🐋 BlueX | 12-4-2023 | Ocean Ecostructures Raises For Marine Biodiversity

The holiday season started in my house this week. We baked cranberry mini-cheesecake tarts with the kids and put up our tree. It looks like OceanTech venture rounds are not slowing down with the holiday. Biodiversity, government grant support, and digital shirmp industry startups all raised!

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OceanTech Fundings

The main event. Startup investment announcements in OceanTech.

🌊 Ocean Ecostructures, specializing in the regeneration of marine biodiversity, has raised €1.6M in funding from Ship2B Ventures, Inclimo Climate Tech, and BStartup of Banco Sabadell. | More from Ocean Ecostructures

🏛️ Pioneer, an AI-powered service for climate tech companies pursuing government incentives, raised $2.9 million in seed funding led by Blue Bear Capital with participation from Collaborative Fund, Soma Capital, Cool Climate Collective, and Kayan Ventures. | More from Pulse 2.0

🚰 HULO.ai, an AI drinking water conservation startup, raised €800K in funding to deploy AI in tackling large-scale drinking water losses from LUMO Labs and the Netherlands Enabling Water Technology (NEW) Fund. | More from Silicon Canals

🦐 Jala, a digital enabler for the shrimp industry, raised US$13.3M in Series A funding led by Intudo Ventures, with participation from Sinar Mas Digital Ventures (SMDV), Mirova and Meloy Fund (Deliberate Capital). | More from FinSMEs

More OceanTech News

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

🚤 Azane and Amogy to Develop Ammonia Bunker Vessel | Azane Fuel Solutions, a joint venture between ECONNECT Energy and Amon Maritime, is moving forward with the design of an ammonia bunker vessel to be used for fueling large vessels. | More from Maritime Executive

💧 Nova Innovation secures €20M from EU for 4MW tidal energy project | Nova Innovation has won EU funding for a 4MW tidal energy farm that will be home to the largest number of tidal turbines anywhere in the world. | More from Offshore Energy

More Ocean Sustainability News

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

🗽 New York Opens Fourth Offshore Wind Solicitation Reflecting Industry Issues | New York State as scheduled officially opened its fourth solicitation today for offshore wind projects as well as land-based renewables. | More from Maritime Executive

💧 Neste secures €1.96M investment aid for green hydrogen project at Porvoo refinery | Finnish oil refining and marketing company Neste has been granted an energy investment aid . . . | More from Offshore Energy

OceanTech Jobs

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

🐠 Digital Aquaculture unicorn eFishery is looking for a Field Business Development Coordinator (West)

🤖 Solar powered UUV company Ocean Aero is looking for a Human Resources Director

🌽 Agriculture water conservation company N-Drip is looking for a Fleet and Safety Manager

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