BlueX | 2-26-24 | Seaking Blue Newsletter, Maritime Energy Storage, and Atlantic Fish Co.

Hey ocean nerds!

Let’s start this week with a shout out to another awesome BlueTech newsletter I recently learned about . . .

Seaking Blue

Underline added by me, because I love a good pun.

Seaking Blue is an awesome newsletter covering BlueTech events, accelerators, opportunities, career openings, and learning resources. If you like BlueX, you will definitely like Seaking Blue. Subscribe on the substack.

Also, if you are in the NYC Area Seaking Blue’s Delaney Demark (also an awesome human) is planning a meetup in mid-March. I will definitely be there. Look for more details as she publishes them!

On to the Blue-Venture-News!

- Will

ICYMI non-profit WaterCitizen is hosting a water startup pitch and investor matching event in Washington DC on March 19th. Check it out.

OceanTech Fundings

The main event. Startup investment announcements in OceanTech.

🔋 EST-Floattech, a maritime energy storage firm, raised €4MM from Energy Transition Fund Rotterdam, Rotterdam Port Fund, PDENH, Ponooc, and Yard Energy. | More from MarineLink

🦾 AI predictive industrial maintenance company Novity raised $7.8M from WERU Investment, Myriad Venture Partners, and Metawater Co. Ltd. | More from Silicon Angle

🦐 France-based aquaponics farming company Agriloops raised €13M with help from a crowdfunding campaign, debt, and grants. | More from Silicon Canals

More OceanTech News

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

🌍 A Unique Opportunity to Build a Blue Venture in Africa | A new initiative that aims to support and accelerate the development of ventures in southern Africa’s blue economy is now open for applications. | More from The Fish Site 

🐟 Atlantic Fish Co. Pioneers Cell Lines for Cultivated Halibut and Other Overfished Wild Species | Biotech startup Atlantic Fish Co., headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, leverages cellular agriculture to create seafood free of plastics, mercury, antibiotics, and animal suffering. | More from The Vegconomist

🐠 Sway Launches Seaweed Pellets to Replace Single-Use Plastics at Scale, Following $5M Funding Round | California-based Sway, a startup creating biodegradable alternatives to plastic, has introduced Thermoplastic Seaweed (TPSea), a “breakthrough” biopolymer resin made from seaweed and plants to replace plastic pellets in single-use packaging manufacturing. | More from The Vegconomist

More Ocean Sustainability News

These pieces are all tech-related this week. Love to see it!

🦈 Ocean 14 Lands B Corp Certification | Ocean 14 Capital, which runs a private equity impact fund focused on sustainable and regenerative ocean investments, has announced today that it has received B Corp certification. | More from The Fish Site

🦭 NOAA Awards First Round of Blue-Tech Accelerator Grants | The U.S. Department of Commerce has released a new round of funding to blue technology accelerators in order to help kickstart ocean sensing and ocean data innovation. | More from Maritime Executive

🚢 Singapore Selects 11 Designs in Effort to Promote Electric Harbor Crafts | Singapore’s Maritime and Port Authority has selected 11 design proposals as part of its ongoing competition to develop advanced electric harbor crafts. | More from Maritime Executive

OceanTech Jobs

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

🤖 Singapore-based underwater robotics firm BeeX is looking for a Mechanical Engineer.

⚗️ Green methanol firm Circular Carbon Chemistry is looking for a Process Engineer.

🌊 Wave power company Symphony Wave Power is looking for a Project Engineer.

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