Remora Secures $16.2M to Scale Net Cleaning in Aquaculture

In July 2025, Remora Robotics secured a $16.2 million funding round led by Hatch Blue, with participation from Grieg Kapital, Momentum Partners, and the Nordic Secondary Fund. This latest raise pushes the company’s total known capital past $16 million, placing it among the most aggressively backed aquatech startups in the Nordic region. It also marks their third funding round to date, a sign of increasing financial discipline as they evolve from early-stage prototyping to commercial-scale production.

Unlike software startups, where lean iterations and light infrastructure are the norm, robotics, particularly the capital-intensive kind, requires substantial upfront investment. This funding is expected to support multiple fronts: expanding robotic assembly capacity, pushing forward their software roadmap, and strengthening partnerships with key industry players, such as Mowi. In simple terms, the company is now transitioning from writing code to building machines at scale. The bottleneck isn’t software development anymore; it’s factory throughput.

Remora’s journey hasn’t been quick. Founded in 2015, the company spent nearly a decade reaching commercialisation. While that may seem slow, it’s par for the course in aquaculture robotics, where timelines tend to be longer due to the complexities of hardware and regulations. For context, Probotic achieved a pilot launch within five years but focused on limited deployments. With Remora now fully productised, speed-to-scale has become more critical than speed-to-market.

The July round represents a funding inflexion point. The capital will be used to move beyond R&D and into full production, with software and scaled hardware coming together to drive momentum. With the product finally ready, the real opportunity lies in fleet deployment and a new AI software layer designed to increase value across the aquaculture ecosystem.

At the heart of Remora Robotics' offering is a fully autonomous submarine robot. This system not only cleans and inspects fish farming pens but also collects critical underwater data to support farm operations. Initially, their robots featured active brushing and basic autonomy. Over time, sensor modules and data analytics have become key differentiators, helping the company leap ahead of legacy net-cleaning methods.

In late 2022, Remora launched version 2.0. It featured enhanced autonomous navigation and more powerful cleaning capabilities. By mid-2025, the messaging had shifted. Rather than focusing purely on cleaning efficiency, the company began emphasising fish welfare and biosecurity. That’s a sign of market maturity. When companies stop selling features and start selling outcomes, it usually means the product is no longer just a tech demo; it’s a business case.

The next phase of growth is all about software. Remora plans to launch a new AI-driven monitoring platform at Aqua Nor in August 2025. This system will provide continuous oversight of net integrity and pen health, targeting not only pen operators but also farm managers and environmental agencies. By layering software subscriptions over physical deployments, Remora expands its total addressable market and increases customer stickiness. The goal is clear: evolve from hardware vendor to platform provider.

Key features include autonomous cleaning, depth-aware monitoring, and real-time AI alerts. The partnership with Mowi validates the company’s operational scale and real-world relevance. If executed well, the software could double customer lifetime value, without selling a single additional robot.

Remora’s public-facing infrastructure is built on WordPress 6.8, customised through Elementor Pro and supported by Norwegian hosting provider Domeneshop. The stack includes nginx servers, jQuery 3.7.1, Lightbox, Google Fonts, and caching via WP Super Cache.

From a compliance standpoint, their email systems are sound. Microsoft Azure handles mail and Exchange services, and SPF records are appropriately set up. DMARC is configured but currently in monitoring mode, with policy set to “None.” DNSSEC and IPv6 are active, showing that the team has taken steps toward modern infrastructure stewardship.

But there are weaknesses. The front end is bloated. Too many overlapping plugins and a heavy WordPress theme drag down performance. Core Web Vitals are suffering—performance scores hover around 50. For a B2B brand positioning itself as high-tech, this undercuts credibility. Competitors using static site generators or lighter frameworks enjoy faster load times and better mobile responsiveness. Remora’s current web experience doesn’t match its technical ambition.

Unlike more open startups like Appwrite or PlanetScale, Remora Robotics maintains a closed development posture. There’s no GitHub repo, no Discord, no open-source SDKs. This isn’t uncommon for hardware-centric firms that want to protect IP, but it limits their exposure to grassroots innovation. Projects like BlueROV, which leveraged the ROS framework and open-source components, built massive developer ecosystems as a result. By comparison, Remora has no community footprint.

This absence matters. Without a visible developer presence, the company forfeits opportunities with research labs, grant-funded pilots, and third-party integrators. There’s also no evidence of internal events, such as Launch Week or hackathons. As a result, developer adoption won’t happen organically, every sale will need to be pushed from the top down.

There’s clear room for improvement. Even a simulated open core or SDK layer could foster community-led integrations, research applications, and third-party tools, especially in international markets where partnerships often start from the ground up.

Remora’s core strategy centres around pen health and welfare in aquaculture. Their robots provide value not only through automation but through biological insight. They focus on prevention, keeping fish healthy and environments clean, rather than treating problems after they occur. That’s a fundamentally different value proposition.

Their competitive edge lies in three elements: full autonomy, multi-depth sensor coverage, and embedded intelligence. No other Aquatech player offers this combination in a single solution. Probotic leans more on inspection. Steen-Hansen specialises in chemical treatments. Remora combines cleaning, monitoring, and decision support into a single system.

The Mowi partnership is a strategic asset. If the data Remora collects can demonstrate links between net conditions and fish health outcomes, the company moves from being a vendor to a biological steward. That’s a decisive shift. It turns adoption into a health decision, not just a return-on-investment calculation.

Looking ahead, if their software platform scales as expected, Remora Robotics won’t just be another hardware company. They’ll be offering aquaculture ecosystem health services.