Shrimp aquaculture and seafood export business Aquapulse raises Rs 45 Cr from NABVENTURES, IAN Alpha Fund
Aquapulse, a shrimp aquaculture and seafood export business based in Bhubaneswar, has raised Rs 45 crore in an investment round headed by NABVENTURES through its AgriSURE Fund, with participation from IAN Alpha Fund.
The money raised will be utilized to grow the company’s farmer procurement network throughout eastern India, improve working capital infrastructure, scale processing and export operations, and improve farm-level technology and disease management systems.
Abhishek and Abhilash Dwivedy founded Aquapulse in 2023. It runs a technology-enabled procurement platform that links small shrimp producers with both domestic and foreign markets. Currently, the firm uses an aquapreneur-led hub-and-spoke approach to assist farmers in West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, and Odisha.
Aquapulse offers farmers market access, disease early warning systems, feed management, harvesting coordination, and water quality monitoring. Additionally, the organization incorporates export logistics, harvesting, processing, and pre-harvest assistance into a traceable supply chain platform.
The business serves both local institutional and modern trade clients in addition to exporting shrimp mainly to China, Vietnam, and Japan.
The business claims that shrimp made up a sizable portion of India’s $8.28 billion seafood exports in 2025. Smallholder shrimp farmers have a number of difficulties, such as low technology adoption, fragmented market access, price volatility, and traceability demands from international purchasers. Aquapulse seeks to address these issues.
Sarika Saxena, Managing Partner at IAN Alpha Fund, commented on the investment, stating that Aquapulse’s farm-to-port platform addresses inefficiencies in the aquaculture value chain while providing transparency, traceability, and market access.
