Best Food Tech Companies in Switzerland
The 73 best Food Tech companies in Switzerland in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Planted.
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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 Switzerland
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Stage | Founder | Employees | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apety Online platform to pre-order food and book table at partnered restaurants | — | — | Deadpooled | Teo Stocco Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | BRU Internet-first brand offering brewer | — | — | Funding Raised | Filip Carlberg Co-Founder | 10 | Cart FunctionalityShopifyShop Pay+24 | — | — |
| 3 | Carogusto Platform offering cooking device | — | — | Unfunded | Wolfgang Pohlau Chief Executive Officer | — | — | 50 patents Automated vessel-based food preparation and steam cooking equipment | — |
| 4 | cashyou App-based platform offering offers and discounts | — | — | Funding Raised | Marco Bruderer Co-Founder & CEO | 7 | SentryNode.jsTailwind CSS+9 | — | — |
| 5 | ceres Ceres produces and distributes mother's tinctures. | — | — | Private | — | 22 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+30 | — | — |
| 6 | Cuuks Provider of an online recipe discovery platform | — | — | Unfunded | Jonas Frei Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | DeliSky VIP in-flight catering provider through partnered caterers | — | — | Unfunded | Sascha Gassmann CEO & MD | — | SentryNode.jsMapLibre GL JS+14 | — | 1 launch |
| 8 | Do Your Order Digital POS and online ordering management system for restaurants | — | — | Unfunded | Ryccardo DAlessio Founder & CEO | — | ReactReact RouterEmotion+12 | — | — |
Top 12 Food Tech companies in Switzerland
#1
Series B · Lindau, Zurich · founded 2019 · 319 employees$118Mraised▾
Internet first brand offering plant-based meat substitute food products. The product catalog includes chicken barbeque skewers, kebabs, chicken fries, chicken curry, chicken dumplings, and more. The company claims its products are produced from naturally-sourced plant ingredients mainly pea protein, pea fiber, sunflower oil, etc.
- Dec 2024Series B—
- Sep 2022Series B$71.7M
- Aug 2021Series A$21M
- Mar 2021Series A$18.3M
#2
Series A · Brugg, Aargau · founded 2020 · 8 employees$12.7Mraised▾
Provider of protein ingredients through yeast fermentation
- Dec 2024Series A$10M
- Grant (prize money)$2.8M
#3
Seed · Appenzell, Appenzell Innerrhoden · founded 2022$1.5Mraised▾
Manufacturer of plant-based seafood alternatives. It provides a vegan prawn substitute with the same texture and flavor.
- Apr 2025Seed$1.5M
#4
Series A · Bern, Canton of Bern · founded 2021 · 21 employees$6.1Mraised▾
Brand of healthy food
- Sep 2024Series A$5.9M
- Mar 2022Seed$160.8K
- Nov 2021Seed—
#5
Seed · Zurich, Zurich · founded 2021$2.6Mraised▾
It offers customizable, edible 3D scaffolds that serve as the foundation for cultivating premium, structured whole cuts of meat and fish, enabling manufacturers to produce high-quality, textured cultivated proteins without animal farming. It manufactures the scaffolds using 3D-printed salt molds and food-grade materials like plant proteins and polysaccharides, which are then used as a foundation for lab-grown meat production
- Oct 2024Seed$2.6M
- Sep 2024Grant (prize money)$41.4K
- Feb 2023Grant (prize money)$10.8K
- 2022Grant (prize money)$1.8M
#6
Seed · Wadenswil, Zurich · founded 2021 · 8 employees$6.5Mraised▾
Developer of lab-grown dairy alternative products. The company offers cream & fat dairy alternative products made the using fermentation method. The company claims its products are used in the production of milk, cheese, ice cream, etc.
- Mar 2024Seed$5M
- Sep 2022Grant (prize money)$161.9K
- Sep 2022Seed$1.5M
#7
Series B · Alpnach, Obwalden · founded 2017 · 108 employees$28.8Mraised▾
Platform offering cloud based digital signage advertising solutions. It offers solutions to run and manage ads on digital screens in vending machines. The platform enables users to display ads for products sold in the machine or run third-party ads. It allows users to update and manage ads via the media library. The features of the product include content automation, remote pricing changes, real time remote control of messaging, and more.
- Mar 2023Series B$19M
- Jan 2022Seed$7.6M
- Dec 2021Seed—
- May 2021Seed$2.2M
#8
Funding Raised · Rapperswil Jona, St Gallen · founded 2020 · 4 employees$41.4Kraised▾
Platform offering plant-based egg alternatives products. It offers a plant-based alternative to chicken egg protein and claims for suitable with ingredients for various baking and cooking applications.
- Sep 2024Grant (prize money)$41.4K
#9
Series A · Zurich, Zurich · founded 2014 · 30 employees$4.8Mraised▾
Provider of table reservation management software solutions for restaurant businesses. The solutions provided are online order & table reservation management, automation of administrative tasks, customization & pop-up for websites, branding & marketing, and data management. It also offers creates a portal for seasonal and repeatable shifts including overbooking, buffer for preliminary reservations, multiple seatings, group reservations, and more.
- Nov 2022Series A$4.8M
#10
Series A · Zurich, Zurich · founded 2021 · 36 employees$6.6Mraised▾
Provider of a smart system for digital cups for coffee. The company offers a platform integrated with a mobile application that offers reusable cups for takeaway drinks.
- Apr 2022Series A$6.6M
#11
Seed · Zurich, Zurich · founded 2016 · 10 employees$1.4Mraised▾
Restaurant management solutions provider. The solution allows restaurants in reducing food waste and optimizing staff planning. It uses precise data analysis, the tool predicts how many guests visit a restaurant at a given time. The solution helps in the reduction of overproduction and employees are scheduled based on the demand. The company offers the solution on subscription-based policy.
- Sep 2020Seed$1.4M
- Aug 2019Grant (prize money)$55.1K
- May 2019Grant (prize money)$56K
- Dec 2018Grant (prize money)$50.4K
#12
Series A · Zurich, Zurich · founded 2012$4.7Mraised▾
Internet first brand offering flatbread makers. The device has a pod with flavored dough that is inserted into the machine for making the tortillas. The device is also used in hotels, restaurants, and workplaces.
- Apr 2015Series A$3M
- Aug 2014Seed$660.7K
- Feb 2014Seed$1M
- Oct 2013Grant (prize money)—
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 Switzerland
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 355 Switzerland-affiliated papers.
- ETH Zurich69
- Agroscope37
- Nestlé25
- Forschungsinstitut für Biologischen Landbau24
- University of Zurich22
- Food processing1→6
- Food safety2→7
- Food safety5→23
- Agriculture7→24
- Food systems4→18
- Food security6→17
- Sustainability3→13
Where food tech is researched across Switzerland
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
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