New Enterprise Associates is a prominent venture capital firm focusing on investments in technology and healthcare startups. They help entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors, and geographies. With over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital since the firm’s founding in 1977, NEA invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company’s lifecycle, from the seed stage through the IPO. The firm's long track record of successful investing includes more than 210 portfolio company IPOs and more than 360 acquisitions.

New Enterprise Associates

Costanoa Ventures leads Formation, Seed, and Series A stage investments in companies that change the way the world does business.

Costanoa Ventures

Alliance Venture is a Nordic venture capital firm investing in exceptional early-stage tech companies and purpose-driven founders with global ambitions. Offices in Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Helsinki.

Alliance VC

Princeton University is consistently at the forefront of research and academic excellence. This is partially due to its unique approach to education, which stresses the importance of independent study. Princeton’s undergraduate academics grant bachelor’s degrees in the arts and sciences. In their third and fourth years, all undergraduates must pursue independent research in their chosen field of study. Depending on your major and academic goals, this can vary from lab research to a creative project. The graduate school at Princeton University offers a variety of master’s degrees and Ph. D.s, as well as continuing education programmes to suit diverse academic needs. The graduate school does not use a credit-based system, and your department and advisor will determine your curriculum. In light of this, the university aims to support its students with significant financial assistance. Princeton’s need-based financial aid programme replaces loans with grants so that its students won’t be overwhelmed with debt after graduation. These programmes and more are available to those who qualify. Tuition costs shouldn’t discourage qualified students from applying to Princeton.

Princeton University

ArcTern Ventures is a venture capital fund that provides early-stage capital to cleantech companies. The privately-backed venture capital fund provides early-stage capital to companies developing breakthrough ideas in the cleantech sector. The Fund has developed a unique early-stage investment model through its partnership with MaRS, one of the largest innovation centers in the world.

ArcTern Ventures

Struck is a founder-first capital for innovative entrepreneurs. It leads seed investments sourced idiosyncratically through its robust network. The firm was founded in 2014 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Struck Capital

Argonautic Ventures is a group of micro-funds with varying investment theses and a group of general partners. Its innovative and flexible structure allows them to deploy into a portfolio of companies across industry and stages. Its venture funds identify targeted returns based on specific investment theses that their team is well-positioned to act upon. It focuses on a handful of emerging and mature industries where secular shifts are creating new business models that can scale quickly.  Its investment team has experience investing in several sectors related to technology, healthcare, and emerging markets.

Argonautic Ventures

WndrCo is a holding company that acquires, operates, and develops businesses at the intersection of technology and media.

WndrCo

SparkLabs Cultiv8 is a unique world class accelerator and research facility co-founded by the SparkLabs Group, Asia's leading tech accelerator group, and the NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI), together with a number of leading farms and large corporate partners.

SparkLabs Cultiv8

ALAYA is a venture capital fund aimed at promoting, consolidating and increasing the value of companies and technological ventures in the region. We dream about a new economy in Latin America, based on tech and knowledge, impacting the world.

Alaya Capital

Alumni Ventures Group provides high-quality, diversified venture portfolios to individual investors who previously haven't had access to VC. It helps accredited alums from top entrepreneurial schools invest together in the ventures of fellow alums. The firm backs companies with an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor with expertise in the space. AVG also offers focused funds that allow any accredited investor access to a venture portfolio, diversified by type, sector, stage, and geography. Beth Obermiller, Michael Madden, and Mike Collins co-founded the firm in Manchester, New Hampshire in 2013.

Alumni Ventures

Established in 2000 as an early-stage venture capital arm of SoftBank Group, SBVA has a storied history of empowering extraordinary entrepreneurs across the globe. In 2023, we joined forces with The Edgeof, a global startup ecosystem builder founded by Taizo Son, JP Lee, and Atsushi Taira and began our new chapter as an independent entity with a renewed commitment to fostering innovation and technological advancement.

SBVA

Nature Conservancy works toward achieving its goal of conserving lands and waters through the dedicated efforts of their diverse staff, including more than 600 scientists, located in all 50 U.S. states and more than 35 countries, with the help of many partners, from individuals and governments to local nonprofits and corporations by using a non-confrontational, collaborative approach.

The Nature Conservancy

Founded in 2019, Parkway operates at the intersection of vision and execution with a focus on cutting-edge technologies and business models. The firm is largely focused on the trend of digital transformation of businesses, products and systems with software and hardware technologies in data science, artificial intelligence (AI), simulation, automation, spatial computing, internet of things (IOT), augmented reality (AR), generative design and optimization technologies.  Parkway primarily targets investments in the Climate Tech, Construction Tech (Contech), Property Tech (Proptech), Generative Design, Business Intelligence, Health Tech, Metaverse and Direct-to-Consumer sectors. Companies in which Parkway investments typically have a software as a service, unique technology, valuable patents and intellectual property that make them highly competitive in the market, valuable to potential strategic acquirers and/or display the potential for high growth annual recurring revenue.

