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The Robot That Ate the Pool Boy
A cable-free pool robot turned into a global category leader, a Fluidra check, and a plan to automate the entire backyard. Here is how Aiper got the pool boy out of the pool.
DELOS
DELOS is an Indonesian aquaculture technology company that treats shrimp farming as an engineering problem rather than a matter of instinct. Founded in Jakarta in 2021 by Guntur Mallarangeng, Aris Noerhadi, Alexander Farthing and Bobby Indra Gunawan Wibisono, it built AquaHero - a farm operating system combining software, a cloud data model fed by dozens of pond variables, and standardised operating procedures - and then went further than most software companies would, taking operational responsibility for the ponds themselves. Its AquaLink arm consolidates harvest, cold chain and export, sending traceable vannamei shrimp to Japan, the United States and, since 2026, UK retail under the consumer brand The Naughty Prawn Co. DELOS says its managed ponds yield several times the Indonesian average, has raised roughly USD 13.75 million from Monk's Hill Ventures, Alpha JWC, Centauri Fund and Arise, and topped LinkedIn's Top Startups Indonesia list in 2023.
JALA
JALA is an Indonesian aquaculture technology company that helps shrimp farmers raise more shrimp with less risk. Founded in 2017 in Yogyakarta, it pairs IoT water-quality sensors with a farm-management app and layers on financing, quality inputs, expert consultation, and a marketplace for harvests. The goal is an end-to-end digital ecosystem that makes shrimp farming more productive, transparent, and sustainable across Indonesia's fragmented supply chain.
RanMarine Technology
RanMarine Technology is a Rotterdam-based marine robotics company that builds autonomous, electric aquadrones - led by its flagship WasteShark - to remove floating plastic, debris and biomass from ports, marinas, harbours and inland waterways while collecting water-quality data. Founded in South Africa in 2015 and re-incorporated in the Netherlands, the company sells hardware plus a connected data platform to ports, municipalities, water authorities, facilities firms and NGOs across several continents.