Mud crab sells for 3–4x the price of shrimp. Unlike shrimp, no one has industrialized it.
India exports 4,500 tonnes a year — and still can’t supply it reliably.
We are not building a better farm. We are building the modular RAS and AquaOS that give processors a 365-day, export-grade supply chain instead of a seasonal gamble.
Institutionally backed
The problem
Mud crab farming was never designed as a controlled system
Forty years, no change in production architecture. Result: 50–70% mortality per cycle, 100% wild-seed dependency, and India exporting just 4,500 tonnes while Europe pays a scarcity premium of $51 per unit.
50–70%
Cycle mortality
$51
Europe — per unit
4,500 t
India annual export
100%
Wild-seed dependency
Cannibalism
Mud crabs kill each other
Pack mud crabs into a shared pond and the strong ones tear the soft post-molt crabs apart within hours. Entire batches vanish before harvest. The industry has tried isolation boxes for years — never with the per-animal control to make them work at production scale.
Vulnerability window
Molt is a blind spot
A mud crab molts every few weeks to grow — and for the day or so the new shell takes to harden, it is defenseless. Without per-animal visibility, you only learn the molt happened when the crab is already gone.
Environmental drift
Water shifts faster than you see it
Oxygen, salinity, ammonia, temperature — all swing with weather and feed load. By the time symptoms show up in the crab, the cycle is already compromised.
No causality
Nothing is tracked individually
A traditional mud crab pond gives you one number at harvest. No growth history, no molt log, no link between an action and an outcome — so nothing improves cycle to cycle.
Crabionics converts biological uncertainty into repeatable production.
The operating principle
Every cycle teaches the next.
Sensors capture biological and environmental signals. The system infers state, computes the right response, and acts — then logs what happened so the next cycle starts smarter.
Sensor
Capture telemetry
State
Biological signal
Decision
Compute response
Action
Actuate system
Each cycle feeds the next.
Platform at a Glance
Five layers, one production system
Crabionics is built bottom-up — hardware first, then telemetry, then control, then the network. Each layer is at a different stage of maturity.
01
Modular RAS
Closed-loop water systems, isolation modules, precision grow-out.
02
CrabPod Edge
Sensor integration and low-latency local infrastructure control.
03
AquaOS
Telemetry aggregation, biological state, decision logic.
04
HatchSync
Hatchery intelligence and seed security layer.
05
CIN
Cross-farm benchmarking and distributed learning.
Validation & Execution
Institutionally backed, field-executed
Each name below has put capital or infrastructure behind us.
DPIIT · Startup India
Recognised Startup
KIIT-TBI
Incubation
DST NIDHI PRAYAS
Innovation Support
BIRAC BIG
Grant — 24th Call
May 2026
DPIIT Recognition
Government of India recognised Crabionics as a startup under Agriculture / Fisheries (DIPP261048).
2026
BIRAC BIG Grant — 24th Call
Awarded under BIRAC's Biotechnology Ignition Grant.
2025
Pilot Infrastructure Scaling
Expansion toward multi-system architecture: hatchery, nursery, soft-shell, RAS finishing.