United Kingdom
Europe & United Kingdom
Pollution Reduction: Circular Use, Waste Removal or Avoidance
Carlo Fedeli, Thibaut Monfort Micheo
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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North America
Greenhouse Gas: Blue Carbon & CO2e Removal or Avoidance
Marcelino Alvarez, Tara Russell, Nick Schoeps, Charles Steinback
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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North America
Ecosystems and Species: Preservation & Restoration
Chris Oakes
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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Europe & United Kingdom
Ecosystems and Species: Preservation & Restoration
David Lunsford, Florence Cuttat, Florence Trembley Otis, Benjamin Li
Stream Ocean's mission is to help anyone working in the ocean to monitor their impact on marine biodiversity
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Asia
Pollution Reduction: Circular Use, Waste Removal or Avoidance
Barak Ekshtein
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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Europe & United Kingdom
Blue Foods: Fisheries, Aquaculture, & Seafood Alternatives
Brian Takeda
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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Europe & United Kingdom
Ecosystems and Species: Preservation & Restoration
Sayri Arteaga Michaux, Meidi Garcia
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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Europe & United Kingdom
Blue Foods: Fisheries, Aquaculture, & Seafood Alternatives
Alessandro Romano
Ocean Twist Biotechnology has developed biotech processes to transform agricultural side streams and less valuable insect fractions into a sustainable, high-performance protein replacement for fishmeal. The company’s goal is to reduce environmental impact by delivering innovative, circular protein solutions for the fish and livestock feed industries as an alternative to traditional and impactful ingredients such as fishmeal and soy.
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North America
Ecosystems and Species: Preservation & Restoration
Emily Charry Tissier, Antoine Gagné-Turcotte, Bertrand Charry*
Founded in 2018, Whale Seeker’s proprietary technology uses AI to speed up the analysis of remotely sensed images to detect whales. Their data help strengthen environmental impact assessments, support industry in complying with marine regulations, improve companies’ bottom lines, and ultimately help protect whales.
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