Biorsaf raises €5.2m led by P101 and buys Cooki in the same move
The Tuscan food-safety compliance platform adds an agrifoodtech fund and a national technology transfer hub to its cap table, and a product database it
Biorsaf, an Italian food-safety compliance software company founded in 2021 and based in Castell'Azzara in the province of Grosseto, announced a €5.2 million round on 10 September 2026. P101 SGR led. Maia Ventures, Farming Future, the national agrifoodtech technology transfer hub, and the Toscana Next co-investment fund managed by CDP Venture Capital joined. In the same announcement the company acquired Cooki, a Bologna-based food information management platform. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Biorsaf's platform, BS-Safe, digitises the record-keeping that food businesses are legally required to produce: HACCP food-safety procedures, workplace safety documentation and water quality management. The company reports more than 10,000 active users. Named customers include Gruppo Cigierre, Compagnia Generale Ristorazione, whose brands include Old Wild West, America Graffiti and Wiener Haus, and the retailer Conad.
Cooki was founded in 2017 by Giuseppe Grammatico. It is used in more than 450 Italian towns and cities, has more than 1,000 users and holds a database of over 35,000 coded products. Its functions cover traceability, labelling, food costing, stock management and allergen risk. Put together with BS-Safe, the two products cover the compliance chain from supplier records through to the label on the pack.
Biorsaf employs 40 people and plans to reach 120 within 18 months, funding a three-year growth plan and further automation of quality and safety processes. Financecommunity puts the addressable market at roughly 3.4 million Italian businesses subject to food, workplace and water safety obligations, worth more than €12 billion a year, of which about 3 per cent is digitised today. Giuseppe Donvito, partner at P101, described the company as a characteristic regtech investment: a strong technology component, vertical expertise and an established position in a heavily regulated market. Gatti Pavesi Bianchi e Ludovici advised P101; Datyca Legal Design Lab advised Biorsaf and Cooki.
Why it matters for AgTech founders: compliance remains the most underrated wedge in agrifood software, because the budget already exists. A grower or a food business has to produce the records whether or not it wants a subscription, which is a very different sale from a productivity gain that has to be argued for against this year's margin. Two things in this deal are worth copying. First, the acquisition arrived with the round rather than after it. At €5.2 million you are not buying a competitor for scale, you are buying a data asset, and 35,000 coded products with the labelling logic attached is years of work that cannot be shortened by hiring. Second, look at who is on the cap table beside the generalist lead: a fund dedicated to agrifoodtech and a national technology transfer hub. In a market that is 3 per cent digitised, the constraint is distribution into thousands of small, fragmented buyers, not product. Those investors are there for the doors, not the cheque. Founders selling into the food chain should price the regulatory obligation rather than the time saved, and should ask early which adjacent dataset they will eventually have to buy instead of build.
Biorsaf raises €5.2m led by P101 and buys Cooki in the same move
The Tuscan food-safety compliance platform adds an agrifoodtech fund and a national technology transfer hub to its cap table, and a product database it would have taken years to build.
Biorsaf, an Italian food-safety compliance software company founded in 2021 and based in Castell'Azzara in the province of Grosseto, announced a €5.2 million round on 10 September 2026. P101 SGR led. Maia Ventures, Farming Future, the national agrifoodtech technology transfer hub, and the Toscana Next co-investment fund managed by CDP Venture Capital joined. In the same announcement the company acquired Cooki, a Bologna-based food information management platform. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Biorsaf's platform, BS-Safe, digitises the record-keeping that food businesses are legally required to produce: HACCP food-safety procedures, workplace safety documentation and water quality management. The company reports more than 10,000 active users. Named customers include Gruppo Cigierre, Compagnia Generale Ristorazione, whose brands include Old Wild West, America Graffiti and Wiener Haus, and the retailer Conad.
Cooki was founded in 2017 by Giuseppe Grammatico. It is used in more than 450 Italian towns and cities, has more than 1,000 users and holds a database of over 35,000 coded products. Its functions cover traceability, labelling, food costing, stock management and allergen risk. Put together with BS-Safe, the two products cover the compliance chain from supplier records through to the label on the pack.
Biorsaf employs 40 people and plans to reach 120 within 18 months, funding a three-year growth plan and further automation of quality and safety processes. Financecommunity puts the addressable market at roughly 3.4 million Italian businesses subject to food, workplace and water safety obligations, worth more than €12 billion a year, of which about 3 per cent is digitised today. Giuseppe Donvito, partner at P101, described the company as a characteristic regtech investment: a strong technology component, vertical expertise and an established position in a heavily regulated market. Gatti Pavesi Bianchi e Ludovici advised P101; Datyca Legal Design Lab advised Biorsaf and Cooki.
Why it matters for AgTech founders: compliance remains the most underrated wedge in agrifood software, because the budget already exists. A grower or a food business has to produce the records whether or not it wants a subscription, which is a very different sale from a productivity gain that has to be argued for against this year's margin. Two things in this deal are worth copying. First, the acquisition arrived with the round rather than after it. At €5.2 million you are not buying a competitor for scale, you are buying a data asset, and 35,000 coded products with the labelling logic attached is years of work that cannot be shortened by hiring. Second, look at who is on the cap table beside the generalist lead: a fund dedicated to agrifoodtech and a national technology transfer hub. In a market that is 3 per cent digitised, the constraint is distribution into thousands of small, fragmented buyers, not product. Those investors are there for the doors, not the cheque. Founders selling into the food chain should price the regulatory obligation rather than the time saved, and should ask early which adjacent dataset they will eventually have to buy instead of build.
