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56 world-changing companies working across five impact areas to generate positive transformation for our ocean.

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Italy

Europe & United Kingdom

Blue Foods: Fisheries, Aquaculture, & Seafood Alternatives

Alessandro Romano

Ittinsect - Feed for the Ocean

Ittinsect is the biotech startup that developed a sustainable alternative protein ingredient, both from the environmental and economic standpoint. Ittinsect produces high performance feed ingredients through the biotechnological treatment of novel raw ingredients including insects, microalgae and agricultural by-products, in line with the circular economy principles. A fish raised with Ittinsect-based feeds has a healthier digestion and improved growth performance at no extra cost for the fish farmer. With Ittinsect, there is no longer need to catch fish from the marine environment as nutrition for farmed fish.

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Belgium

Europe & United Kingdom

Ecosystems and Species: Preservation & Restoration

Sayri Arteaga Michaux, Meidi Garcia

uWare Robotics

uWare utilizes the latest advancements in Robotics, AI, and IoUT to develop cost-effective, easy-to-use robotic platforms enabling autonomous intervention in underwater environments.

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The Netherlands

Europe & United Kingdom

Blue Foods: Fisheries, Aquaculture, & Seafood Alternatives

Brian Takeda

Urchinomics

Urchinomics helps restore kelp forests by paying divers to remove overgrazing sea urchins from urchin barrens, ranching the urchins in proprietary land-based aquaculture systems, and converting the urchins from an ecological nuisance into premium seafood that we sell to high end distributors and restaurants globally.

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Switzerland

Europe & United Kingdom

Ecosystems and Species: Preservation & Restoration

David Lunsford, Florence Cuttat, Florence Trembley Otis, Benjamin Li

Stream Ocean

Stream Ocean's mission is to help anyone working in the ocean to monitor their impact on marine biodiversity

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Cambodia

Asia

Pollution Reduction: Circular Use, Waste Removal or Avoidance

Barak Ekshtein

TONTOTON

TONTOTON is an environmental impact program focused on collecting and treating mismanaged, hard-to-recycle plastic in highly polluted coastal villages of Cambodia. Our mission is to reduce plastic leakage through plastic action financing while promoting waste segregation in households and businesses and collecting mismanaged plastic on the ocean-bound. TONTOTON operates its material recovery facility for sorting and processing plastic into building materials and plastic boards. The boards are used to build classrooms and house repairs in disadvantaged communities..

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United States of America

North America

Ecosystems and Species: Preservation & Restoration

Chris Oakes

Reefgen

Seagrass and coral habitats are rapidly declining worldwide. We have developed multiple robotic nearshore restoration platforms to plant coral and seagrasses, with the ability to develop the required 30x-75x productivity- rate enhancements over manual planting necessary for humankind to meet the challenge of restoring our coastal life support ecosystems.

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United States of America

North America

Greenhouse Gas: Blue Carbon & CO2e Removal or Avoidance

Marcelino Alvarez, Tara Russell, Nick Schoeps, Charles Steinback

Photon Marine

Photon Marine is developing the world’s most powerful and intelligent electric outboard motor system and fleet management software, tailored to commercial boat fleets in tourism, transportation, and mariculture industries. Our solution is a drop-in electric outboard motor system that replaces traditional ICE motors on both new and existing vessels without compromising on performance or reliability. Our system is backed by our fleet management software, which includes industry leading features such as intelligent energy management, predictive maintenance, and smart routing to facilitate the transition from gas to electric.

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Spain

Europe & United Kingdom

Greenhouse Gas: Blue Carbon & CO2e Removal or Avoidance

Bound4Blue

Bound4Blue has developed a foldable and autonomous wingsail system to be integrated onto a wide range of vessels. The system has been conceived as a complementary propulsion system, which produces effective thrust from existing winds, reducing the main engine power required and, therefore, delivering fuel consumption and pollutant emissions reductions of up to 40%.

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United Kingdom

Europe & United Kingdom

Pollution Reduction: Circular Use, Waste Removal or Avoidance

Carlo Fedeli, Thibaut Monfort Micheo

FlexSea

FlexSea develops novel seaweed derived biomaterials to replace single use plastics in various verticals. Their truly home-compostable materials are derived from naturally occurring seaweed biopolymers from widely cultivated red seaweed strains

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