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Flowtify

Techstars '15

Köln, DE · Founded 2015 · 10 employees on LinkedIn · 10 known investors

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flowtify is a digital quality management platform for multi-site food service, hospitality, and retail operations. It provides integrated HACCP self-monitoring, automated temperature monitoring, audits, and cross-organization supervision capabilities to digitize and standardize quality-critical processes across locations.

Also known as flowtify · Flowtify GmbH

Investors · 10

Also in the syndicate · 5

BüfaCompanion CapitalHigh-Tech Gründerfondsleadprivate investorTÜV SÜD

Company profile

researched Sep 2026

Flowtify (legal entity Flowtify GmbH) operates a cloud-based digital quality management platform for multi-site food service, hospitality and retail operations. The system combines HACCP self-monitoring, automated temperature monitoring via IoT sensors, audits and cross-organization supervision, with all modules following a shared logic and feeding a common analytics dashboard.

The product is organized into four entry modules. flowtify HACCP digitizes statutory self-monitoring and internal brand standards through guided task plans and real-time evaluations, supporting complete and traceable HACCP documentation on tablets and smartphones in line with EU Regulation 852/2004. flowtify SENSORS automates temperature checks at critical control points, documents cold-chain stability and alerts responsible staff when thresholds are exceeded, including outside opening hours. flowtify AUDIT converts internal standards into measurable benchmarks, enables live review and comparative evaluations across locations, and tracks corrective actions. flowtify SUPERVISION manages access rights across independent accounts and external partners, targeting franchise systems and store networks that need cross-location evaluation without removing local operational responsibility.

Earlier company material described a modular structure of flowtify HACCP, flowtify IoT and flowtify AUDIT, with the IoT module exposing an open REST API used as an interface to ERP systems and meal-planning solutions.

Founding story

Founder Daniel Vollmer ran a café with an attached nightclub in Cologne for ten years. Managing roughly 20 employees, he found that paper checklists used for legally required hygiene and quality self-documentation were error-prone, with lists frequently misplaced, forgotten or incompletely filled in. Alongside Vollmer, Parshin Mortazi and Gabriel Schlatter were members of the founding team in 2015.

Business model

B2B software-as-a-service sold to operators of food-handling businesses, combining cloud application modules with IoT temperature sensor hardware; directory data classifies the company as SaaS with a B2B customer focus.

Traction

Company figures state 10 million HACCP tasks completed across 7,500 locations in a 30-day period, 12 million daily data points captured by 8,000 sensors, and 1,200 audits conducted across 2,000 locations in a 30-day period, with daily activity in 15 countries. An earlier company profile reported more than 2,000 businesses in over 10 countries, over 4 million sensor data points per day and more than 700 internal and external audits per month.

▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history

Market position

Positioned as a digital replacement for paper-based hygiene and quality checklists in the EU-regulated food sector, with reported usage across thousands of locations and 15 countries.

Combines statutory HACCP documentation, IoT-based temperature monitoring, audits and multi-account supervision in one system with a unified process logic, rather than as separate point tools, and supports cross-location comparability and rights management for franchise and multi-unit structures.

Technology

Cloud-based, modular application used on tablets and smartphones, paired with IoT sensors for continuous temperature capture and threshold alerting. The IoT module offers an open REST API for integration with ERP and meal-planning systems. Analytics from HACCP, audits, sensors and supervision are consolidated in a single dashboard. The public website runs on technologies including PHP, Apache HTTP Server, jQuery, Elementor and WP Rocket.

Go-to-market

The website's primary call to action is booking a consultation to assess current processes and identify an entry module. The company also engages with industry networks, joining the Netzwerk Culinaria food service network as a partner in September 2020.

Multi-site food service, hospitality and retail operators, including franchise systems and store networks, as well as food-processing and food-handling businesses subject to statutory hygiene self-documentation requirements.

Geography

Headquartered at Neusser Str. 651 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with the platform reported as in daily use in 15 countries.

History

The founding team formed in 2015 in Cologne; one directory lists the founding year as 2016 by Daniel Vollmer, Gabriel Schlatter and Parshin Mortazi. In 2016 Companion Capital and the High-Tech Gründerfonds invested, with HTGF announcing seed financing for paperless hygiene and quality management in November 2016. In 2019 TÜV SÜD, the Oldenburg-based chemical company Büfa and a private investor took stakes in the company. In September 2020 Flowtify became a partner in the Netzwerk Culinaria network. The product line has since expanded from an app-plus-IoT audit tool to a four-module platform covering HACCP, sensors, audits and supervision.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Active sensorsJan 20268,000 sensors
Audits conducted in last 30 daysJan 20261,200 audits
Businesses supportedJan 20262,000 businesses
Countries with daily activityJan 202615
Daily sensor data pointsJan 202612,000,000 data points/day
EmployeesJan 20261-10
HACCP tasks completed in last 30 daysJan 202610,000,000 tasks
HeadcountAug 202610
Locations covered by auditsJan 20262,000 locations
Locations using flowtify HACCPJan 20267,500 locations

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Timeline · 3

launches, deals, and filings
Sep 2020
Flowtify joins Netzwerk Culinaria as network partner

The Cologne startup, which digitizes hygiene management and quality assurance, became a new member of the Netzwerk Culinaria network.

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Mar 2019
Strategic investors take stakes in Flowtify

Press coverage reported that TÜV SÜD, the Oldenburg chemical company Büfa and a private investor acquired stakes in the Cologne-based startup in 2019.

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Nov 2016
HTGF announces seed financing for paperless hygiene and quality management

High-Tech Gründerfonds published a press release on seed financing for Flowtify; HTGF lists itself as invested since 2016. Companion Capital also invested in 2016.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

▸Research sources · 8

primary sources listed

8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Flowtify do?
Cologne-based provider of a digital quality management and HACCP platform for multi-site food service, hospitality and retail.
Who are Flowtify's investors?
Flowtify's investors include High Tech Gruenderfonds, LeadX Capital Partners, R/GA Ventures, Techstars, Zintinus.
Where is Flowtify headquartered?
Flowtify is headquartered in Köln, DE.