Parkway Venture Capital

Westerly Winds was launched to address the challenges that many entrepreneurs face when building companies and specialised asset management businesses in their formative years. We back and invest in dynamic visionary founders and companies that have the potential to become an integral part of the ‘new economy’.    Working as partners with the executive teams on a round the clock basis, we assist with financing, business development, stakeholder management and business strategy activities, thus adding muscle to some of the business’ critical functions.

Westerly Winds

Earthshot Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that supports entrepreneurs developing creative solutions to address climate change. Earthshot harnesses the power of the global network our team has built over the last two decades to accelerate climate technology adoption and create iconic brands. The fund is led by Mike Jackson who has spent 15 years as an entrepreneur and VC in climate tech, and Dawn Lippert, founder and CEO of Elemental Impact.

Earthshot Ventures

Aquabyte

Aquabyte builds machine-learning products for aquaculture (fish) farms. Aquabyte was founded in 2017 to bring machine learning and computer vision technologies to the aquaculture industry. The company's diverse team of machine learning experts, entrepreneurs, and aquaculture biologists are hyperfocused on delivering solutions with a real-world impact. Real-time sea lice counting, biomass monitoring, and appetite detection are just a few of the many applications that will eventually be possible with the Aquabyte system. Aquabyte surpasses modern farm monitoring products with our machine-learning platform and smart camera system. The company's solution offers easy installation, continuous monitoring, and multiple applications. Aquabyte’s mission is to use machine learning to make fish farms more efficient, sustainable, and profitable.

Aquabyte is a technology company founded in 2017 that provides computer vision and machine learning solutions for the aquaculture industry. The company's core product is a smart underwater camera system that uses artificial intelligence to gather real-time data on fish behavior, health, and growth in fish farms. Aquabyte's platform analyzes video footage to track individual fish, optimize feeding schedules, detect diseases, estimate biomass, and monitor various welfare indicators without removing fish from the water. The system can accurately count sea lice, assess fish welfare, and calculate fish weight, providing farmers with insights to make data-driven decisions that improve fish health, reduce waste, and increase overall efficiency.

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Aquabyte is a technology company founded in 2017 that provides computer vision and machine learning solutions for the aquaculture industry. The company's core product is a smart underwater camera system that uses artificial intelligence to gather real-time data on fish behavior, health, and growth in fish farms. Aquabyte's platform analyzes video footage to track individual fish, optimize feeding schedules, detect diseases, estimate biomass, and monitor various welfare indicators without removing fish from the water. The system can accurately count sea lice, assess fish welfare, and calculate fish weight, providing farmers with insights to make data-driven decisions that improve fish health, reduce waste, and increase overall efficiency.
Aquabyte's software tools and analytics dashboards allow farmers to visualize and analyze data in real-time, enabling them to optimize various aspects of fish farming operations. The company's technology aims to address challenges in the aquaculture industry such as inefficient monitoring, disease outbreaks, and environmental concerns. Aquabyte has deployed hundreds of systems monitoring salmon and trout across multiple countries. As of July 2022, the company had processed over 300 million unique fish images. Aquabyte was the first to receive approval by dispensation for automatic sea lice counting from the Norwegian Food Safety Authorities.

Biokind is a company that produces sustainable protein feed for fish and shrimp farming. The company's innovative product is created through a proprietary natural fermentation process that upcycles non-edible agricultural waste. This approach aims to replace traditional fishmeal and soy protein in aquaculture, particularly in shrimp farms, which are known to be significant carbon dioxide polluters in the sector. By utilizing Biokind's product, the company claims it can potentially reduce carbon dioxide emissions by over 5 billion tonnes. The technology addresses the growing demand for protein in aquaculture, which has seen a 60% increase in production in Europe since 1998, while also tackling the issues of overfishing and deforestation associated with conventional protein sources like fishmeal and soybeans. Biokind's solution aims to make agricultural land use more efficient by valorizing waste products, thus contributing to a more sustainable aquaculture industry.

BioKind

Ecto is a digital biology company that develops technology to enhance efficiency and sustainability in aquaculture production. The company's primary offering is a digital decision support platform that leverages advanced molecular tools and digital technologies to streamline production and health management in aquaculture operations. Ecto's platform supports deep integrations with over 100 data sources throughout the aquaculture value chain, using multi-generational data to automatically build models for early detection of patterns associated with biological risks. The software covers multiple environmental factors in key phases of production affecting fish welfare and development, including hatchery, well-boat and truck transport, grow-out, and processing phases.
Founded with offices in the US and Norway, Ecto collaborates with farmers worldwide to optimize their operations. The company's solutions have enabled farmers to create 51 million additional healthy servings of protein. In October 2021, Ecto raised USD 7 million in financing led by the Rabo Food and Agri Innovation Fund and Aqua-Spark, with participation from Seventure Partners and existing investors Yield Lab and Vodia Ventures. The funding was intended to advance Ecto's position in the market for digital decision support tools for aquaculture.
Ecto's platform aims to address the challenge of data fragmentation in the aquaculture industry, where much of the data is still locked in paper records, spreadsheets, and disparate software systems. By pioneering structured data capture across the industry, Ecto enables producers to tap into aquaculture industry data to enhance the efficiency and sustainability of production. The company's technology is designed to increase output, reduce environmental degradation, improve animal welfare, and increase transparency and traceability in the supply chain.

