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Food and Agriculture Tech Industry Landscape of London

1,130 Food and Agriculture Tech companies in London, in one picture: who is hiring, who is raising money, who founded them, what the news is about, which skills employers want and where the research is going. Updated September 2026.

1,130companies tracked
$5.9Bdisclosed funding
44hiring right now
158events · 24 months
27,160news articles · 12 months

Who leads Food and Agriculture Tech in London

Shows the top‑ranked companies by size, funding, hiring activity and media coverage among 1,130 London food and agriculture tech firms, highlighting the most active employers and those with disclosed funding.

open roles
Hiring now
ranked by live open roles
  1. 01Dunnhumby10last posted Aug 2026
  2. 02Oya Kitchens4last posted Jul 2026
  3. 03SimplyCook4last posted Mar 2026
  4. 04Syrve4last posted Jan 2026
  5. 05Opply4last posted Feb 2026
  6. 06MishiPay4last posted Aug 2026
  7. 07Wenodo3last posted Aug 2026
  8. 08Phytoform Labs3last posted May 2026
44 companies hiring · 4 posted in the last 30 days
disclosed funding
Most funded
disclosed totals, all rounds
  1. 01Deliveroo$3BPost IPO · Jun 2021
  2. 02Gousto$591.2MSeries F · Feb 2022
  3. 03HungryPanda Panda Takeaway$295.7MSeries D · Sep 2024
  4. 04Zapp$200MSeries B · Jan 2022
  5. 05Hokodo$178.9MSeries B · Apr 2025
  6. 06The City Pub Company$122.2MPost IPO · Apr 2020
  7. 07Sundrop Farms$100MPE · Dec 2014
  8. 08Allplants$69.9MSeries B · Jun 2024
241 companies with disclosed rounds · $5.9B total
revenue
Revenue leaders
official filings first, else latest snapshot
  1. 01Gousto$105.3Msnapshot Dec 2019
  2. 02Pact Coffee$16.5MFY2024 filing
  3. 03Great British Chefs$1.6MFY2024 filing
  4. 04Pimentae$200ksnapshot Dec 2022
4 companies with a revenue figure
headcount
Largest teams
ranked by tracked headcount
  1. 01Gousto702tracked employees
  2. 02Mano217tracked employees
  3. 03Hokodo107tracked employees
  4. 04HungryPanda Panda Takeaway77tracked employees
  5. 05Karma61tracked employees
  6. 06Great British Chefs41tracked employees
  7. 07WeFarm40tracked employees
  8. 08Beelivery32tracked employees
44 companies with headcount data
share of events
Share of voice
share of all tracked sector news events, 24 months
  1. 01Deliveroo49.8%149 tracked events
  2. 02Pact Coffee5.7%17 tracked events
  3. 03Mondra5.0%15 tracked events
  4. 04Better Nature4.0%12 tracked events
  5. 05HungryPanda Panda Takeaway3.7%11 tracked events
  6. 06Gousto3.3%10 tracked events
  7. 07AgriDex2.0%6 tracked events
  8. 08DELLI2.0%6 tracked events
299 tracked events across 39 companies
web reach
Most-used apps
the sites in this sector the web visits most
  1. 01Jamie Olivertop 50kjamieoliver.com
  2. 02Deliverootop 50kdeliveroo.co.uk
  3. 03DesignMyNight Londontop 100kdesignmynight.com
  4. 04The Whisky Exchangetop 100kthewhiskyexchange.com
  5. 05Kobastop 500kkobas.co.uk
  6. 06Great British Chefstop 500kgreatbritishchefs.com
  7. 07Sous Cheftop 500ksouschef.co.uk
  8. 08StoreKittop 500kstorekit.com
388 companies here run a site with a measured audience · 52 of them sit inside the web’s top million
articles
In the news
Prism news coverage, last 12 months
  1. 01Deliveroo905articles in the window
  2. 02Jamie Oliver396articles in the window
  3. 03Lucky Saint96articles in the window
  4. 04Gousto57articles in the window
  5. 05Dunnhumby41articles in the window
  6. 06Weezy28articles in the window
  7. 07Hoxton Farms27articles in the window
  8. 08Pasta Evangelists26articles in the window
53 of these companies drew sector coverage in the window
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How the Food and Agriculture Tech ecosystem in London grew, 2016–2025

Lists the number of companies founded each year from 2016 to 2025, noting a peak of 137 new firms in 2020 and only six in 2025.

