Best Food Tech Companies in Sydney, Australia
The 59 best Food Tech companies in Sydney, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: FoodByUs.
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 Sydney
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FoodByUs Online B2B marketplace offering multi-category grocery products 48Tech top 38%Funding top 39%Growth top 45%Talent bottom 49% All 6 signals ▾Techtop 38% Fundingtop 39% Growthtop 45% Talentbottom 49% Marketbottom 46% Globalbottom 37% Tech: 40 technologies across 4/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare Funding: Raised $23.5M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 10 yrs (0.3/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $24M | 41 mo ago | Series B | Gary Munitz Co-Founder | 2015 | WordPress Block EditorwpBakeryElementor+37 | — |
| 2 | Lumachain Provider of computer vision artificial intelligence for food and beverage production 45AI top 26%Funding top 38%Product top 41%Talent bottom 49% All 8 signals ▾AItop 26% Fundingtop 38% Producttop 41% Talentbottom 49% Marketbottom 46% Globalbottom 43% Techbottom 27% Newsbottom 18% AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: artificial intelligence, computer vision Funding: Raised $23.0M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 7 yrs (0.3/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 45/100 | $23M | 20 mo ago | Series A | Jamila Gordon Founder & CEO | 2018 | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | 7 launchs |
| 3 | Clove Recipe and cooking platform for users 37Growth top 30%Customers top 33%Tech top 44%Talent bottom 49% All 8 signals ▾Growthtop 30% Customerstop 33% Techtop 44% Talentbottom 49% Productbottom 40% Globalbottom 37% Fundingbottom 36% Marketbottom 28% Growth: Web rank 10,000,000 → 5,000,000 YoY Customers: Play-Store rating 4.98★ across 644 ratings (1 apps) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 37/100 | $3M | 31 mo ago | Seed | Anna Guerrero Founder & CEO | 2023 | SentryZendeskNode.js+15 | — |
| 4 | Good Pair Days App-based wine discovery and ordering platform | $2M | 93 mo ago | Seed | Banjo Plane Co-founder & Chief Wine Officer at Good Pair Days | 2014 | GhostNode.jsVarnish+25 | — |
| 5 | EatClub Online platform to discover deals on surplus food 60Talent top 28%Growth top 35%Innovation top 39%Funding top 40% All 8 signals ▾Talenttop 28% Growthtop 35% Innovationtop 39% Fundingtop 40% Techtop 43% Producttop 43% Marketbottom 41% Globalbottom 36% Talent: 4 named leaders on record · 4 C-suite/founder profiles curated Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 60/100 | $2M | 4 mo ago | Series B | Ben Tyler Co-Founder | 2017 | Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceNode.js+13 | 3 job openings · 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 6 | Foodini App-based discovery platform offering allergy-friendly restaurants | $700K | 45 mo ago | Seed | — | 2020 | — | — |
| 7 | Food St. Platform offering homemade meals | $500K | 65 mo ago | Seed | Lorraine Gnanadickam Co-Founder & CEO | 2015 | Cart FunctionalityShopifyApple iCloud Mail+21 | — |
| 8 | Just Add Vegan Provider of vegan meal kit deivery services | $476K | 35 mo ago | Seed | Padma Lianos Co-Founder & COO | 2018 | — | — |
| 9 | OrderUp Online ordering platform for hospitality: table ordering, pickup, delivery, room service | $250K | 116 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2010 | Cart FunctionalityWordPressMySQL+31 | — |
| 10 | Compassion Internet first brand offering vegan oat cream cheese | $176K | 29 mo ago | Funding Raised | Sarah Qian Founder | 2021 | — | — |
Top 11 Food Tech companies in Sydney
#1
Series B · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2017 · 46 employees$2Mraised▾
EatClub is an online platform to discover deals on surplus food. It allows restaurants to upload last-minute deals to offer surplus food at a discounted price. Users can search for deals and restaurants on the platform and redeem them to avail the offer at the restaurant by showing the digital voucher. The mobile platform is available for Android and iOS users.
