ACUA's New Funding and NOAA's Accelerator Grants

Hello Ocean Friends,

I had a pretty awesome experience last week at the NOWRDC R&D Symposium. I was sitting in the auditorium during the opening keynote when this newsletter was scheduled to be published and when I looked down a row I saw someone else at the conference open up and read through the fresh-from-my-laptop BlueX News. It was pretty cool. Of course, I went down and said hello. Kris, if you’re reading this, thanks!

The experience really hit home for me what a great convening the annual NOWRDC Symposium is. Many of the sessions are online streaming, I recommend checking them out.

Have a good week!

Best,

Will

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OceanTech Fundings

The main event. Startup investment announcements in OceanTech.

🛳️ Open ocean USV company ACUA Ocean raised £5.5m led by StealthPoint and Britbots - with additional grants. | More from Advance UK

🧂 Subsea desalination firm Flocean raised 100M NOK in Series A led by Burnt Island Ventures, Nysnø Climate Investments and Freebird Partners, with Katapult Ocean, MP Pensjon, and collected angels. | More from Flocean

More OceanTech News

This week I’m going to do something different. This week NOAA announced $54.3M in awards for Blue Economy accelerators across the US. These are four awesome programs and instead of listing news articles I liked, I’m going to feature these accelerators.

1️⃣ StartBlue Ocean Enterprise Accelerator. With Scripps Institution of Oceanography and The Rady School of Management- Undergraduate Programs.

2️⃣ gener8tor Great Lakes Resilience Accelerator. With partners Chain Reaction Innovations and Mazarine Ventures.

3️⃣ VentureWell Ocean Enterprise Accelerator. Operated by VentureWell.

4️⃣ The Continuum. With Tampa Bay Wave, Seaworthy Collective, St. Petersburg Innovation District, Braid Theory, University of South Florida, Ocean Exchange, and the World Ocean Council.

All four promise to be awesome programs. Exciting to get this influx of funding in one week.

More Ocean Sustainability News

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

☀️ Ferries, Planes Line up to Purchase ‘Solar Diesel’ a Cutting-Edge Low-Carbon Fuel from Swiss Start-up | From Switzerland comes a new technology that aims to decarbonize the transportation methods we use right now. Through a thermochemical process driven 100% by solar power, the energy startup Synhelion can synthesize gasoline, diesel, kerosene, or any other fossil fuel currently in use. | More from Good News Network

💨 Scottish Government Sets Aside £150M for Offshore Wind Projects | New funding comes as Ørsted confirms supply contracts worth up to £100m to support development of Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm | More from Business Green

🚰 OceanWell Competes in Largest Ever Prize Competition - XPRIZE's $119m Water Scarcity Challenge with Deep Sea Alternative to Desalination Technology | This comes as the water tech company marks a milestone year with new funding and selection for the European Water Tech Accelerator | More from PR Newswire

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