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Starboard Maritime Intelligence

Starboard Maritime Intelligence

Stand: Sustainable Fishing, Ocean Conservation, Green Ports, Blue Deep Tech

Overview:

Starboard helps nations tackle complex maritime challenges, ranging from risk assessing arriving vessels to detecting illegal fishing and uncovering non-reporting dark vessels.  Our intuitive software, driven by big-data processing and machine learning models, is loved by our customers who use it everyday to protect the world’s oceans and their national waters.

Founder/s: Trent Fulcher, Mat Brown, Andy Hovey, Tama Pugsley, Kelly Rummins, Emma Scarlet & Joe Corbett

Year founded: 2020

Funding type: Grant

Seeking: Investment,Customers

Location: New Zealand

Website

https://starboard.nz/
 

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SOSmarin

SOSmarin

Stand: Sustainable Fishing,Ocean Conservation,Green Ports,Blue Circularity

Overview:

SOSmarin is a marine conservation initiative that promotes sustainable practices and raises awareness about the importance of preserving marine biodiversity. We have developed a space management system that helps in protecting fisheries and the environment. Our system ensures that every inch of space on the ship is utilized efficiently, minimizing the waste generated during the shipping process. Our company’s mission is to cater to the needs of ship owners and recycling companies. We believe that these two industries play a vital role in protecting the environment and conserving marine life. Our focus is to provide them with a space management system that ensures responsible and sustainable use of resources.

Founder/s: Rihab Zarhoune

Year founded: 2021

Funding type: No funding up

Seeking: Investment,Customers,Mentorship / Expert Advice,Grant / Funding

Location: Morocco

Website

https://www.linkedin.com/company/sosmarin/
 

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Plan Blue

Plan Blue

Stand: Ocean Renewable Energy, Aquaculture, Sustainable Fishing, Ocean Conservation, Blue Bioeconomy, Blue Circularity, Blue Deep Tech

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

Website

https://www.planblue.com/

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Ocean Eye Inc.

Ocean Eye Inc.

Stand: Sustainable Fishing, Ocean Conservation

Overview:

Our Marine biodiversity conservation platform combined with our proprietary technology facilitates micro-payments from marine biodiversity sightings to coastal communities. It creates a win-win for conservation and communities. We are now expanding globally and looking for impactful project sites.
Ocean Eye is used by responsible marine tourists and tourism operators globally. It offers transparent and equitable financial incentives to stakeholders in support of effective marine biodiversity conservation and provides climate adaptation finance.
Ocean Eye helps to address the triple threat of biodiversity loss, climate crisis and global inequity.
Founder/s: Sari Tolvanen

Year founded: 2019

Funding type: Grant

Seeking: Investment,Mentorship / Expert Advice,Grant / Funding

Location: Finland

Website

https://oceaneye.io/

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KOASTAL

KOASTAL

Stand: Aquaculture, Sustainable Fishing, Blue Bioeconomy

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

Website

https://www.koastal.se/

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Blue Ocean Gear

Blue Ocean Gear

Stand: Aquaculture, Sustainable Fishing, Ocean Conservation, Blue Circularity

Overview:

Blue Ocean Gear is a Silicon Valley-based start-up tackling the problems of gear loss and ocean data collection with an immediately actionable and commercial solution: sensor-rich tracking buoys. Our rugged, depth-rated Smart Buoy technology allows fishers and aquaculture farmers in the even the most remote locations to track and monitor data from their gear anytime and anywhere, dramatically enhancing operational efficiency on the water and generating significant cost savings in the form of reduced fuel costs and recovered gear. Our universal hardware/software solution reflects a close partnership with a global customer base across a range of fisheries from lobster pots to longlines to shellfish farms and allows data access through multiple user interfaces both on and off the water. We are backed by a leading group of Blue Economy investors including Good Growth Capital, Builders Vision and Conservation International Ventures and have grant-funded partnerships with a variety of government agencies, research institutes and foundations including NOAA, the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Schmidt Marine Technology Partners and the Ocean Conservancy.

Founder/s: Kortney Opshaug, Peter Macy & Kevin Johnson

Year founded: 2019

Funding type: Series A

Seeking: Investment,Customers,Grant / Funding

Location: California, United States

Website

https://www.blueoceangear.com/

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Ava Ocean

Ava Ocean

Stand: Sustainable Fishing, Ocean Conservation, Green Ports

Overview:

Ava Ocean has developed a new technology that enables gentle, yet efficient harvesting of seafood from the seabed, without negatively impacting fragile ocean habitats. Thanks to our patented solution, Ava Ocean has been granted the first licence to harvest Arctic scallops in Norway for more than 30 years. The global potential for this technology is immense, and Ava Ocean wants to drive positive change in the way we access sustainable seafood from the most exciting place on earth – the bottom of the sea!

Founder/s: Oystein Tvedt

Year founded: 2016

Funding type: Series B

Seeking: Investment,Trail/ Pilot Site/ Partner,Grant / Funding

Location: Norway

Website

https://avaocean.no/
 

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