Sustainable aquaculture investor Aqua-Spark has invested "significant resources" in Kuehnle AgroSystems (KAS), a Hawaii-based microalgae development company, to support the transfer of the company's technology to industrial scale.
Prior to Aqua-Spark investing, KAS participated in an accelerator program through Hatch, another investment within Aqua-Spark's portfolio.
As an algae strain and ingredients development company, KAS has patented a process for the sustainable fermentation production of multiple "economically relevant" algae.
For its lead product, this process is combined with KAS's non-GM strain of algae to enable KAS to produce high levels of natural astaxanthin, affordably and at scale.
