Tag: aquaculture

AgFunder impact fund leads Mayani’s $1.7m seed round to scale Filipino farm and fisheries produce marketplace

January 27, 2023

Operating both a B2B and B2C marketplace, Mayani has nearly 140,000 fish farmers on its platform.

Pyramidia Ventures: a “founder on steroids” building agrifood x climate tech startups in Africa

January 12, 2023

Pyramidia Ventures is taking an alternative approach to venture capital to help solve Kenya’s pressing food security and climate change challenges.

Data snapshot: Novel Farming Systems in APAC are growing far beyond leafy greens

January 11, 2023

As demand for greater food security and traceability increases, so too will the size of the rounds for Novel Farming Systems in APAC.

Aquaconnect raises $15m to digitize India’s aquaculture supply chain for smallholder farmers

December 20, 2022

Aquaconnect will use the new capital to build up its product portfolio for both pre-harvest and post-harvest services for the aquaculture industry.

BREAKING: AquaBounty in murky water after accusations of safety violations at GM salmon plant

October 25, 2022

A former employee shares evidence of violations ranging from mishandled chemicals to unsafe water at the genetically modified salmon factory.

How Kenya’s Neruva Technologies’ ecocapsules are bringing food production to urban markets

September 14, 2022

Neruva Technologies is a Kenyan-based startup that’s leveraging indoor farming to simplify agriculture and bring food production to urban markets.

Nutreco buys Indian aquatech Eruvaka for $40m-$50m in exit for Omnivore

August 4, 2022

The Netherlands-based animal and fish feed producer has acquired close to 94% in Indian aquatech company Eruvaka as impact fund Omnivore and Eruvaka team exit.

Meet the founder: Marica Quarsingh of Sea-Stematic on creating the ‘Tesla of Seafood’

July 22, 2022

Marica Quarsingh calls her cell-cultured seafood startup, Sea-Stematic, the “Tesla of seafood” to communicate how seafood should be produced: sustainably and with the right market insights.

Tepbac deploys software & IoT to boost Vietnam’s shrimp farming sector

July 22, 2022

The startup provides automation software, connected hardware devices, and an e-commerce platform to create efficiencies for the local industry.

Brief: Nanobubble startup Moleaer raises $40m to make water more impactful for agri and aquaculture

June 14, 2022

Moleaer will use its Series C funding to increase the availability of its proprietary nanobubble equipment and address water shortages.

Why Japan’s Norinchukin Bank invested in AgFunder’s $100m agrifoodtech fund

June 7, 2022

Norichukin Bank recently joined the first close of AgFunder’s $100m Fund IV as a limited partner to advance Japan’s agriculture, fisheries, and forestry industries.

Kenya’s Victory Farms nets $5m as it edges towards precision fish farming

May 27, 2022

Victory Farms, East Africa’s largest commercial fish farmer, is setting its sights further afield in DRC, Tanzania and Rwanda.

Black soldier fly farmer Inseco raises $5.3m in South Africa’s ‘largest-ever seed round’

April 27, 2022

It’s raising the insects on organic byproducts such as food waste, before converting them into proteins and oils for use in animal feed.

Q&A: VestedWorld’s Euler Bropleh on the opportunity of investing in ‘the basics’ in Africa

January 26, 2022

Chicago-based impact investment fund VestedWorld has supported more than 20 African startups addressing critical social and market needs, like improving cost and value chain for food.

Q&A: Upward Farms wants to attract more microbes to vertical ag environments

January 24, 2022

Co-founder and CEO Jason Green discusses its new 250,000-square-foot facility and the importance of the microbiome.

Indonesian aquatech startup eFishery nets $90m in Sequoia, SoftBank-led Series C

January 10, 2022

The Bandung-based startup plans to launch into other major fish and shrimp farming markets, including China and India.

Data Snapshot: Bowery’s $300m round tops H1 2021 Novel Farming Systems deals

November 10, 2021

Novel Farming Systems ventures raised a total of $911 million in funding during the first six months of the year, according to AgFunder data.

Norway’s OptoScale nets $4.1m to grow its fish farm monitoring tech

October 13, 2021

The Trondheim-based startup believes it’s differentiated by its use of on-site edge processing, rather than relying on cloud computing.

The potential of tilapia aquaculture in sub-Saharan Africa

October 11, 2021

Tilapia farming can help feed sub-Saharan Africa’s booming population. But investment in everything from basic infrastructure to technology is needed first.

The ocean is a $100tln market opportunity

October 7, 2021

The ocean industry could be as big as the burgeoning space industry so long as investment and innovation are focused on sustainability, writes guest author Tony Chen.