Aqua-Spark

Aqua-Spark is a global investment fund and holding company founded in 2013 and based in Utrecht, the Netherlands. It invests in small and mid-sized enterprises developing innovative solutions across the sustainable aquaculture value chain, with the stated aim of building a healthier, more sustainable and accessible commercial aquaculture industry. The firm operates through two related vehicles: the Aqua-Spark Investment Fund, which makes the investments, and the Aqua-Spark Holding Company, through which portfolio interests are held.

The mandate is narrow by sector but broad within it, spanning aquaculture itself as well as adjacent activity in sustainable food and food security, ocean conservation, and the wider blue economy. Portfolio companies are typically SMEs rather than large operators, and the geographic scope is global: Aqua-Spark works with businesses and investors around the world from its Dutch base. The investment thesis combines financial returns with measurable commitments to food security and environmental outcomes, positioning the fund within the impact-oriented segment of agrifood and ocean investing.

Alongside its portfolio work, Aqua-Spark cultivates a community of investors committed to sustainable aquaculture, an approach that shapes both its capital-raising and its post-investment relationships. The firm's work sits at the intersection of commercial seafood production and conservation - a market in which technical innovation across feed, genetics, farming systems, and processing is increasingly seen as necessary to relieve pressure on wild fish stocks while meeting rising global protein demand.