Finding SHRMPy - SHR!MP S01E08

22 October 2025

For the rest of 2024, in the absence of lab, team, and funding, I decided to focus on finding at least one of the three. And so the final weeks of 2024 were dedicated to speaking with as many people as possible, everyone who might have at least a remote interest in aquaculture, sustainable seafood, future nutrition, cool technology, AgTech, FoodTech, or Biotech. No single pitch competition was missed, applications submitted to bascially all remaining opportunities. Both SHRMP's website and LinkedIn page saw significant effort put in, especially to highlight why we believe there is a potentially massive future opportunity in developing high-tech on-shore aquaculture approaches.

A few trips to Sydney, numerous online meetings, and, while we were at it, a submission to the Startmate accelerator.

During this phase we also had a new team member join: SHRMPy, who started to add some fun and cheekiness into SHRMP and beyond – not only to provide some entertainment, but also to counter the otherwise rather bleak future trends that, yes, make on-shore aquaculture commercially really interesting, but are overall a rather sad outlook for all of us.

But could SHRMPy deliver?