Food
Foodtech, agri, alt-protein
Largest rounds
Largest Food funding rounds
A live treemap of $100M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Filter by company headquarters, or drag the year slider to include earlier rounds.
Largest Food rounds - Global 2026
VC investment
When the capital landed in Food
VC investment into Food companies over the last decade, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage. Counts VC rounds into companies tagged or classified to Food. Live from the Dealroom Next Gen API.
Related market maps
Dive deeper: Food market maps
Hand-curated landscape charts from the Dealroom data team. Each map ranks every tracked startup in the segment by valuation, revenue, growth and funding.
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🔥 Hottest sub-sectors
What's heating up inside Food
Top 12 of 22 Food sub-sectors ranked by Dealroom's curated signal score (combines funding velocity, unicorn formation, recency). Tap any row to open the live Dealroom sector page with the underlying companies.
Heat ranking from venture-sector-lens — Dealroom's curated 0–100 sector signal combining funding velocity, unicorn formation, and emergence.
Sector comparison
How Food stacks up
Compare Food with the other simplified sectors — switch between combined EV, 5-year EV growth, and a growth × size view. Expand the table for every sector.
Combined enterprise value of each sector.
Every simplified sector ranked by combined EV. Food's row is highlighted (#12).
| # | Ecosystem | Combined EV | 5-yr EV growth | Unicorns | VC invested | Tracked startups |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AI | $3.5T | 9.2× | 320 | $145B | 18.5K |
| 2 | Fintech | $1.9T | 4.8× | 318 | $38B | 21.8K |
| 3 | Other B2B Software | $1.7T | 4.4× | 305 | $28B | 36K |
| 4 | Consumer Services | $1.3T | 2.4× | 220 | $22B | 23K |
| 5 | Biotech & Life Sciences | $1.1T | 3.4× | 158 | $26B | 9,200 |
| 6 | eCommerce & Marketplaces | $1.1T | 2.8× | 175 | $18B | 18.8K |
| 7 | Energy | $920B | 6.2× | 110 | $32B | 7,600 |
| 8 | Transportation | $880B | 3.7× | 88 | $19B | 4,400 |
| 9 | Health Tech & Medtech | $720B | 4.1× | 142 | $16B | 12.4K |
| 10 | Cybersecurity | $480B | 4.4× | 92 | $14B | 6,800 |
| 11 | Space | $380B | 5.6× | 32 | $7.4B | 1,400 |
| 12 | Food | $320B | 3.0× | 56 | $5.8B | 4,200 |
| 13 | Semiconductors | $240B | 7.6× | 26 | $8.4B | 980 |
| 14 | Edtech | $220B | 2.1× | 38 | $4.2B | 5,800 |
| 15 | Defence | $175B | 7.8× | 28 | $6.2B | 720 |
| 16 | Robotics | $165B | 6.1× | 28 | $9.1B | 1,600 |
| 17 | Marketing | $150B | 3.6× | 38 | $4.4B | 6,200 |
| 18 | Aviation | $95B | 4.2× | 12 | $3.8B | 540 |
Geographic concentration
Where Food startups concentrate
Cities and countries ranked by Food unicorns headquartered there, plus countries that over-index the global average (5× = 5× more represented than globally).
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What we don't show on this page (yet)
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Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Food
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Food on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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