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BlueX | 9-11-2023 | Aquatech coming in hot
Plus wave energy and 3D printed seawalls
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About this Newsletter: BlueX is a weekly newsletter that scours the internet for venture and startup news and jobs related to OceanTech.
OceanTech Fundings
The main event. Startup investment announcements in OceanTech.
💧 bound4blue raised their Series A financing with agricultural company Louis Dreyfus Company, French containment specialist GTT and the European Commission. | More from Offshore Energy
🦑 Delos, an aquaculture company, raised an undisclosed amount in its first close of its Series A round led by Monk's Hill Ventures, to be used for product development in order to decrease production costs, improve disease monitoring and water quality management, and increase shrimp yields. | More from Tech in Asia
🔬 Israeli biotech firm ViAqua Therapeutics raises $8.25m in funding for aquaculture disease management led by S2G Ventures | More from Undercurrent News
👩🔬 Phycom, a Dutch microalgae firm, raised €9 million in funding from Corbion, Phase2.earth, Invest-NL, Invest International, and existing shareholders to grow its high-quality microalgae at an industrial scale, improve its technology, and expand its marketing activities. | More from The Vegconomist
🌊 Scottish company Mocean Energy has secured €3.74 million in funding to develop and deploy a 250kW wave energy device offshore Orkney, as part of the EuropeWave project. | More from Offshore Energy
🏝️ Kind Designs, a Miami-based startup focused on deploying 3D printed seawalls to combat shoreline erosion and surge flooding, raised $5 million in seed funding led by GOVO Venture Partners, M4 Investing, and the Florida Opportunity Fund. | More from 3DPrinting.com
More OceanTech News
Some of the OceanTech articles we liked. Not fundings necessarily, but some great stuff:
🐚 The aquatech startup that’s making accuracy count | Counting devices are flooding the aquaculture market, but Algaeba claims to have developed the only one that counts with 97 percent accuracy in under 10 seconds . . . | More from The Fish Site
☔️ 3D-Printed “Living Material” Could Clean Up Contaminated Water | “Living material” offers a new way to clean polluted water Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new type of material that could offer a sustainable and eco-friendly solution to clean pollutants from water . . . | More from CleanTechnica
More Ocean Sustainability News
Even if it isn’t tech, that doesn’t mean we don’t love reading these pieces:
🔌 Subsea Power Grid Systems Market Surges, Expected to Reach US$ 5.2 Billion by 2033 | Surging energy demand fuels offshore exploration, driving demand for subsea power grid systems. | More from GlobeNewsWire
OceanTech Jobs
There are a ton of career opportunities in this broad ecosystem. Are these right for you?
🍤 Cultivated meet company Avant Meats is looking for a Director/VP, Finance (Singapore/Hong Kong)
💦 Water intelligence company WINT is looking for a Customer Success Manager (Boston / Austin)
🥬 Microalgae protein company Brevel is looking for an R&D Biologist (Israel)