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| 25.03.2025 | eFishery backer Aqua-Spark raises $320m so far for venture fund | Dutch aquaculture investor Aqua-Spark, the largest shareholder in embattled Indonesian aquaculture firm eFishery, has so far raised $320 million from US investors for its venture capital fund, its filing with the Securities and Exchange Com... |
| 17.04.2024 | Seafood Expo Global/Seafood Processing Global celebrates its 30th edition with top experts presenting over 25 conference sessions covering current industry topics | Seafood Expo Global/Seafood Processing Global
The Expo will bring together more than 90 leading international seafood industry experts in its conference program, including keynote speaker Mark Blyth, The William R. Rhodes '57 Professor of I... |
| 12.03.2024 | Cultivated meat consolidation begins as UMAMI Bioworks to merge with Shiok Meats | Singapore-based cultivated seafood startups UMAMI Bioworks and Shiok Meats are in talks about a proposed merger in which UMAMI will acquire assets from Shiok to accelerate its scaleup plans and broaden its product pipeline.
The deal is like... |
| 12.03.2024 | Singaporean Cultivated Seafood Startups Umami Bioworks and Shiok Meats Announce Merger | 6 Mins Read In a major shift in the cultivated seafood space, Singaporean startups Umami Bioworks and Shiok Meats have announced plans to merge. Once finalised, Umami Bioworks CEO Mihir Pershad will lead the combined entity, and Shiok Meats... |
| 01.03.2024 | Meet the founder: Protix’s Kees Arts on insect ag… ‘You can’t come in with a Silicon Valley playbook and outcompete a legacy industry in 3 years’ | An agtech startup, as many starry-eyed founders—and jaundiced investors—have learned to their cost, is not a SaaS startup. Whether you’re growing lettuce or insects at scale in a controlled environment, notes Protix cofounder and CEO Kees A... |
| 30.11.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: AgroSpheres nets $25m, ex-Motif CEO joins MycoTechnology, Kitchen United shuts ghost kitchens | All eyes are on COP28 this week, where agrifood looks to be a central point of discussion. Elsewhere in the industry, AgroSpheres raised new funds for its novel crop protection tech and Motif FoodWorks former CEO moved over to MycoTechnolog... |
| 12.10.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Investors fund agri-waste to energy, more precision fermentation, coffee capsule recycling | The largest round this week went to India’s SAEL, a company converting agricultural waste into renewable energy. Other notable fundraises went to precision fermentation, AI imaging for agriculture, restaurant tech in Latin America, and cult... |
| 28.08.2023 | Our oceans are in a state of emergency. Aqua-Spark’s CEO explains how startups can help restore their health | Healthy oceans are critical to a healthy planet. But as the United Nations notes, the ocean is in a state of emergency thanks to pollution, overfishing, eutrophication and warming.
UN targets for Sustainable Development Goal 14 focus on pol... |
| 22.08.2023 | Ace Aquatech launches AI camera for measuring fish | British aquaculture technology supplier Ace Aquatech has launched a camera system with AI features to measure the length and weight of fish in aquaculture farms.
According to the company, the A-Biomass camera uses machine learning to measur... |
| 01.05.2023 | Diving into Tepbac: Why AgFunder invested | Editor’s Note: Aquaculture startup Tepbac recently landed a $2.25 million pre-Series A round led by Aqua-Spark, AgFunder and Son-Tech Investment. Angela Tay, senior investment associate at AgFunder Asia, explains why AgFunder chose to inves... |
| 20.04.2023 | BREAKING: Shrimp farming platform Tepbac lands $2.25m from Aqua-Spark, AgFunder, Son-Tech | [Disclosure: AFN’s parent company AgFunder is an investor in Tepbac.] Vietnam-based Tepbac has raised a $2.25 million pre-Series A round. Tepbac makes an IoT-enabled hardware and data system for shrimp farmers, and also runs an aquaculture ... |
| 20.04.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Canopy raises $60m to help forests, CropX nets $30m for farm management | This week, non-profit organization Canopy raised funds to help restore forests and farm management platform CropX landed $30 million. Restaurant tech platform Odeko secured $53 million, while a new CRISPR-based research project kicked off a... |
| 19.04.2023 | Finnish biotech eniferBio raises €11M in Series A funding | Finnish biotech eniferBio raises €11M in Series A funding
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| 19.04.2023 | eniferBio raises €11M to make planet-friendly fungal protein from the by-products of food and agricultural processes | eniferBio raises €11M to make planet-friendly fungal protein from the by-products of food and agricultural processes
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The successful A-round was led by Aqua-Spark and joined by Tesi, Valio, Voi... |
| 28.03.2023 | Startup Showcase: Aqua-Spark – Investing in Sustainable Aquaculture | Aqua-Spark is a Dutch investment fund with a focus on sustainable aquaculture businesses around the world. The small-to-medium enterprises they invest in are working towards the production of safe, accessible aquatic life, such as fish, she... |
| 20.01.2023 | 4 investors discuss the next big wave for alternative seafood startups | Though investment in food technology has slowed in line with the rest of the venture capital world, the industry recently achieved some milestones that suggest the sector and the government are moving into alignment.
