Best Food Tech Companies in Tokyo, Japan
The 68 best Food Tech companies in Tokyo, Japan in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Dely.
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 Tokyo
| # | Company | App-install YoY | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Balmuda Internet first brand offering home appliances | +26% | — | — | Public | Gen Terao CEO & President | Cart FunctionalityShopifyShop Pay+26 | 166 patents Advanced household cooking appliances and compact wind turbine power generation technologies. | — |
| 2 | demae-can Demae-can provides mail order, food order, dry cleaning, and delivery services. | +15% | — | — | Public | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | DELISH KITCHEN Online recipe aggregator | +12% | $36M | 46 mo ago | Series A | Taisei Yoshida CEO | EcForceCart FunctionalityRuby+40 | — | — |
| 4 | Retty Autonym Gourmet SNS | +3% | $23M | 118 mo ago | Public | kazuya takeda CEO | PHPVarnishVue.js+26 | — | — |
| 5 | Gurunavi Provider of local restaurant reservations solution | +3% | — | — | Public | — | Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceFacebook Login+27 | 239 patents Digital restaurant platform services: online reservations, payment integration, and food texture biotech. | — |
| 6 | Favy Platform offering restaurant management solutions | — | $10M | 1 mo ago | Series D | — | TurbopackApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+28 | — | — |
| 7 | Tsukurioki.jp Platform offering chef-made food delivery services | — | $21M | 6 mo ago | Series D | Megumi Maejima CEO | HubSpot CMS HubEnvoyGoogle Ads+21 | — | — |
| 8 | Tablecross Provider of restaurant reservation platform | — | $4M | 6 mo ago | Series B | Kaoru Joho Founder & CEO | UbuntuApache HTTP ServerCloudflare+7 | — | — |
| 9 | TableCheck Online platform to make restaurant reservations | — | $3M | 6 mo ago | Series A | Johnny Shields Founder and Chief Technology Officer | ZohoSalesforceRuby+19 | — | — |
| 10 | SHAREDINE Online marketplace for booking cooks for different occasions | — | $6M | 9 mo ago | Series B | — | Node.jsSalesforceTailwind CSS+18 | — | — |
| 11 | Dinii Provider of restaurant management solutions, including POS, mobile ordering, and more | — | $51M | 20 mo ago | Series B | Mao Yamada CEO | WordPress Block EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+29 | — | — |
| 12 | 10X Online meal planning platform for homemakers | — | $15M | 13 mo ago | Series B | Masatake Yamoto CEO | Hatena BlogSentryFacebook Login+14 | — | — |
| 13 | NOMU Platform developing customizable beverages | — | $3M | 8 mo ago | Seed | Baku Morikuni CEO | — | — | — |
| 14 | KitchHike Online platform connecting Japanese cooks and travellers | — | $2M | 14 mo ago | Series A | — | RubyRuby on RailsNginx+10 | — | — |
| 15 | TechMagic Developer of AI-based food cooking robots | — | $17M | 26 mo ago | Series C | Yuji Shiraki Founder & CEO | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+32 | 72 patents Automated food portioning, ingredient handling, and cooking equipment for commercial kitchens | — |
| 16 | Best Beer Japan Provider of barrel tracking software for beer industry | — | $1M | 18 mo ago | Seed | — | STUDIOFirebaseNode.js+13 | — | — |
| 17 | Dely Mobile-based recipe video discovery platform | — | $62M | 101 mo ago | Public | — | Node.jsHighchartsGSAP+17 | — | — |
| 18 | Snack Me Internet first restaurant offering healthy snacks | — | $10M | 39 mo ago | Series A | Shintaro Hattori CEO | NotionSuper BuilderTurbopack+14 | — | — |
| 19 | Connected Robotics Provider of AI-based food preparation robotic arms | — | $9M | 39 mo ago | Series B | Tetsuya Sawato CEO | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+16 | 12 patents Robotic kitchen automation for dishwashing, cooking, and material handling | — |
