What Aquabyte does

Aquabyte builds AI-powered underwater camera systems and software for aquaculture, primarily Atlantic salmon farming. Its hardware portfolio includes the self-cleaning Hammerhead camera and the HYDRA 360 unit integrating seven lenses, sonar, and environmental sensors, deployed across 800+ pens worldwide and capturing over 1.3 million images per camera per day. Cloud-based computer vision and machine learning models analyze this imagery to deliver six core software products: VEKT (biomass and weight estimation), LUS (automated lice counting with 1–2 week forecasting), VELFERD (welfare monitoring across 17 indicators), ADFERD (behavior tracking including breathing index and swim patterns), FÔRING (feeding optimization with 5-minute appetite prediction), and BESLUTNINGSSTØTTE (decision support with scenario simulation), all accessible through a web portal.

The company sells to enterprise salmon producers in Norway, Iceland, the UK, Ireland, the Faroe Islands, Chile, and Canada through a direct field sales model with regional account managers and dedicated Customer Success and Insight teams. Revenue combines multi-year software subscriptions with hardware leased via a bank-financed program. Beyond Atlantic salmon, Aquabyte has extended its models to rainbow trout, coho, smolt, and broodstock operations. Regulatory approvals from Norwegian Mattilsynet and Icelandic MAST create switching costs by displacing manual compliance processes.

Following a $25 million Series B led by SoftBank Ventures Asia in July 2022, Graphene Ventures sold its majority stake to Vitruvian Partners in December 2025, providing a growth capital platform. Aquabyte is headquartered in Bergen, Norway, with offices in San Francisco and Santiago, Chile, and reports a headcount of 51–100 employees.

Name

Aquabyte

Legal name

Aquabyte AS

Website

https://aquabyte.no

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Aquabyte builds AI-powered underwater camera systems and software for aquaculture producers, delivering automated lice counting, biomass estimation, welfare monitoring, and feeding optimization for salmon farmers across Norway, Iceland, the UK, Ireland, the Faroe Islands, Chile, and Canada.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Aquaculture Monitoring Software

NAICS

Aquaculture (1125), Aquaculture (11251)

SIC

Agricultural Prod-Livestock & Animal Specialties (200)

akta.pro primary industry

Aquaculture Health, Biosecurity & Veterinary Services (AFAEAAAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Aquaculture Farm Services & Operations Support (net cleaning, diving, grading, harvesting) (AFAEAAAM), Aquaculture & Fish Health Services (AFAEANAE), Offshore & Open-Ocean Aquaculture (AFAEAAAH)

Keywords

• Aquaculture monitoring software
• Computer vision fish farming
• Underwater camera systems
• Fish health analytics
• Sea lice counting

Headquarters

HQ city

Laksevåg

HQ country

Norway

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Software Subscription: Cloud-based software subscription providing access to AI analytics, user portal, and decision support tools. The software is accessed via Aquabyte's web portal. Pricing follows an Order Confirmation process with defined Agreement Periods.
2. Hardware (Camera Systems): Sale or lease of underwater camera hardware (Hammerhead, HYDRA 360), winches, and control cabinets. Hardware is provided through a bank-financed leasing program where the camera and winch are leased during the Agreement Period.
3. Professional Services: Implementation support, training, and technical support included as part of the product package. Customer Success and Insight teams provide ongoing support for data interpretation and system optimization.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Aquabyte builds and sells AI-powered computer vision camera systems and cloud software for monitoring salmonid aquaculture. The platform combines proprietary underwater camera hardware (Hammerhead, HYDRA 360) with six software modules—weight estimation, lice counting, welfare monitoring, feeding optimization, behavior tracking, and decision support—delivered through a web portal to provide fish farmers with daily automated data on fish health, biomass, and operational performance.

Product overview

Aquabyte offers an all-in-one platform combining AI-powered computer vision, machine learning, and fish health monitoring. The portfolio includes six core software products: VEKT (weight/biomass), LUS (lice counting), VELFERD (welfare), ADFERD (behaviour), FÔRING (feeding), and BESLUTNINGSSTØTTE (decision support), all accessible through the cloud-based User Portal. Hardware products include the Hammerhead camera for fish health monitoring and HYDRA 360, a combined fish health and feeding camera with 360-degree video and sonar. The system processes over 1.3 million images per pen daily and supports all production methods including open pens, submerged pens, closed/semi-closed pens, and land-based facilities, across species including Atlantic salmon, trout, and coho.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Hammerhead: Fish health camera with self-cleaning technology, sensors, compact size and low weight, designed for optimal performance in all production methods including submerged pens
• HYDRA 360
• LUS
• VEKT
• VELFERD
• ADFERD
• FÔRING
• BESLUTNINGSSTØTTE
• Penflix
• WISE Velferd

