# Amy Novogratz

> Amy Novogratz is a Series B investor at Aqua Spark backing Aquaculture and Biotechnology. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Aqua Spark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aqua-sparks)
- Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Aug 2022
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-novogratz-1184b12/

Amy Novogratz is a Series B investor at Aqua Spark in Utrecht focused on Aquaculture and Biotechnology. After paying attention to the state of the ocean and learning about the opportunity around intelligent aquaculture, Amy co-founded Aqua-Spark,a fund that invests in sustainable aquaculture. Before this, Amy spent a decade as the director of the TED Prize, leading over twenty global collaborations, across a broad spectrum of sectors, includinghealthcare, education, science, technology, conservation, art and activism. Prior to TED, Amy worked in documentary television, which lead to developing and producing Chat the Planet, a TV and web initiative that connects young from different countries. Amy spent the early part of her career in Washington, DC, where she helped start up the Social Policy Action Network, a nonprofit that bridges the gap between journalists, academics, policy makers and grassroots initiatives. Loves: to bring people together, to foster collaboration, to connect people to ideas, to arrive in a place for the first time, to help create new opportunities, to search for answers and to learn people's stories.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aquaculture | 3 | 25% |
| Biotechnology | 3 | 25% |
| Agriculture | 2 | 17% |
| Waste Management | 2 | 17% |
| SaaS | 1 | 8% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 3 | 25% |
| Series A | 2 | 17% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 17% |
| Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 1 | 8% |
| Canada | 1 | 8% |
| Israel | 1 | 8% |
| Poland | 1 | 8% |
| Sweden | 1 | 8% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sea6 Energy | Sea6 Energy is a platform that utilizes the unlimited potential of the oceans in a sustainable and ethical way. It visualizes a future where the abundant oceans will be the biomass farms of the future, to provide solutions in energy, agriculture, and food.Sea6 Energy has a team of professionals from diverse fields like industrial automation,plant pathology, ocean engineering, bioprocess engineering, marine biology, and aerospace engineering, with the goal of building a whole new economy based on marine biomass.It develops technologies to convert biomass into biofuel, plant growth stimulants, plant defence products, animal feed ingredients, and other bio-renewable products to replace chemicals and plastics, effectively creating a Bio-refinery out of marine biomass, churning out a whole variety of products leaving nothing to waste.Sea6 Energy was founded on 2010 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India. | $9.5M | Series B | Aug 17, 2022 |  |
| Protix | Protix Biosystems is a biometrics company that offers a range of products which enable its customers to optimize their feed solutions. It was founded in 2009 and is based in Dongen, the Netherlands. | $57.1M | Private Equity | Feb 08, 2022 |  |
| eFishery | eFishery is an internet of things startup for fish/shrimp farming. The company builds technology solutions from smart feeding, cloud-based dashboard, and data platform to help the fish/shrimp farmers to grow their business sustainably. eFishery is trying to solve the biggest problem from one of the most crucial and fastest-growingindustries in the world: aquaculture. | $90M | Series C | Jan 10, 2022 |  |
| XpertSea | XpertSea is a Canadian technology company that's transforming how the global aquaculture industry farms seafood to help feed the world. Combining smart aquaculture equipment with a farm management platform, our collaborative solution uncovers actionable insights driven by artificial intelligence. These insights enable farmers and industryexperts to optimize feed efficiency, reduce environmental waste, take preventive actions against diseases and use data to bring transparency and knowledge to the entire supply chain. With customers in over 50 countries, we’re using Canadian ingenuity to make aquaculture profitable and sustainable. | $20M | Series B | Aug 10, 2021 |  |
| Proteon Pharmaceuticals | PROTEON uses precision biology for microbiome protection to improve animal and human health, increasing environmental sustainability and eliminating the unnecessary use of antibiotics. We have developed a platform to develop and deliver bacteriophages for animal health solutions. Our pipeline includes solutions to prophylactically improveperformance and food safety in poultry, as well as important prevent economically important bacterial diseases in aquaculture and dairy. | $24.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 10, 2021 |  |
