Mark Kendall
This article showcases our top picks for the best Italy based Food and Beverage companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Food and Beverage industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top Italy Food and Beverage Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
H-FARM
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H-FARM is an innovative platform set up in 2005 to help entrepreneurs launch new initiatives and support the digitalisation of Corporates
Poke House
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Poke House is effectively industrializing the production of “poke bowls” for food delivery platforms.
My Cooking Box
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My Cooking Box is a pack that contains everything you need to prepare an Italian gourmet dish at home, according to a great chef’s recipe.
Deliveristo
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B2B Foodtech marketplace which connects Ho.Re.Ca. (Hôtellerie – Restaurant – Cafè) with suppliers
Soplaya
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Soplaya is a platform that offers an online marketplace for food producers and restaurants.
EatsReady
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EatsReady is the marketplace for mobile ordering. Discover the best restaurants, browse menus, pay & collect using our fast-track technology
Ferrero
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Ferrero is a confectionary manufacturer known for Tic-Tacs, Nutella, Kinder, and their Pralines.
Foorban
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Foorban produces and delivers great food to companies and individuals.
Soul-K
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Food-tech scale-up that creates semi-prepared food ingredients and complete prepared meals for professionals in the HO.RE.CA & L.O.D. sector
Hotbox Food
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We believe that the love for delicious food is universal. With Hotbox, food is delivered hot (85C) & crunchy (SteamFree) anywhere.
HARG – Healthy Aging Research Group
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HARG is a food-tech benefit company that specializes in dehydrated food production for people with swallowing difficulties.
Chef in Camicia
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Chef in Camicia is a social channel that broadcasts new videos about the world of food.
Dishcovery
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Dishcovery, a start-up founded in Modena in 2018, creates digital, interactive and multilingual menus for restaurants.
Babaco Market
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Babaco Market is an ecommerce business from Italy selling grocery “ugly products” on demand.
3Bee
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3Bee develops technologies in the field of hive monitoring, prevention, and care.
Foodscovery
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Foodscovery is an online market which allows you to order regional gastronomic products.
Quomi
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Quomi is a mealkit delivery service making people eat tasty and healthy at home, following the pillars of the Mediterranean diet.
Panealba-Campiello
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Panealba-Campiello is an Italian producer of baked goods such as breadsticks, crostini, and savory snacks.
Rigoni di Asiago
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Rigoni di Asiago manufactures and trades food products in Italy.
Diet to go
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Diet to go every day delivers a thermic bag including fresh meals of the day
UNFIA
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UNFIA is a Cloud-Based platform powered by AI and ML to connect wine producers and buyers supporting them before, during, and after the sale
IlCaffeItaliano
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Ilcaffeitaliano.com is an e-commerce which sell around the world the real italian espresso coffee in capsules compatibles
Direttoo.it
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Direttoo is the first digital platform that vertically organizes the business relationship between producers and restaurateurs.
Cesarine – Home Food
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Leading Italian platform in local food experiences.
Mondial Pet Distribution
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Mondial Pet Distribution distributes hygiene and personal products for animals, under the Fortesan brand.
Surgital
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Surgital produces deep-frozen pasta dishes and sauces the company.
The Spiritual Machine
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Custom & White Label Spirits for Everybody
Lorenzo Vinci
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Lorenzo Vinci is an e-commerce company that offers its clients a selection of Italian food and wine.
My Foody
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MyFoody is the mobile app that turns food waste into store traffic
AdvisorEat
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AdvisorEat is the loyalty program reserved for consultants and professionals in the business world.
Leonard
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Leonard is an innovative intelligent assistant for catering that allows restaurant owners to increase their earnings.
MonsieurGourmand.com
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MonsieurGourmand Expert in multi-site catering solutions in France
Aroundrs
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Aroundrs is a startup that provides smart and reusable packaging for food and beverage industry.
LABOMAR
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LABOMAR produces dietary supplements, diet foods, health products and medical devices.
Gruppo Argenta
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Gruppo Argenta offers places and facilities of relaxation where clients can you can have a coffee, a snack or drink to recharge.
Mamma M’Ama
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Mamma M’Ama is a producer of fresh baby food.
Fresco
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Fresco enables to produce fresh olive oil in any place and at any time.
Chef Dovunque
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Chef Dovunque selects homemade and organic ingredients for signature Italian pasta, and packages and distributes them as pre-measured kits.
Jojolly
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Jojolly enables employers to find a suitable staff within a short time.
Tenute Piccini
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Tenute Piccini is offers the production, aging, bottling and trading of mainly Tuscan wines.
FruttaWeb
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FruttaWeb is an e-commerce that allow people to order online among more than 1.500 fresh fruits and receive them directly at their doorstep.
Segafredo
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Segafredo specializes in the preparation and sale of coffee, pods and capsules on the national and international territory.
WayCap
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Refillable Capsules Compatible with Nespresso Machines.
Gnammo
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Turning the outdoor eating in a web 2.0 experience, thus creating new businesses and opportunities for foodies and brands.
