OctaPulse

CV and robotics to automate quality inspection in fish farms

Y CombinatorWinter 2026ActiveIndustrialsClimate

What they do

Problem

Fish farms rely on slow, error-prone manual phenotyping and deformity inspections, leading to wasted labor, feed, and lower-quality stock selection.

Solution

An AI computer-vision robotics system that automates hatchery quality inspection (broodstock phenotyping and juvenile deformity detection) in seconds with high accuracy.

Who it's for

Aquaculture fish farms and hatcheries that need to perform quality assurance and quality control on broodstock and juvenile fish.

Founders

Paul Grech

Founder

Co-founder and CEO of OctaPulse, deploying computer vision, edge computing, and robotics to make fish farms autonomous. CMU Robotics Institute Pathways Fellow, and prior to CMU sold enterprise portfolio risk and attribution products to Tier 1 asset managers while at Bloomberg LP. Named as a Future Leader in two national aquaculture organizations.

Rohan Singh

Founder

Co-founder and CTO of OctaPulse, deploying computer vision, edge computing, and robotics to make fish farms autonomous. Former D1 tennis player at Texas A&M, CMU AI Engineering MS, with production robotics and software experience across Tesla, Nvidia, ASML, and Toyota.