Overview:
Vlinder is a climate tech company from Austria that plants mangroves and innovates carbon finance.
Founder/s: Sergey Ivliev, Lena Mechenkova, Alexander Spuller, Irina Fedorenko-Aula, Christian Svoboda
Year founded: 2019
Funding type: Pre-Seed
Seeking: Investment,Trail/ Pilot Site/ Partner,Customers
Location: Austria
Overview:
Our main objective is to harvest sargassum; an invasive seaweed threatening the Caribbean region.
We turn this hazard into an opportunity through autonomous harvesting drones that can be remotely controlled from the beach – or anywhere in the world – and a network of micro-biorefineries, which turn the seaweed into numerous products that will improve our planet’s health.
Founder/s: Frode Sønstebø & Paulina Zanela
Year founded: 2020
Funding type: Pre-seed
Seeking: Investment,Trail/ Pilot Site/ Partner,Customers,Grant / Funding
Location: Norway
Overview:
Sundew is a blue(bio)tech venture addressing multi-billion-dollar opportunities in the aquatic food-chain, environmental and cleantech sectors based on proprietary algal RNA and microbial fermentation technologies.
Founder/s: Neil Goldsmith, Joergen Hansen, Esben Hansen & Andy Gardiner
Year founded: 2019
Funding type: Seed
Seeking: Investment
Location: Denmark
Overview:
Creating high impact cost effective river cleaning solutions for timely interception of ocean bound plastic waste from rivers.
Founder/s: Frank W. Behrens
Year founded: 2022
Funding type: Seed
Seeking: Investment,Grant / Funding
Location: Netherlands
Overview:
ProjectQRSargasso seeks to turn pelagic sargassum into petrol-free fertilizer, seabed substrate, and hydrogen.
We will use a combination of bioengineering, environmental engineering, and electrocatalytic technology to accomplish this. When combined with Galaxy FCT’s groundbreaking hydrogen solid storage technology, we may have the world’s cheapest hydrogen production pathway.
Founder/s: Edward Shao
Year founded: 2022
Funding type: Grant
Seeking: Investment,Customers,Grant / Funding
Location: Mexico
Overview:
Planblue was founded in 2017 by two former marine scientists and two engineers to enable high-quality seafloor mapping, inspired by satellite technology. Based in Bremen, Germany, the company now has over 20 employees located all over Europe. Funded partially through the ESA BIC program, an EIC grant, and Climate-KIC, planblue has completed campaigns around the globe, all with the express goal to highlight the ecologic and economic importance of the seafloor.
At planblue, we strive to combine scientific rigor and ground-breaking technological advances to revolutionize seafloor monitoring for the 21st century. Currently, as a first step, we are focusing on developing a methodology to accurately estimate the carbon stock of seagrass meadows, in order to introduce much needed transparency into the emerging blue carbon market.
Founder/s: Joost den Haan, Hannah Brocke, Guy Rigot & Raja Kandukuri
Year founded: 2017
Funding type: Seed
Seeking: Trail/ Pilot Site/ Partner,Customers
Location: Germany
Overview:
Ocean Ecostructures is a company that provides scalable solutions to offset the negative effects of marine infrastructures. We reforest and rewild marine infrastructures, recovering monetizable ecosystem services and improving the competitiveness and social recognition of our clients. Our unique technology, We develop Biomimmick Micro Reefs, made of natural substrate, specifically designed to be installed in marine infrastructures (versatility), like Ports and offshore, not having interferences with operations. Additionally, we provide distinctive, high value digital-based monitoring services (iOceans platform) that help cover compliance and ESG requirements of our clients, and strengthen Social Engagement.
Founder/s: Ignasi Ferrer, Mireia de Mas & Anna Lloveras
Year founded: 2020
Funding type: Grant
Seeking: Investment,Trail/ Pilot Site/ Partner,Customers,Grant / Funding
Location: Spain
Overview:
KOASTAL supports fishermen and sea enthusiasts with the cultivation of seaweed by providing permits, financed gear, and other supplies together with a guaranteed buy-back of the crop. This enables farmers to faster and more efficiently establish new and profitable farming units and large-scale buyers to source adequate large volumes of quality-controlled seaweed from a transparent, efficient and sustainable value chain.
Founder/s: August Eriksson & Samuel Amant
Year founded: 2022
Funding type: Grant
Seeking: Trail/ Pilot Site/ Partner,Customers,Grant / Funding
Location: Sweden
Overview:
Foodinghy is the first food delivery dedicated to boaters. Since 2020 we deliver restaurant food and galley products on board at anchor and in marinas. In 2023, we will add new services: marina, mooring and other land-based services.
Founder/s: Patrick George Cox & Andrea Guagno
Year founded: 2019
Funding type: Seed
Seeking: Investment,Trail/ Pilot Site/ Partner,Customers,Mentorship / Expert Advice,Grant / Funding
Location: Italy
Overview:
CLEAR RIVERS is a non-profit organization based in the Netherlands. Founded in 2014, CLEAR RIVERS addresses the issue of worldwide plastic pollution. Our mission is to significantly reduce the amount of plastic that enters our oceans by retrieving it before it reaches the open waters. For this purpose, we have designed Litter Traps made of recycled plastics that can easily be transported and implemented in different rivers. Our Litter Traps passively collect waste, using wind and water currents. Additionally, CLEAR RIVERS works to raise awareness of plastic pollution amongst students and local communities and to recycle the retrieved plastics into new and durable products.
Founder/s: Ramon Knoester
Year founded: 2014
Funding type: Grant
Seeking: Investment,Trail/ Pilot Site/ Partner,Grant / Funding
Location: Netherlands
