Connected Agriculture Software49 West 27th Street, San Francisco, CaliforniaFounded 2017CEO Steve Tucker
Aquabyte was acquired by Vitruvian Partners.
Aquabyte provides an AI monitoring platform for fish farms that uses underwater cameras and computer vision to estimate fish weight, count sea lice and track welfare, behaviour and feeding.
Aquabyte's annual revenue was $16.3M in December 2025, its last figure before Vitruvian Partners bought it (Company Website). That is up 103% from $8.1M a year earlier.
| As of | Revenue | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 2023 | $7M | Company Website |
| Dec 2024 | $8.1M | Company Website |
| Dec 2025 | $16.3M | Company Website |
Vitruvian Partners owns Aquabyte. The date and price of the deal are not on record.
Aquabyte has raised $48.5M across four rounds since 2018. The latest was a $25M Series B in July 2022, led by SoftBank Ventures Asia.
| Date | Round | Raised | Led by | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2022 | Series B | $25M | SoftBank Ventures Asia | Company Website |
| Aug 2020 | Venture | $10M | – | |
| Jul 2019 | Series A | $10M | Bryton Shang on cameraWatch at 7:07 | |
| Jan 2018 | Seed | $3.5M | – | |
| Total raised | $48.5M |
Nathan Latka has interviewed Aquabyte once, speaking with Bryton Shang. Each figure links to the second it was said.
Watch: How Aquabyte Applied Machine Learning to Fish Farming With 3 Customers and a $10M Series A (Interview with CEO Bryton Shang)July 2019 · Bryton Shang, Founder and CEO
Aquabyte competes most directly with XpertSea.
| Company | Revenue | Funding | Employees | Customers | Founded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aquabyte | $16.3M | $48.5M | 67 | 3 | 2017 |
 XpertSea | $5.7M | $29.6M | 41 | 1K | 2009 |
Bryton Shang founded Aquabyte in 2017. Steve Tucker is CEO. Aquabyte had 67 employees (October 2024, LinkedIn), down from 79 a year earlier.
| As of | Employees | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 2024 | 67 | |
| Dec 2023 | 79 | |
| Dec 2022 | 82 | |
| Dec 2021 | 52 | |
| Jul 2019 | 30 | Bryton Shang on cameraWatch at 14:23 |
Before Vitruvian Partners bought it, Aquabyte's annual revenue was $16.3M in December 2025, according to the company's website.
Vitruvian Partners owns Aquabyte.
Aquabyte raised $48.5M across four funding rounds before Vitruvian Partners bought it. The last was a $25M Series B in July 2022, led by SoftBank Ventures Asia.
Aquabyte had 67 employees in October 2024, according to LinkedIn.
Steve Tucker is the CEO of Aquabyte.
Bryton Shang founded Aquabyte in 2017.
5 said on camera · 8 from public sources. Founder figures link to the second they were said; public figures name their source; estimates are marked EST and say whose they are. Not financial advice.
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