| 20 | Toreta Provider of reservation management, mobile ordering, and digital stamp card services | — | $41M | 89 mo ago | Series B | Hitoshi Nakamura Co-Founder & CEO | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+35 | 2 patents Integrated restaurant reservation and payment processing platform | — |
| 21 | Star Festival Operator of food delivery malls | — | $38M | 143 mo ago | Series B | Yusuke Kishida CEO | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+14 | — | — |
| 22 | Chompy Platform offering food delivery services | — | $7M | 59 mo ago | Series A | — | HugoFirebaseGoogle Font API+7 | — | — |
| 23 | Aroma Bit Developer of odor imaging sensors | — | $7M | 64 mo ago | Series A | Shunichiro Kuroki Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+14 | 48 patents Electronic nose systems for odor detection, analysis, and data-driven odor identification | — |
| 24 | Nippon Shokuhin Provider of table management & reservation solutions for restaurants | — | $9M | 95 mo ago | Funding Raised | Lu Dong Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 25 | Okage Provider of online ordering and PoS solutions for restaurants | — | $5M | 63 mo ago | Series A | Yoshihisa Uchida CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+30 | — | — |
| 26 | CO-NECT Provider of cloud-based online ordering solutions for businesses | — | $2M | 48 mo ago | Seed | Yusuke Taguchi CEO | — | — | — |
| 27 | GINKAN Blockchain and AI-based solutions | — | $3M | 60 mo ago | Series A | — | — | 5 patents Digital payment processing and NFT/non‑fungible token management platforms | — |
| 28 | Rakmy Developer of a restaurant management platform to streamline ordering processes | — | $722K | 42 mo ago | Seed | Kengo Ito CEO | RubyQuillChart.js+23 | — | — |
| 29 | NOW ROOM App-based marketplace for accommodations | — | $2M | 72 mo ago | Seed | Fumio Chiba Founder & CEO | Node.jsChakra UITailwind CSS+14 | — | — |
| 30 | Homeal Platform offering food delivery services for infants | — | $844K | 51 mo ago | Seed | Sho Oniumi CEO | Cart FunctionalityShopifySentry+38 | — | — |
| 31 | QBIT Robotics Provides a robotic cafe system | — | $1M | 84 mo ago | Series A | Shuichi Hiroya Co-Founder & CTO | — | 6 patents AI-driven robotic manipulation and data processing for automated manufacturing tasks | — |
| 32 | Ubiregi Provider of point-of-sale solutions for restaurants | — | $200K | — | Seed | — | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+21 | — | — |
Top 12 Food Tech companies in Tokyo
#1
Series D · Shinjuku, Tokyo · founded 2015 · 27 employees$9.9Mraised▾
Platform offering restaurant management solutions. Its solutions includes mobile order management, subscription management, digital marketing, designing, consulting, operation management, social media management, feedback management, and more. It also provides digital agency services.
- Apr 2026Series D—
- Nov 2025Series D—
- Jul 2025Series A—
- Mar 2023Series A—
#2
Series D · Chiyoda City, Tokyo · founded 2019$21.1Mraised▾
Platform offering chef-made food delivery services. The users can choose the menu, decide the order details, and confirm the delivery date & notify. It uses seasonal ingredients and soups extracted from natural ingredients such as dried bonito, dried sardines, and kelp. The company delivers weekly menus.
- Nov 2025Series D$21.1M
- Apr 2021Seed—
#3
Series B · Chuo, Tokyo · founded 2014$4.1Mraised▾
Provider of restaurant reservation platform. The company provides a smartphone app that allows users to schedule culinary experiences, make restaurant reservations, watch films about Japanese food culture, and read articles about where and what to eat across the country.
