BRAINR Secures €11M To Build The Digital Brain For Food Factories
Sep 12, 2025 | By Kailee Rainse

Leiria-based BRAINR, a Portuguese provider of modern factory management software, has secured €11 million in seed funding, led by C2 Capital Partners.
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- Leiria-based BRAINR, a Portuguese provider of modern factory management software, has secured €11 million in seed funding, led by C2 Capital Partners.
Paulo Gaspar, co-founder and CEO of BRAINR, said this marks the largest funding round ever for a company dedicated to digitizing food manufacturing.
BRAINR is an AI-driven, cloud-native MES/MOM platform tailored for the food and beverage industry. It helps manufacturers manage and optimize operations, covering production scheduling, tracking, quality control, inventory, and logistics, ensuring smoother workflows and smarter, data-driven decision-making across the factory floor.
Many food factories still depend on paper, Excel, and manual processes, causing inefficiencies, waste, and lost competitiveness. BRAINR, spun off from a leading European food production group, solves this by simplifying, automating, and customising factory operations.
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The platform digitises the shop floor, offering real-time visibility, full traceability, and data-driven insights, while integrating with ERP systems, equipment, and IoT devices to give managers control over production, inventory, and dispatch.
BRAINR offers comprehensive tools for inbound logistics, production planning, warehouse management, quality control, traceability and dispatch. Users can automate production orders, track raw materials, manage inventories, and generate reports. Embedded quality checks and compliance tracking ensure industry standards are met.
Focused on poultry, meat, dairy, bakery, and ready meals, BRAINR helps factories tackle short shelf lives, dynamic schedules, and food safety requirements, driving efficiency, reducing waste, and boosting competitiveness through digital transformation.
BRAINR will use the funding to drive international expansion, bringing its platform to more regions and factories. The company also plans to accelerate AI research and development. Additionally, BRAINR will collaborate with system integrators to deploy its solution faster and more efficiently across multiple food production facilities.
Co-founder Gaspar mentions, “Our mission is clear: to build the digital brain for every food factory. From poultry to bakery, from meat to beverages, we want to help this industry become smarter, safer, and more sustainable.”
About BRAINR
BRAINR is an AI-driven platform that modernizes food and beverage manufacturing, one of the least digitized industries worldwide. By digitizing processes, providing full traceability, and delivering real-time insights, BRAINR helps factories cut waste, improve efficiency and maintain food safety. Leading producers rely on it to run smarter, more agile operations.