Best Food Tech Companies in Toronto, Canada
The 118 best Food Tech companies in Toronto, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: TouchBistro.
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 Toronto
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TouchBistro Cloud-based POS and restaurant management system 35Tech top 24%Funding top 30%Product top 30%Moat top 35% All 13 signals ▾Techtop 24% Fundingtop 30% Producttop 30% Moattop 35% Talenttop 38% Markettop 47% Globalbottom 39% Customersbottom 36% Patentsbottom 35% Innovationbottom 33% Newsbottom 32% Growthbottom 29% Fin. healthbottom 25% Tech: 52 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare Funding: Raised $321M across 8 rounds · 8 rounds over 13 yrs (0.6/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 35/100 | $321M | 43 mo ago | 612 | Alex Barrotti Founder and Vice-Chairman | WordPressSentryApple iCloud Mail+42 | Top 500k | 4 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 2 | Ritual Social ordering app for corporate professionals to order food for takeaways | $135M | 72 mo ago | 2 | Larry Stinson Founder | WebflowCart FunctionalityApple iCloud Mail+26 | Top 500k | — | — |
| 3 | Get ResQ Online marketplace platform for restaurant maintenance | $46M | 56 mo ago | 137 | Mazdak Rezvani Co-Founder & Head of U.S. Business | WebflowSalesforceKoala+28 | Top 1M | — | — |
| 4 | ORCA Technology solutions provider for food waste management | $20M | 155 mo ago | 21 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 5 | Cookin Platform providing tools for culinary entrepreneurs to manage online food sales | $13M | 40 mo ago | 31 | Philip Yuzpe Co-Founder | SentryNode.jsYouTube+20 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 6 | Tre'dish Platform offering home-cooked meal delivery services | $10M | 43 mo ago | 29 | Peter Hwang Co-Founder & CEO | Cart FunctionalityApple iCloud MailChakra UI+20 | Top 5M | — | 2 launchs |
| 7 | PORTA Internet-first restaurant offering ready to eat meals | $8M | 35 mo ago | 11 | — | Cart FunctionalityShopifySentry+31 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 8 | Appetronix Developer of autonomous kitchen robotic systems for the hospitality industry 22Funding top 39%Tech top 49%Talent bottom 49%Global bottom 36% All 5 signals ▾Fundingtop 39% Techtop 49% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 36% Marketbottom 25% Funding: Raised $6.0M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) Tech: 17 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare, Google Cloud rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 22/100 | $6M | 7 mo ago | — | Nipun Sharma Co-Founder & CEO | Wix eCommerceWixSentry+14 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 9 | KitchenMate Platform offering automated vending machine for fresh meals | $4M | 69 mo ago | 25 | — | Node.jsErlangBootstrap+32 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 10 | Tiny Mile Manufacturer of last-mile delivery robots for food delivery | $3M | 50 mo ago | 30 | Gellert Mattyus Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder | Google MapsGoogle CloudSvelte+6 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 11 | Wisewell Provider of a home water purification system with full-spectrum filtration | $3M | 50 mo ago | 10 | Sebastien Wakim Co-Founder & Board Member | Cart FunctionalityShopifySentry+38 | Top 10M | — | 2 job openings |
| 12 | TellSpec Handheld sensor for measuring food contents | $2M | 80 mo ago | 12 | Isabel Hoffmann Founder & CEO | — | — | 7 patents Spectroscopic analysis systems for identifying sample composition and providing personalized ingredient information | — |
| 13 | Daily Blends Provider of automated refrigerator offering chef-curated meals | $2M | 39 mo ago | 15 | Purva Gupta Co-Founder & CTO | — | — | — | — |
| 14 | SJW Robotics Provider of automated food kiosks for restaurants | $2M | 40 mo ago | — | Nipun Sharma Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | Smooth Commerce Provider of cloud-based online ordering solutions for restaurants | $2M | 102 mo ago | 30 | — | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+34 | Top 10M | — | 1 launch |
| 16 | SPATULA Online platform for restaurant-quality meals marketplace | $2M | 30 mo ago | 16 | Wallace Wong Co-Founder | Cart FunctionalityShopifyVideoJS+28 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 17 | Tab Provider of analytical software solutions for restaurants | $1M | 38 mo ago | — | Ty Wilson Co-Founder & CEO | Node.jsChakra UIReact+15 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 18 | Bonne O Internet first brand offering beverage system | $898K | 60 mo ago | 6 | Darren Hatherell Founder | — | — | 34 patents Beverage carbonation equipment and pod-based CO₂ delivery systems | — |
| 19 | Pantree Provider of online B2B platform offering groceries and office supplies | $752K | 76 mo ago | 18 | Evan Birmann Co-Founder | Cart FunctionalityShopifyAmazon ALB+36 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 20 | Terra Bioindustries Company decarbonizing supply chains with upcycled ingredients | $250K | 24 mo ago | 9 | Steve George Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 21 | FoodShootr A community to share and discover food | $123K | 160 mo ago | 1 | Anthony Raimondo Chief Operations Officer/ Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Food Tech companies in Toronto
#1
Seed · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2020$6Mraised▾
Developer of autonomous kitchen robotic systems for the hospitality industry. It provides fully autonomous cooking and service robotics. It works as made-to-order meals in a vending machine format.
