Shinkei Systems (YC W22) — Robots for longer-lasting, better-tasting fish at scale
1.2B lbs of fish are caught everyday yet as little as 1 in 3 fish make it to a plate — most of this waste arises because fish are suffocated on boats or electrocuted on farms. Suffocation and inaccurate electrocution create stress and so acidify meat, damage quality and significantly reduce shelf-life.
Shinkei Systems is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2022 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Robots for longer-lasting, better-tasting fish at scale. The founder listed is Saif Khawaja (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, March 10, 2022).
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1.2B lbs of fish are caught everyday yet as little as 1 in 3 fish make it to a plate — most of this waste arises because fish are suffocated on boats or electrocuted on farms.
Suffocation and inaccurate electrocution create stress and so acidify meat, damage quality and significantly reduce shelf-life.
Artisanal techniques in high-end sushi multiply shelf-life and taste but, because of the variation in fish, are difficult to perform in a mechanical fashion.
Shinkei automates traditional techniques using robotics to provide long-lasting and delicious fish for farmers and harvesters at scale.
Saif Khawaja
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One of 32 companies held here in Industrials › Agriculture.
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