MiSiedo
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MiSiedo is an online platform that enables users to discover and book restaurants in real-time.
Enologica Vason
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Enologica Vason is a family-run business that offers specialized services for companies in the beverage industry.
Solo Crudo
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It is the most important brand of vegetarian and raw food restaurants in Italy, with the ambition to become the healthy food brand leader
MammaItalia
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MammaItalia is an innovative Italian start-up operating in the FoodTech sector.
Renzini
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Renzini produces & sells its own brand “Renzini Alta Norcineria” high quality cured meats, other gastronomic specialties destined for shops.
Flea Societa Agricola
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Flea Societa Agricola is active in the production of craft beers, both under its own brand, strongly linked to the Umbrian territory.
Taste Italy S.r.l.
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Taste Italy with the brand GustaMente reinterprets the Italian gastronomic excellences in healthy logic. Products strictly gluten-free
IKOI
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IKOI Unipersonale produces machines for melting & heat treatments of the precious metals.
Cierreci
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Cierreci produces and markets pizza cooking and vending machines.
DesignWine
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DesignWine is the leading digital platform for the italian wine industry.
JOY S.r.l.
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Joy is an Italian innovative start-up producing delicious “vegan meat”
Eco-Logic Green Farm
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Eco-Logic Green Farm has an underlying concept that determines the basis of the new agricultural culture: the GREEN FARM.
MIXARTISTA
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MIXARTISTA is a robotic barman designed to prepare perfect cocktails for the luxury market
MTM Srl
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MTM Srl use cases and research, development and production of software for the medical sector.
Mashcream
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A new express way to prepare italian homemade ice cream.
Svinando
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Svinando is a company that offers wine for purchase as well as monthly wine club memberships.
Gruppo Bertoldi
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Bertoldi Holding specializes in operational management of group companies, development and research of new businesses, and more.
Sgnam
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Sgnam is an italian food delivery platform, delivering to its customers the best restaurants in town in the shortest amount of time
Breakfast Point
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Breakfast Point has developed a smartphone application designed to serve the world of bar, cafeteria and pastry.
Eataly Net
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Eataly is a high-end Italian food market and mall chain that comprises of restaurants, food and beverage stations, bakeries, and retailers.
The WishList
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The Wishlist is a unique Italian company, which introduced the concept of gift box applied to objects rather than experiences.
Botteega
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Botteega is a marketplace for fresh grocery shopping from local markets and shops, with same-day delivery.
Valagro
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An Italy-based maker of biostimulants and specialty nutrients.
Zambon Pharma
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Zambon is a leading Italian family company that has operated for 109 years in the pharmaceutical and fine-chemical industry.
Molino Favero Srl
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Molino Favero is a production facility processing pre-cooked and pre-gelatizied flour mixes and semifinished flours for the food industry.
Arcaplanet
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Arcaplanet is the Pet Store chain in Italy, specialized in pet food & care.
Prima Industries Srl
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Prima Industries is an innovation, technology, and design driven holding company.
Ing. Ferretti
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Ing. Ferretti does automation for the cheese industry
Feel IT
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Feel IT is a new platform that collects all-natural products of small Italian producers into regional food-box. We will let you feel Italy
Fiordelisi
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Fiordelisi is an Italian producer and supplier of sun-dried vegetables.
L’Orto di Jack
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L’Orto di Jack is a wholesaler and distributor of fruits and vegetables.
Saquella 1856 Srl
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Saquella’s line of business includes manufacturing of coffee concentrates and extracts in powered, liquid, or frozen form.
WAMI – Water with a Mission
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WAMI is the first water with a mission born in Italy.
illycaffè
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illycaffe manufactures and markets a range of coffee products.
Emerge
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The place where buyers and producers of authentic Italian food can easily connect with each other through a virtual market.
Aithalia
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Aithalia is a platform that allows micro, small, and medium Italian companies to have a single unified channel to export their products.
Suba Seeds
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Suba Seeds is a producer, packer and distributor of specialty vegetable seeds for the professional and hobby garden markets.
Furla
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Furla is a Italian lifestyle brand with a distinctive playful spirit and contemporary elegance.
Al.ta Cucina
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Al.ta.Cucina is on the mission to create the world’s largest community of Italian food lovers.
Edo
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Edo is develops an application that provides results on healthy food products based on dietary requirements.
Farnese Vini
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Farnese Vini is a leading Italian wine group active in the production, sale and marketing of central and southern Italian wines.
Bewilder Beverages – Selvatiq
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Bewilder Beverages – Selvatiq is a producer and seller of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.
Dino Paladin Advanced Biotechnologies
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Dino Paladin Advanced Biotechnologies specializes in research on biotechnological, environmental, food, biotoxicological and materials.
Amadori
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Amadori is an integrated cycle food company that has direct control of the entire production and distribution chain.
Ponti
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Ponti is a nine-generation family-owned Italian company that manufactures vinegar and related food products.
IRCA
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IRCA is a Italian and European B2B manufacturer of semi-finished products for the pastry and bakery.
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