Healthy Oceans Seafood Company

Pescavore tuna jerky: A first in kind sustainable seafood snack, merging great taste with nutrition while addressing seafood industry challenges.

  • Stage Product In Market
  • Industry Food and Beverage
  • Location Santa Cruz, CA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded July 2016
  • Employees 7
  • Incorporation Type S-corp
  • Website pescavoreseafood.com

Company Summary

Healthy Oceans is a pioneering, vertically integrated manufacturer with revolutionary patent-pending advancements in sustainable, local and wild seafood snacks. Pescavore, an innovative entrant in the US $3.5bn meat snacks category, offers 1.5 oz. handcrafted, local ahi tuna snacks in 3 exquisite flavors. Our patrons include Target, Safeway, and REI. Pescavore lives at the intersection of large and growing categories ripe for disruption.

Team

  • Chief Technology Officer

    Clarice comes to Healthy Oceans from an 8 year career in Engineering Research & Development, most recently with Bloom Energy of Sunnyvale, California, a developer of solid oxide fuel cells for distributed on-site renewable energy generation. Clarice's career focus has been commercialization of emergent technologies, with cost control, for manufacture domestically including for the Seattle based Boeing Company and San Diego based Solar Turbines.

  • Matthew Owens
    CEO

    Beginning his career as a rural aquaculture extension agent in the Peace Corps, Matt comes from a 20 year career developing sustainable seafood products for customers as large as Costco and Disney. As the Director of Environmental Policy and Social Responsibility for Tri Marine, the preferred supplier of tuna and tuna-supply related services to leading brands worldwide, he also works to improve regional tuna fisheries management policies.

  • COO, Investor

    Sarah brings 30 years direct experience in building and scaling consumer brands you know and love like Dole Fresh Vegetables, Earthbound Farm and Sweet Earth Foods. Sarah brings track record and a volume of experience leading the brand through this critical phase of scaling.

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