Companies founded / year
new Food and Agriculture Tech companies in London
2016: 822017: 762018: 722019: 922020: 1372021: 982022: 782023: 462024: 222025: 6
20162025
peak 137 in 2020
Companies raising / year
with a disclosed round that year
20162025
peak 69 in 2021
Disclosed funding / year
sum of disclosed rounds (USD)
2016: 513,737,3322017: 709,353,1852018: 181,249,0512019: 774,414,7872020: 1,046,618,7942021: 612,948,7522022: 851,869,9672023: 105,411,8392024: 220,034,2812025: 53,248,403
20162025
peak $1B in 2020
London — home to 1,130 tracked Food and Agriculture Tech companies
London1,130 Food and Agriculture Tech companies tracked here

The Food and Agriculture Tech market map of London: what these companies actually do

Breaks down the product categories these firms develop and their primary revenue models, with consumer digital and enterprise tech as the largest sub‑categories and subscription as the most common revenue type.

  • Consumer Digital679 companies · $4.6B raised · 18 hiring
  • Enterprise Tech456 companies · $1.2B raised · 25 hiring
  • B2C E-Commerce431 companies · $4.4B raised · 14 hiring
  • Uber for Grocery Delivery339 companies · $4.1B raised · 9 hiring
  • B2C Grocery Delivery339 companies · $4.1B raised · 9 hiring
  • Enterprise Software217 companies · $624.8M raised · 11 hiring
  • Agritech204 companies · $447.8M raised · 10 hiring
  • Restaurant IT166 companies · $510M raised · 5 hiring
  • B2B Agritech159 companies · $381.2M raised · 8 hiring
  • SaaS139 companies · $316.9M raised · 3 hiring
  • Internet First Brands122 companies · $80.6M raised · 2 hiring
  • Food and Agriculture SaaS118 companies · $247.2M raised · 3 hiring

Monetization

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.

Subscription527
E-Commerce - Product503
E-Commerce - Service312
Commission on Transaction267
Physical Commerce199
Advertising132
Fee-For-Service59
Sponsorship11

Funding, M&A and the deals moving Food and Agriculture Tech in London

Funding 40Leadership 23Earnings 22Announcement 20M&A 19Product 10Contracts 8Buyback 4Assets 4Layoffs 2
  • FundingTenzo has secured a USD $5 million first close of its Series A extension round, led by Edge.vc. Existing investors Amadeus Capital Partners and YourVC also participated, alongside Frontive Holdings, one of Tenzo's customers.2026-04-22
  • M&AMeralco and its subsidiary Corporate Information Solutions Inc. (CIS) have agreed to sell their respective stake in Bayad to Kayana Solutions Inc., involving 504,948 common shares valued at P5,347.08 apiece.2026-04-21
  • FundingWe’re now looking forward to working with YFM to support even more operators and employees.2026-03-27
  • Funding🇬🇧 Resurrect Bio raises $8.1m to unlock plants’ innate disease resistance capabilities AgFunderNews2026-02-26
  • FundingHomeCooks, a British meal-prep marketplace connecting health-conscious consumers with homemade dishes from independent chefs, has raised €1.6 million (£1.4 million) to accelerate its retail expansion and growth across the UK.2026-01-29
  • FundingCambridge-based PACT, a pioneer in material innovation, successfully raised over $20 million in a Series-A financing round. The round is led jointly by Forbion and HV Capital, and existing investors are also participating.2025-10-30
  • FundingMondra, a London, UK-based AI-powered platform delivering product level intelligence for supply chain resilience, has raised £10 million in Series A funding.2025-10-24
  • M&AOn October 2, 2025, DoorDash completed its acquisition of Deliveroo, a delivery service operating in multiple countries. The acquisition, valued at approximately $3.7 billion, was finalized through a court-sanctioned scheme of arrangement under UK law.2025-10-02
  • FundingEmbargo, a London-based hospitality tech scaleup, has raised €3 million from prominent investors in the UK, the United States and Europe.2025-08-21
  • M&AMerchant Gourmet expands our category presence, complementing our already strong brand portfolio.2025-08-21

Mergers and acquisitions

Deals from the last 24 months where a Food and Agriculture Tech company in London was the buyer or the one bought, newest first. “Undisclosed” means the price was never published — not that the deal was worth nothing.

