Mud crab sells for 3–4x the price of shrimp. Unlike shrimp, no one has industrialized it.
India exports ~4,500 tonnes/year, at a ~$51/unit scarcity premium.
Global demand is growing. Supply is structurally constrained.
We are building the infrastructure to change that.
Institutionally backed · DPIIT · KIIT-TBI · DST NIDHI PRAYAS · BIRAC BIG
Integrated RAS
Modular & Scalable
Telemetry-ready Infrastructure
Sensors across the system
AquaOS Control Architecture
Automate & Optimize
CIN Intelligence Layer
In development
Designed for Sustainability
Water · Carbon · Mangroves
Built for Scale
Processors · Global Markets
The architecture
From biological systems to market outcomes.
Four layers: modular RAS on the floor, AquaOS turning signal into decisions, a CIN learning layer in development, and the market outcomes it drives. The proven layer operates in R&D today; the rest is being built.
Market & Impact Layer
From biology to market outcomes
Economic value · Export continuity · Climate positive
Intelligence Layer (CIN)
Intelligence network — in development
Designed to turn data into biological intelligence
Control Layer (AquaOS)
Control architecture — being built
Orchestrating systems · Ensuring stability · Improving outcomes
Physical Infrastructure Layer
Modular RAS infrastructure
RAS Modules · Water Treatment · Life Support · Power & Utilities
What’s real today
We have already operated the hard part
Before any platform claim, three things are proven by real R&D operations.
Operational R&D history
Hundreds of individually-tracked crabs
Across soft-shell, hard-shell and RAS trials — each animal logged per-unit, not as a pond average.
Proven value mechanics
Molt-driven grade uplift
A single molt can lift a crab a full export grade — meaningful, documented uplift from early field work.
Real market linkage
Live export & retail channels
Already selling through live export and retail channels at grade-based pricing — demand is commercial, not hypothetical.
The problem
Mud crab farming was never designed as a controlled system
Forty years, no change in production architecture:
50–70%
Cycle mortality
$51
Europe — per unit
4,500 t
India annual export
100%
Wild-seed dependency
Cannibalism
Crabs kill each other
In a shared pond, the strong tear apart the soft post-molt crabs — entire batches vanish before harvest.
Vulnerability window
Molt is a blind spot
For the day a new shell takes to harden, the crab is defenseless — and without per-animal visibility, you find out too late.
Environmental drift
Water shifts unseen
Oxygen, salinity, ammonia and temperature swing with weather and feed — by the time the crab shows symptoms, the cycle is compromised.
No causality
Nothing tracked individually
A traditional pond gives one number at harvest — no growth history, no molt log, nothing that improves cycle to cycle.
Crabionics converts biological uncertainty into repeatable production.
Platform at a Glance
Five layers, one production system
Crabionics is built bottom-up — hardware first, then telemetry, then control, then the network. Each layer is at a different stage of maturity.
01
Modular RAS
Closed-loop water systems, isolation modules, precision grow-out.
02
CrabPod Edge
Sensor integration and low-latency local infrastructure control.
03
AquaOS
Telemetry aggregation, biological state, decision logic.
04
HatchSync
Hatchery intelligence and seed security layer.
05
CIN
Cross-farm benchmarking and distributed learning.
Validation & Execution
Institutionally backed, field-executed
Each name below has put capital or infrastructure behind us.
DPIIT · Startup India
Recognised Startup
KIIT-TBI
Incubation
DST NIDHI PRAYAS
Innovation Support
BIRAC BIG
Grant — 24th Call
May 2026
DPIIT Recognition
Government of India recognised Crabionics as a startup under Agriculture / Fisheries (DIPP261048).
2026
BIRAC BIG Grant — 24th Call
Awarded under BIRAC's Biotechnology Ignition Grant.
2025
Pilot Infrastructure Scaling
Expansion toward multi-system architecture: hatchery, nursery, soft-shell, RAS finishing.
Where to next
Two ways to engage Crabionics
For investors
Back the validation inflection
An operationally-experienced team entering its first controlled-validation phase. See the thesis, milestones, and what the capital unlocks.
For processors & buyers
Secure export-grade supply
A 365-day pipeline of export-spec live and soft-shell crab — built on modular RAS and AquaOS, not a seasonal gamble.
The 600-box pilot is the bridge — from operational intelligence to provable industrial causality.