Darwin Oceans

The data platform for aquaculture.

We turn public ocean data into farm-level decisions for shellfish growers — where oysters grow best, where disease threatens them, and whether a 20-year lease holds its value as the Gulf of Maine warms.

Open the visor → Read the deck

994

real water-quality stations scored across Maine

135

active oyster leases mapped with suitability and disease layers

regions live: Maine Midcoast and Chesapeake Bay

$16M

Maine oyster farm-gate value in 2025 (Maine DMR)

The problem

The data to de-risk a farm is public. And not used.

Disease wipes out crops

Dermo and MSX ride warm, salty water north. Growers find out after the die-off. The signal is in public buoy data. Nobody delivers it.

Closures hit blind

One rain event spikes fecal coliform and the harvest stops. Maine DMR tracks 994 stations across the coast. Growers navigate this without a map.

Siting is a coin-flip

A lease is a 20-year capital commitment. The Gulf of Maine warms 3× the global average. There is no tool that scores a parcel over its lease term.

150+

contaminants tracked by public agencies, largely inaccessible to growers

agencies publishing relevant data in incompatible formats

>20°C

the temperature threshold where Dermo and Vibrio take hold

+539%

growth in Maine farmed-oyster value, 2011–2022 (Maine DMR)

The product · live today

A working platform, on real data.

Not a demo. NOAA, Maine DMR and NERACOOS data, live, fused into one map and scored per site.

Habitat suitability (HSI 0–100) Scored from mean salinity and temperature at every station and lease, calibrated to published C. virginica thresholds.

Disease pressure Dermo, MSX and Vibrio risk on the same map. Warm and salty is the common signal across all three.

Real infrastructure 135 active oyster leases, 626 LPA sites and 45 growing-area boundaries from Maine DMR. Click any for a site report.

Two regions Maine Midcoast on real station data. Chesapeake Bay as a modeled prototype. Both live today.

994 stations · 135 leases · 626 LPA sites
Maine DMR · NOAA Mussel Watch · NERACOOS

Try it live →

Traction

Early conversations and a live product.

Maine oyster co-ops in active conversations — Damariscotta, Casco Bay, New Meadows

JHU

Scientific partnership with Johns Hopkins University — ocean and climate modeling validation

TRL 6

Live on real U.S. coastal data today — not a demo

Live platform →

Open it. Real data, real leases, real scores.

The roadmap

The platform is the wedge. The model is the prize.

Each stage funds the next and earns the proprietary data for the one after it.

Now · 2026

The data platform

Public ocean data in one platform. 994 stations, suitability and disease layers, two regions. Live today.

+6 months to first ARR

Ground-truth network

Customers feed proprietary grower outcomes no competitor can buy. The data flywheel starts.

The prize

Ocean foundation model

Predicts suitability, disease and closures anywhere on the coast. Licensed by API.

The team

Ocean scientists and engineers ready to get wet.

Chief Executive Officer

Gabriel Díaz Ireland

Founder of Darwin Geospatial. Geospatial and ML engineer building satellite-data decision platforms across soil, forests and habitat. Leads product, data and commercial.

Founding Engineer · CTO

Sandupal Dutta

Earth and planetary science and software engineering, Johns Hopkins University. Owns the data-fusion pipeline, the suitability and disease models, and the platform and API.

Ocean Advisor · JHU

Anand Gnanadesikan

Senior Scientist and Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University. Ocean and climate modeling. Guides the science behind our models.