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Food and Agriculture Tech Landscape of the United Kingdom
4,017 Food and Agriculture Tech companies in the United Kingdom, in one picture: who is hiring, who is raising money, who founded them, where they are based, what the news is about, which skills employers want and where the research is going. Updated August 2026.
4,017companies tracked
$9Bdisclosed funding
97hiring right now
607events · 24 months
116,571news articles · 12 months
Who leads Food and Agriculture Tech in the United Kingdom
Shows the top‑ranked Food and Agriculture Tech firms in the UK by hiring activity, funding size, and media coverage, noting 4,017 companies tracked, 97 hiring now and 486 with disclosed funding rounds.
How the Food and Agriculture Tech ecosystem in the United Kingdom grew, 2016–2025
Lists the number of new companies founded each year from 2016 to 2025, highlighting a peak of 444 firms in 2020 and only 11 in 2025.
Companies founded / year
new Food and Agriculture Tech companies in the United Kingdom
20162025
peak 444 in 2020
Companies raising / year
with a disclosed round that year
20162025
peak 134 in 2021
Disclosed funding / year
sum of disclosed rounds (USD)
20162025
peak $2B in 2022
Where Food and Agriculture Tech companies in the United Kingdom are based
Identifies the cities with the most Food and Agriculture Tech companies, with London leading at 1,159 firms followed by Edinburgh, Bristol, Cambridge, and Manchester.
Hub 01
London
1,159 Food and Agriculture Tech companies
76% of the Food and Agriculture Tech companies across these hubs
The Food and Agriculture Tech market map of the United Kingdom: what these companies actually do
Breaks down the sector’s product categories and revenue models, showing consumer digital (2,126 firms) and enterprise tech (1,584 firms) as the largest sub‑categories and e‑commerce product sales as the most common revenue model.
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
M&AProperty management group Lomond has expanded its operations in the Central Belt with the acquisition of letting and estate agency business Clyde Property.2026-04-15
M&ALaing co-founded confectionary brand Candy Kittens in 2012 and recently snapped up snacking brand Graze from Unilever.2026-04-10
FundingElbow Beach is contributing £1.45 million in follow‑on funding, building on its £1.5 million seed investment in 2023, which supported the development and validation of Fieldwork's robotics and AI systems.2026-04-08
Fundingand investors are clearly onboard, as the firm has already raised £2.5m (€2.87m) in seed funding from companies including Elbow Beach, Carbon 13, and Empirical Ventures.2026-04-08
FundingThe European Investment Bank’s development finance arm committed $95 million to Atome’s green hydrogen plant in Paraguay.2026-04-02
FundingWe’re now looking forward to working with YFM to support even more operators and employees.2026-03-27
M&AOn the heels of Danone’s $1 billion purchase of Huel on Monday2026-03-26
M&AChartis, which is backed by Blackstone, has acquired Leap AI, a Menlo Park, California-based provider of AI-driven healthcare solutions.2026-03-19
Mergers and acquisitions
Deals from the last 24 months where a Food and Agriculture Tech company in the United Kingdom was the buyer or the one bought, newest first. “Undisclosed” means the price was never published — not that the deal was worth nothing.
Ganderapproved as supplier for Morrisons DailyFeb 2026
Deliverooplaced under judicial supervision — Milan prosecutorsFeb 2026
Deliveroochief executive under investigation — Milan prosecutorsFeb 2026
Moolec Sciencenon-compliance determination for failing to file annual report — Nasdaq Stock MarketNov 2025
Earnings pulse
companies reporting results · last 24 months
20 companies reporting118 company-quarters trackedbeat 3miss 0in line 5
Half of these companies grew revenue faster than +6.7%, half slower.
Who is building Food and Agriculture Tech in the United Kingdom
Profiles 1,553 founders and CEOs across 1,211 companies, noting that Oxford, Imperial College London, and Cambridge are the most common alma maters and that Amazon and Google are frequent prior employers.
Founders and chief executives12 of 1,553, from the best-funded companies on this page
What the news says about Food and Agriculture Tech in the United Kingdom
Records 116,571 news articles in the last year, most often covering product launches, leadership changes, partnerships, and digital transformation topics.
News volume
Food and Agriculture Tech coverage across United Kingdom · articles per quarter
2021Q22026Q1
peak 45,390 in 2025Q1 · 116,571 articles in the last 12 tracked months
Tone of coverage
share of articles by dominant sentiment (positive / neutral / negative)
202120232025
Positive-tone share moved 70% → 75%, negative 29% → 24% 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→+10%
Strategic partnerships and collaborations6,228▲+16%
Technology adoption and digital transformation5,036▲+14%
Food and Agriculture Tech jobs in the United Kingdom: who is hiring and what they ask for
Lists 236 job postings from 13 employers over 12 months, with top required skills including Python, SQL, CRM, Salesforce, and Excel.
236postings · last 12 months
357postings tracked overall
13employers advertising
Demand
The Skills Employers Ask For
What Food and Agriculture Tech employers in the United Kingdom 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.
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
▼ -42% 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
▲ +55% 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
▲ +21% 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
▲ +3% 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 the United Kingdom. Counts are of companies we track, not of every company that exists. Updated August 2026.
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