AcquirerTargetDeal valueStatusDate
hero groupDeliciously EllaundisclosedAnnounced2026-04-23
KayanaBayad Center Inc.undisclosedPending2026-04-21
doordashDeliverooundisclosedCompleted2026-04-18
premier foodsMerchant GourmetundisclosedAnnounced2026-03-20
MondrainoqoundisclosedAnnounced2026-02-19
albex groupCheese GeekundisclosedAnnounced2025-05-27

Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work

Provides details on specific corporate events such as leadership changes, IPO filings, product launches and contract wins, with a focus on leadership moves.

Leadership moves
18 tracked people moves · last 12 months
  • TiPJARMichel Cassius · Appointment → Non-Executive DirectorApr 2026
  • Pact CoffeeJohn McVay · Resignation — was Chief Executive OfficerDec 2025
  • Pact CoffeeNigel Warner · Appointment → Chief Executive OfficerDec 2025
  • DeliverooWill Shu · Resignation — was Chief Executive OfficerSep 2025
  • DeliverooClaudia Arney · Resignation — was Non-Executive Board MemberSep 2025
  • DeliverooTom Stafford · Resignation — was Non-Executive DirectorSep 2025
  • Lucky SaintBen Bilboul · Appointment → Board Member and InvestorSep 2025
  • Better NatureChris Kong · Departure — was Co-CEOSep 2025
Regulatory & litigation
4 regulatory events · 0 tracked suits · 24 months
  • Deliverooplaced under judicial supervision — Milan prosecutorsFeb 2026
  • Deliveroochief executive under investigation — Milan prosecutorsFeb 2026
  • Deliverooapproved takeover — EU CommissionSep 2025
  • DeliverooInvestigation — Hong Kong Consumer CouncilMar 2025
Earnings pulse
companies reporting results · last 24 months
5 companies reporting23 company-quarters tracked

Half of these companies grew revenue faster than +6.0%, half slower.

Who is building Food and Agriculture Tech in London

Profiles 603 founders and CEOs across 433 firms, showing their educational backgrounds—most often Oxford, Imperial College London and Cambridge—and prior employers like Google and Amazon.

Founders and chief executives12 of 603, from the best-funded companies on this page
Miki Kuusi
CEO
Miki Kuusi

Ex-Wolt, Slush · Aalto University BS 2011

Timo Boldt
Co-Founder & CEO
Timo Boldt

BGL Group, Flagstone, ex- Pollen, Unilever, Petrus Advisers, Rothschild, BMW. San Diego State University 2007, European-University Viadrina…

Kelu Liu
Founder & CEO
Kelu Liu

University of Nottingham 2016

Louis Carbonnier
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
Louis Carbonnier

Ex-Euler Hermes & Oliver Wyman. University Paris-Sorbonne BA 2003, ESSEC Business School MBA 2005

Matthew Darin Darin
CEO
Matthew Darin Darin

Ex-Co-Founder Grassroots Cannabis, Frontline Real Estate Partners, Hilco Real Estate…

Stefan Catoiu
Co-Founder and COO
Stefan Catoiu

Vita Mojo International, ex-Vita Mojo, ex-Elmet Energie, Beloit College, 2007

Salima Vellani
Founder & CEO
Salima Vellani

Co-Founder Bagatelle International · ex-Global Hospitality Asset Management, Onda Capital · The London School of Economics and Political Science MS

Simon Edwardsson
Co-Founder & CTO
Simon Edwardsson

Ex- Retail Solutions. Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Science 2011, Chalmers University of Technology Master's 2012

