Founder of the Tech Enabled B2b Sea Food Marketplace, Utham Gowda

Utham Gowda is the founder of Captain Fresh, a tech-enabled B2B Sea Food Marketplace that uses technology to deliver the industry’s quickest harvest-to-retail time. The combination of highly volatile fish and seafood sources, extended supply chains, and short shelf life results in significant value degradation. Their real-time commerce technology has the capability of bridging the supply and demand gap.

He was previously Executive Vice President of Nekkanti Sea Foods Ltd. He has also worked at o3 Capital as an Associate Vice President. S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research is where he completed his MBA. If you look at his professional path after graduation, you’ll notice that the first half of his work was mostly top-down oriented, with one of his favourite pastimes being reading analyst reports from other industries. And when he discovered that seafood was very, very appealing from a top-down aspect, the big question on his mind just before starting up, November 2018-February 2019, before he truly made up his mind that this is going to be the area where he will spend the prime of his career, And that’s how Captianfresh was born.

Their ongoing goal is to assist farmers in increasing their income and businesses in providing the freshest fish and seafood to their clients. They accomplish this by making concerted efforts to develop a data-driven, deep-tech-driven platform to power their supply chain. They’re developing a machine-based quality digitising system for the fresh fish and seafood supply chain.

Their AI software scores fish based on size and visual attributes to predict how long they have left on the shelf. They’re also leveraging IoT to create a one-stop fish and seafood supply chain digitalization, allowing them to control inventory first-in, first-out across all locations. This should aid them in lowering the supply chain’s dump rate.