In fact, some investors... |
| 14.07.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Cruising Kitchens nets $100m, foodtech layoffs & shutdowns continue | The biggest funding round this week went to mobile kitchen manufacturer Cruising Kitchens, which counts Hard Rock Cafe, Whataburger, and the LA Dodgers among its clients.
But a growing number of foodtech headlines these days seems to be abo... |
| 19.01.2022 | In first Africa investment, Aqua-Spark backs Lake Harvest to spur local farmed fish production | Steep consumer demand for fish across Africa has led to rapid depletion of popular freshwater varieties like tilapia.
James de la Fargue, who heads tilapia farming venture Lake Harvest, recognizes that meeting the demand of the continent’s ... |
| 10.01.2022 | Indonesian aquatech startup eFishery nets $90m in Sequoia, SoftBank-led Series C | Indonesian startup eFishery, which provides technology and services for aquaculture farmers, has raised $90 million in Series C funding.
The round was co-led by Singaporean sovereign fund Temasek, the Indian unit of VC firm Sequoia Capital,... |
| 10.01.2022 | BREAKING: Indonesian aquatech startup eFishery nets $90m in Sequoia, SoftBank-led Series C | Indonesian startup eFishery, which provides technology and services for aquaculture farmers, has raised $90 million in Series C funding.
The round was co-led by Singaporean sovereign fund Temasek, the Indian unit of VC firm Sequoia Capital,... |
| 18.11.2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Monarch Tractor’s $61m round, JBS’s cell meat bet & Bayer-Microsoft match | This week, The Week in Agrifoodtech includes news of a major strategic partnership between one of the world’s biggest agribusiness companies and one of the world’s biggest software companies; while the world’s number one meat processor made... |
| 11.10.2021 | The potential of tilapia aquaculture in sub-Saharan Africa | Willem van der Pijl is senior aquaculture industry analyst at Aqua-Spark, based in the Netherlands. The views expressed in this guest commentary are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of AFN.
Last month we at Aqua-Spark r... |
| 07.10.2021 | The ocean is a $100tln market opportunity | Tony Chen is co-founder and CEO of Manolin, a software and data analytics company that builds disease-detection models for aquaculture, based in Denver, Colorado.
The views expressed in this guest commentary are the author’s own and do not ... |
| 16.09.2021 | Aqua-Spark: Africa needs to increase tilapia production to meet predicted food needs | Africa’s population could double from the current one billion to two billion people by 2050, with its demand for fish projected to increase to between 16 and 29 million metric tons (MT) in the same period from the current 10 million MT, acc... |
| 17.08.2021 | Putting the ‘fin’ in fintech, XpertSea changes course following $20m Series B raise | A startup’s journey can take unexpected twists and turns as it learns more about is customers and what they really need.
Canadian aquaculture platform XpertSea initially launched in 2011, offering a data-collection device for fish farms bef... |
| 17.08.2021 | Putting the fin in fintech, XpertSea changes course following $20m Series B round | A startup’s journey can take unexpected twists and turns as it learns more about is customers and what they really need.
Canadian aquaculture platform XpertSea initially launched in 2011, offering a data-collection device for fish farms bef... |
| 11.08.2021 | Nutreco, Polish state fund pump $25m into animal antibiotic alternative Proteon | Animal health giant Nutreco and aquaculture-focused VC firm Aqua-Spark have co-led a €21 million ($24.6 million) investment into Proteon Pharmaceuticals – a Polish startup which is aiming to reduce animal agriculture’s reliance on antibioti... |
| 25.06.2021 | Future Food 🎙️: Diving deep with Shiok Meats’ Sandhya Sriram on the future of cell-cultured seafood | The conversation around cultured meat is typically focused around cell-based beef and chicken – the proteins favored across much of the world, and high-income Western countries in particular.
However, given that most of the world’s populati... |
| 13.04.2021 | Aqua-Spark introduces sustainable aquaculture report, names Willem van der Pijl editor | Sustainable aquaculture investment fund Aqua-Spark has hired Willem van der Pijl as editor-in-chief of Aqua Insights, a new report and blog series focused on sustainable aquaculture.
