Best Food Tech Companies in United Arab Emirates
The 110 best Food Tech companies in United Arab Emirates in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Kitopi.
Food Tech in the United Arab Emirates is moving fast enough that tracking 110 companies and $1.8B in disclosed funding feels like a minimum baseline, not a ceiling. This directory ranks them by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum, so you can cut straight to who's actually capitalized. Kitopi leads at $802M, which is a different conversation entirely from the rest of the pack. Qlub sits at $42M, GrubTech at $33M, and Epik Foods at $18M, and then the curve drops sharply. Two unicorns have already cleared the threshold. The global Food Tech market is tracking from roughly $105.3B in 2024 toward $224.3B by 2032 at a 9.9% CAGR, driven by population growth, sustainability pressure, and accelerating tech adoption across the food chain.
The consolidation signals are worth watching. Strategic acquisitions are picking up pace across the broader sector, and that pattern tends to reach Gulf markets within a cycle or two. Median app install growth across food and food-tech platforms is running at roughly +20% year-on-year, which tells you consumer adoption isn't slowing. In5, BECO Capital, and 500 Global are the names showing up most consistently on cap tables here. So if you're mapping where institutional conviction is concentrating in UAE Food Tech right now, this is the list I'd start with.
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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 United Arab Emirates
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kitopi 🦄 Provider of a cloud-based network of food delivery businesses | $802M | 4 mo ago | Series C | Sami Bejjani Co-Founder & CFO | Cart FunctionalityWix eCommerceWix+16 | Top 5M | 1 award |
| 2 | Careem 🦄 App-based ride-hailing aggregator | $772M | 92 mo ago | Acquired | Magnus Olsson Co-Founder & Managing Director | BreakdanceWordPressMySQL+21 | Top 500k | 1 launch · 2 partnerships |
| 3 | Qlub Provider of a contactless QR-code checkout solution for restaurants | $42M | 11 mo ago | Series B | Abdulaziz Aljasser Co-Founder & CCO | SanityNode.jsRadix UI+23 | Top 100k | — |
| 4 | GrubTech Provider of cloud kitchen solutions for restaurants | $33M | 24 mo ago | Series B | Mohamed Fayed Co-Founder & CEO | Cart FunctionalityHubSpot CMS HubAmazon Web Services+15 | Top 5M | 1 launch · 3 partnerships |
| 5 | The Cloud Provider of platform to optimise online ordering management | $22M | 28 mo ago | Deadpooled | Kamil Rogalinski Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+30 | Top 50M | — |
| 6 | Epik Foods Chain of restaurant serving multiple dishes and catering services | $18M | 19 mo ago | Series C | Khaled Fadly Founder & CEO | WixSentryBootstrap+16 | Top 10M | — |
| 7 | Kitch Platform offering cloud kitchen and store-front operator | $15M | 64 mo ago | Series B | Walid Hajj Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 8 | KASO Provider of online ordering software for restaurants & suppliers | $13M | 35 mo ago | Seed | Manar Alkassar Co-Founder | Webflow EcommerceWebflowAmazon Web Services+19 | Top 5M | 1 job opening · 1 partnership |
| 9 | Supy Provider of digital procurement solution for food businesses | $10M | 47 mo ago | Seed | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+40 | Top 1M | 2 partnerships |
| 10 | ChatFood Online ordering solutions for restaurants | $7M | 46 mo ago | Acquired | Vinicius Rodrigues Co-Founder | Cart FunctionalitySentryNode.js+16 | Top 1M | — |
| 11 | Mealplanet Online platform to book meals in bulk for corporates | $6M | 22 mo ago | Seed | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+16 | Top 10M | 1 award |
