The five seed stage entrepreneurs who will pitch their solutions on stage are:
- Banyu (Indonesia): grows high-quality seaweed seedlings using regenerative farming to boost yields, restore oceans, and support coastal communities.
- Blue Food Performance (UK): provides independent, transparent, and scientifically verified blue food sustainability assessments to ensure scientific integrity and commercial relevance.
- Flomo (New Zealand): has developed a fishing gear technology designed to enhance animal welfare, protect ecosystems, and improve catch quality.
- Flonergia Systems (Canada): has developed an energy- and cost-efficient pump system, providing an alternative to existing centrifugal pumping and aeration systems.
- Ocean Twist Biotechology (Italy): enhances fish welfare and aquaculture productivity with their circular high-performance protein feed ingredients.
After pitching, the startups will field questions by industry specialists keen to take a deeper dive into their offering, including Mercedes Groba, senior innovation programme manager, at EIT Food and Karina Wessel, ESG & impact manager at Bluefront Equity.
Meanwhile the exhibition will feature:
- Aquanzo (UK): is pioneering a circular and scalable approach to transform the 4 trillion litres of agricultural liquid co-product wasted into a new source of natural marine ingredients using Artemia.
- Aquafood (Sweden): offers a process for taking care of any filleting side-stream from any species, and turning them into high-quality, and high-value ingredients for human consumption.
- Big Akwa (Sweden): develops circular aquaculture projects by introducing industrial symbiosis between land-based fish farms and process industries.
- BiOceanOr (France): provides AI and biology-powered water quality solutions, enabling predictive analytics to ensure environmental protection, optimise aquaculture operations, and enhance fish health.
- CatchCam Technologies (UK): engineer durable camera systems and advanced sensors for reliable data collection in harsh underwater environments.
- FP Aquaculture and Ocean Health (Denmark): offers a machine learning-powered microscope technology that detects harmful plankton and micro-jellyfish, providing early warnings and enabling timely preventive actions.
- Mariculture Systems (Israel): has developed an innovative offshore fish farming platform designed to withstand extreme maritime conditions, including waves up to 17 metres high.
- Mercia Nanosolutions (UK): is a nanobubble generator manufacturer whose product is capable of aeration and oxygenation in aquaculture applications.
- Nobify (Israel): deters migratory birds from large aquatic areas, boosting aquaculture yields by 25 percent and strengthening global food and water security.
Other startups set to feature include:
- Protenga (Singapore): has developed data-driven insect technology that enables a circular, regenerative food supply chain and produces best-in-class, sustainable insect products for aquafeed, animal feed and plants.
- Seadling (Singapore): is pioneering a bio-tech platform for cultivating tropical seaweeds, transforming them into B2B functional ingredients for animals, plants and humans.
- Sea Green (Singapore): enables faster decision-making, proactive risk management, and measurable sustainability gains through its data platform that uses geo-spatial insights.
- Wittaya Aqua (Canada): is a technology platform for aquaculture producers, feed mills, and ingredient suppliers that consolidates existing data points across the seafood supply chain to drive efficiency, profitability and sustainability.
Detailed startup profiles are available at www.bluefoodinnovation.com/start-ups with each company’s technology, solution category plus funding rounds achieved to date.
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