September 26, 2017 — Fish 2.0, a business competition that connects seafood businesses and investors to grow the sustainable seafood sector, announced last week that 40 companies in the seafood industry will present ideas to investors at the Fish 2.0 Innovation Forum taking place in November at Stanford University in California.
The program bears similarities to the hit television show Shark Tank, and the field of contestants was narrowed from a long list of 184 entrants.
“This is the strongest group ever. The level of innovation is potentially both system changing and very profitable,” Fish 2.0 Founder and Executive Director Monica Jain said. “We’re seeing the rise of ‘seatech’ – new monitoring, visibility, production and processing tools for the seafood industry – as well as other advances that remove barriers to growth and sustainability for fishers, farmers and buyers throughout the value chain.”