Aquapulse raises ₹45 crore to expand shrimp sourcing from small farmers and scale exports
India’s Aquapulse has secured ₹45 crore to strengthen pond-level technology, disease management, farmer procurement networks and export infrastructure in shrimp aquaculture.
Indian aquaculture company Aquapulse has raised ₹45 crore in a new funding round to expand its technology-enabled shrimp supply chain. Economic Times reports that the round was led by NABVENTURES through its AgriSURE Fund, with participation from IAN Alpha Fund. The company says the money will be used to strengthen farm-level technology, improve disease management systems, widen its farmer procurement network across eastern India, scale processing and export operations, and build working-capital infrastructure.
Aquapulse’s model is built around organising fragmented smallholder shrimp production into a traceable supply chain. The company supports farmers with water-quality monitoring, feed discipline, early disease warning and harvest coordination. Through its aquapreneur model, local entrepreneurs manage clusters of ponds, while Aquapulse links pre-harvest support, procurement, processing and export logistics in a single operating platform.
The company started with farmers in Odisha and has since expanded into Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal. According to the report, it currently exports mainly to China, Vietnam and Japan, while also serving institutional and modern trade buyers within India. That matters because a large share of India’s shrimp output still comes from dispersed smallholder farms that often lack organised market access, stable pricing, traceability systems and consistent technical support.
Aquapulse argues that combining technology with market access can materially improve earnings for small producers. Co-founder and chief executive Abhishek Dwivedy said the fresh capital would help deepen the aquapreneur cluster model, strengthen pre-harvest technology at pond level and scale processing and exports without losing what he described as the company’s farmer-first discipline. Co-founder Abhilash Dwivedy added that the goal is to make the smallholder shrimp farmer a recognised participant in the global seafood chain rather than an anonymous input supplier.
The business is expanding in a sector that remains important for India’s wider agri-export profile. The article notes that India’s seafood exports reached $8.28 billion in 2025, with shrimp making a significant contribution. At the same time, international buyers increasingly demand end-to-end visibility, sustainability and quality consistency. Aquapulse is positioning itself around that demand by building a more transparent farm-to-port route for small farmers, with better traceability, more predictable revenue and stronger access to global markets.