Aquawise will show off its AI-driven water quality tech at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Summary

Water quality is the most important thing for aquaculture farms to monitor to ensure their livestock remain healthy. While there are existing ways to monitor water quality — sensors and water testing kits — they are too expensive for many farmers in regions like Southeast Asia. Aquawise wants to offer aquaculture farmers in Southeast Asia a better way to monitor their water quality by using AI and existing satellites — no hardware purchases required. Bangkok-based Aquawise takes satellite images of fish and shrimp farms and feeds them into its physics-based AI model that monitors the water for things like temperature, level of chlorophyl, and oxygen levels. Aquawise’s platform can monitor water quality continuously; traditional methods monitor daily or weekly. Aquawise also offers tracking and predictions. “Water quality is one of the most important things in aquaculture,” Patipond Tiyapunjanit, co-founder and CEO of Aquawise, told TechCrunch. “It’s like being a human: You have to breathe. The aquatic life, they are living in the water all the time. If the water quality does not stay at the optimal level, it could cause the stress, it could cause disease outbreak, and a lot of things.” Aquawise will be showcasing its tech as part of this year’s Startup Battlefield competition at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, which runs October 27 to 29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. Nineteen-year-old Tiyapunjanit said that the idea for the company started with a love of shrimp that led to a research project about shrimp larvae. Techcrunch event San Francisco | October 27-29, 2025 While presenting his project at the 2023 Young Scientist Competition, he met his co-founders, Chanati Jantrachotechatchawan and Kobchai Duangrattanalert, who were advising a rival team. Jantrachotechatchawan and Duangrattanalert were impressed by Tiyapunjanit and ended up advising Tiyapunjanit’s project, which went on to win the 2024 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair. Then the trio had to fi...