Startups

American feed innovator BioFeyn and startup investor Olaisen Blue co-hosted a Salmon School and Technology Showcase for investors, startups, industry leaders and producers to highlight innovation and sustainability in sa…

Skretting and eniferbio are strengthening their partnership after signing an agreement that outlies further testing of eniferBio’s PEKILO protein for Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout feed.

Seaweed Generation, a UK start up that sinks Sargassum into the deep ocean for CO2 removal, has raised $1 million from AeraVC and Graph Ventures to scale its novel carbon removal technology.

Hatch Blue’s* second fund, The Blue Revolution Fund (BRF) has closed its first funding round and hopes to bring third-party verified impact investing to the aquaculture sector.

On 26 to 28 September, Stiim Aqua Cluster in Stavanger is heading for the Faroe Islands to showcase the newest Norwegian aquatech and to learn from their Faroese partners.

Insect-based protein company Innovafeed has raised €250 million in funding for its series-D round, bringing its total cumulative financing to €450 million as it makes strategic appointments and accelerates its growth.

FUTUREFISH has secured a contract with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, working towards their vision to empower, build and grow sustainable aquaculture solutions in Africa and Asia.

More than 200 companies plan to showcase their tech and solutions at the upcoming Aqua Expo 2022 in Ecuador.

Asia’s Nutrition Technologies, one of the first industrial insect companies in the region, has closed a $20 million equity round as it prepares to launch new insect-based feed and fertiliser products into new markets.

Taiwan’s Nocera Inc, an emerging recirculating aquaculture and land-based production company, has entered an agreement to purchase 229 acres of agricultural land in Montgomery, Alabama for its first land-based fish farm …

Gas fermentation startup String Bio has its protein ingredient PRO-DG validated by BioMar after successful feed trials with farmed salmon.

Israeli food tech startup Forsea Foods has developed an innovative method for creating cell-cultured eel meat that relies on fewer growth factors.

The Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Livestock (CIEL) is diving into aquaculture research as it launches a new funding opportunity to help the sector continue on its sustainable growth trajectory.

Hatch and Conservation International Ventures are bringing back the world's first business programme for female aquaculture entrepreneurs in East and Southeast Asia – via the Women in Ocean Food Innovation Studio 2022.

The Ocean 14 Capital fund, which focuses exclusively on the multi-trillion-dollar blue economy, has received a commitment for €10 million from the Constitutional Reserve Fund of Monaco to support its mission of funding s…

Though Asia already leads the world in the traditional seafood trade, it is poised to gain global dominance in the nascent alternative seafood segment.

Aquasend is playing an instrumental role in restocking and reviving the Waikalua Loko I’a native fish pond in Hawai’I by leveraging its Aquasend Beacons to track water quality and fish biomass.

Oban-based Tritonia Scientific, an underwater 3D imaging firm, is partnering with researchers at Heriot-Watt University’s Lyell Centre, SAIC and Mowi to create 3D digital models for seafood producers to map and monitor c…

Aquaticode, a Norway-based tech developer that identifies performance traits across multiple farmed fish species to boost production, has raised $6 million in its first external funding round.

Red seaweed supplement company CH4 Global is moving forward on its path to globalisation after announcing the company’s first integrated EcoPark for sustainable aquaculture in New Zealand.