Mar+Invest and Global Fund for Coral Reefs

MAR+Invest is a blended finance mechanism with strong monitoring and evaluation of impacts, business acceleration and a capacity building program to enable conditions for a sustainable ocean-based economy in the Mesoamerican Reef (MAR). It will invest in market-based initiatives that make a positive contribution to the health and resilience ofContinue Reading

Combiro BOld Agreement

Seoul-based Combiro and Madrid-based BOld have signed an agreement that will benefit their startups and accelerated companies to grow. Both Combiro and Bold have very similar objectives and work with scalable, revenue-generating, internationally focused and technology-based startups. Combiro supports Korean promising technologies and companies not only national-wide but also worksContinue Reading

AspBAN will connect 391 ports around the globe

The project AspBAN, “Atlantic Smart Ports Blue Acceleration Network”, by Forum Oceano and Beta-i, was selected by EU’s DG Mare to set up a platform of acceleration services in ports in the Atlantic ocean. Led by the collaborative innovation consultancy Beta-i and co-lead by Forum Oceano, the entity responsible forContinue Reading

Bold-moonshot-blue-economy-innovation-ecosystem

BOld and Moonshot have signed an LOI (letter of intent) to establish the bases and joint lines of work between the participants to develop and commercialise the “Bold Moonshot” ecosystems within the Moonshot software platform. BOld (Blue Ocean Leading Drivers) contributes with its knowledge and experience in acceleration environments and a proven methodology inContinue Reading

Esteyco's Elisa prototype

Esteyco, in collaboration with NREL (National Renewables Energy Laboratory), has been one of the awardees of the R&D call “Offshore Wind Solicitation 1.0. Round one: Enabling Large Scale Turbines (15 MW)”, from the National Offshore Wind Research&Development Consortium (U.S.). Esteyco presented a self-installing concrete gravity-base substructure sizing for a 15MWContinue Reading