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We’ve ranked the top 27 Aquaculture companies in California, United States. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Aquaculture Companies & Startups (California, United States)
NovoNutrients
NovoNutrients is working to turn waste CO2 into high-value, low-cost proteins and oils for aquaculture and beyond.
Founder(s): Brian Sefton
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industries: Animal Feed, Aquaculture, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage
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Blue Ocean Gear
Blue Ocean Gear provides sensored tracking buoys to address the commercial fishing industry’s informational and environmental challenges
Founder(s): Kortney Opshaug
Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Industries: Aquaculture, GreenTech, Information Services, Information Technology, Internet of Things, Location Based Services, Marine Technology, Sustainability
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Healthy Oceans Seafood Company
Healthy Oceans Seafood Company provides nutritious, premium, sustainably harvested, and resource-smart food products to the U.S. market.
Founder(s): Clarice Owens, Corbin Hanson, Matthew Owens, Nick Jurlin
Location: Santa Cruz, California, United States
Industries: Aquaculture, Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Seafood
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Aquaai
Aquaai provides risk management to blue economy industries that seek affordable tools to grow and operate sustainable.
Founder(s): Doug Vargas, Liane Thompson, Simeon Pieterkosky
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Aquaculture, Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, Robotics, Water
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Osmo Systems
Technology to Bring Aquaculture into the 21st Century
Founder(s): James Regulinski, Paul Holowko, Zach Stein
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, Aquaculture, Farming, Information Technology, Manufacturing, Test and Measurement
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Aquabyte
Aquabyte builds machine learning camera IOT software to directly solve the world’s food sustainability issues
Founder(s): Bryton Shang
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, Aquaculture, Information Services, Information Technology, Machine Learning
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AquaCloud
AquaCloud provides a cloud-based monitoring platform for commercial aquaculture and municipalities.
Founder(s): Anthony Tran, Michel Haddad, Yousif Astarabadi
Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, Analytics, Aquaculture, Consumer Electronics, Enterprise Software, Water, Water Purification
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Catalina Sea Ranch
Catalina Sea Ranch specializes in the fields of Mediterranean mussels, Purple Hinged Rock Scallop, and Aquaculture.
Founder(s): Philip Cruver
Location: San Pedro, California, United States
Industries: Aquaculture, Marine Technology, Service Industry, Water Purification
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Aqua Lung
Aqua Lung is a provider of personal aquatic equipment for recreational and professional use.
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Location: Vista, California, United States
Industries: Aquaculture, Marine Technology, Sports
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Primary Ocean
Vertically Integrated Seaweed Biotech Corp Providing Sea to Soil Sustainability Solutions from Seaweed
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Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Aquaculture, Biofuel, Biomass Energy, Biotechnology
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Monterey Bay Aquarium
The Monterey Bay Aquarium is a non-profit public aquarium located in Monterey, California, United States.
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Location: Monterey, California, United States
Industries: Aquaculture, Architecture, Association, Government, Non Profit
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Varuna Capital
Varuna Capital is an investment management and venture capital firm that invests in the aquaculture industry.
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Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Aquaculture, Financial Services, Professional Services
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Syntheseas
Syntheseas researches gene discovery for producing marine aquaculture crops.
Founder(s): Tariq Warsi
Location: San Pedro, California, United States
Industries: AgTech, Aquaculture, Biotechnology, Genetics, Life Science
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Center for Aquaculture Technologies
Center for Aquaculture Technologies is a research and development company using all modern genetic improvement technologies.
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Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Aquaculture
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AFN
AFN is a digital publication covering investment and entrepreneurship in foodtech and agtech.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Aquaculture, Farming, Food and Beverage, Venture Capital
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Fish Bio
Fish Bio is an environmental consulting company that provides research, monitoring, equipment fabrications and conservations of fish.
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Location: Oakdale, California, United States
Industries: Aquaculture, Biotechnology, Consulting, Environmental Consulting
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Aquaneering
Aquaneering is a manufacture of fluidized bed biofiltration systems for aquatics research housing.
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Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Aquaculture, Manufacturing
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Sea Dwelling Creatures
Sea Dwelling Creatures provides tropical fish, coral, inverts, aquarium supplies, distribution, and wholesale services.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Aquaculture, Pet, Wholesale
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Futuna Blue España SL
Futuna Blue España SL is a multi-disciplinary and specialized team with a wide experience in all the stages of breeding for fish species.
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Location: Santa Maria, California, United States
Industries: Aquaculture
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Mattress Tree
Mattress Tree is an agriculture company located in Northridge.
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Location: Northridge, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Aquaculture
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Aquafinatic
Aquafinatic provides aquarium product and installation.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Aquaculture, E-Commerce, Sales
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GB Aqua
GB Aqua is a producer and distributor of frozen maturation feeds, larval diets and flake diets for shrimp hatcheries.
Founder(s): Mark Ingley
Location: Fresno, California, United States
Industries: Aquaculture, Food and Beverage, Food Processing
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Unique Corals
Unique Corals is a wholesaler and seller of corals and equipment.
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Location: Van Nuys, California, United States
Industries: Aquaculture, Consulting, Wholesale
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Ecoxotic
Ecoxotic offers a wide collection of aquarium LED lighting for aquariums.
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Location: Vista, California, United States
Industries: Aquaculture, Lighting, Retail
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Dive N’Surf
Dive N’Surf provides the rental facilities of aquatic sports equipment such as kayaks, surfboards, wetsuits, and stand up paddleboards.
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Location: Redondo Beach, California, United States
Industries: Aquaculture, Rental, Sports
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Waterdog Products
Waterdog Products is a manufacturer that specializes in the design and development of fiberglass tanks of all sizes.
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Location: El Cajon, California, United States
Industries: Aquaculture, Industrial, Manufacturing
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Bay Area Recycle
Bay Area Recycle is an agriculture company located in Walnut Creek.
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Location: Walnut Creek, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, Aquaculture
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