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XpertSea is a technology company.
XpertSea delivers an AI-driven data management platform designed to optimize operations within the aquaculture industry. The company utilizes artificial intelligence, computer vision, and machine learning to provide real-time insights and predictive analytics. This technology enables farmers to accurately monitor and manage the health, growth, and operational efficiency of their aquatic crops, primarily focusing on shrimp production.
Founded in 2012 by Cody Andrews, François Robitaille, Sylvie Lavigne, and Valérie Robitaille, XpertSea emerged from a conviction that technology and data could unlock significant untapped potential within aquaculture. The founders recognized a pressing need to modernize farming practices and enhance sustainability in seafood production, laying the groundwork for their data-centric approach.
The platform primarily serves aquaculture producers, particularly shrimp farmers, by equipping them with actionable intelligence to improve their yields and sustainability. XpertSea’s overarching vision is to fundamentally transform global seafood farming and trading, establishing a more efficient and sustainable aquaculture ecosystem that can responsibly address increasing worldwide demand for seafood.
XpertSea has raised $29.0M across 3 funding rounds.
XpertSea has raised $29.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
XpertSea is a Canadian aquaculture technology company founded in 2012 that develops AI-powered tools to modernize seafood farming, primarily for shrimp producers but expanding to fish like salmon, tilapia, and sea bass. Its core products include the XperCount—a portable smart device using computer vision and machine learning to count, size, weigh, and image aquatic organisms with over 95% accuracy—and the XpertSea Growth Platform (and newer XpertSea MAX), web-based dashboards providing actionable insights on growth, health, feeding, harvest timing, and sustainability metrics like carbon footprint and biodiversity[1][2][3][5]. These solutions serve over 1,000 customers including farms, hatcheries, animal health providers, feed companies, genetics firms, research centers, and buyers in 40+ countries, mainly in Asia, Latin America, Europe, and North America, solving key challenges in aquaculture—the world's fastest-growing food sector—such as inaccurate manual counting leading to over/under-feeding, crop losses, pollution, disease outbreaks, and poor cash flow[1][2][3][8]. By enabling data-driven decisions, XpertSea boosts crop yields up to 100%, optimizes profitability, accelerates payments (e.g., 80% crop value in 24 hours via trading portals), and promotes sustainable practices amid rising global food security demands[1][4].
The company has shown strong growth momentum, raising a $20M Series B in 2021 to expand finance and tech for seafood trading, launching responsible sourcing tools aligned with Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability standards, and deploying in 250+ sites across Ecuador, Mexico, UK, Vietnam, and beyond as of recent reports[3][4][5][8].
XpertSea was co-founded in 2012 (with some sources noting 2011) in Quebec, Canada, by Valérie Robitaille (CEO) and partners who leveraged expertise in machine learning, computer vision, optics, IoT, and big data to innovate in aquaculture[1][2][8]. The idea emerged from early projects detecting salmon and halibut in New Brunswick waters, which pivoted to shrimp farming after interest from Southeast Asia and South America—major sources of grocery shrimp—where manual methods caused inefficiencies like overstocking larvae leading to deaths and pollution[1][2]. Pivotal moments included developing the XperCount for precise larvae counting (analyzing 4.5 billion samples), expanding to health diagnostics (e.g., black gills, feeding issues), and building a global AI trained on farm visits worldwide[1][2]. Early traction came from shrimp farms in Asia and Latin America, evolving into a platform with millions of anonymized data points for benchmarking, culminating in launches like the Growth Platform and trading portals that transformed farmer cash flow and sustainability reporting[3][4].
XpertSea rides the aquaculture boom—the fastest-growing food production sector, critical for global food security as wild fish stocks decline—by bringing AI, computer vision, and data platforms to an industry reliant on guesswork[1][2][6][7]. Timing is ideal amid rising demand for sustainable seafood, regulatory pressures (e.g., traceability), and climate challenges like GHG emissions from shrimp farming, where XpertSea's tools cut waste, optimize resources, and provide metrics for carbon/labor transparency[5][8]. Market forces favoring it include Asia/Latin America's dominance in shrimp (key export markets), buyer demands for verified sustainability, and cleantech export growth (e.g., EDC recognition)[1][5]. It influences the ecosystem by enabling inclusive models that boost smallholder incomes/resilience in 30+ countries, fostering data-sharing benchmarks, and bridging farms to buyers via trading portals—accelerating a shift to precision aquaculture akin to agtech revolutions in crops[4][8].
XpertSea is poised to dominate AI-aquaculture with expansions into more species, regions, and value-chain services like predictive trading and full traceability. Trends like AI integration in food systems, sustainability mandates, and aquaculture's projected doubling by 2030 will propel growth, especially as it leverages its vast dataset for advanced predictions and partnerships with feed/genetics firms[2][5][6]. Its influence may evolve from farm tools to ecosystem orchestrator, enabling global buyers to scale responsible sourcing while farmers achieve "more with less." This positions XpertSea as a cleantech leader feeding the world sustainably, building on its mission to modernize operations for healthier, profitable crops[1][3].
XpertSea has raised $29.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
XpertSea's investors include QED Investors, Julio Vasconcellos, 7BC Venture Capital, 8VC, Aqua Spark, Asylum Ventures, Adeyemi Ajao, BP Ventures, Canary Ventures, Celesta, Chroma Ventures, Citi Ventures.
XpertSea has raised $29.0M across 3 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $20.0M Series B in August 2021.