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Brainr has secured a €1.5 million investment from Portugal Ventures, extending its seed funding round as the company looks to scale its AI-powered operating system for meat processors across international markets.
The investment follows Brainr's €11 million seed round, announced in September 2025, and will support the company’s commercial expansion across Europe.
Based in Leiria, Portugal, Brainr has developed a cloud-native Meat Factory Operating System designed to help meat processors manage production, planning, quality, traceability, warehouse operations and operational intelligence from a single platform.
The company said its system is currently used by manufacturers responsible for more than 65% of Portugal’s poultry production. It is also being deployed by meat processors in several European markets.
Paulo Gaspar, CEO of Brainr, previously told FoodBev that the challenges the company addresses in Portugal – fragmented systems, paper-based processes and compliance complexity – “are universal,” adding that the company was already in discussions with producers in Spain, France and other markets. Read our interview with Gaspar here.
According to Brainr, its platform manages more than €1.3 billion in annual food production, supporting processors with yield improvement, waste reduction, traceability and real-time digitisation of factory operations.
Gaspar said: “We're no longer proving that this technology works. We're proving that it scales. Over the last year we've gone from leading the Portuguese market to deploying our platform with some of Europe's most demanding meat processors.”
He added: “Welcoming Portugal Ventures gives us additional firepower to accelerate that expansion and continue building the AI operating system the global meat industry has been missing.”