Startups

Rhode Island’s Roger Williams University (RWU) will host the first ever Blue Economy Investment Summit on 24 January, an event that promises to highlight the emerging developments and future trends in blue tech investmen…

Halifax-based startup ReelData AI has closed an $8 million series-A funding round and plans to use the capital to bring its data and automation offering to more land-based aquaculture ventures.

Algama, which creates a range of algae-based products - including vegan salmon and vegan tuna - using algae has raised a €13 million Series A round..

With two crops of mussels now in the water, it’s a question of keeping ones boat and buoys afloat for another six months – which isn’t always as straightforward as it sounds.

Circular economy startup Protenga is embarking on its second-generation smart insect production platform for the aquafeed and pet food sectors after securing investment from The Yield Lab Asia Pacific.

Recent economic analysis from Rabobank finds that the stellar growth of the plant-based segment is on hold as investors shift their focus.

Though indoor shrimp farming has been tapped as a potential disruptor in the aquaculture space, investors have been hesitant to sign on the dotted line. But according to Aurore Gil of ADM Capital Europe, this reflects an…

Re:Ocean, the company behind Sweden’s first land-based salmon farm, has received a SEK 530 million (£42 million) venture debt investment from the European Investment Bank (EIB).

Though many are still at the pilot stage and haven’t been proven at an industrial scale, analysis from Spheric Research suggests that indoor shrimp farming has huge potential to transform the wider industry.

Cell-cultured seafood company Wildtype has announced an agreement with Solaris Biotech to build large-scale bioreactors to speed up production of cell-based seafood.

Food scientists at UC Davis believe that a solution to world hunger might start with caviar and boba after refining an innovative process that produces “myco-foods” – small balls of edible fungi that can be processed int…

BlueTrace has announced that its client base has more than doubled across North America as more seafood harvesters, growers, distributors and dealers adopt the traceability platform.

Forever Oceans kanpachi has been listed as a low-carbon aquaculture offering in a recent environmental assessment from The Nature Conservancy (TNC) as the company commits to be Scope 1 and Scope 2 carbon neutral by 2027.…

Germany’s Bluu Seafood has successfully grown its cultivated fish cell lines “in suspension”, allowing the company to produce biomass without the use of scaffolds or other microcarriers.

Aquaconnect* has raised $15 million (INR 120 crore) in a bid to triple its AquaPartners network in India and accelerate exports to US, China and Japan.

After an eventful recent past – which included two years stuck in Myanmar due to Covid-19 restrictions and then spending time as a refugee in Vietnam, where his former student, Loc Tran, managed to secure him a temporary…

Thailand’s Flylab, a black soldier fly (BSF) agritech firm, has raised $1 million in its first seed round.

SPACE-F, Thailand’s global food-tech startup incubator and accelerator programme, is now accepting applications from around the world for its fourth cohort.

The co-founder of Aqua-Spark* feels that, despite the challenging financial climate, 2022 has been a pivotal year for attracting investor interest to the sector and 2023 will see momentum continue to grow.

New technology to support salmon production in exposed offshore locations could unlock an additional £4.2 billion in turnover for Scotland’s aquaculture sector, following the results of a pioneering research project led …