Hello Ocean Friends,

The second (now annual) NYC OceanTech Summit is in the books! We had a blast and cannot believe how great it turned out. It was the only place in NYC where you could have an advanced air-metal reaction power supply (Metal Light Inc.) and tech-farmed oysters (Seascape Aquatech Inc.) in the same expo hall as waste-to-fuel (Lukera Energy) and hard tech ocean data monitoring (Sofar Ocean). I can say definitively that BlueTech in NYC is both strong and growing. I owe a deep and heartfelt thank you to our supporters:

• WINGS

• Gunderson Dettmer

• High Tide Technologies

• J.P. Morgan

• Newlab

• Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company

• Transmitter Brewing

• Seaking Blue

It was exciting, fun, and an energizing day. For some prelim pictures, the startups who were there, and more of my thank-you’s, check out my LinkedIn post on the event.

A very special thank you to the startups who tabled. You guys are the ones proving that OceanTech is not just doing well, but thriving right now!

• CREW Carbon

• Lukera Energy

• Seascape Aquatech

• CoFlow Jet

• MatterWave

• Loa Carbon

• Triton Anchor

• Metal Light

• Sofar Ocean

It feels like these past few weeks have been PACKED for BlueTech. Nor-shipping just wrapped up, this weekend was World Oceans Day, and now the UN Oceans Conference in Nice is spinning up. If you hear any cool news from these events, send them my way! I’m jealous to be missing them.

-Will

Announcements

✇ Propeller’s Ocean MBA Application is Open | OceanTech climate founders, apply to this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn from the best team in the vertical. | Learn more on the Propeller website.

🎤 Progression Conference Tickets Available Now | Progression partners with non-profits, investors, and outdoor sports industry stakeholders to spotlight fundraising start-ups that directly support the missions of non-profits. | Learn more on the conference website. This week’s person-to-know, Connor Lachenbruch, will be at this conference. Sign up if you haven’t!

👹 NJ’s Clean Tech Seed Grant Program is Open | The New Jersey Commission on Science, Innovaiton, and Technology (CSIT) has launched the Clean Tech Seed Grant Program, round 4. Award grants are up to $75,000. Applications close July 11, 2025, at 5pm. Application details can be found here: Clean Tech Seed Grant Program (Round 4)

🌏 Blue Excellerator Demo Day #5 | Boston’s Blue Excellerator program is hosting it’s fifth Demo Day June 18th. See the latest up-and-coming startups in the BlueTech space. More info here.

⚗️ Summer 2025 NY Hub NSF Regional I-Corps is Live | Perfect for innovators interested in applying for SBIR/STTR funding from any agency. This I-Corps program is not limited to academics, they welcome startups looking to do customer discovery too. They give out up to $3,000 in travel reimbursement to any conference and/or tradeshow in the United States to teams that are accepted and fully participate. Apply here.

Best,
Will

OceanTech Fundings

☔️ Atmospheric water harvester Kumulus Water raised €3.1M in a Seed funding round led by Bpifrance with PlusVC, Khalys Venture, Flat6Labs and Spadel. | More from Tech.eu

OceanTech News

🐟 How Blue Bonds Could Give a Boost to Ocean Finance | A guide to the asset class slowly gaining favour among institutions. | More from Financial Times

🐙 Ocean Impact Fund Swen Capital Raises €160M in First Close | SWEN Capital Partners has raised €160m in the first close of its SWEN Blue Ocean 2 fund, as it bids to become the world's largest ocean impact venture fund | More from Undercurrent News

🐳 Earthshot Prize Teams up With Builders Vision to Help Bridge $900B Ocean Funding Gap | Prince William's climate and environmental solutions prize teams up with investors to ramp up support for ocean-focused innovations | More from Business Green

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