These eight start-ups were selected by the Aquaculture Innovation Forum's esteemed Selection Committee, consisting of Peritus Capital, S2G Ventures, and Devonian Capital, and will be taking to the stage on the 6 September live in London to pitch their technologies. The winner will then be selected and announced live at the event.
The finalists are:
AquiNovo – AquiNovo develops proprietary platform technology that promotes gut performance thus significantly improve gut health, feed utilization and growth. The platform is proven for tilapia and salmon and applicable to both aqua and terrestrial species. AquiNovo platform is based on innovative, targeted, bio-active, biodegradable peptides.
Local Ocean - Local Ocean was created in 2017 with a view to become the first shrimp farm in the Baltics. Since then the company shifted its strategy to developing a unique hardware + software shrimp farming solution merging and adapting traditional shrimp production methods from outdoor pond farming and indoor Recirculating Aquaculture System best practices, to create a scalable high yield/ low-cost shrimp production solution available for all.
Luminis Water Technologies – Luminis provide microbiome analytics for early disease detection and water doctoring solutions. Their core product is AquaGENius, an easy to use microbiome field sampling kit that allows anyone in the world to take a water sample, which them comes to us for Next Gen sequencing and analysis.
Next Tuna - Next Tuna will be the first to close ABT's reproductive cycle in an aquafarm at commercial scale. They will thus be the first truly sustainable source of ABT. They will sell fingerlings to grow-out farms: this replaces wild catch and is a route-to-market which relies on well established industry value chain.
Observe Technologies – Observe Technologies uses computer vision and artificial intelligence to optimise the biggest cost on a aquaculture farm - feeding (which represents 50% of salmon farming expenses). They have consistently proven that their product reduces the FCR and increases growth of the fish, saving farmers up to 10% of their feed costs and reducing growth time of up to 3%.
Seawater Solutions - Seawater Solutions is a nature-based company developing ways to turn degraded land such as deserts and salinised land into productive wetland agro-ecologies for ecosystem restoration and novel bio-mass production. The company has developed blue economy feed products for the aquaculture industry that replace conventional feeds with carbon negative feeds.
Seneye - Seneye are a UK IoT Sensor and cloud monitoring manufacturer with a multiparameter, scalable probe system including monitoring free toxic ammonia NH3+ for a low cost to 0.001ppm. They have been manufacturing and active in the public aquaria and ornamental industries for over 12 years.
Volare - Volare is a unique Nordic food and feed technology start up with roots in years of research and development work. They are an industrial platform that turns food industry side streams into valuable, ultra-sustainable, healthy and high quality products for the feed and other industries with the help of Nature's original bioreactor, the black soldier fly.
The Aquaculture Innovation Summit will be taking place in London, 6-7 September 2022. The Summit focuses on accelerating the growth of the industry by addressing challenges across nutrition, health, and digital, whilst showcasing and supporting emerging technologies.
For more information and to register, visit the Aquaculture Innovation Summit website, HERE.
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