OctaPulse · Mar 2026
Official company update noting recognition on two Silicon Valley Post YC W26 startup lists.
Robotics and computer vision to automate fish farming from hatchery…
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Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
OctaPulse is a YC W26 aquaculture-tech startup building AI computer vision and robotics for fish hatcheries, automating juvenile-fish grading, phenotyping, deformity inspection, and selective breeding workflows. Public sources conflict on some profile details, but the company and LinkedIn materials point to a New York HQ, a very small team, and $625k raised.
Primary product
AI-powered computer vision and robotics platform for aquaculture hatchery QA
Founded
2025
Headquarters
New York, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Robotics Engineering
Sub-industry
Aquaculture technology
Offices
New York, United States (HQ)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Business model
B2B enterprise software and robotics
paid pilots
annual contracts
Funding
Stage
Seed / pre-seed
Total raised
$625K
Latest round
Pre-Seed Round · Mar 2026
Latest amount
$500K
Mar 2026 · Y Combinator
Jan 2026
May 2025
People & investors
Work & culture
Mission-driven around sustainable aquaculture and ocean health, with a multidisciplinary AI/robotics/seafood domain focus. No public benefits page was found.
Product & market
Pricing
Enterprise, contract-based pricing; public materials mention paid pilots and annual contracts.
Differentiators
- —Automates hatchery QA with no-handling computer vision
- —Claims 95%+ to 98%+ accuracy on inspection tasks
- —Cuts inspection time from about 5 minutes to under 30 seconds per fish
- —Uses off-the-shelf cameras and a growing multi-species dataset
- —Integrates robotics with existing farm workflows
- —Targets broodstock phenotyping, deformity inspection, and selective breeding
- —Has a public paid deployment with Riverence, North America's largest trout producer
Technology
computer vision
robotics
data science
edge computing
off-the-shelf cameras
delta robots
Luxonis OAK cameras
NVIDIA Jetson
YOLO
OpenVINO
TensorRT
ONNX Runtime
Customers
Riverence
Competitors
Zunibal
DapDrift
Fishing Points
Scale & contact
Latest news
The Silicon Valley Post · Mar 2026
Profiled OctaPulse as a notable YC W26 startup applying robotics and computer vision to aquaculture.
Hacker News · Mar 2026
Launch thread summarizing OctaPulse's robotics and computer vision system for fish farming, including technical discussion and product context.
Perishable News / Specialty Food · Jan 2026
Third-party coverage of OctaPulse receiving a $70,000 Seafood Industry Climate Award grant for automated phenotyping and deformity inspection.
OctaPulse · Jan 2025
Official company announcement that OctaPulse joined Y Combinator W26 and is building robotics and computer vision for aquaculture.
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