Archireef
Archireef is a nature-tech company helping coastal developers, port operators, and infrastructure owners understand, manage, and demonstrate their marine biodiversity performance. We provide end-to-end services across four integrated layers: ecological risk and opportunity assessment, proprietary eco-engineering deployment, AI-enabled long-term monitoring, and regulatory-grade reporting aligned …
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Archireef is a Hong Kong–based nature-tech company that restores degraded marine ecosystems using eco-engineering plus AI-driven, regulatory-grade monitoring. Its core products are modular, 3D-printed Reef Tiles made from porous terracotta for coral attachment and habitat complexity, and Eco SeaWall Panels for built marine environments; its “fully integrated platform” combines satellite/environmental site intelligence with intervention design and monitoring using photogrammetry, AI-assisted fish ID, and eDNA. It was founded in 2020 and is based in Hong Kong (HQ listed as 19 Science Park West Avenue Unit 705, Building 19W, Hong Kong Science Park). Founders include Vriko Yu (CEO) and Deniz Tekerek (CCO). Ownership/stock and later-stage funding details aren’t provided, but investors for its Seed round include Katapult Ocean plus Make it in the Emirates, Purpose Venture Capital, Carbon Zero, and Hub71. Scale: publicly stated revenues include ~$3M in 2024 (CB Insights) and earlier claims of $8M revenue by an unspecified time (Unreasonable Ventures); employees are listed as 6–20 (Unreasonable Ventures) and ~30 (Pictet, 2024). Key deployments/partners/customers mentioned include Abu Dhabi Ports Group, Modon, NEOM, and Sino Group, plus work with Hong Kong government entities and hotel and oil-and-gas clients; it has restored 700+ m² and surveyed 95,000+ m² (Katapult, via site monitoring). Latest 2025–2026 developments: Katapult reported April 2026 progress and outcomes; Unreasonable Ventures lists 2025 Abu Dhabi collaboration activity and a 2025 coral restoration alliance launch with Swire Bulk; it remains active through 2026 (no shutdown reported).
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- Why We Invested in Archireef: Turning Reef Restoration Into Resilient Infrastructure | Katapult — 2026-04-16
- Archireef - Products, Competitors, Financials, Employees, Headquarters Locations — 2025-10-02
- Curbing the tide of coral degradation — 2024-06-13
- Archireef
- Archireef Limited
- Archireef Stock Price, Funding, Valuation, Revenue & Financial Statements — 2025-10-02
- How a Hong Kong start-up is using 3D-printed tiles to restore global marine biodiversity and slow down climate clock | South China Morning Post — 2023-02-18
- Coral restoration isn’t a conservation problem. It’s an infrastructure problem. Archireef is fixing that - Fast Company Middle East | The future of tech, business and innovation. — 2026-05-13
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- Ecology & monitoring
- Topics
- Carbon credits, CCUS & blue carbon
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- UAE, Al Maryah Island, Abu Dhabi (listed on company website)
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- 2026-09-04 【碳中和】珊瑚保育 finance.now.comArchireef co-founder and CEO Yim Bik-fun (余碧芬) says their approach isn’t to replace nature with artificial reefs, but to use their solutions so nature can regain its own ecological functions.
- 2026-04-01 How much of Hong Kong's architecture is actually below ground, or even beneath the sea, where damaged reefs are struggling to grow? linkedin.comArchireef is showcased as a real-world biotech startup that translates underwater reef science into tangible impact by 3D-printing reef tiles to restore damaged coral ecosystems, expanding from Hong Kong to Abu Dhabi.
- 2026-03-20 Vriko Yu: Rebuilding Reefs, Tile by Tile cps.hkfyg.org.hkArchireef, co-founded by Vriko Yu, is a Hong Kong–based startup that uses 3D-printed reef tiles as a nature-based solution to restore threatened coral reefs, deploying its technology globally from Hong Kong to the UAE, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia. The company partners with local …
- 2025-11-07 Tapping truly unknown wonders chinadailyhk.comArchireef is a Hong Kong-based marine tech startup that reinvented coral restoration with 3D-printed, non-toxic terracotta reef tiles designed to mimic brain coral and encourage natural attachment, achieving high survival rates in early deployments. The company expanded globally, …
- 2025-06-06 Hong Kong green tech trailblazers boost sustainability across belt and road countries | South China Morning Post scmp.comArchireef is a Hong Kong-based green-tech startup that 3D-prints terracotta reef tiles to restore coral reefs, achieving high survivorship and biodiversity gains while expanding through the Middle East (UAE, Saudi Arabia) with government and institutional support, and plans to …
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- Latest round: Seed · 2023-03-21
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