The Italian food-safety technology company Biorsaf has secured fresh capital in a round led by P101 while acquiring Bologna-based Cooki, bringing food safety, traceability, labelling and cost management under a broader digital platform.

Biorsaf has raised €5.2 million in new funding and acquired food-information software company Cooki, combining a capital raise with an acquisition as the Italian startup prepares for a significant expansion of its technology and workforce.

The funding round was led by P101, with participation from Biorsaf’s existing investors Maia Ventures, Farming Future, ToSeed & Partners and Toscana Next. Biorsaf, based in Castell’Azzara in the province of Grosseto, develops technology designed to digitise food safety and quality processes.

The transaction also brings Bologna-based Cooki into the business. Founded in 2017 by Giuseppe Grammatico, Cooki provides tools used by catering businesses and artisan workshops to manage areas including traceability, labelling, food costs, inventory and allergen risk.

The combination gives Biorsaf a wider footprint across the operational side of food compliance, rather than limiting the platform to safety management alone.

Cooki brings more than 1,000 users and a 35,000-product database

Cooki’s existing reach adds scale to the deal.

According to figures released by the company, Cooki is used across more than 450 Italian towns and cities, has over 1,000 users and maintains a database containing more than 35,000 catalogued products.

Biorsaf says the combination creates a platform capable of handling several compliance and operational functions in one place, including HACCP food safety, quality management, traceability, nutritional information, cost analysis and labelling.

That broader scope is central to the company’s next phase. Instead of operating separate systems for food safety, stock information, allergens and labelling, Biorsaf is positioning the combined offering around a more integrated approach.

Biorsaf plans to triple its workforce

The funding and acquisition form part of a three-year growth plan that includes the development of an artificial intelligence platform covering quality, safety and operations management.

One of the most concrete targets is hiring.

Biorsaf plans to increase its workforce from 40 people to 120 over the next 18 months, effectively tripling the size of its team if the expansion is completed as planned.

The company already uses artificial intelligence in part of its product offering. It has developed an AI agent for food-safety consultants aimed at automating control, monitoring, regulatory compliance and document-management activities.

From paper-based HACCP processes to more than 10,000 active users

Biorsaf was founded in 2021 by a team with more than 40 years of combined experience in food safety.

Its main platform, BS-Safe, is designed to replace paper-based processes for HACCP management, workplace health and safety, and water quality with automated controls and centralised data management.

The company says it has passed 10,000 active users within three years. Its customer base ranges from smaller businesses to restaurant groups and large retailers, with names including Cigierre Group and Conad.

Biorsaf estimates that its platform saves around 30 minutes of work per user each day. It also estimates that active users generated more than €30 million in operating-cost reductions during 2025. These figures are company estimates rather than independently verified performance data.

A consolidation strategy in a fragmented market

For Biorsaf CEO Marco Papalini, the Cooki acquisition is not being treated as a standalone product addition.

Papalini described the integration as the first step in a strategy to consolidate what the company sees as a fragmented market. Biorsaf’s longer-term goal is to build a digital infrastructure that simplifies processes that are currently handled across multiple systems and workflows.

The company’s own estimates put its addressable Italian market at around 3.4 million businesses across food safety, workplace safety and water quality, representing more than €12 billion in revenue. Biorsaf also estimates that digitalisation across this market is currently only about 3%.

That low digital penetration is an important part of the company’s expansion case, although the market-size and digitalisation figures are estimates provided by Biorsaf itself.

P101 backs Biorsaf’s regtech push

Lead investor P101 is backing Biorsaf partly through a regtech lens.

P101 Partner Giuseppe Donvito pointed to the company’s technology, sector expertise and position in a heavily regulated market. He also indicated that the investor sees potential for further growth through a buy-and-build strategy, suggesting that Cooki may not necessarily be the final acquisition considered as the platform develops.

The investment is being made through Programma 103, Azimut ELTIF Venture Capital P103 and Programma 103R Digital. P101 was advised by Gatti Pavesi Bianchi e Ludovici, while Biorsaf and Cooki were advised by Datyca Legal Design Lab.

For Biorsaf, the immediate story is therefore bigger than the €5.2 million raise alone. The company is pairing fresh capital with an acquisition, an AI-focused product roadmap and a plan to triple its workforce, while attempting to bring several traditionally separate food-compliance functions onto one platform.

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