- Nov 2025Seed$6M
#2
Series E · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2010 · 612 employees$320.9Mraised▾
Cloud-based POS and restaurant management system. It offers payment processing, act as a menu, and allows servers to take customer orders and send them to the kitchen. Its clients include restaurants, fast food joints, food trucks, coffee shops, and others in the food services industries.
- Nov 2022Series E$110M
- Sep 2019Series E$119.2M
- Jun 2018Series D$54.1M
- May 2017Series C$12.5M
#3
Series C · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2014 · 2 employees$134.6Mraised▾
Ritual offers a social ordering app for corporate professionals to order food for takeaways. It allows users to browse through the menus of partnered restaurants and place orders for a pickup. Offers various pickup options such as picking up orders by themselves or by other co-workers by adding their food orders to existing orders of their co-workers. It also provides multiple corporate programs for employers with redeemable credits for their employees as wellness perks & benefits. The mobile application is available for Android and iOS users. Has won the Emerging Technology MAXI Gold Award in 2017.
- Jun 2020Series C$21.6M
- Jun 2018Series C$70M
- Sep 2017Series B$42.9M
- 2015Series A—
#4
Series A · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2014 · 137 employees$46.5Mraised▾
Get ResQ is an online marketplace platform for restaurant maintenance. The company's platform connects a network of service providers with customers for on-demand services. It also offers services including equipment repair, plumbing, electrical, janitorial cleaning, hood cleaning, handy work, restaurant repair, restaurant maintenance, restaurant operations, pest control, waste removal, franchise operations, etc.
- Oct 2021Series A$39M
- Dec 2020Seed$7.5M
#5
Series A · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2021 · 11 employees$7.9Mraised▾
Internet-first restaurant offering ready-to-eat meals. It allows users to choose frozen Italian meals such as pizza, pasta, dessert, etc. It also delivers the product at the door and also allows users to customize the plan weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly. It is the tool available on the subscription-based pricing model.
- Jul 2023Series A$7.9M
#6
Acquired · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2022 · 31 employees$12.7Mraised▾
Platform providing tools for culinary entrepreneurs to manage online food sales. It offers an e-commerce platform designed for food sales, order management, delivery, and payment processing. The platform provides features such as payment processing, photo enhancement, customer reviews, and promotional tools. It also offers customer and chef support, including guidance on menu creation and operational optimization.
- Feb 2023Series B$12.7M
#7
Seed · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2020 · 29 employees$10Mraised▾
Platform offering home-cooked meal delivery services. It's a community-based technology platform for the food-sharing economy. The customers can search for home chefs in the area, view the description & sample videos, and place the orders. The platform allows the local home chef to list the food offering on the platform.
- Nov 2022Seed$10M
#8
Seed · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2021 · 16 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Online platform for restaurant-quality meals marketplace. The company's products are flash-freeze to maintain freshness and preserve texture.
- Nov 2023Angel$500K
- Mar 2022Seed$1.5M
#9
Late Stage · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2003 · 21 employees$20Mraised▾
ORCA is a technology solutions provider for food waste management. It provides solutions for converting food waste into liquid. The liquid generated can be used for biogas, watershed, and land application. Claims to be an alternative substitute for traditional truck & bin collection system.
- Jul 2013Post IPO$5M
- Aug 2012Post IPO$5M
- Apr 2012Post IPO$161.5K
- Jan 2011Post IPO$4.4M
#10
Seed · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2014 · 15 employees$2Mraised▾
Provider of automated refrigerators offering chef-curated meals. Customers can browse the menu, grab a meal, and make contactless payments on their smartphones. The company's service provides meals such as salads, bowls, and snacks. The company offers an application to find a fridge nearby to order blends and pick up meals or snacks.
- Mar 2023Seed$2M
#11
Seed · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2019 · 9 employees$250Kraised▾
Company decarbonizing supply chains with upcycled ingredient. Its protein is derived from upcycled spent grain and is turned into a dried plant-based protein ingredient and the sugars are concentrated into fermentation feedstock.
- May 2024Grant (prize money)—
- Dec 2023Seed$250K
#12
Seed · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2019$2Mraised▾
Provider of automated food kiosks for restaurants. The company provides cloud kitchen services. Its kiosk service is offered for hospitals, universities, airports, grocery stores, offer towers, shopping malls, stadiums, concert halls, and more.
- Jan 2023Seed$2M
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 Toronto is moving
A read on the academic research around Food Tech in Toronto — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 47 papers.
Toronto's University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University dominate food-tech research, focusing primarily on food safety and security concerns, with a contested, cautious tone (27 concern vs. 13 positive papers).
- University of Toronto29
- Toronto Metropolitan University19
- Toronto Public Health3
- Outreach2
- Immigration2
- Food safety2
- Diversity (politics)2
- Public health2
- Food safety4
- Agriculture4
- Food security3
- Cistern2
- Agricultural science2
- Environmental health1→4
- Food processing1→4
- Food science1→3
Common questions
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