Team

Field operators first, engineers second

Built by founders who spent two years in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh learning where the production system breaks — before raising a rupee.

The Founders

Two operators. One closed loop.

Hardware, biology, and the software layer — owned end-to-end.

Sameer Kumar Dalai — Co-Founder & CEO, Crabionics

Sameer Kumar Dalai

Co-Founder & CEO

sameer@crabionics.com

Systems Architecture & RAS Operations

Hatchery Systems, RAS Architecture & Biological Intelligence

Field execution — 2+ years, 1,000-box pilot operations in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh

M Abhishek — Co-Founder & CTO, Crabionics

M Abhishek

Co-Founder & CTO

abhishek@crabionics.com

AI / ML & full-stack software systems

Analytics & intelligence stack

AquaOS platform development

Supported by

Mentors, reviewers, and field collaborators

KIIT-TBI mentor network

Marine biologists

Aquaculture engineers

BIRAC technical reviewers

Why this team, why now

Two years in the field before the company existed

Before raising capital, the team ran a 1,000-box mud crab RAS pilot in Odisha — observing cannibalism, molt vulnerability, and water-quality drift under real conditions. The biology, SOPs, and operating discipline came from that field time.

The 600-box controlled-validation pilot at KIIT-TBI exists because we already know where the system breaks.

Field operations

2+ years

Odisha and Andhra Pradesh

Field R&D scale

1,000 boxes

Odisha operations, 2023–25

Controlled-validation pilot

600 boxes

KIIT-TBI — in progress

Stack ownership

End-to-end

Hardware, biology, software — in-house

Talk to the founders

Direct, founder-level conversations for pilot, technical, and capital discussions

No funnel, no gatekeeper.