Meet the Ecopreneur
Network Startups
56 world-changing companies working across five impact areas to generate positive transformation for our ocean.

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Canada

North America

Blue Foods: Fisheries, Aquaculture, & Seafood Alternatives

Luke Young

Alora Innovations Inc

Alora, formerly known as Agrisea, was built to solve world hunger by evolving sustainable food systems through ocean agriculture. They have developed a way to grow crops in high salt conditions such as salt soils or coastal ocean waters.

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France

Europe & United Kingdom

Blue Foods: Fisheries, Aquaculture, & Seafood Alternatives

Jérémie Cognard, Alexandra Falicon

Agriloops

Agriloops develops aquaponic systems to reinvent aquaculture to produce eco-responsible and healthy food products. The company develops innovative aquaponic production units in salt water to facilitate sustainable agricultural production, enabling the production of natural and fresh shrimps and vegetables.

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United States of America

North America

Pollution: Waste Reduction & Circular Use

Julia Marsh, Matt Mayes, Leland Maschmeyer, Matthew Catarino*

Sway

Sway combats plastic pollution and its devastating effects by replacing single-use plastics with packaging made from seaweed. Sway's technology drops into traditional plastic infrastructure, while simultaneously replenishing ocean health, sequestering carbon, promoting benevolent materials, and ultimately creating a more inclusive climate movement. The company is based in Berkeley, California, and works with seaweed farmers across the Western Hemisphere.

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United States of America

North America

Pollution: Waste Reduction & Circular Use

Ian Doromal, Sergie Albino*

ecoSPEARS

ecoSPEARS is an environmental technology company ushering in the net-zero future of environmental cleanup. ecoSPEARS designs and develops green and sustainable technologies to extract and eliminate PFAS, PCBs, dioxins, and other persistent organic pollutants (POPS) from the environment - forever. ecoSPEARS is the exclusive licensee of patented NASA-developed environmental technologies. ecoSPEARS imagines a world where everyone has access to clean water, clean food, and clean air.

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United States of America

North America

Blue Foods: Fisheries, Aquaculture, & Seafood Alternatives

Brian von Herzen, Bob Kryczko, Ken Austin, Theresa Theuretzbacher*

Seaforestation.co

SeaForestation.Co provides deepwater solar irrigation services and equipment for replete seaweed cultivation across the oceans while augmenting seaweed value chains to meet food security needs, ecosystem life support and carbon export applications.

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United States of America

North America

Pollution: Waste Reduction & Circular Use

Dane Anderson, Jeff Anderson*

Full Cycle Bioplastics

Pioneers of a regenerative economy, Full Cycle Bioplastics is tackling both food waste and plastic pollution through their patented technology that converts organic waste into a compostable, biodegradable bioplastic (PHA). They are the only bioplastic that is cost-competitive with petroleum plastics and the only circular economy bioplastic company in the world. Their PHA is able to directly replace polypropylene, polyethylene, and polystyrene and at its end-of-life, it can be up-cycled through our system into virgin PHA again.

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United States of America

North America

Blue Foods: Fisheries, Aquaculture, & Seafood Alternatives

Robert Bennett, Jacek Prus, Sonia Hurtado*

Current Foods

Current Foods (formerly Kuleana) is creating the next generation of seafood with plants and biotechnology. After going through Y-Combinator's S20 batch and raising $6.5M Pre-Series A, Current Foods has products across the country with an initial foodservice focus.

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United Kingdom

Europe & United Kingdom

Pollution: Waste Reduction & Circular Use

Dr Inty Gronneberg, Yessica Benavides*

Ichthion

Ichthion is a UK company, with operations in South America that develops and implements award-winning technologies and solutions to decrease plastic pollution in our ocean. The company also designs and executes circular economy programmes for its customers based on data. So far, Ichthion has received around USD 2.2 million in its seed investment round, multiple international grants, and contracts for its R&D development and operations. The start-up is currently raising Series A.

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United States of America

North America

Pollution: Waste Reduction & Circular Use

Mike Newman

Returnity

Returnity replaces single-use shipping and delivery packaging by designing, manufacturing and implementing reusable packaging and circular logistics systems. Used for over 500,000 shipments per month, their packaging addresses the negative impacts from the rapid growth in direct to consumer shipping.

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