| Sea6 Energy | Sea6 Energy is a platform that utilizes the unlimited potential of the oceans in a sustainable and ethical way. It visualizes a future where the abundant oceans will be the biomass farms of the future, to provide solutions in energy, agriculture, and food.Sea6 Energy has a team of professionals from diverse fields like industrial automation,plant pathology, ocean engineering, bioprocess engineering, marine biology, and aerospace engineering, with the goal of building a whole new economy based on marine biomass.It develops technologies to convert biomass into biofuel, plant growth stimulants, plant defence products, animal feed ingredients, and other bio-renewable products to replace chemicals and plastics, effectively creating a Bio-refinery out of marine biomass, churning out a whole variety of products leaving nothing to waste.Sea6 Energy was founded on 2010 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India. | $7.9M | Series B | Jul 20, 2021 |  |
| eFishery | eFishery is an internet of things startup for fish/shrimp farming. The company builds technology solutions from smart feeding, cloud-based dashboard, and data platform to help the fish/shrimp farmers to grow their business sustainably. eFishery is trying to solve the biggest problem from one of the most crucial and fastest-growingindustries in the world: aquaculture. | $15M | Series B | Aug 11, 2020 |  |
| Swedish Algae Factory | Swedish Algae Factory extracts with silicon algae as a raw material a nanoporous material from these algae, which when applied to solar panels gives increased efficiency. The first tests in laboratory environments indicate a significant increase in efficiency. | $5.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 17, 2020 |  |
| Ace Aquatec | Ace Aquatec is specialises in acoustic marine mammal deterrents and humane electrical fish stunning equipment. Our markets are aquaculture, off-shore construction / demolition and fishermen.The US3 is the latest model of acoustic deterrent for the fish farming industry offering data logging, high and low frequency transducers, and sonartriggering. The MMD is offered to the long line fishermen, to offshore platforms engaged in pile driving and government organisations engaged in post oil spillage response. The sophisticated electronics drives marine wildlife to a zone of safety. | $6.5M | Series A | Nov 13, 2019 |  |
| BioFishency | BioFishency is developing a cost-effective, all-in-one water treatment system for land-based aquaculture. The system operates with all different aquaculture methods: extensive (land ponds), intensive (constructed ponds), and recirculated. It enables fish farms to double or triple production while continuing to use installed infrastructure.BioFishency overcomes the two key aquaculture challenges: limited water availability and buildup of toxic ammonia (excreted by the fish). It enhances the water conditions to increase the ability of the fish to survive, grow, and reproduce. With BioFishency’s system, farmers increase fish production with minimal investment, significantly increasing profitability and sustainability. | $2.4M |  | Mar 27, 2019 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Wavemaker Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wavemaker-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Chalmers Ventures AB](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chalmers-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Argor Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/go-ventures-4131) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Northstar Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/northstar-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Peak XV Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-india-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Aqua Spark

VC Fund · Utrecht, The Netherlands

Aqua-Spark is an investment fund with a focus on sustainable aquaculture businesses around the world. The small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) they invest in are working toward the production of safe, accessible aquatic life, such as fish, shellfish and plants, in ways that do not harm their oceans. Their investors value the fact that each investmentaims to create triple impact—specifically, each investment is chosen for its potential to generate significant financial returns while also activating positive environmental and social outcomes.Aqua-Spark believes that committing to a long-term vision is the way to realize effective and lasting impact results. When it comes to investments, they do not seek quick exits; instead, they look for entrepreneurs who strive to build and scale toward the future, who see their business as major economic opportunities that can also help solve looming environmental and food security challenges over the long-term. As an essential of each investee, Aqua-Spark seeks sustainability.

3 contacts available at Aqua Spark.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Amy Novogratz | Founder, Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amy-novogratz |
| Chen Zhu | Investment Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chen-zhu-e5b4 |
| Mike Velings | Founder, Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-velings |

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## FAQ

### What does Amy Novogratz invest in?

Amy Novogratz invests primarily in Aquaculture, Biotechnology and Agriculture startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Amy Novogratz last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Amy Novogratz closed in Aug 2022. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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