Van der Pijl is the founder of the Seafood Trade Intellig... |
| 15.02.2021 | Dutch startup Protix raises €15.5M to breed insects for aquaculture; here’s how | Many projections have suggested that the world population will reach over 9 billion by 2050. This means that the current food production will also have to be doubled. In light of worsening resource shortage, several foods have been proposed... |
| 12.02.2021 | Insect protein startup Protix raises $19m for international expansion | Netherlands insect farming startup Protix has raised €15.5 million ($18.6 million) investment round this week led by existing aquaculture-focused investor Aqua-Spark. Rabo Corporate Investments, Brabant Development Company, and Dutch invest... |
| 26.01.2021 | Vietnam’s biggest fish exporter launches venture unit, invests in cultured seafood startup Avant | Vinh Hoan, one of the world’s largest exporters of fish, has made a strategic investment in cultured seafood startup Avant Meats.
The Vietnamese company will become a shareholder in Hong Kong-based Avant after agreeing to acquire Vinh Techn... |
| 11.12.2020 | Maw & more: Avant nets $3m funding to expand cultured seafood range | Hong Kong-based cultured meat startup Avant Meats, which grows ‘animal-free’ proteins from the cells of fish and other marine organisms for food, skincare, and other applications, has raised $3.1 million in seed funding.
Investors taking pa... |
| 11.12.2020 | Maw & more: Hong Kong’s Avant nets $3m funding to expand cultured seafood range | Hong Kong-based cultured meat startup Avant Meats, which grows ‘animal-free’ proteins from the cells of fish and other marine organisms for food, skincare, and other applications, has raised $3.1 million in seed funding.
Investors taking pa... |
| 02.10.2020 | Shiok Meats Raises $12.6M in Series A Funding | Shiok Meats, a Singapore-based cell-based crustacean meat company, raised $12.6M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Aqua-Spark, an investment fund focused on sustainable aquaculture, with participation from SEEDS Capital (the investm... |
| 30.09.2020 | Aqua-Spark leads $12.6m Series A round for Singapore alt-seafood startup Shiok Meats | Singapore’s Shiok Meats has raised $12.6 million in a Series A round led by Aqua-Spark, a Netherlands-based VC firm focused on sustainable aquaculture.
The alt-protein startup is culturing ‘lab-grown’ prawn, crab, and lobster meat from isol... |
| 29.09.2020 | Shiok Meats Secures $12.6 M Series A, Will be the First in the World to Commercially Launch Cultivated Shrimp | Shiok Meats, the world’s first cell-based crustacean meat company, announces this hour that it has raised $12.6M in Series A funding, bringing the it closer in its mission to disrupt the seafood industry, according to an announcement sent t... |
| 29.09.2020 | Shiok Meat Bags $12.6M Series A Funding For Pilot Plant, Now SE Asia’s Most Valuable Cell-Based Startup | 48 1
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| 29.09.2020 | Shiok Meats Secures $12.6 M Series A, Will be the First in the World to Commercially Launch Cultivated Shrimp | ©Shiok Meats
Shiok Meats, the world’s first cell-based crustacean meat company, announces this hour that it has raised $12.6M in Series A funding, bringing the it closer in its mission to disrupt the seafood industry, according to an announ... |
| 04.09.2020 | Agrifood investors head to the beach – but not for vacation | Normally, August is a slow month. It wasn’t this year – especially if you’re a seafood startup.
Two big fund announcements and a spate of aquaculture and sustainable seafood deals signal that this long-underinvested agrifoodtech sector has ... |
| 31.03.2020 | Swedish startup woos investors with “algae tech” for aquaculture | The proliferation of algae isn’t typically a good sign, environmentally speaking. Algae blooms, which are worsening with climate change, strangle other freshwater organisms and marine life.
But Sofie Allert and Angela Wuff have a vision of ... |
| 27.03.2019 | UPDATE: Aqua-Spark Invests in 2 Aquaculture Tech Startups: BioFishency’s $2.4m Series A & Molofeed | **UPDATED: MARCH 27, 13:55 ET. Added additional Aqua-Spark investment announced today, and corrected Aqua-Spark’s assets under management to €72.5m**
BioFishency, an aquaculture filtration technology startup, has raised $2.4 million in fund... |
| 27.03.2019 | BioFishency Raises $2.4 Million for Its Water Treatment Systems for Aquaculture | BioFishency Ltd., a portfolio company of The Trendlines Group Ltd. (SGX: 42T) (OTCQX: TRNLY), announced that it has completed an investment round of $2.4 million. The primary investors in the round were a private investor from China, Aqua-S... |
| 23.10.2018 | Norwegian Aquaculture Feed Optimization Startup CageEye Raises Funding from Aqua-Spark | Norwegian feed optimization technology startup CageEye has raised an undisclosed round of funding from Dutch seafood-focused venture capital fund Aqua-Spark.
CageEye’s echo-sounder technology uses software and hardware to track acoustic dat... |
| 21.12.2017 | The Top 10 Farm Tech Deals of 2017 (How Many Can You Name Without Clicking?) | It was an exciting year in farm technology involving a few high profile venture capital exits and some of the largest deals on record.