- Feb 2026Series B$19.1M
- May 2025Series A$11.6M
- Jun 2019Series A$2M
#2
Series A · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2018 · 100 employees$23Mraised▾
Provider of computer vision artificial intelligence for food and beverage production. It offers monitoring to ensure worker safety, animal welfare, yield, and product quality. The technology provides real-time alerts and actionable data, integrating with equipment and manufacturing robots. It improves safety, efficiency, quality, traceability, and trust in food and beverage production.
- Oct 2024Series A—
- Aug 2022Series A$19.5M
- Jul 2019Seed$3.5M
#3
Series B · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2015 · 70 employees$23.5Mraised▾
Online B2B marketplace offering multi-category grocery products. The platform provides meat, seafood, fruits, vegetables, oil, honey, snacks, bakery products, dairy products, grains, flour, and much more. It also provides price comparisons for grocery products.
- Jan 2023Series B$12M
- Nov 2021Series A$10M
- Aug 2016Seed$1.5M
#4
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2023$2.7Mraised▾
Recipe and cooking platform for users. It provides personalised recipe ideas and meal plans, as well as the opportunity to save, share, or create your own recipes.
- Dec 2023Seed$2.7M
#5
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2018$476.3Kraised▾
Provider of vegan meal kit deivery services. The platform provides subscription-based nutritionist planned meal plans. Its meal kits includes food ingredients and cooking instructions.
- Jul 2023Seed$476.3K
#6
Funding Raised · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2021$175.6Kraised▾
Internet first brand offering vegan oat cream cheese. The platform provides cheese with various flavours such as blueberry, strawberry, and more. The company claims that the products are cruelty-free, and more. It also provides desserts, and cookies.
- Feb 2024Grant (prize money)$175.6K
#7
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2020 · 17 employees$700Kraised▾
App-based discovery platform offering allergy-friendly restaurants. It offers a listing of restaurants with reviews according to dietary preferences and allergies. Users can choose from different allergens and diets to create their own permanent diet schedule. Users can also find diet-friendly restaurants near them. The mobile application is available on both Android and iOS platforms.
- Oct 2022Seed$700K
#8
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2014 · 28 employees$2.5Mraised▾
App-based wine discovery and ordering platform. The company claims it allows users to take a fun palate quiz to uncover their taste and delivers wine to their doorsteps. Its mobile application is available on Android and iOS platforms.
- Sep 2018Angel$2M
- Apr 2017Angel$500K
#9
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2015 · 6 employees$500Kraised▾
Platform offering homemade meals. The menu includes meat, poultry, vegetarian, seafood, soups, sides, snacks, desserts, and more. The user can pick and choose from the wide range of pre-prepared meals and select the delivery date & place an order online. The food is delivered in an insulated eco-friendly box.
- Feb 2021Angel$500K
#10
Acquired · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2010 · 30 employees$250Kraised▾
Online ordering platform for hospitality: table ordering, pickup, delivery, room service. It provides technology solutions for contactless table ordering, pickup, delivery, and room service, enabling businesses to offer customers the ability to order and pay from anywhere on their own device. The platform offers features like smart visual menus, integration with Point of Sale systems, and tools to manage multiple venues from one dashboard. It facilitates contactless pick-up, curbside pick-up, and multiple delivery solutions, including integration with delivery services. The platform aims to streamline operations, increase revenue, and build a customer database for future marketing. It offers an affordable online ordering solution, connecting businesses directly to their customers.
- Nov 2016Seed$250K
#11
Deadpooled · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2015 · 1 employees$75Kraised▾
HowAbout Eat delivers lunch primarily to office goers from the best restaurants around them. Customers are sent a message asking if they want to have lunch and if they reply 'yes' then the service sends them a meal based on their preferences.
- Nov 2015Seed$75K
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 Tech in Sydney is moving
A read on the academic research around Food Tech in Sydney — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 90 papers.
Sydney's University of Sydney, UNSW, and Western Sydney University dominate food-tech research, focusing heavily on food safety and consumer attitudes, with a cautious, concern-driven tone.
- The University of Sydney35
- UNSW Sydney31
- Western Sydney University13
- University of Sydney7
- University of Technology Sydney6
- Human pathogen1
- Pathogenic bacteria1
- Biodefense1
- Human health1
- Pathogen1
- Food safety1→5
- Food processing1→3
- Food safety1→17
- Food security1→10
- Agriculture1→6
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.