19 Best Seafood Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Seafood Startups

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There are 19 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $592.1m. The average funding per company in this subset is $31.2m.

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$20.3m

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New Wave Foods is a biotechnology company developing plant-based shellfish food products. The company is based out of San Francisco, California and was founded in 2015 by Dominique Barnes and Michelle Wolf.

9

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$37.5m

Money raised

Finless Foods is a biotechnology company producing cultured marine animal food products through implementing cellular agriculture and manufacturing technologies.

5

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$104.5m

Money raised

A cellular agriculture company making fresh and frozen cultured seafood products.

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$25.0m

Money raised

Hungry Planet is a food technology startup company founded in 2016 by siblings Todd and Jody Boyman. Hungry Planet is located in St.Louis, Missouri, and produces plant-based meats. The company offers beef, Italian sausage, chorizo, chicken, pork, crab and turkey - available in chubs (ground), crumble and patties.

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$500.0k

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Ocean Hugger Foods is making a plant-based raw tuna substitute called Ahimi out of a mixture of 5 ingredients; tomatoes, filtered water, soy sauce, sesame oil, and sugar. The company is located in New York City, New York and was founded in 2015.

5

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$20.4m

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Shiok Meats is a Singapore-based cellular agriculture company focusing on making cultured seafood.

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4

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$119.5m

Money raised

Wild Type is a San Francisco based company producing meat products like salmon using cellular agriculture lab techniques.

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4

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$82.7m

Money raised

Good Catch is a New York-based food technology company focused on the production of plant-based seafood alternatives.

2

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$1.0m

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Sophie's Kitchen is a plant-based vegan seafood company located in Dover,Kent County, DE and founded by Eugene Wang in 2010. The company is producing vegan seafood such as crab meat, shrimp, scallops, tuna and salmon.

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$10.0m

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Sol Cuisine is a food company manufacturing vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, organic, non-GMO, and fresh meat alternatives. The company was founded by Dror Balshine in 1980 and is located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

3

Funding Rounds

$116.0m

Money raised

Operator of a cellular agriculture company intended to offer clean fish and meat. The company leverages cellular agriculture technologies to address the pressing challenges of the generation like climate change, food security, and health, enabling customers to consume healthy meat alternatives.

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2

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$13.9m

Money raised

Avant Meats is developing cell cultured fish maw (aka dried fish bladder), a delicacy in traditional Chinese cuisine. Fish maw is typically sourced from either the Chinese Bahaba (giant yellow croaker) or the Totoaba, both of which are on the brink of extinction due to such high demand for fish maw. Avant Meats will source cells from the Chinese Bahaba fish.

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$1.3m

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Based on the cultivation of mushroom mycelium, is developing a range of animal protein substitute products.

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$1.6m

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Cultured Decadence is a Wisconsin-based cellular agriculture company using cell culture and tissue engineering technologies to make lobster meat directly from the animal's cells. The company was acquired by Upside Foods in January 2022.

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BlueTrace is a Castine, Maine-based company founded in 2017 by Chip Terry, Andy Kearney, Catherine Ganim and Drew Condon.

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$1.0m

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THE PACK, is a food technology startup, creating nutritious, healthy plant-based pet food. Our mission...

1

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$35.0m

Money raised

Aruna is a company founded in 2015 by Farid Naufal Aslam.

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Modern Plant-Based Foods is a Vancouver, Canada-based company developing plant-based meat alternatives.

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$1.9m

Money raised

Legit Fish Co is a Boston-based seafood company founded in 2018.

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