Blue Food Innovation Summit 2025.
Eighteen international start-ups are set to take centre stage at the upcoming Blue Food Innovation Summit in London, demonstrating how pioneering ideas can transform the efficiency and sustainability of the aquaculture and seafood sectors.
The event, taking place on 8-9 April, features a series of companies which the organisers say are "hand-picked for their scalable solutions", encompassing a broad range of innovations, from fish health and feed breakthroughs to ocean data advancements.
Delegates at the summit will have the opportunity to meet the innovators behind the technologies, hearing at first-hand how these fresh approaches can drive progress in the blue food value chain.
Among the highlights, five seed-stage entrepreneurs will pitch their solutions during the summit’s Start-Up Showcase, outlining how they aim to tackle various challenges in aquaculture and ocean conservation.
Indonesia-based Banyu grows high-quality seaweed seedlings through regenerative farming, contributing to higher yields and healthier oceans while supporting coastal communities. UK-based Blue Food Performance offers transparent, scientifically verified blue food sustainability assessments, ensuring strong scientific and commercial integrity.
New Zealand’s Flomo is developing fishing gear that enhances animal welfare, protects ecosystems, and delivers improved catch quality. Flonergia Systems, based in Canada and part of the Yield Lab cohort, has devised an energy- and cost-efficient pump system that could replace conventional centrifugal pumping and aeration systems.
Rounding out the group, Italy’s Ocean Twist Biotechnology is focused on circular high-performance protein feed ingredients to bolster fish welfare and productivity.
Following the pitches, the entrepreneurs will answer questions from industry experts, including EIT FOOD’s Senior Innovation Programme Manager Mercedes Groba and BLUEFRONT EQUITY’s ESG & Impact Manager Karina Wessel.
Additional start-ups will be showcased in the exhibition area, illustrating the breadth of talent attending the summit.
Companies such as Aquanzo (UK), with its circular approach to transforming agricultural liquid co-products into natural marine ingredients, and Aquafood (Sweden), which creates value-added ingredients from fish side-streams, demonstrate new ways of reducing waste and maximizing resources.
Other exhibitors include Big Akwa (Sweden), advocating circular aquaculture projects via industrial symbiosis, and BiOceanOr (France), which combines artificial intelligence and biology to provide predictive water quality analytics.
From durable underwater camera systems by CatchCam Technologies (UK) to machine learning-powered microscopes by FP Aquaculture and Ocean Health (Denmark), the diversity of solutions addresses varied points along the aquaculture supply chain.
Also exhibiting are Mariculture Systems (Israel), with its robust offshore fish farming platform; Mercia Nanosolutions (UK), specialising in nanobubble generators for aquaculture aeration; and Nobify (Israel), which tackles bird predation issues to significantly boost aquaculture yields.
This year's summit will also feature start-ups from the Yield Lab Asia-Pacific.
Singapore’s Protenga has created a data-driven insect-based platform to enable a circular and regenerative food supply chain, while Seadling, also headquartered in Singapore, offers a biotech platform for tropical seaweeds with potential for diverse functional ingredients.
Meanwhile, Sea Green of Singapore uses geo-spatial insights to facilitate data-driven decisions, risk management, and sustainability gains.
Finally, Canada’s Wittaya Aqua completes the group with a technology platform that consolidates data across the seafood supply chain to improve efficiency, profitability, and sustainability.
