Farmed
Wild catch
51%
Farmed, not caught
In 2022, farming overtook wild catch for the first time.
Turning waste into marine ingredients.
We cultivate Artemia on nutrient-rich liquid streams from the food industry, in AI-controlled tanks on land. The control of a bioprocess with the nutrition of a marine organism.
- Blue innovation
- Powered by science
- Improved by AI
From lab to industry
- 2022Biology provenFirst cultures on food by-products
- 2024Feedstock validated15 industrial by-products so far
- TodayProducing on siteAt a dairy
- 2027Built to replicateA scalable modular unit
500×
scale-up since our first lab tanks in 2022
01 · Why it mattersSeafood's future is farmed.
Seafood's future is farmed.
Its feed is the bottleneck.
Farmed fish and shrimp are among the most efficient animal proteins we have. But every hatchery and feed mill still depends on marine ingredients taken from the wild.
3.2bn
People rely on it
For at least a fifth of their animal protein.
+10%
More by 2032
Projected growth, almost all of it from farming.
1–2 kg
Feed per kg of fish
Against 6–10 kg of feed for beef.
Sources: FAO, The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2024 · feed figures are typical industry ranges
02 · The problem
The wild sources are running out.
Feed, supplements and skincare rely on three wild sources of marine ingredients: salt lakes, krill and wild fish. Supply from all three is tightening.
Salt lakes
−73%
Water lost from the main Artemia source
The Great Salt Lake supplies around 45% of the world's Artemia cysts and has lost 73% of its water. Most of the rest comes from salt lakes in China, Kazakhstan and Russia.
99% of marine hatcheries rely on Artemia. There is no quick switch.
Source · USGS · 2024
Krill harvest · 2025
4 mo early
First-ever early shutdown
Krill supplies aquaculture and the omega-3 market. In 2025 the Antarctic season hit its catch limit in August and closed early for the first time.
One bad season moves prices worldwide. Buyers have no plan B.
Source · CCAMLR · 2025
Wild fisheries
+0%
No growth since the 1990s
Fishmeal and fish oil come from wild catch, which has been flat for 30 years. 90% of monitored fish stocks are fished at or beyond their limit.
Plants, algae and ferments can't replace a whole marine organism.
Source · FAO · SOFIA
03 · Our answer
Grow it on land, where the by-products are.
Dairies, breweries and distilleries pay to dispose of nutrient-rich liquid by-products. We turn them into feed for Artemia, grown in closed tanks that clean and reuse their water.
Input
Food & drink by-products
Dairy, brewing, distilling
Salty whey, permeate, malt and grain residues. Local, abundant and, until now, a disposal cost.
Platform
Our cultivation platform
Artemia grown on land
Capital-light recirculating tanks, run by our own AI and camera setup, that keep conditions right day and night.
Output
Marine ingredients
Tailored nutrition
Whole Artemia, supplied live or as meal and refined fractions. By adjusting feed, growing conditions and selected strains, we tune the nutritional profile to what each customer needs.
04 · Why it's efficient
The same protein, on a fraction of the land.
Artemia grow indoors in tanks and feed on by-products, so they need barely any land. The squares show how much land it takes to produce 1 kg of protein in a year, drawn to scale.
Aquanzo
0.15 m²
about a pizza box
>200×
less land than farmed fish
>10,000×
less land than beef
Sources: Poore & Nemecek (2018), Science, via Our World in Data (life-cycle land use incl. feed crops and pasture). Aquanzo: own estimate at commercial scale.
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