 · Food industry 0→16
Landmark Role of essential oils in food safety: Antimicrobial and antioxidant applications · 593 cites
▼ Concerns138 · 29%
▲ 0%→29% share
0 median citations96% since 2021mostly reviews
Concerns are rising (0%→29% of field), led by Food safety.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Food safety1→45
  • Food security1→34
  • Agriculture1→16
  • Food processing1→14
  • Risk analysis (engineering)1→5
Newly emergingSustainability 0→17 · Environmental health 0→15 · Production (economics) 0→11
Landmark Marine microplastic debris: An emerging issue for food security, food safety and human health · 1,503 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Saudi Arabia

Where food tech is researched across Saudi Arabia

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.

Riyadh119 · +0.30
Hot · PreservativeAdvancing · Shelf lifeOpportunity · Production (economics)Concern · Public health
Jeddah68 · +0.35
Hot · Food safetyAdvancing · Food wasteOpportunity · AgricultureConcern · Food security
Buraidah30 · +0.26
Hot · SustainabilityAdvancing · Food safetyOpportunity · Food processingConcern · Public health
Abhā28 · +0.34
Hot · Health benefitsAdvancing · Food productsOpportunity · Food processingConcern · Food safety
Ta'if23 · +0.43
Hot · Shelf lifeAdvancing · ChitosanOpportunity · AntioxidantConcern · Food security
Dammam11 · +0.17
Hot · Food safetyAdvancing · Sustainable agricultureOpportunity · Agriculture
Al Kharj9 · +0.02
Hot · Food scienceOpportunity · AgricultureConcern · Food safety
Makkah al Mukarramah7 · +0.33
Advancing · IngredientOpportunity · Resistant starch
Medina6 · +0.22
Opportunity · Food safety

Common questions

How many Food Tech companies are there in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia?
Radar tracks 35 indexable Food Tech companies headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Food Tech companies in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia?
The Food Tech companies in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on this list have raised a combined $430.9M in disclosed equity funding across 20 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Food Tech company in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia?
Foodics is the highest-funded Food Tech company in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with $198M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Food Tech companies in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia are funded?
20 of the 35 Food Tech companies in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Food Tech unicorns are there in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia?
None of the Food Tech companies in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Food Tech companies?
The most active investors in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Food Tech companies on this list include 500 Global, Endeavor, Impact46, Raed Ventures, STV.
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