BlueX | 10-23-2023 | Seaweed Bioplastic and Maritime Robots

I hope you’re having a happy fall. I got to check out an NSF I-Corps meeting at Princeton this week that highlighted some cool university-led underwater tech. Super motivating.

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OceanTech Fundings

The main event. Startup investment announcements in OceanTech.

🌱 FlexSea, a blue biotech company that develops seaweed derived bioplastic films, pellets, and polymers, raised €3.4M in Seed funding led by Indico Capital Partners, with the participation of RedRice Ventures, Btomorrow Ventures, Food Foundry, Vala Capital, ICON Capital, and Pente Capital. | More from World Bio Market Insights

🦾 MAHI, a Belgium-based maritime autonomy tech startup, has secured seed funding led by US venture firm Pirque and Ultranav along with a group of business angel investors. | More from Splash 247

More OceanTech News

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

🌊 WES boosts 5 projects to design new class of wave energy converters | Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has awarded funding to five wave energy projects as part of its Direct Generation Concept Design Competition, which aims to develop new class of wave energy devices. | More from Offshore Energy

⚡️ The Power of Offshore Molecule Production | Energy ecosystems are evolving as the value of offshore power-to-X production is being realized. Flexible and delivered in long lengths on reels in a fast-track operation, thermoplastic composite pipeline can transfer up to nine times the amount of energy as a cable and can be used to store hydrogen | More from MarineLink

🐙 Kraken Robotics bags $3 million boulder detection contract | Kraken Robotics has received a $3 million contract to carry out boulder detection subsea survey services as part of an offshore wind farm project in Europe. | More from Offshore Energy

🦗 Thai Union's tech company HydroNeo partners with maker of alternative fish feed | The partnership will see Full Circle provide HydroNeo with insect-based shrimp feed additive. | More from Intrafish

More Ocean Sustainability News

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

🇫🇷 Seaturns launches wave energy demonstrator offshore France | French energy start-up Seaturns has deployed a scaled wave energy prototype at Ifremer's sea trials site in Sainte-Anne du Portzic, near Brest. | More from Offshore Energy 

🐛 Scottish spin-out company snags award for innovation in cleaning up aquaculture waste | The new spin-out company from the Scottish Association for Marine Science uses marine worms to clean up waste from fish farms. | More from We Are Aquaculture

🌎 Decarbonizing the Decarbonizing, Tidal Energy Project | A new material could help make clean energy technologies, like tidal energy turbines, even more sustainable. | More from CleanTechnica

OceanTech Jobs

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

🌡️ Marine weather sensor network company Sofar Ocean is looking for a Maritime Data Analyst. (San Francisco)

🏭 Industrial sustainable water solutions firm Gradiant is looking for a Senior Proposal Manager. (Boston/Seattle)

👷‍♂️ Renewable energy industry 3D printed concrete producer RCAM Technologies is looking for a Technical Proposal Manager. (LA)

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