Innovation & Investment
Ecto raises $7m investment to develop ‘game changer’ data platform for aquaculture
U.S. digital biology company Ecto has raised $7 million, led by Aqua-Spark and Rabobank, to develop data infrastructure for aquaculture.
Innovation & Investment
World Bank releases investment guide for developing sustainable aquaculture
The World Bank has released a guide designed to boost investment in sustainable aquaculture, the world’s fastest-growing food sector.
Innovation & Investment
Investors see a flurry of activity putting aquaculture on fast-forward
Aquaculture is the world’s fastest-growing food sector, yet many investors have stayed away. A string of summer deals indicates a shift.
Innovation & Investment
Financing a sustainable ocean economy
A healthy environment that supports a sustainable ocean economy requires adequate financing to achieve sustained performance and governance.
Innovation & Investment
The coronavirus pandemic’s influence on aquaculture priorities
There are lessons to be learned for aquaculture amid the coronavirus pandemic that's impacting life and business at every level. We explore a few perspectives.
Innovation & Investment
Exit stage right: Fish 2.0 offers final set of winning innovators
Nearly 40 entrepreneurs took the stage to pitch their seafood industry-changing innovations in front of a room full of discriminating investors.
Innovation & Investment
TNC, Encourage Capital issue guidance on sustainable aquaculture investment
The Nature Conservancy and a New York investment firm issued a field guide for parties interested in accelerating the sector’s future sustainably.
Intelligence
Seafood Expo North America: Aquaculture ‘a big opportunity for sustainable food’
Aquaculture is spurring the growth of seafood production around the world. At Seafood Expo North America, passionate opinions about aquaculture are not difficult to find. Our editor shares his notes from the annual event.
Innovation & Investment
Bringing Australian aquaculture into view
Australian aquaculture gets some needed attention later this month when Fish 2.0 holds a regional workshop focused on innovation and investment in Melbourne.
Innovation & Investment
If it’s broken, fix it: Startup takes on shrimp industry in India
A serial tech entrepreneur and a shrimp trader want to be Amazon for India’s shrimp farming industry. An accelerator program half a world away has brought them closer to their goals.
Responsibility
At World Ocean Summit, Mexico asks: What do we want our oceans to be?
While talk of preservation and conservation dominated the annual event, a blunt query reminded all that the oceans need protection and sustainable development.
Innovation & Investment
Bergen becoming seafood startup city as accelerator Hatch sets up shop
Hatch Aquaculture Accelerator aims to support new companies, via an immersive three-month mentorship program, in the health, nutrition, technology and production sectors.
Innovation & Investment
GOAL 2017 recap: The aquaculture opportunity has hurdles to clear
The great aquaculture opportunity – assuming responsibility as a reliable and predictable source of nutrition for a growing global population – would be better accomplished with a greater sense of confidence, according to keynote speaker Pearse Lyons.
Innovation & Investment
Aquaculture Exchange: Monica Jain, Fish 2.0
The third installment of Fish 2.0, taking place this November, will feature numerous aquaculture-related businesses at various stages of development. The competition’s founder dishes on what the judges will be seeing on stage.
Innovation & Investment
Investing in Africa’s aquaculture future, part 2
Africa offers innumerable opportunities and a raft of challenges for developing a modernized aquaculture industry. Investors are interested, and pursuing with cautious optimism.
Innovation & Investment
Investing in Africa’s aquaculture future, part 1
What is the future that Africa wants? Views on how to grow aquaculture on the continent vary widely, but no one disputes the notion that food security, food safety, income generation and job creation all stand to benefit.