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Food and Agriculture Tech Industry Landscape of Italy
1,113 Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Italy, in one picture: who is hiring, who is raising money, who founded them, where they are based, what the news is about and where the research is going. Updated September 2026.
1,113companies tracked
$533.9Mdisclosed funding
10hiring right now
26events · 24 months
374,614news articles · 12 months
Who leads Food and Agriculture Tech in Italy
The section lists 1,113 Italian food and agriculture tech firms, highlighting the top hiring companies (Morsy, Rysto, ZERO), the best‑funded firms (Everli, xFarm, Planet Farms), and notes that 10 are hiring now and 87 have disclosed funding rounds.
How Food and Agriculture Tech companies make money
How many companies earn revenue each way. Plenty use more than one model, so the counts add up to more than the sector.
E-Commerce - Product507
Subscription480
E-Commerce - Service337
Commission on Transaction246
Physical Commerce246
Advertising142
Fee-For-Service73
Sponsorship6
Funding, M&A and the deals moving Food and Agriculture Tech in Italy
Funding 17M&A 4Capital 3Leadership 2
FundingFinancial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the investment is to be completed in two phases over three years, contingent on certain, undisclosed market conditions.2026-03-06
M&AThe government of that country stopped the acquisition of 51% of Prosa, the country's main payment processor, for fear of competition issues.2026-02-20
FundingBestie Bite raises $700,000 to reinvent restaurant choices with AI gamification2025-12-05
M&AArtificial intelligence startup Anthropic said on Tuesday it has acquired Bun, which helps developers run and manage codes more effectively, as the Claude maker looks to boost the speed and stability of its coding agent.2025-12-03
FundingThe innovative start-up Finapp, founded as a spin-off of the University of Padua and operating since 2022, has announced that it has closed a Series A investment round worth €8.64 million to accelerate its internationalisation and industrial growth.2025-11-20
FundingTuidi, a start-up founded by Giulio Martinacci and Vincenzo Morelli specialising in the development of proprietary machine learning platforms for large-scale retail, has announced that it has closed a €3 million seed round.2025-10-07
FundingCultipharm, a vertical farming tech company based in Mantua, Italy, has raised €1 million in fresh funding.2025-08-02
M&AEverli Global Inc. ("Everli" or the "Company"), a major e-grocery platform in Italy, and Melar Acquisition Corp. I ("Melar"), a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by Melar Acquisition Sponsor I LLC, jointly announced today that they have entered into a definitive Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated July 30, 2025 (the "Merger Agreement") for a proposed business combination between Everli and Melar.2025-07-31
FundingThe round was backed by Alkemia Capital, CDP Venture Capital SGR, Riello Investimenti SGR, and P101, with legal support from Michela Prisco of Pavia e Ansaldo.2025-07-24
FundingItalian HRtech startup Toduba has raised €3.5 million in a funding round led by P101 SGR.2025-07-21
Mergers and acquisitions
Deals from the last 24 months where a Food and Agriculture Tech company in Italy was the buyer or the one bought, newest first. “Undisclosed” means the price was never published — not that the deal was worth nothing.
Who is building Food and Agriculture Tech in Italy
The section profiles 346 founders and CEOs across 245 firms, noting that Bocconi University produced nine of them, while former employers include Boston Consulting Group (2), Intel (1) and Morgan Stanley (1).
Founders and chief executives12 of 346, from the best-funded companies on this page
CEO Alimenta. Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna PhD 2011
Where the founders studied
alma mater on record for 16 of 346 founders
Bocconi University9
University of Gothenburg1
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro1
University of California (Berkeley)1
INSEAD1
Harvard Business School1
London School of Economics and Political Science1
Columbia University1
Where they worked before
a previous employer on record for 6 of 346 founders
Boston Consulting Group2
Intel1
Morgan Stanley1
Google1
Amazon1
Women and men among the founders
first names matched for 321 of 346 founders
20%
of matched founders are women
women63
men258
Inferred from first names, using 119 million people who state their own gender: a first name counts only where at least 20 of them share it and at least 90% of those share the same gender. The other 25 founders go in neither column.
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What the news says about Food and Agriculture Tech in Italy
The data shows 374,614 news articles about the sector in the last year, most often covering international entities, geopolitical disputes, administrative divisions, and the impact of cryptocurrency on foreign‑exchange markets.
News volume
Food and Agriculture Tech coverage across Italy · articles per quarter
2021Q22026Q1
peak 168,310 in 2025Q3 · 374,614 articles in the last 12 tracked months
Tone of coverage
share of articles by dominant sentiment (positive / neutral / negative)
202120232025
Positive-tone share moved 55% → 47%, negative 27% → 19% across 2021–2025.
What the coverage is about
The subjects that dominate Food and Agriculture Tech news in Italy. The arrow shows whether each one is being written about more or less than a year ago.
International and transnational geographic entities297,111▲+33%
Geopolitical disputes and contested areas297,109▲+33%
Administrative and political subdivisions297,092▲+33%
European Food Safety Authority · Carlos Augusto Monteiro · Da‐Wen Sun · Renata Bertazzi Levy · Geoffrey Cannon · European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) · Michael P. Doyle · Declan Bolton
The most-cited breakthroughs
Blockchain-Based Soybean Traceability in Agricultural Supply Chain · 675 cites
Development of a Paper-Based Analytical Device for Colorimetric Detection of Select Foodborne Pathogens · 460 cites
Deep-based Ingredient Recognition for Cooking Recipe Retrieval · 399 cites
A Review on 3D Printing for Customized Food Fabrication · 391 cites
Practical Value of Food Pathogen Traceability through Building a Whole-Genome Sequencing Network and Database · 381 cites
Common problems researchers identify12,685 papers · 7 recurring themes
Problems · theme 01
Food Safety / Environmental Health
1,006 papers · 16.8% of this block
▼ -43% share2022→2025 share of research on this subject
Food safety · Environmental health · Food hygiene · Hygiene
“Food Safety Regulations and Consumer Confidence”
1006 of these papers raise it as a problem
Problems · theme 02
Food Waste / Consumption
964 papers · 16.1% of this block
▲ +56% share2022→2025 share of research on this subject
Food waste · Consumption · Sustainability · Food systems
“Progress towards Sustainable Utilisation and Management of Food Wastes in the Global Economy”
964 of these papers raise it as a problem
Problems · theme 03
Food Security / Food Systems
923 papers · 15.4% of this block
▲ +22% share2022→2025 share of research on this subject
Food security · Food systems · Food insecurity · Agriculture
“Food Security and Climate Change: Differences in Impacts and Adaptation Strategies for Rural Communities in the Global South and North”
923 of these papers raise it as a problem
Problems · theme 04
Agriculture / Production
922 papers · 15.4% of this block
→ -2% share2022→2025 share of research on this subject
Agriculture · Production · Agricultural productivity · Food security
“Agricultural Production”
922 of these papers raise it as a problem
Problems · theme 05
Food Processing / Food Industry
913 papers · 15.2% of this block
▲ +2% share2022→2025 share of research on this subject
About this data: built from Fliar's company, founder, funding, hiring, jobs, news and research trackers, covering Italy. Counts are of companies we track, not of every company that exists. Updated September 2026.
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