| 12 | MUNCH:ON Online platform offering on-demand food ordering and delivery services | $6M | 86 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | Mohammad Al Zaben CEO | — | — | — |
| 13 | KRUSH Brands Online platform offering pizza order and delivery | $4M | 49 mo ago | Seed | — | — | — | — |
| 14 | Kaykroo Platform for delivery and takeaway-centric cloud kitchens | $4M | 68 mo ago | Seed | Jihad Eit Founder & CEO | BootstrapGSAPAmazon Web Services+9 | Top 10M | 1 launch |
| 15 | Eighty6 Provider of AI-based software solutions for food and beverage businesses | $4M | 37 mo ago | Seed | Abdul Saadi Founder & Managing Director | — | — | — |
| 16 | RoundMenu Restaurant booking platform in Dubai | $3M | — | Acqui-Hired | — | — | — | — |
| 17 | Growdash Cloud-based software platform designed to help restaurants | $3M | 24 mo ago | Seed | Sean Trevaskis Co-Founder | Radix UITailwind CSSshadcn/ui+10 | Top 50M | — |
| 18 | Spades Payment solutions for dine-in restaurants | $2M | 49 mo ago | Seed | — | — | — | — |
| 19 | Repeat Smartphone app for booking tables at restaurants | $2M | 79 mo ago | Series A | Omer Gurel Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 20 | Revoltech Developer of food preservation technology | $2M | 41 mo ago | Funding Raised | Rabih Zeineddine Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer | — | — | — |
| 21 | Let’s Pizza Provider of pizza vending machines | $594K | 32 mo ago | Funding Raised | Claudio Torghele Co-Founder | October CMSPHPLaravel+11 | Top 10M | — |
| 22 | NutriCal Web-based recipe management solution for the food industry | $544K | 10 mo ago | Seed | Soniya Ashar Founder | Node.jsUbuntuReact+13 | Top 10M | — |
| 23 | DocsInBox Cloud-based accounting and invoicing solutions for restaurants | $500K | 26 mo ago | Seed | Leo Komissarov CEO | — | — | — |
| 24 | Save Me Online platform for ordering surplus food from restaurants | $408K | 17 mo ago | Seed | Dilshad Sak Co-Founder | QuillPHPChart.js+19 | Top 50M | 1 award |
| 25 | Eatr Online platform offering solutions recipe discovery | $350K | 24 mo ago | Seed | Eatrz Eatr CEO | AlgoliaNode.jsBubble+9 | Top 5M | — |
| 26 | Sprout Internet first-restaurants offering ready-to-eat kids meals | $200K | 63 mo ago | Seed | — | — | — | — |
| 27 | Fine Diner Internet first restaurant offering multi-category food delivery | $150K | 49 mo ago | Seed | Saed Elayan Co-Founder | Cart FunctionalityShopifyAvada SEO+19 | Top 10M | — |
Top 12 Food Tech companies in United Arab Emirates
#1
Kitopi 🦄Series C · Dubai, Dubai · founded 2018 · 5000 employees$802.2Mraised▾
Provider of a cloud-based network of food delivery businesses. It helps food brands with delivery-only locations to launch online storefronts. It also offers infrastructure, management services, phone support, and delivery management. It serves burgers, crispy chicken, and rice dishes.
- Jan 2026Series C$50M
- May 2022Series C$300M
- Jul 2021Series C$415M
- Feb 2020Series B$60M
#2
Series B · Dubai, Dubai · founded 2021 · 160 employees$42Mraised▾
Provider of a contactless QR-code checkout solution for restaurants. The company offers an application that allows customers to split and pay the bill.
- Jul 2025Series B$30M
- Mar 2023Series A$25M
- Jan 2022Seed$17M
#3
Series C · Dubai, Dubai · founded 2019$17.7Mraised▾
Epik Foods is a tech-driven multi-brand restaurant group with over 100 brands, offering innovative, tasty, and healthy food choices in UAE and KSA. They serve a wide variety of exceptional culinary creations, including fresh rice bowls, juicy burgers, and delicious pasta dishes. Epik Foods is dedicated to redefining dining experiences and has a dynamic atmosphere with diverse food concepts.
