Biorsaf, an Italian start-up that digitises food-safety compliance, said on September 10, 2026 that it had acquired Cooki, a Bologna-based platform that helps caterers and artisan food producers manage labelling, traceability and food costs.
The acquisition was announced together with a €5.2 million (about $6 million) funding round for Biorsaf led by the Italian venture capital firm P101. The companies did not disclose the price paid for Cooki or how it was funded.
Cooki's software will be added to Biorsaf's product range. Papalini said the integration rounded off Biorsaf's offering, adding labelling, traceability and food-cost tools to the compliance checks its platform already ran. Biorsaf described the deal as the first step in a strategy to consolidate a fragmented market for food-sector compliance software.
What Cooki built
Cooki was founded in 2017 by Giuseppe Grammatico. Its platform manages food information for catering and artisan businesses, automating ingredient traceability, product labelling, food cost calculations, stock management and allergen risk.
According to the company, Cooki is used in more than 450 Italian towns and cities, has over 1,000 user accounts and maintains a database of more than 35,000 catalogued food products. No outside funding for Cooki has been reported, and neither company said how many Cooki staff would join Biorsaf or whether the Cooki brand would be kept.
Who is buying
Biorsaf was founded in 2021 in Castell'Azzara, in the province of Grosseto in Tuscany, by a team with more than four decades of combined experience in food safety. It is led by chief executive Marco Papalini.
Its main product, BS-Safe, digitises HACCP food-safety plans, workplace health and safety, and water-quality management, with automated checks and data held in one place. The company says it reached more than 10,000 active users in three years, ranging from small business owners to restaurant chains such as the Cigierre Group and retailers including Conad. It also offers an AI agent for food-safety consultants that automates monitoring, compliance and paperwork.
Biorsaf claims its software saves each user about 30 minutes a day and cut operating costs for its active users by more than €30 million (about $35 million) in 2025. These figures come from the company and have not been independently verified.
The funding round
P101 invested through its Programma 103, Azimut ELTIF Venture Capital P103 and Programma 103R Digital vehicles. Programma 103 is supported by the European Union through the InvestEU Fund, and Programma 103R Digital by CDP Venture Capital's Digital Transition PNRR fund.
Existing investors also took part: agrifoodtech fund Maia Ventures, Farming Future, the National Agrifoodtech Technology Transfer Hub promoted by CDP Venture Capital, ToSeed & Partners, and Toscana Next, a co-investment fund managed by CDP Venture Capital and backed by Tuscan banking foundations. ToSeed and Farming Future had led a €1.4 million (about $1.6 million) round in Biorsaf announced in March 2025.
Giuseppe Donvito, a partner at P101, said Biorsaf showed the characteristics the firm looks for in regulatory technology companies. P101 also said it intends to back further growth through buy-and-build, a strategy of growing by acquiring smaller companies. Gatti Pavesi Bianchi e Ludovici advised P101, while Datyca Legal Design Lab advised Biorsaf and Cooki.
Plans for an AI platform
The round and the acquisition open a three-year plan to build an AI platform for quality, safety and operations management in the food sector. Biorsaf plans to grow its headcount from 40 to 120 over the next 18 months.
Biorsaf estimates its target market in Italy at about 3.4 million businesses with combined revenue of more than €12 billion (about $14 billion), and says only around 3% of them have digitised these processes. Papalini said the company aims to become the main digital infrastructure for businesses operating in the food sector.