- Nov 2025Series B$2.2M
- Apr 2023Series A$2.2M
#4
Series A · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2011 · 120 employees$3Mraised▾
TableCheck is an online platform to make restaurant reservations. It enables users to search for restaurants on the basis of cuisine, location, restaurant type, date, time, and price. Its mobile app is available for Android and iOS users. The company is operational in Japan.
- Dec 2025Conventional Debt$4.5M
- Mar 2025Series A$2.9M
- Jul 2019Series A$5.5M
- 2018Seed—
#5
Series B · Minato City, Tokyo · founded 2017 · 20 employees$5.8Mraised▾
Online marketplace for booking cooks for different occasions. It allows customers to select the time and date and book one of the chefs available. It allows users to discuss menu with chefs.
- Aug 2025Series B$14.2M
- Nov 2024Series B$11.7M
- Sep 2022Conventional Debt—
- Sep 2022Series A$3.8M
#6
Series B · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2018 · 16 employees$51.2Mraised▾
Provider of restaurant management solutions, including POS, mobile ordering, and more. The company offers tools for customer management, mobile payment, and cashless transactions. It also provides time and attendance management solutions. The company aims to help restaurants increase sales and reduce costs through its integrated platform.
- Sep 2024Series B$48M
- Jul 2021Series A$3.2M
- Aug 2019Seed—
#7
Series B · Chuo City, Tokyo · founded 2017 · 73 employees$14.6Mraised▾
10X is an online meal planning platform for homemakers. It provides a mobile application, Tabery which allows users to provide the list of available ingredients and get recipe suggestions according to their tastes and preferences. It provides recipes of sides, main course dishes, and extras possible to cook with the available ingredients. Users can also build their grocery shopping lists and order groceries from the application. The mobile application is available for Android and iOS devices.
- Apr 2025Series B$14.6M
#8
Seed · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2023$3Mraised▾
Platform developing customizable beverages. The company offers smart micro-beverage factory that connects cloud platform to create personalized beverages based on individual tastes, preferences, and lifestyles.
- Oct 2025Seed$3M
- 2024Seed—
#9
Series A · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2012 · 24 employees$1.8Mraised▾
KitchHike is an online platform connecting Japanese cooks and travellers. It provides a platform for travellers and tourists to search for Japanese cooks, chefs, and homemakers to get homemade meals. The mobile platform is available for Android and iOS users.
- Apr 2025Series A—
- Oct 2017Series A$1.8M
#10
Series C · Minato City, Tokyo · founded 2018 · 19 employees$16.8Mraised▾
TechMagic specializes in developing AI-based food cooking robots. Its offerings include AI cooking robot and AI automation robot. The robots have features such as ordering automation, payment automation, cooking automation, automated waiting, and much more.
- Mar 2024Series C$16.8M
- Oct 2019Seed—
#11
Seed · Bunkyo, Tokyo · founded 2018 · 3 employees$1.4Mraised▾
Best Beer Japan is a technology company that provides barrel tracking software for the beer industry. It is a smartphone-based barrel management application. It also offers other services such as keg sharing.
- Nov 2024Seed$1.4M
#12
Series A · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2016$36.2Mraised▾
Online recipe aggregator. It enables users to search for recipes on the basis of meat dishes, seafood dishes, vegetable dishes, rice dishes, soups, noodles, salads, bread, etc. It offers video tutorials with information regarding ingredients required and a step-by-step procedure to cook the dishes.
- Aug 2022Series A$17.8M
- Jan 2018Series A$18.4M
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 Tokyo is moving
A read on the academic research around Food Tech in Tokyo — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 66 papers.
- The University of Tokyo29
- Tokyo University of Agriculture7
- Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology5
- Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology4
- Tokyo University of Science4
- Food safety2
- Food science2
- Quality (philosophy)1
- Systems engineering1
- Cyanobacteria1
- Food processing6
- Food safety4
- Marketing3
- Biotechnology3
- Sustainability3
- Food safety1→3
Common questions
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