Startups

A joint venture to farm sea grapes as sustainable superfoods and plant-based proteins has been launched by Blue Aqua International and Stemcell United.

Insect farming startup Ÿnsect has extended its Series C funding to $372 million – the largest amount ever raised by a non-American agtech business.

Funding to accelerate the development of the UK’s first large-scale industrial insect farm could provide a significant boost to the sustainability of the country’s aquaculture sector, according to experts.

HydroNeo, a start-up that aims to increase the efficiency of shrimp aquaculture, has secured an investment through Thai Union’s venture fund.

A new aquaculture vaccine development company has been launched by Touchlight Genetics and Stonehaven Incubate.

LocalCoho, which grows Oncorhynchus kisutch in a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facility, has announced the closure of a $4.6 million Series A round of investment.

An automated feeding system that is currently responsible for one of the “best performing cages” in all of Norway’s salmon sector is in the process of being adapted for other cultured aquatic species.

India’s first Asian private seabass (Lates calcarifer) hatchery has been set up by three graduates from the Mangalore Fisheries College.

A new company, which aims to produce salmon in semi-closed containment systems, has been launched in Scotland today.

Oceanus Group has invested an undisclosed amount in Universal Aquaculture, which has developed a novel shrimp farming facility in Singapore.

A project to farm a type of red seaweed that can help dramatically reduce livestock methane emissions has received $4.45 million (US $3 million) in funding.

Bluegrove and its subsidiary CageEye AS acquired SEALAB in a bid to enhance their sensor technology capabilities and create an open platform to integrate with other suppliers.

Following the launch of Hatch’s latest aquaculture accelerator programme this week, The Fish Site delves a little bit more into the companies who make up the cohort and what they’d like to achieve over the cours…

The potential of the seaweed farming and processing sectors in the development of thread, fertiliser, bio-plastics and leather substitutes is massive, according to Chung Ngin Zhun, co-founder of Rhodomaxx – a Malaysian s…

Eight startups from a wide range of geographies have been selected for Hatch’s fourth aquaculture accelerator programme, which launched in Bergen today.

NOAA has awarded grants to six aquaculture startups as part of a new $3 million initiative to support the development of innovative technology for marine sectors including aquaculture.

“The digital flood has lifted other agtech sectors but it hasn’t taken the aquaculture sector by storm just yet… what do you think is the key element, what will it take and what’s the main focus?”