After the hype, Europe’s foodtech sector is rebuilding around fundamentals

Investor appetite is increasingly shifting toward infrastructure-heavy categories tied to food resilience, including AgTech, aquaculture, robotics, bio-inputs, and precision fermentation. Europe’s foodtech sector is entering a more sober, pragmatic phase. According to DigitalFoodLab’s State of the European FoodTech Ecosystem in 2026 report, European foodtech startups raised €3 billion in 2025 — a 25 per cent decline year-on-year — as the industry continues to cool from the investment frenzy of 2