Best Food Tech Companies in Sweden
The 102 best Food Tech companies in Sweden in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Oatly.
Sweden's Food Tech ecosystem puts $407M in disclosed funding across 102 tracked companies, and that number alone tells you the sector has moved well past experimental. One unicorn has already cleared the threshold. Mycorena leads the funding table at $38M, with Millow at $16M and Melt&Marble at $6M rounding out the top tier. Almi Invest, Kale United, and Novax are the names showing up repeatedly on cap tables, which signals institutional conviction rather than opportunistic bets.
The global market context sharpens the picture. Food Tech is forecast to grow from roughly $105.3B in 2024 to $224.3B by 2032, a 9.9% CAGR driven by population growth, sustainability pressure, and technology adoption. App-layer momentum backs the structural story: median install growth is running at about +20% year-over-year across 501 food and foodtech apps globally. I find that consumer engagement number underrated as a leading indicator. So if you're mapping where capital flows next, kitchen-model margin mechanics still matter as much as headline funding rounds. Sweden's cohort is positioned squarely in that window.
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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 Sweden
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oatly 🦄 Manufacturer of oat-based beverages, yogurts, cooking products, and related merchandise | $232M | 71 mo ago | 1,726 | Bjorn Oste Co-Founder | DrupalApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+22 | Top 1M | 152 patents Processing and formulation technologies for oat‑based beverages and extruded food products | — |
| 2 | Mycorena Developer of protein-based mycoprotein novel food using fungi technology | $38M | 26 mo ago | 60 | Ramkumar Nair Founder & CEO | — | — | 32 patents Patents concentrated in health & consumer products | — |
| 3 | Curb Food Internet first restaurants offering multiple food items | $28M | 60 mo ago | 36 | Felipe Gutierrez Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | Stockeld Dreamery Cheese processing company | $24M | 57 mo ago | 39 | Sorosh Tavakoli Founder and CEO | Webflow EcommerceWebflowAmazon Web Services+21 | Top 50M | 2 patents Fermented milk products and related dairy fermentation processes | — |
| 5 | Millow Provider of plant-based meat alternatives | $16M | 22 mo ago | 3 | Esmaeil Taherzadeh Co-Founder & Executive Board Member | WordPressMySQLPHP+14 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 6 | Pej Provider of software solutions for multi-site contract caterers | $10M | 52 mo ago | — | Victor Sandberg Co-Founder & CEO | Framer SitesReactCloudflare+17 | Top 50M | 12 patents Group ordering platforms and mobile commerce transaction processing for commercial venues | 1 launch |
| 7 | LEEROY Provider of data analytics solutions for restaurants | $9M | 87 mo ago | 46 | Sebastian Berggren Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | CarbonCloud Software company that develops tools to calculate and communicate the carbon footprint of food products | $9M | 40 mo ago | 33 | David Bryngelsson Co-Founder & CEO | WordPress Block EditorElementorWordPress+40 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 9 | Future Ordering Online SaaS-based solutions for customer engagement | $7M | 65 mo ago | 36 | Andreas Stormvinge Founder and CEO | WebflowAtlassian StatuspageZendesk+15 | Top 50M | — | 2 job openings |
| 10 | Melt&Marble Platform offering plant-based meat alternative products | $6M | 6 mo ago | 20 | Florian David Co-Founder | WixSentryBootstrap+12 | Top 50M | 22 patents Patents concentrated in chemistry & materials | — |
| 11 | Nordic SeaFarm Provider of plant based sea weed | $5M | 21 mo ago | 16 | Gunnar Cervin Founder | Wix eCommerceWixSentry+15 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 12 | Klimato Provider of food business solutions to calculate emissions | $4M | 39 mo ago | — | Christoffer Connee Co-Founder | HubSpot CMS HubAmazon Web ServicesSplide+13 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 13 | Improvin Provider of carbon emission analysis solutions for food manufacturers | $4M | 37 mo ago | — | Niklas Wallsargard Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 14 | TracTechnology Provider of traceability solutions for food businesses | $4M | 219 mo ago | 2 | Niclas Lindgren CEO | — | — | 12 patents Meat product traceability and marking systems for identification and quality control | — |
| 15 | Starflow Online platform offering courses on cooking | $2M | 19 mo ago | 5 | David Gabor Founder & CEO | Tailwind CSSMicrosoft 365HSTS+2 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 16 | Foodtel Platform enabling the cold chain to prevent food waste | $1M | 21 mo ago | — | Nazih Hazime Co-Founder | Radix UIReactReact Router+10 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 17 | Caspeco Provider of software suite solutions for restaurants | $1M | 101 mo ago | — | Per Soderqvist Founder | Cart FunctionalityWordPressApple iCloud Mail+27 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 18 | Stockfiller Provider of enterprise management solutions for restaurants and grocery stores | $983K | 104 mo ago | 23 | Christopher Jonsson Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+24 | Top 5M | — | 1 partnership |
| 19 | Swedish Temptations Online platform offering plant-based food products | $963K | 64 mo ago | 6 | Jorgen Fagerstrom CEO | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+17 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 20 | WEIQ Provider of online ordering solution for businesses | $600K | 48 mo ago | 10 | Alexander Anzen Co-Founder & CTO | WordPressMySQLPHP+28 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 21 | VEAT Platform offering planet-based fresh meals | $594K | 21 mo ago | 5 | Cristoffer Harlos Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer | Node.jsUbuntuReact+7 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 22 | Lunch.Co Online marketplace for buying or selling home-cooked lunches at work | $586K | 57 mo ago | 8 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 23 | Last Grab Online platform to book table in restaurants | $560K | 115 mo ago | 2 | Stefan Stjepanovic Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 24 | Watersprint Provider of water disinfection purifiers | $502K | 105 mo ago | 14 | Tord Wingren Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | Top 5M | 22 patents UV-LED based inline water disinfection and purification systems | 1 job opening |
| 25 | TempOnline Provider of IoT-powered temperature controllers for food businesses | $244K | 65 mo ago | 3 | Jens Jensen CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 26 | kitchengrowth Platform offering ghost kitchen solution for restaurant industries | $181K | 60 mo ago | — | Varga Moshtagh Co-Founder | — | — | — | 1 job opening |
Top 12 Food Tech companies in Sweden
#1
Series A · Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland County · founded 2014 · 20 employees$6.2Mraised▾
Platform offering plant-based meat alternative products. The company uses precision fermentation to create animal fats. It uses synthetic biology and metabolic engineering allowing to build of proprietary yeast strains. Its microbial metabolism can dictate the structure and properties of the fats that the microbes are producing, allowing to mimic the fat structure.
