Aqua-Spark\u2019s investment in Hatch Accelerator 1.0 will be used to accelerate a group of eight companies between April and June.<\/p>\n
Mike Velings and Amy Novogratz, cofounders of Aqua-Spark, stated: \u201cit is imperative that we develop a way to finance early stage aquaculture ventures, which Hatch is doing. Between Aqua-Spark and Hatch, there is a clear opportunity for a symbiotic partnership that will improve collective deal flow.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can direct smart, early-phase companies to Hatch, and as Hatch actively finds and grows early stage startups, Aqua-Spark can absorb those that have progressed beyond accelerator. It is a holistic win for the aquaculture industry as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n
On hand Expertise<\/strong><\/p>\n Hatch, located in Bergen, Norway, was created with the mission of investing in early stage aquaculture opportunities. The accelerator comprises an intensive three-month programme that provides top teams with aquaculture expertise from across the world — along with industry and investor connections and the facilities required to fast track product development.<\/p>\n It was founded in 2017 by Dr Carsten Krome, Georg Baunach and Wayne Murphy, with support from Alimentos Ventures, which was created by Mr Krome, who previously worked for Aqua-Spark.<\/p>\n Mr Krome said: \u201cAqua-Spark has an extensive network and hands-on approach that will help propel Hatch, and syncs nicely with the incubator concept. Together, we cover a major part of the financial value chain \u2013 improving resources and opportunities for startups from early stage onward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first global accelerator programme dedicated to the aquaculture industry will have the opportunity to grow with investment from the first investment fund focused exclusively on sustainable aquaculture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-11626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aquaculture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11628,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11626\/revisions\/11628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11626"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=11626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}