Best Food Tech Companies in Victoria, Australia
The 89 best Food Tech companies in Victoria, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Fresho.
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 Victoria
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aabak Provider of service robot | — | — | Funding Raised | — | Flynn Macfarlane Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 2 | Activated Nutrients Produces and markets plant-based superfoods, proteins, and supplements | — | — | Unfunded | — | Blair Norfolk Co-Founder & CEO | Shogun Page BuilderCart FunctionalityShopify+39 | — |
| 3 | Ausbox Vending Supplier of smart vending machines | — | — | Unfunded | — | John Apostolides CEO & MD | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | — |
| 4 | australian wholefoods Australian Wholefoods is a manufacturer and marketer of branded and private label meal solutions that… | — | — | Acquired | 130 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Betty’s Burgers Online platform for ordering takeaway food | — | — | Unfunded | — | David Hales Founder | TurbopackNode.jsRadix UI+17 | — |
| 6 | Boobie Brands Internet first brand offering food for nursing women | — | — | Deadpooled | — | Kim Vespa Co-Owner | — | — |
| 7 | Bring Me Home Online marketplace to buy surplus food at discounted price | — | — | Funding Raised | 6 | Jane Kou Founder | — | — |
| 8 | Cafe Pay Provider of SMS ordering platform | — | — | Deadpooled | — | Newton Pereira Founder & CEO | — | — |
Top 12 Food Tech companies in Victoria
#1
Series B · Castlemaine, Victoria · founded 2016$5.2Mraised▾
IoT cookstoves & verifiable carbon credits empowering women in the Global South. This company solves clean cooking and climate change issues by providing sustainable and affordable modern cooking products. They offer IoT-enabled cookstoves and biodigesters, turning household decarbonization into income for women. Their technology measures, verifies, and transacts emission reductions into global carbon markets. They integrate individual household emissions data with global carbon markets and mobile money providers through proprietary technology. This creates a direct payment system for verified emission reductions. They seek partners for carbon initiatives, investment, and distribution to accelerate decarbonization. They are an impact enterprise focused on verifiable data and social impact.
- Sep 2025Series B$15.5M
- Jul 2024Series A$3.8M
- May 2024Seed$1.5M
#2
Series B · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2004 · 68 employees$40.7Mraised▾
Provider of order and operations management software for fresh food wholesalers. The platform consolidates orders, picking, deliveries, invoicing, and payments into a unified system. It integrates with existing enterprise resource planning, finance, and logistics tools. The software offers tools designed for use in warehouses, back offices, and on delivery routes.
- Nov 2024Series B$11.1M
- Jun 2022Series A$9.5M
- May 2022Series A$14M
- Sep 2016Seed$230.2K
#3
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2016 · 55 employees$7.4Mraised▾
Typsy is an online learning platform for the hospitality industry. Provides short courses including topics such as how to master the first impression, communicating with hotel guests, and more. It provides a premium subscription service that provides users access to multiple courses.
- Jul 2025Seed—
- Sep 2016Angel—
#4
Series A · Ormond, Victoria · founded 2019 · 7 employees$3.5Mraised▾
Provider of restaurant management software automating food costing, inventory, and ordering. The software integrates with point of sale, accounting, and supplier platforms. It offers features such as invoice capture, recipe management, and staff scheduling. The system aims to streamline operations, reduce waste, and improve profit margins for restaurants.
- Sep 2024Series A$3.5M
#5
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2022 · 5 employees$2Mraised▾
Provider of cooking and recipe management app. It offers users to collect, organize, and cook recipes. The mobile application is available for Android and iOS users.
- Jul 2024Seed$1.5M
- Oct 2022Seed$500K
#6
Series C · Collingwood, Victoria · founded 2018 · 168 employees$38Mraised▾
AI menu and ordering platform personalizing guest experiences for hospitality. This platform empowers venues to personalize the dining experience through AI-driven menu recommendations, trending item displays, and taste-based sorting. It offers features like intelligent upsells, beautiful photos, language translations, and dietary/allergen information to delight guests. The platform supports various ordering and payment flows, including mobile ordering, multi-vendor options, hybrid guest/server interactions, and staff upsells. It integrates with CRM, loyalty programs, and other enterprise APIs, offering a comprehensive solution for hospitality businesses to enhance guest engagement, increase revenue, and streamline operations. It provides 24/7 human support and resources like blogs, podcasts, and case studies. This is a SaaS platform that leverages Artificial Intelligence to provide a personalized and efficient ordering experience.
- Dec 2022Series C$30M
- Dec 2019Series B$8M
#7
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2014 · 15 employees$4.6Mraised▾
Platform for surplus food management. The platform offers technology solutions to automate sales and donation workflows, revenue management, and reduce food waste in the supply chain.
- Jan 2024Seed$1.3M
- Feb 2017Seed$2M
#8
Acquired · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2016 · 17 employees$34.8Mraised▾
Manufacture of plant protein isolate powders. The company offers protein plant-based powders from Australian grown legumes that are gluten, soy, allergen, and GMO-free. The company uses proprietary extraction process to produce protein powders. It offers faba bean isolate powder, yellow lentil isolate powder, red lentil isolate powder, and more.
- Apr 2021Series C$34.8M
#9
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2020 · 7 employees$62.8Kraised▾
Platform offering lab-grown meat alternative. The company is using biotechnology techniques for growing meat without the animal.
- Feb 2025Grant (prize money)$62.8K
- Mar 2023Seed—
- Jan 2022Seed—
#10
Seed · Camberwell, Victoria · founded 2020 · 2 employees$850Kraised▾
Online platform offering plant protein ingredients. The platform provides plant-based food ingredients including protein powder.
- Jun 2024Seed$850K
#11
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2019 · 18 employees$5Mraised▾
Provider of solutions to convert food waste into protein and oil. It transforms food waste into protein, oil and organics for pet food, poultry, aquafeed, and organic fertilisers.
- Nov 2021Seed$5M
- Oct 2019Grant (prize money)$20K
#12
Series A · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2014$8.3Mraised▾
Provider of a complete technology system for hospitality businesses. The platform offers tools for order processing, venue management, and digital ordering. It extends to kitchen management, procurement, inventory control, and customer engagement. The system also provides options for loyalty programs and creating branded applications.
- Mar 2017Series A$7.6M
- 2015Seed$752.1K
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
What Victoria researches in food tech
Victoria's institutions—led by Victoria University and Agriculture Victoria—predominantly research food safety and sustainability concerns, with a cautious, slightly negative tone reflecting ongoing Salmonella/Campylobacter risks over breakthroughs.
- Victoria University3
- Royal Victoria Hospital3
- Agriculture Victoria3
- Government of Victoria3
- Victoria University of Wellington2
Common questions
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