- Dec 2025Series A$8.5M
- Jul 2024Grant (prize money)$3M
- May 2022Seed$5.3M
- Aug 2021Seed$876.3K
#2
Series B · Vastra Frolunda, Vastra Gotaland · founded 2021 · 3 employees$16.2Mraised▾
Provider of plant-based meat alternatives. It produces mycelium-based meat substitutes with no artificial additives, food binders, or starch. The company uses mycelium and oats in a fermentation process to create substitute meat.
- Jul 2024Series B$16.2M
- Jul 2024Grant (prize money)$2.6M
#3
Acquired · Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland County · founded 2016 · 60 employees$38.2Mraised▾
Developer of protein-based mycoprotein novel food using fungi technology. It offers alternative meat and traditional plant-based protein using fungi-based food technology. It uses filamentous fungi in a fermentation process that converts low-value waste streams in the food industries into mycoprotein ingredients.
- Apr 2024Series A—
- Mar 2022Series A$26.8M
- Jun 2021Seed$9M
- May 2020Seed$1.3M
#4
Seed · Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland County · founded 2020 · 16 employees$4.6Mraised▾
Provider of plant based sea weed. The company produces seaweed farming that includes growing crops through carbon dioxide and phosphorus. The company claims that the product includes nutrients, sugar kelp, antioxidants, and more.
- Aug 2024Seed$2.3M
- Feb 2022Seed$2.3M
- Oct 2021Grant (prize money)$981.7K
#5
Seed · Stockholm, Stockholm County · founded 2016 · 5 employees$2.4Mraised▾
Online platform offering courses on cooking. The platform allows users to access cooking courses from chefs, documentaries on food and cooking, and more. Users have to pay for the courses and videos they choose to join.
- Oct 2024Seed$2M
- Jul 2017Seed$2.4M
#6
Seed · Helsingborg, Skane County · founded 2022$1.4Mraised▾
Platform enabling the cold chain to prevent food waste. It connects food service donors with surplus food to local hunger relief organizations, and reduce waste and supporting sustainable food systems.
- Sep 2024Seed$1.4M
#7
Oatly 🦄Public · Malmo, Skane County · founded 1994 · 1726 employees$232.5Mraised▾
Manufacturer of oat-based beverages, yogurts, cooking products, and related merchandise. It provides various oat drink options, including chilled varieties suitable for different uses. The company also offers oat-based yogurt alternatives and cooking-related products. Additionally, it features content related to taste trends, sustainability initiatives, health information, and investor relations.
- Jul 2020Series C$200M
- Dec 2016Series B—
- Oct 2016Series B$28.9M
- Jun 2006Series A$3.5M
#8
Seed · Stockholm, Stockholm County · founded 2019 · 5 employees$593.6Kraised▾
Platform offering planet-based fresh meals. The company cooks and prepares fresh meals locally at Stora Essingen and delivers them daily to its vending machines throughout the city. The menu offers salads, bowls, wraps & snacks, and more.
- Sep 2024Seed—
- Nov 2020Seed$593.6K
#9
Series A · Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland County · founded 2019 · 33 employees$9.2Mraised▾
Software company that develops tools to calculate and communicate the carbon footprint of food products. It is a research-based food tech company that offers an automated mapping tool, that can automatically calculate emissions baselines. It enables food producers to calculate and analyze the climate footprints of their product portfolios.
- Feb 2023Series A$8M
- Sep 2020Seed$1.2M
#10
Deadpooled · Stockholm, Stockholm County · founded 2020 · 36 employees$28.2Mraised▾
Internet first restaurants offering multiple food items. Its product offerings include salsas & dips, burritos, burgers, milkshakes, handmade smoothies, chicken burgers, Korean chicken wings, buffalo chicken wings, and more. The foods can be ordered through online platforms like UberEats, Wolt, etc, and fully tailored for home delivery.
- Jun 2021Series B$24.3M
- Dec 2020Series A$3.9M
#11
Acquired · Solna, Stockholm County · founded 2019 · 39 employees$24Mraised▾
Cheese processing company
- Sep 2021Series A$20M
- Jan 2020Seed$3.6M
#12
Seed · Stockholm, Stockholm County · founded 2022$3.9Mraised▾
Provider of carbon emission analysis solutions for food manufacturers. It claims that it helps food companies to measure, report and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their own value chain.
- May 2023Seed$3.9M
Funding & investor landscape
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Food Tech coverage by sub-theme.
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