In fact, funding records for this category and the subcategories within were broken more than once during... |
| 26.10.2017 | Aquaculture Fund Aqua-Spark Moves Beyond Farms and Feed With Two New Investments | Aqua-Spark, the Dutch venture capital fund, has finalized two investments this week that signal the fund dedicated to the future of aquaculture is moving beyond farms and feed.
The new investments are in two animal health startups Proteon P... |
| 20.10.2017 | French Agrifood Tech VC Capagro Doubles Fund to €124m | Capagro, a French agrifood tech VC firm, has announced a second close of its Capagro Innovation Fund adding €66 million, ($78 million) and bringing the fund’s total to €124m ($147m).
The fund was founded in 2014 with €37.5 million ($44.4 mi... |
| 17.10.2017 | Who are the Leading Insect Farming Startups? | You can tell that the public is captivated by a particular food, when its mere existence on a menu makes the news. Insects are one such ingredient. Cricket ice cream, cricket granola, cricket meatballs, cricket bars, cricket pasta, cricket ... |
| 28.09.2017 | The State of AgriFood Tech Startups in Europe | Editor’s Note: Thomas van den Boezem is program manager at StartLife, a Netherlands-based incubator for agrifood tech startups, cofounded by world-leading agriculture university Wageningen University & Research. StartLife has a portfoli... |
| 14.06.2017 | Protix Raises $50m in Largest Insect Farming Investment on Record | Protix, a Netherlands-based company, has raised €45 million ($50.5 million) in equity and debt funding to expand its insect farming business. This is the largest investment in the nascent insect farming industry to-date, according to Protix... |
| 13.06.2017 | Dutch biotech-startup Protix banks €45M to breed insects for aquaculture | Did you know that one-third of caught fish is used to process into animal fodder? According to Protix, a biotech-startup founded in 2009, that’s a huge waste. Insects – actually, larvae, could serve as a great protein alternative. Today, th... |
| 11.05.2017 | Agtech Funding Sheet: Startups Raise Nearly $130m in 2 Weeks | Soylent, the meal replacement drink, has raised $50 million in Series B funding in a round led by GV (Google Ventures) and joined by another new investor, family office Tao Capital Partners. Existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Lerer ... |
| 04.05.2017 | Aquaculture Feed Innovator Calysta Completes $40m Series D With Temasek & Mitsui | California-based sustainable fish and livestock feed innovator Calysta has completed a $40 million Series D funding round, led by Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co, and including Singapore state investment fund Temasek.
Calysta produce... |
| 19.04.2017 | Aquaculture’s $100bn Feed Challenge Presents Big Opportunity for Entrepreneurs | The search is on for a sustainable alternative to the 30 million tons of wild caught fish that are currently used to feed farmed fish.
It’s a $100 billion challenge that’s attracting innovators and investors alike because the aquaculture in... |
| 16.02.2017 | A Guide to Seafood & Aquaculture Technology: Startups Raise $193m in 2016 but More Innovation Needed | Startups in seafood and aquaculture technology raised $193 million in 2016, a 271% increase on the $52 million raised across both 2014 and 2015, according to AgFunder research.
Investment in seafood-related startups grew in 2016 as investor... |
| 04.02.2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: Memphis Meats to Raise $2m Seed Round, FarmDrop Raises $4.3m, more | Cultured Meat Company Memphis Meats to Raise $2m Seed Round
Memphis Meats, which is growing cultured meat in a laboratory using cells from cows, pigs, and chickens, is closing in on a $2 million seed round to add to its initial funding from... |
| 04.02.2016 | Sustainable Fish Feed Company Calysta Raises $30m Series C from Cargill, MERS Pension | Calysta, a company manufacturing sustainable fish and livestock feed from soil microbes, has raised $30 million in Series C funding from a bevy of high-profile investors, including global agribusiness giant Cargill.
US pension fund the Muni... |
| 10.09.2015 | Fundings in Brief: Groundwork BioAg Series B, France Launches Farmer Relief Plan, Indian Dairy Attracts Capital | This week’s fundings in brief include the public and private funding of two Indian dairy operations, a farmer relief program in France and the cancellation of a private equity seafood deal.
France Announces $3b Agriculture Relief Package
Fr... |
| 08.09.2015 | Indonesian IoT startup eFishery gets pre-Series A funding from Aquaspark, Ideosource | Premium
Indonesia based eFishery, a smart fish feeder manufacturer, has received an undisclosed funding in a pre-series A round led by Aquaspark, a Utrecht (the Netherlands) based aquaculture investment fund, and Indonesian venture capit... |
| 04.08.2015 | Fish 2.0: Bridging the Gap Between Investors and Aquaculture | “Never before have people consumed so much fish, or depended so greatly on the sector for their well-being,” reads the Food and Agriculture Organization’s most recent report on The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture.
Fish provides a n... |
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