Overview:
Design, procurement, construction, installation and operation of fish friendly water turbines for sustainable energy. Distinguishing feature is W2Es patented Pitch Control. Tidal and river applications.
Founder/s: Reinier J. Rijke
Year founded: 2013
Funding type: Pre-Seed
Seeking: Investment,Trail/ Pilot Site/ Partner,Customers,Grant / Funding,Other
Location: Netherlands
Overview:
uWare is taking the aerial drone revolution underwater to protect our oceans and secure our future.
uWare Robotics is a European startup specialising in Robotics and AI solutions to gather, process and analyse underwater data in a more cost-effective, easy-to-use and safer manner.
We currently use our highly mobile AUVs (Autonomous Underwater Vehicles) to collect your underwater data and then provide services to deliver you the required results from 2D and 3D maps to automated visual analysis. Our technology is particularly relevant for the management of, and operation in coastal zones, which contain ecosystems such as Seagrass Meadows and Coral Reefs. All of which are vital to the health of our planet and the Blue Economy.
To set the standard for underwater monitoring and inspection, we are working in collaboration with research institutes and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). We will soon be offering our services to other sectors that operate within the Blue Economy, such as Blue Carbon, Mariculture, Waste Management and Clean Energy operations.
Our current services:
– Underwater data collection and processing
– Consultancy regarding underwater robotics and data processing
Future services:
– AUV sales
– Cloud-based automated data processing and analysis
Founder/s: Sayri Arteaga Michaux, Meidi Garcia and Christophe Chatillon
Year founded: 2018
Funding type: Seed
Seeking: Investment,Trail/ Pilot Site/ Partner,Customers,Mentorship / Expert Advice,Grant / Funding
Location: Brussels
Overview:
We develop unique, innovative and wave energy convertor technology to harness oceans waves to provide green energy to communities in deltas, islands and remote areas around the world and make them resilient.
Founder/s: Erwin Croughs, Erwin Meijboom & Patrick Jansens
Year founded: 2012
Funding type: Grant
Seeking: Investment,Trail/ Pilot Site/ Partner,Customers,Mentorship / Expert Advice,Grant / Funding
Location: Netherlands
Overview:
SeaQurrent develops and markets the TidalKite Power Plant, powered by an innovative underwater kite, that makes it possible to cost effectively exploit daily available, predictable tidal energy contributing to a renewable, affordable and reliable energy mix.
Founder/s: Youri Wentzel, Maurits Alberda, Maarten Berkhout
Year founded: 2013
Funding type: Seed
Seeking: Investment,Trail/ Pilot Site/ Partner,Customers,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:
We are an ocean energy technology developer building fit-for-purpose, self-powered ocean stations for environmental data collection.
Founder/s: Francisco Garcia, Aitor Echeandia & Luis Garcia
Year founded: 2008
Funding type: Grant
Seeking: Trail/ Pilot Site/ Partner,Customers
Location: Spain
Overview:
Ships around the world use toxic paints to prevent the growth of mussels, barnacles and algae on the hull. These toxic paints dissolve in the oceans, annually spreading 100 million liters of biocides and microplastics.
Finsulate has developed a non-polluting alternative and is marketing this product internationally in yachting, commercial marine and offshore wind markets. Based on biomimicry, we apply a self adhesive film with a skin of fibers. The product does not dissolve and lasts at least 10 years which is unrivalled in the industry.
Founder/s: Rik Breur
Year founded: 2017
Funding type: Series A
Seeking: Investment,Customers,Grant / Funding
Location: Netherlands