Jamie Burrows
Co-Founder & CEO
Jamie Burrows

Ex-IMS Health, EY, Deloitte, NHS, African Century. University of Buckingham BSc 2009, Cass Business School MSc 2010, Bangor University PhD 2016

Max Jamilly
Co-Founder & CEO
Max Jamilly

Ex-Founder & CEO MyFit. University of Cambridge MA 2013, MPhil 2014, University of Oxford DPhil 2020

Leo Bradshaw
Executive Chair & Co-Founder
Leo Bradshaw

Peckwater Brands, ex-Fairgrove Partners, ex-Ingenuity Abm, University of Oxford

Simon Lee
Co-Founder
Simon Lee

CEO Sarah Chapman Skinesis, ex-Founder Greenpac, Publicis. Southbank University BA 1983

Where the founders studied
alma mater on record for 106 of 603 founders
University of Oxford23
Imperial College London22
University of Cambridge14
University of Bristol7
University of Manchester6
University College London5
London School of Economics and Political Science5
University of Warwick4
Where they worked before
a previous employer on record for 13 of 603 founders
Google4
Amazon3
Bain2
Morgan Stanley2
Cisco1
Paypal1
Microsoft1
Founders flagged as repeat founders
of 551 founders with a profile on this page
3
carry a repeat-founder flag
  • flagged as repeat founders3
  • no repeat-founder flag548
Women and men among the founders
first names matched for 534 of 603 founders
19%
of matched founders are women
  • women99
  • men435
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 69 founders go in neither column.
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Who funds Food and Agriculture Tech in London

Investor · most active investors since 2016RoundsLedLatest
Europa19May 2023
Felix Capital103Sep 2024
Octopus Ventures86May 2022
BGF84Apr 2023
EIC Fund7Jan 2022
SFC Capital65Mar 2026
Perwyn54Sep 2024
Atomico53Dec 2023
JamJar Investments53May 2025
Seedrs52Nov 2022
Stage mix · rounds since 2016
Seed & Angel363
Series A–B121
Series C+ / PE19
Grants, debt & other65

The typical round is $752k — half were bigger, half smaller.

The biggest Food and Agriculture Tech funding rounds in London

Highlights the largest disclosed funding round—Deliveroo’s $708.4 million Series G—and lists ten other sizable recent rounds.

CompanyRoundSizeWhenBackers
DeliverooSeries Gmega-round$708.4MAug 2020Amazon
DeliverooSeries Fmega-round$659.9MAug 2017General Catalyst, DST Global, Index Ventures +5 more
DeliverooSeries Gmega-round$575MMay 2019Amazon, T. Rowe Price, Fidelity Investments +1 more
DeliverooSeries Emega-round$453.4MAug 2016DST Global, General Catalyst, NGP Capital +7 more
GoustoSeries F$230MFeb 2022SoftBank Vision Fund, Railpen, Grosvenor +1 more
ZappSeries B$200MJan 2022Lightspeed Venture Partners, 468 Capital, BroadLight Capital +4 more
DeliverooSeries D$181.4MNov 2015DST Global, Accel, Index Ventures +2 more
DeliverooSeries H$180MJan 2021Amazon, Durable Capital Partners, Fidelity Investments
DeliverooSeries C$130.6MJul 2015Index Ventures, Accel, Hoxton Ventures +2 more
HungryPanda Panda TakeawaySeries D$130MDec 2021Perwyn, Kinnevik, Felix Capital +5 more
Venture round sizes · 2023–2025
<$1M49
$1–10M39
$10–50M5
$50–250M1
>$250M0

94 venture rounds with a disclosed amount in the window.

Fresh cheques · last 6 months

What the news says about Food and Agriculture Tech in London

Records 27,160 news articles in the last year, most frequently covering product launches, leadership changes, partnerships and digital transformation topics.

