Aquaculture Venture Capital
July 28th, 2008 by AndrewSpecialist Aquaculture investor Aquacopia is a New York based venture capital manager.
Managing Director, David Tze recently dropped by the finfish site.
Aquacopia’s website presents its investment focus as ”early-stage seafood farms, aquaculture technologies, and related supply, service, and marketing firms”.
To date,. David’s firm has invested in
- Ocean Farm Technologies, Inc. produces a unique, complete net pen culture system for finfish in deep water. The current, largest cage configuration is over 10,000 cubic meters. Operating submerged or partially surfaced, the Aquapod is a geodesic spheroid comprised of modular, triangular net panels.
- Snapperfarm, Inc., an open ocean fish farm off of Puerto Rico, is a trailblazer in offshore finfish culture. It has harvested four annual crops of cobia.
- Aquacopia made an investment in Oberon FMR, Inc., a firm that produces a high-quality, ultra-sustainable protein meal that is a partial or total replacement for fish meal in aquaculture and animal feeds.
David shares his views on aquaculture as an investment ion this TV interview which profiles offshore aquaculture in the US.
Readers may care to highlight other venture capital investors that have portfolio interests in aquaculture.
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