Startups

Captain Fresh, which has developed a unique platform for selling fisheries and aquaculture products, has raised $12 million to develop its tech-enabled, business-to-business seafood marketplace.

Eight alt-seafood producers, including Wildtype and Blue Nalu, have made the semi-finals of a competition that aims to help feed the growing global population using alternative protein sources.

Sea6 Energy, a vertically integrated seaweed producer, processor and developer headquartered in India with a subsidiary in Indonesia, has secured $9 million in funding.

Indian startup Aquaconnect, which bills itself as “South Asia's largest aqua farmers’ network”, announced today that it has raised $4 million (INR 29.7 Crores) in a pre-series A round.

A new project that is creating a new range of snacks made from and with kelp has reported good progress, although there are still some hurdles to overcome before seaweed is more widely consumed in the West.

Seafarms Group has successfully raised $92.5 million – to help it build the largest shrimp farming operation in Australia.

Scoot Science, which produces ocean monitoring dashboards for the aquaculture sector, has set up its first business outside of the US.

Four aquaculture startups are among the beneficiaries of an inaugural raft of blue economy investments by S2G Ventures.

The buzz around cell-cultured seafood has been growing steadily, and as Lou Cooperhouse, CEO and co-founder of cell-based seafood company BlueNalu explains, it's only a matter of time before these companies reach commerc…

Moleaer, which is developing nanobubble technology that has been reported to improve water quality in the salmon aquaculture sector, has secured $9 million in funding.

Mia Moseng has recently been hired as general manager of Sedna Technologies Norway – a startup that has developed innovative devices that monitor water quality and fish welfare.

S2G Ventures, Thai Union and Agriline have invested $4.3 million in ViAqua Therapeutics to help develop its RNA-based shrimp health platform and bring other health and nutrition projects closer to commercialisation.

Scoot Science has recently launched its SeaState dashboard, a new ocean forecasting tool that lets producers see what’s happening below the water’s surface in real time, and provides forecasts of the days ahead.

Jen Lamy, who manages Good Food Institute's cross-programmatic sustainable seafood initiative, believes that both plant-based and cellular seafood have a bright future - both in terms of providing consumers with an ethic…

The seven winners of a European initiative to that aims to accelerate innovation in sustainable aquaculture have been announced today.

Cadman Capital Group, a privately-owned, independent private equity firm has announced the appointment of two new aquaculture hires as it continues to drive growth of its aquaculture portfolio,

Protein from farmed mealworms – which several companies are producing for the aquafeed industry – has huge potential for human nutrition too.

Lab-grown seafood is likely to provide a significant source of global animal protein within a decade, putting conventional seafood producers and processors at risk of extinction.

Applications for a part-time workshop in Hawaii that’s aimed at companies which are focused on the global aquaculture and alt-seafood sectors must be submitted by 4 June.

Aude Guo co-founded vertical farming startup InnovaFeed when she was 29 and now leads operations at the world's largest vertical insect farm.