BlueX | 01-02-2024 | Happy 2024! Cell cultivated fish, ocean solar, and wind-powered fruit juice tankers

Happy New Year BlueTech friends. I hope you had a great holiday break. I spent much of it bed, because the kids brought home a virus from school. I may have needed a break, but BlueTech fundings did not! Here’s two weeks of ocean-tech news coming at you fast!

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OceanTech Fundings

The main event. Startup investment announcements in OceanTech.

🐠 Atlantic Fish Co, a cell-generated fish startup, raised $100k from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center. | More from The Fish Site

🚤 Tubber, a boat rental platform, raised €1M from the Northern Netherlands Development Company. | More from Silicon Canals

🌅 Offshore solar power company SolarDuck raised €15 million with participation from Katapult Ocean, Green Tower, Energy Transition Fund Rotterdam and Invest-NL. | More from EU-Startups

👩‍💻 Industrial edge intelligence platform, Helin, raised €3 million from FORWARD.one | More from EU-Startups

🦾 HYDROGRID, a hydropower IoT optimization firm, raised a $8.5M Series A led by Inven Capital and Karma Ventures, with partcipation from CNB Capital and SET Ventures. | More from Tech.eu

More OceanTech News

Some of the OceanTech articles we liked. Not fundings necessarily, but some great stuff:

🚢 Fruit Juice Tanker Becomes Latest Vessel to Add Wind-Assisted Propulsion | The adoption of wind-assisted propulsion is continuing to grow as more shippers and vessel owners seek to increase the efficiency and lower emissions from their ships. The latest plan will see the adoption of suction sails aboard a decade-old fruit juice carrier. | More from Maritime Executive

🐬 Norwegian scallop startup nabs $4.6 million from government for green project | The Ocean Green project plans to eliminate sea urchin deserts and rejuvenate kelp forests along the Norwegian coast. | More from Intrafish

More Ocean Sustainability News

Even if it isn’t tech, that doesn’t mean we don’t love reading these pieces:

🛥 Danish Energy Firm Launches Maritime Clean-Fuel Project in Mexico | Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners is signing up for another new green bunkering project - this time in Mexico. | More from Maritime Executive

☀️ Floating solar and wave energy projects grab a slice of $88M Energy Catalyst funding | Innovate UK’s Energy Catalyst program has awarded over £40 million (around $88 million) … | More from Offshore Energy

💨 RWE Acquires Three UK Offshore Wind Projects from Vattenfall in $1.2B Deal | Vattenfall has agreed to sell three of its offshore wind farm projects which were in a late stage of development to RWE in a deal that values the wind zone at approximately $1.2 billion. | More from Maritime Executive

💧 Fortescue secures €200 million EU funding for green ammonia project in Norway | Australia-based green energy, technology, and metals company Fortescue has been awarded a grant of … | More from Offshore Energy

OceanTech Jobs

There are a ton of career opportunities in this broad ecosystem. Are these right for you?

⌨️ Maritime B2B SaaS start-up Zero44 is looking for a B2B Customer Success Manager.

⚓️ All electric boat firm X Shore is looking for a Head of Sales.

🌊 Wave power company Mocean Energy is looking for a Marketing Manager.

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