A world where people
and the ocean smile.

One word from an oyster farmer
started everything.

Imai came from the social welfare world. Looking for ways to connect rural labor shortages with welfare personnel, he began visiting oyster farmers. What he found was the sight of people grinding barnacles off oyster cages with angle grinders.

"Can't you stop the barnacles from sticking?" he asked. "Impossible — you can't make them only stick to oysters," they laughed. But listening closely, he learned that barnacles attaching to growing oysters cause over 40% mortality — up to 90% in some locations. Preventing attachment entirely changes productivity.

Investigating further, he found that ships, aquaculture, power plant cooling systems, and underwater infrastructure around the world all equally struggled with barnacles. And at the root of all of it was another problem: "ocean data barely exists." Through METI and JETRO's entrepreneurship program "Shido Next Innovator," he met Chishaki, and they founded the company in June 2021.

After founding, they honed the technology through numerous acceleration programs, building on real-world field validation in Hiroshima and Kure. In 2022, they were selected for programs in Fukuoka, Gotanda Valley, JETRO, and Hiroshima Prefecture's HGUI. In May 2025, they graduated from their founding base at Kure Support Core and moved R&D operations to Marine Craft Kazenoko's second factory in Kurashima-cho.