- Nov 2024Series C$15.5M
- Oct 2020Series C$17.7M
#4
Series B · Dubai, Dubai · founded 2019 · 136 employees$33.4Mraised▾
Provider of cloud kitchen solutions for restaurants. It provides SaaS-based solutions for cloud kitchens and restaurants by integrating with third-party food aggregators. Solutions includes logistics, payments, delivery management, online ordering, QR code-enabled contactless dine-in, insights, and and point of sale solutions.
- May 2024Series B$15M
- Dec 2021Series A$13M
- Mar 2021Seed$3.4M
- Jul 2020Seed$2M
#5
Seed · Dubai, Dubai · founded 2019 · 10 employees$544.4Kraised▾
NutriCal is a web-based recipe management solution for the food industry. Its nutrition analysis on recipe and menu items allows restaurants to showcase calories, protein, fats, carbohydrates, and other nutrients on digital menus, physical menus, and social media platforms. Also, it helps to create nutrition labels and streamline product development.
- Jul 2025Seed$544.4K
- Dec 2022Seed—
#6
Seed · Dubai, Dubai · founded 2024$6Mraised▾
Online platform to book meals in bulk for corporates. Allows corporate to place the order with details such as no. of persons, time, venue and the choice of restaurant from their list. Has partnered with local restaurants to cater the orders. Targets the market that includes office admins, small business owners and freelance professionals. Orders are fulfilled by the partner restaurants by either delivery or pickup.
- Aug 2024Seed$6M
#7
Careem 🦄Acquired · Dubai, Dubai · founded 2012 · 1400 employees$771.7Mraised▾
App-based ride-hailing aggregator. Users can book rides by providing location, passenger details, payment details, and more. The platform also offers services like food delivery, recharge services, grocery delivery services, and more. Apps are available for Android and iOS users.
- Oct 2018Series F$200M
- Aug 2017Series E—
- Jun 2017Series E$150M
- Dec 2016Series E$350M
#8
Deadpooled · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi · founded 2019 · 123 employees$22Mraised▾
Provider of platform to optimize online ordering management. It offers a unique model to bridge the gap between businesses and customers in the virtual cloud kitchen space. its platform helps food entrepreneurs and brands to seamlessly open a virtual restaurant in just weeks and enjoy numerous benefits like a rise in sales, fast expansion, knowledgeable resources, and reduced wastage with no upfront costs, capital expenditure, and minimal risk. . It offers technology like online marketing, cooking equipment, and other approaches.
- Feb 2024Conventional Debt—
- Feb 2024Series B$12M
- Sep 2022Series A$10M
- 2020Seed—
#9
Seed · Dubai, Dubai · founded 2023$408.4Kraised▾
Online platform for ordering surplus food from restaurants. The platform connects people with food near the end of its shelf life to restaurants and retail locations. Its mobile application is available on Android and iOS platforms.
- Jan 2025Seed$408.4K
#10
Seed · Dubai, Dubai · founded 2021 · 73 employees$12.7Mraised▾
Provider of online ordering software for restaurants & suppliers. The platform enables restaurant owners to chat with suppliers, place and track orders, explore a marketplace, and generate LPOs. Suppliers can access new restaurants and can sell products.
- Jul 2023Seed$10.5M
- Feb 2022Seed$500K
- Sep 2021Seed$2.1M
#11
Seed · Dubai, Dubai · founded 2022 · 4 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Cloud-based software platform designed to help restaurants. It displays daily performance statistics on a dashboard, allowing users to follow growth and make proactive decisions.
- Jun 2024Seed$1.8M
- Jul 2023Seed$750K
#12
Seed · Dubai, Dubai · founded 2002$350Kraised▾
Online platform offering solutions recipe discovery. It enables users to browse recipes, filter them by ingredients or dietary requirements, and save them to individual profiles. The website also contains articles and ideas on cooking, culinary trends, and meal planning.
- Jun 2024Seed$350K
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