Products and services

• VEKT (Weight) Provides precise measurements of fish weight and growth with real-time data including average weight, growth rate, condition factor (K-factor), and coefficient of variation (CV), plus detailed weight distribution (weight buckets down to 100 grams). Designed for salmon farmers needing continuous biomass visibility for feeding and harvest planning.
• LUS (Lice) Automatic sea lice counting system providing daily counts and forecasts up to two weeks ahead without manual handling of fish. Distinguishes between adult female lice, mobile and fixed stages, and Caligus lice species. Designed for salmon farmers needing daily lice data for treatment planning.
• VELFERD (Welfare) Fish welfare monitoring system providing real-time insights into fish health with automatic monitoring of up to 17 welfare indicators including wounds, eye damage, deformities, sexual maturation, and skin/fin damage. Designed for salmon farmers needing continuous welfare data across all production methods including submerged and closed pens.
• FÔRING (Feeding) AI-driven feeding assistant that predicts fish appetite five minutes ahead by analyzing fish activity, behavior, and pellet data. Combines camera and sonar for full pen overview, includes regional growth model (RGI) for optimized feeding and improved FCR. Designed for salmon farmers seeking to reduce feed costs (which represent approximately 50% of production costs).
• ADFERD (Behaviour) Fish behavior monitoring system that automatically measures breathing index, swimming speed, and swim tilt to detect early deviations affecting health, welfare, and operations. Includes automatic video recording with up to three-month archive. Designed for early detection of stress and technical issues in submerged or closed pens.
• BESLUTNINGSSTØTTE (Decision Support) Decision support tool allowing farmers to simulate measures like harvest or delousing across pens and sites, seeing expected effects in real-time. Combines data with environmental, production, and market data for planning. Designed for farm managers needing to test scenarios before committing to operational actions.
• Hammerhead Camera Fish health camera with self-cleaning lenses, integrated environmental sensors (O2, salinity, temperature, depth), compact size (~10 kg), and minimal maintenance requirements. Designed for optimal performance in all production methods including submerged pens. Developed in partnership with Sinkaberg for submerged pen monitoring.
• HYDRA 360 Camera Fish health and feeding camera with seven camera lenses providing 360-degree video coverage, integrated sonar for full pen overview, and five built-in environmental sensors (turbidity, oxygen, salinity, depth, temperature). Combines feeding camera, biomass camera, sonar, and environmental sensors in one compact unit with self-cleaning UV technology.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reducing sea lice treatments: One fewer treatment per production cycle covers the system investment
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability8 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Arctic FishcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026Icelandic salmon farmer Arctic Fish partnered with Aquabyte on the development and validation of the automated salmon maturation scoring method. The validation was conducted at their site in Bolungarvik and received approval from the Icelandic Food and Veterinary Authority (MAST).
• Chilean Coho ProducerscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Aquabyte's coho product was developed in close collaboration with three of Chile's largest coho producers. Testing in actual production conditions enabled development of a solution providing accurate results for both weight and welfare monitoring.
• SinkabergcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Norwegian aquaculture company Sinkaberg has been a pioneer in submerged pen technology since 2014, with main focus on submerged production in commercial scale since 2019. They partnered with Aquabyte for camera-based monitoring and data collection in submerged pens at 30-40 meter depths, with Aquabyte developing the Hammerhead camera specifically based on this partnership.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• AKVA Group (Bluegrove): Bluegrove (formerly AKVA Group) is a major Norwegian aquaculture technology incumbent offering underwater cameras, sensors, feeding systems, and software for salmon farming globally. Comparable to Aquabyte as a broad incumbent in the same customer base with overlapping capabilities in biomass cameras and feeding, but operating a much wider equipment portfolio.
• ScaleAQ: ScaleAQ is a Norwegian aquaculture equipment and technology supplier offering sensors, cameras, feeding systems, and software to salmon farmers in Norway, Chile, and other markets. Direct overlap with Aquabyte on biomass estimation and fish monitoring, with broad equipment portfolio serving similar enterprise customers.
• Vaki (Pentair): Vaki, part of Pentair, supplies fish counters, biomass estimation cameras, and graders for aquaculture hatcheries and smolt facilities. Historical competitor in biomass estimation and fish counting with incumbent relationships; Aquabyte's VEKT product overlaps directly with their biomass camera offering.

Emerging players

• BioSort: BioSort is a Norwegian aquaculture technology company developing AI-based fish health monitoring including individual fish identification and welfare indicators. Competes with Aquabyte's VELFERD and ADFERD products on computer vision fish monitoring, though with a different technical approach (individual fish tracking).
• Imenco: Imenco is a Norwegian supplier of underwater cameras and monitoring equipment for aquaculture and marine research. Provides hardware that overlaps with Aquabyte's Hammerhead and HYDRA 360 camera systems, often integrated by the same end customers (salmon farmers) alongside or in place of Aquabyte solutions.

Direct peers

• Stingray Marine Solutions: Stingray Marine Solutions provides underwater laser-based delousing and camera-based fish monitoring systems for salmon farming. Directly competes with Aquabyte in fish monitoring and welfare observation, serving similar Norwegian salmon farm customers with comparable AI-driven vision technology.
• AquaScan: AquaScan develops automated sea lice counting technology for salmon aquaculture using optical counters. Directly competes with Aquabyte's LUS product in the lice monitoring use case, serving overlapping Norwegian and Chilean salmon farming customers.
• OptoScale: OptoScale is a Norwegian aquaculture technology company providing AI-powered biomass estimation cameras and welfare tools for salmon farming. Directly competes with Aquabyte's VEKT and welfare monitoring products, serving overlapping Norwegian, Chilean, and North American salmon farming customers with similar computer vision technology.
• Observe Technologies: Observe Technologies provides AI-driven feeding optimization software for aquaculture using computer vision to analyze fish behavior during feeding. Directly competes with Aquabyte's FÔRING product, addressing the same appetite prediction and feed efficiency use case for salmon farmers globally.

Others

• Cermaq / SalMar tech initiatives: Major salmon farming companies like SalMar and Cermaq have invested in proprietary in-house monitoring and AI projects (e.g., SalMar's Ocean Farm 1, Cermaq's iFarm). They represent both current/potential customers of Aquabyte and a long-term competitive risk if they internalize monitoring technology at scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles14 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds5 records

Investors16 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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