Applications for Africa Innovation Fellowship 2020 are now open. Africa Innovation Fellowship 2020, powered by WomEng and the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation is a nine-month leadership and business development opportunity for female African innovators (teams can be mixed) with an early stage engineering innovation orContinue Reading
Greentown Labs, one of the largest cleantech incubators in North America, and Vineyard Wind, developer of the first utility-scale offshore wind energy generation facility in the United States, are now accepting applications for the Offshore Wind Challenge. Greentown Labs and Vineyard Wind are seeking submissions from startups that are innovating in marine mammal monitoring,Continue Reading
Inmarsat has signed an agreement with Brazil-based startup i4sea to join a fast-growing group of certified application providers for Fleet Data. Recently, Inmarsat closed an agreement with Nautilus Labs, as well. i4sea will provide a high-precision sea and weather forecasting application with up to seven days forecasting in advance throughContinue Reading
OceanHub Africa is launching the first cohort of its six-month acceleration program to support six of South-Africa’s most promising impact for profit startups focused on preserving and restoring the health of the ocean. The accelerator is on a mission to support ocean-minded start-ups with the express aim of nurturing anContinue Reading
BlueNalu, a food company producing seafood directly from fish cells, has announced the successful completion of its $20 million Series A round of funding. This financing will enable BlueNalu to develop a good manufacturing practices (GMP) pilot production facility in San Diego, expand its world-class team, implement strategic alliances forContinue Reading
The PEI BioAlliance (Prince Edward Island BioAlliance) has been introduced as PEI’s representative of the Ocean Startup Project, a collaborative regional partnership to grow the number of startups in Atlantic Canada that are focused on ocean industries. The nearly $7-million-dollar partnership, is called the Ocean Startup Project and it intendsContinue Reading
The eOceans app is for citizen scientists, scientists, and teams exploring and studying the world’s oceans. It was founded to make faster and more collaborative discoveries. It’s available in Android and iOS. This app captures ‘logs’ about the oceans in real-time. A ‘log’ takes about 30 seconds and captures enormousContinue Reading
Products made from algae are thriving in the maritime sector and biotechnology is one of the most thriving business for maritime startups. Micro-organisms and algae are being used to make lamps, biofuel or new foods. First let’s have a look at what they are that makes algae so spacial. AlgaeContinue Reading
Tetrahedron has patented a new crane for lifting offshore wind turbine generators at a lower cost than conventional hardware. The Tetrahedron crane is suitable to lift the next generation of offshore wind turbine generators with capacities of 10-20 MW each. Those cranes reach heights up to 250 m. Compared toContinue Reading
The Ocean Impact Organization is a non-profit organisation that is building a multi-disciplinary ecosystem of founders, startups, SME’s, marine experts, business mentors, industry partners, corporates, research institutions, marine organisations, media organisations, not-for-profit partners, investors and philanthropists. They all have the aim to ensure the long term sustainability of the ocean,Continue Reading