It has now been five years since the founding of Indian aquatech startup Aquaconnect, its CEO Rajamanohar Somasundaram told Undercurrent News, and the firm's growth projects are only getting more ambitious.

Having effectively proved a case of 'right place, right time', Aquaconnect's ability to connect shrimp farmers with both lenders and downstream buyers proved invaluable during the heights of the pandemic and has helped it to turn the heads of many investors since, if its recent $8 million funding round is anything to go by [...]