As an aquaculture entrepreneur, it can be challenging to navigate different sources of funding to grow and scale your business. Investment in this sector has also changed and evolved in the past 5 years with more finance exploring new opportunities in the blue economies, and concurrently new ocean and aquaculture-specific funds have emerged alongside this trend.
HATCH was the first aquaculture investor globally to apply the accelerator model to develop founders and startups starting in 2018. HATCH has applied a unique methodology to select startups within the aquaculture sub-sectors to invest in. Over the last four years, there have been key successes and failures of developing startups and these will be showcased to highlight the learnings that future startups can apply to their growth plans.
Moving forward, HATCH will adapt this strategy to support the growth of the aquaculture sector through its global accelerator in 2023. As the fastest growing food sector in the world, aquaculture is an exciting space to invest in and there are big opportunities for finance to play a role.