Q1 2026 Intelligence Report

Every food and agri-tech
VC round in Europe.
Mapped and ranked.

160 funded companies across 34 countries and ~€1.25B of deployed capital — mapped, filtered for advisor-fit, and ranked by where commercial opportunity is most acute. Free access below.

160
Funded companies
identified
34
Countries
covered
€1.25B+
Capital
deployed
100
Top-ranked
shortlist
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    Key findings
    01

    Corporate strategics led quality, not financial VCs. Inter IKEA, Royal Cosun, Corteva, Döhler, dsm-firmenich and Oetker drove the highest-conviction deals of the quarter.

    02

    Sustainable packaging is the cleanest fit-and-funded combination. Seprify, Fasal Bio, Noriware, MIWA, Notpla and Cupffee — quietly the strongest vertical of Q1 2026.

    03

    CEE and the Western Balkans produced just 5 deals total. The 2024–2025 vintage is where the real prospecting universe sits — founders hitting commercialisation walls with extended runways.

    04

    UK food and ag VC is at its tightest in a decade. AI absorbed £5.8B of £7.8B UK Q1 total. Cultivated meat raised zero rounds. The smart money rotated upstream into ag-biotech.

    05

    Romandie punches above its weight. Geneva, Lausanne and Vaud produced Seprify (€13.4M) and Planetary (CHF 22M) — two of the five highest-conviction deals in the entire map.

    06

    The next 12 months are about commercialisation, not capital. Across all ten regions, the pattern holds: founders have money, they need EMEA channel access, co-manufacturing partners, and deal-structuring expertise.

    10 regions covered
    Scandinavia 15
    Benelux 23
    Germany 12
    Baltics 14
    Poland 14
    France 20
    Iberia 14
    CEE & Balkans 17
    Austria & Switzerland 14
    UK & Ireland 17