News volume
Food and Agriculture Tech coverage tagged London · articles per quarter
2021Q2: 4,3832021Q3: 5,1542021Q4: 6,6142022Q1: 5,0482022Q2: 4,6892022Q3: 4,6522022Q4: 5,2022023Q1: 5,0512023Q2: 5,2822023Q3: 5,0122023Q4: 4,9992024Q1: 6,3432024Q2: 5,7452024Q3: 5,7712024Q4: 6,0712025Q1: 10,4852025Q2: 5,6672025Q3: 7,6322025Q4: 5,8292026Q1: 7,379
2021Q22026Q1
peak 10,485 in 2025Q1 · 27,160 articles in the last 12 tracked months
Tone of coverage
share of articles by dominant sentiment (positive / neutral / negative)
202120232025
Positive-tone share moved 78% → 77%, negative 22% → 22% across 2021–2025.

What the coverage is about

The subjects that dominate Food and Agriculture Tech news in United Kingdom. The arrow shows whether each one is being written about more or less than a year ago.

  • New product launches and innovations6,440▲+13%
  • Executive leadership changes and appointments6,308→+8%
  • Strategic partnerships and collaborations6,228▲+16%
  • Technology adoption and digital transformation5,036▲+15%
  • Political biographies and memoirs4,502▼-25%
  • Formula one championships4,295▼-23%
  • Political philosophy discussions3,868→+5%
  • Political think tank research3,866→-4%
  • Nationalism and sovereignty debates3,760▲+22%
  • Political theory and ideology analysis3,750▼-14%
Most-covered companies · last 12 months

53 Food and Agriculture Tech companies here were named in the news over this period.

Prism

Watch Food and Agriculture Tech coverage in United Kingdom as it happens

Prism follows these subjects story by story — which companies are named, what is said about them and how the tone moves.

Momentum

The words getting louder — and quieter

Which terms are showing up in more stories than a year ago, and which are fading. The percentage is the change in how many articles mention them.

stock performance+43%ceo change+108%ncaa updates+253%college playoffs+101%brewery business plans+42%satellite broadcasting+54%dairy cows+42%brewery location scouting+86%permitting for breweries+67%dairy herd+58%
f1 world championship-38%f1 championship-39%mark rule gaelic football-60%wildlife disease monitoring-59%poultry health-36%

The pressures the press keeps returning to

Three recurring angles in United Kingdom Food and Agriculture Tech coverage, and whether each is getting more attention year on year (through 2025).

Regulatory Risk ▲ rising
132,811 articles touch this dimension · 32.6% critical tone
20212025
signals: mark rule gaelic football, stock performance, f1 world championship
Funding Momentum ▲ rising
39,004 articles touch this dimension · 29.6% critical tone
20212025
signals: satellite telecommunication, satellite telemetry, satellite ground stations
Growth ▲ rising
64,654 articles touch this dimension · 20.1% critical tone
20212025
signals: innovative product, retail expenditure trends, e-commerce sales growth

Food and Agriculture Tech jobs in London: who is hiring and what they ask for

Lists 235 job postings from eight employers over the past year, with the most requested skills including Python, SQL, CRM, Salesforce and Excel.

235postings · last 12 months
348postings tracked overall
8employers advertising

Demand

The Skills Employers Ask For

What Food and Agriculture Tech employers in London put in their job ads. The bar is how many postings ask for it; the arrow shows whether demand grew or shrank against the year before.

  • python50
  • sql30
  • crm20
  • salesforce16
  • excel16
  • aws14
  • go13
  • terraform13
  • iot12
  • kubernetes9
Most advertised titles
  • Food Delivery Partner1
  • Meal Delivery Driver1
  • Sr/Principal Pricing & Revenue Management Consultant1

What the research says

The Food and Agriculture Tech research read is national: 53,152 United Kingdom-affiliated papers, clustered into themes such as Food Safety and Hygiene, Food Waste and Sustainability, Safety of Novel Processing and Packaging, Pesticide and Toxin Risk Assessment. It is measured at country level, so it is the same signal for every city in United Kingdom — the full read, with the theme clusters, growth and blind spots, lives on the national page.

Read the full Food and Agriculture Tech research analysis for United Kingdom →

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About this data: built from Fliar's company, founder, funding, hiring, jobs, news and research trackers, covering London. Counts are of companies we track, not of every company that exists. Updated September 2026.
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