Startups

The use of insect-based aquafeed ingredients – and potentially diversification into insect farming itself – could offer valuable opportunities for India’s small-scale aquaculture producers.

Aquanzo, a startup that plans to farm Artemia in land-based systems for the aquafeed market, recently raised £1.2 million to help them to upscale their production.

Houdek, formerly known as Prairie Aquatech, is improving the digestibility and sustainability of soybean meal in order to support the aquafeed industry’s limited supply of fishmeal.

eFishery is the first aquaculture startup to reach a valuation of over $1 billion. This should open the floodgates for meaningful investment in the industry, according to Amy Novogratz – co-founder and managing partner of Aqua-Spark*.

While some analysts feel that the vertical farming bubble has burst, US mealworm producer Beta Hatch believes that there’s scope for a more subtle approach to indoor insect production.

World Ocean Day is being celebrated today, and I’m passionate about the role space technology can play in protecting 30 percent of our lands, waters and ocean by 2030 (30x30) - a step deemed necessary by leading scientists to protect our oceans. Those efforts …

At the age of only 19 Sander Kristiansen began managing a farm containing over a million salmon, and – one year later – he’s also in the process of designing his own unique fish farm service vessel.

Ireland’s Pure Ocean Algae has finished building a 600 m² seaweed hatchery building on the Beara peninsula, hoping to address the industry’s biomass bottleneck and set it on the path to success.

Ewan McAsh is the founder and CEO of Oceanfarmr (originally SmartOysters) – a startup that aims to streamline production and open up access to finance for 400,000 producers of oysters, mussels and seaweed around the world.

Peter Green, founder of Paxtier – an algae tech innovation newsletter and community – shares his thoughts on the sector’s most promising startups and some of the key emerging trends.

Vietnamese shrimp tech startup, Tepbac, recently landed a $2.25 million investment from Aqua-Spark*, AgFunder and Son-Tech Investment to scale its technology to digitise shrimp farming in Vietnam. Angela Tay, senior investment associate at AgFunder Asia, expla…

Felix Collins, founder and managing director of Full Circle Biotechnology, believes that the company’s super-intensive “Black Box” – which is designed to produce 6,000 tonnes of insect and microbial protein with only a 1,500 m2 footprint – will dramatically re…

The rise of the offshore wind industry is a fantastic opportunity for the seaweed aquaculture sector, according to David Lamb, founder of Cultivocean.