Ecto

Australis Aquaculture is a producer of premium ocean-raised barramundi, operating in Central Vietnam. The company focuses on sustainable aquaculture practices and offers a range of barramundi products under its brand, The Better Fish. Australis utilizes Climate-Smart Ocean Farming techniques in Van Phong Bay, Vietnam, where it nurtures barramundi in pristine tropical waters. The company's barramundi is known for its mild, buttery flavor and is rich in omega-3s, containing half the calories of salmon.
Australis Aquaculture has achieved several certifications for its sustainable practices. It was the first to be certified under the Aquaculture Stewardship Council's Tropical Marine Finfish standard and the first ocean-farmed fish to receive a Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch Best Choice rating. The company also holds a Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) 4-star certification. In December 2021, Australis was awarded the US Secretary of State's Award for Corporate Excellence in Climate Innovation.
The Better Fish product line includes various barramundi offerings such as Lemon Herb Butter Barramundi, Crispy Barramundi Fish Tenders, and Simply Skinless Barramundi Fillets. In January 2024, the company expanded its product range with Barra Barrk, the world's first Fair Trade Certified pet treat made from hand-rolled barramundi fish skins. As of December 2021, Australis exported approximately 10,000 tons of fish annually from its operations in Khánh Hòa province, Vietnam. The company operates four processing factories in the region and has plans to build a modern seafood processing factory in Ninh Thủy Industrial Park.
Key customers and partnerships
Australis Aquaculture has established partnerships with various organizations to promote sustainability and ethical practices. In March 2024, the company celebrated three years of partnership with Fair Trade US, making it one of the first national brands to offer a full line of Fair Trade Certified barramundi products. Through this partnership, Australis supports community-focused programs in Central Vietnam.
The company's products are available in retail and foodservice channels across North America. Australis' Barra Barrk pet treats were being sold at all BJ's Wholesale Club retail locations throughout the eastern US. The company also exports its products to Australia, showcasing its international reach in the seafood market.

Australis Aquaculture

Open Blue is a leading supplier of Cobia, a whitefish species, utilizing deepwater aquaculture to grow fish sustainably. The company operates offshore aquaculture farms in the waters off Panama, focusing on producing Cobia through environmentally responsible practices. Open Blue's approach involves a closed-loop ecosystem that aims to minimize interference with natural marine habitats. The company offers various Cobia products, including whitefish portions, burgers, and strips, which can be prepared through different cooking methods or served as sashimi. Open Blue's business model includes direct-to-consumer sales, with products available for home delivery throughout the US via their website. The company emphasizes the nutritional benefits of Cobia, highlighting its content of essential vitamins, minerals, omega-3 fatty acids, and proteins.

Open Blue

KnipBio, founded in 2013, is a biotechnology company specializing in the development of single-cell protein technologies for aquaculture, animal feeds, and human applications. The company's core product, KnipBio Meal (KBM), is a high-quality feed protein derived from methanol through industrial fermentation of the microorganism Methylorubrum extorquens. KBM is designed to be a sustainable alternative to traditional protein sources like fishmeal and soybean meal in aquaculture feeds. The product offers a complete amino acid profile along with vitamins, inorganic salts, fats, and carbohydrates, positioning it as a viable partial replacement for fishmeal, soybeans, meat, and skimmed milk powder in various applications.
KnipBio's fermentation process is highly efficient, producing a protein-rich biomass with a high dry cell weight of 120 g/liter and a crude protein content of 67.2%. The company claims its method is a thousand times more efficient than traditional farming practices. KBM has gained regulatory approvals in multiple markets, including FDA GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) designation for finfish and shrimp feeds in the US in 2019, and approval from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) for use in salmonid feeds up to 10% of the total diet in June 2022.
In addition to its nutritional benefits, KBM is being explored for its potential to reduce off-flavors in recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS), a common issue in fish farming. The company has been conducting trials with RAS facilities to determine if a diet containing five percent of their single-cell protein product can lower levels of geosmin (GSM) and 2-methylisoborneol (MIB), compounds responsible for off-flavors in farmed fish. Initial results have shown significant reductions in off-flavor in RAS-raised trout.
In July 2024, Larry Feinberg, the CEO and founder of KnipBio, stepped down from his position. Caitlin Wege, who had recently joined the company, was appointed as the new CEO to lead KnipBio's future endeavors.

KnipBio

Suppliers of sustainable and responsibly sourced fish meal replacements, fish feed, and fish feed ingredients

Suppliers of monitoring tools, analytics platforms, water management systems, feeding systems, and infrastructure, among others, to aid sustainable aquaculture practices

Farming operators involved in the sustainable breeding of finfish

Farming operators involved in the sustainable cultivation of shellfish and/or aquatic plants

Suppliers of disease diagnostics, treatments, medication, nutritional supplements and biomonitoring, among other services aimed at increasing quality, health, and efficiency of aquaculture.

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