Scoot Science
Founded 2017 · 7 employees on LinkedIn · 3 known investors
Scoot Science provides ocean intelligence for commercial fishing and aquaculture operations, offering real-time ocean forecasts, condition monitoring, and data logging tools. Its software translates environmental, biological, and operational data into fish welfare metrics to help operators anticipate events like harmful algal blooms and low oxygen and reduce fish mortality.
Also known as Scoot Science, Inc.
Investors · 3
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Scoot Science is a California-based, remote-first company that develops ocean analytics software for aquaculture and commercial fishing operators. It was founded in 2017 by a team that includes oceanographers, agricultural economists, software engineers, and data scientists, and its stated aim is to link ocean conditions to the ocean economy through operational intelligence, data analysis, and forecasting. The company combines ocean and atmospheric data with in-house analytics and visualization to describe both current and forecast conditions in customers' coastal waters, supporting marine operations, risk management, and longer-term planning.
The product line has two branches. SeaFarer targets commercial fishing, offering real-time ocean forecasts and conditions for trip planning, catch logging (species, locations, and conditions) either by manual entry or automatic sync, and analysis of a vessel's own historical data to surface seasonal patterns. SeaState is positioned as a digital twin for aquaculture operations, providing 10-day site-specific ocean forecasts intended to give farms lead time ahead of harmful algal blooms, low-oxygen events, upwelling, temperature swings, and runoff; a real-time common operating picture across sites covering conditions, welfare metrics, and operational stressors such as feed decisions and handling events; and semantic models that translate environmental, biological, and operational data into fish welfare metrics.
The company has also extended its analytics toward capital markets with Green Sharpe, described as a measure of impact- and risk-adjusted returns for ocean-based businesses. Scoot Science's oceanographers and economists model the frequency and severity of extreme ocean events such as marine heat waves and low-oxygen conditions and quantify a fish farm's carbon emissions impact, with the stated finding that farms with lower carbon emission intensity carry lower risk than farms with larger carbon footprints.
Founding story
Scoot Science was founded in 2017 by a team of oceanographers, agricultural economists, software engineers, and data scientists. CEO and co-founder Jonathan LaRiviere is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz Ocean Sciences department. The company joined the first cohort of the Santa Cruz Accelerates program around 2017, and a seed investment from that program funded its first computers, with an initial mission of providing meaningful data to fish farms above and below the waterline.
Business model
Scoot Science sells software products to marine operators: SeaState for aquaculture sites and SeaFarer for commercial fishing vessels, with demo requests and trials as the entry points on its website. SeaFarer works standalone or integrates with third-party hardware and logbook systems, including Blue Ocean Gear smart buoys and Deckhand e-logbooks. An analytics offering, Green Sharpe, is directed at institutional investors evaluating ocean-based businesses.
Traction
Scoot Science reports collecting real-time data from more than 3,800 sites worldwide and growth from 2 to nearly 20 employees since participating in the first cohort of the Santa Cruz Accelerates program around 2017. Named users include Cermaq Canada (customer since 2019) and Grieg BC, and the company says it closed partnerships with major salmon farmers including Grieg Seafood ASA. Reported product outcomes include a 2-3x reduction in major mortality events, a 34% reduction in daily mortality, and 30-44% reductions in operational stressors.
Latest developments
Scoot Science launched Green Sharpe, a measure of impact- and risk-adjusted returns aimed at institutional investors in ocean-based businesses, presenting historical analysis of risk-adjusted returns for salmon farming and linking lower carbon emission intensity to lower risk. Its website currently offers SeaFarer for commercial fishing alongside the SeaState aquaculture platform, with integrations to Blue Ocean Gear smart buoys and Deckhand e-logbooks.
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Market position
Scoot Science operates in ocean data and analytics for the aquaculture and fisheries sectors, citing a global aquaculture market of $180 billion expected to reach $245.2 billion by 2027. It reports adoption by large salmon farming companies, with Cermaq Canada described as a customer since 2019 and Grieg BC staff using its forecast and sensor tools, and it has extended into ocean risk analytics for investors.
The company positions its analytics around subsurface conditions rather than surface weather alone, combining numerical ocean models with AI forecasting and translating environmental, biological, and operational data into fish welfare metrics. It publishes quantified operational outcomes for SeaState and has developed the Green Sharpe framework to express ocean risk in investment terms, an approach linking farm carbon emission intensity to risk.
Technology
The platform blends traditional numerical ocean models with predictive artificial intelligence to fill data gaps and deliver subsurface "underwater weather" forecasts, including 10-day site-specific outlooks. Semantic models translate environmental, biological, and operational inputs into fish welfare metrics, and dashboards provide real-time monitoring across multiple sites. Data ingestion includes environmental sensor feeds at farm sites and, for fishing users, automatic sync from Blue Ocean Gear smart buoys and Deckhand e-logbooks.
Go-to-market
The company markets its two products directly through its website via demo requests for SeaState and trial access for SeaFarer, and uses named customer references from salmon farming companies. It reports having closed partnerships with large fish farming groups, including Grieg Seafood ASA, and integrates with partner hardware and e-logbook vendors to reach fishing customers.
Commercial fishermen and fishing fleets, fish farmers (notably salmon aquaculture companies), and other marine operators; the Green Sharpe analytics product targets institutional investors assessing ocean-based industries.
Geography
The company is California-based and remote-first, with a Santa Cruz, California address listed, and collects real-time data from sites around the world. Customer references are in British Columbia, Canada (Cermaq Canada, Grieg BC), with a partnership reported with Norway-headquartered Grieg Seafood ASA.
History
After its 2017 founding and participation in the first Santa Cruz Accelerates cohort, the company built out its ocean data sets and dashboard products, growing from two employees to nearly 20. Cermaq Canada is listed as a customer since 2019, and Grieg Seafood ASA was reported as a partner. In January, the company introduced Green Sharpe, an analytics platform for institutional investors measuring impact- and risk-adjusted returns in ocean-based businesses. Its current product set comprises SeaState for aquaculture and SeaFarer for commercial fishing.
Risks & controversies
The business is exposed to extreme ocean events such as marine heat waves, low-oxygen conditions, harmful algal blooms, and other underwater weather that are described as becoming more frequent with climate change, and which drive its customers' mortality risk. Reported staffing is small, with third-party listings placing headcount in the 1-10 or 6-10 range.
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Key figures
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Timeline · 4
launches, deals, and filingsThe CEO reported that Scoot Science closed partnerships with large salmon farming companies, including Grieg Seafood ASA.
Scoot Science introduced Green Sharpe, a measure of impact- and risk-adjusted returns designed to let institutional investors evaluate ocean-based businesses. The company's oceanographers and economists model the frequency and severity of extreme ocean events and quantify a fish farm's carbon emissions impact.
Cermaq is listed on the company website as a customer since 2019, with Cermaq Canada's innovation director describing use of SeaState to centralize data and inform operational decisions.
Scoot Science was in the first cohort of the Santa Cruz Accelerates program, receiving a seed investment that funded its first computers.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Scoot Science do?
- Scoot Science builds ocean analytics software that turns marine data into forecasts and welfare metrics for fish farms and fishermen.
- Who are Scoot Science's investors?
- Scoot Science's investors include First Star Ventures, HAWKTAIL, Rackhouse Venture Management Lp.