BlueX | 2-5-24 | Supply Chain Funds, Precision Irrigation, and Wind-Powered Ships

Happy February. It is Black History Month, to celebrate Harlem Capital released a phenomenal report about the startup unicorns founded by Black and Latino founders. I recommend the read.

Also happy Groundhog Day a few days late, an entirely silly holiday. Punxsutawney Phil predicted an early spring. Here’s hoping it means more days at the beach.

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OceanTech Fundings

The main event. Startup investment announcements in OceanTech.

📦 Supply chain startup Wiz Freight raised $15MM in a Series B round led by SBI Investment as well as Tiger Global, Nippon Express Holdings, Axilor Technologies Fund, Foundamental, Arali Investments, and Unikon Shipping Ventures. | More from Entrackr

🐠 Aquatech platform Aquaconnect raised $4MM in a pre-Series B from S2G Ventures. | More from the Times of India

🌽 Precision smart irrigation company Agrow Analytics raised €650k led by GoHub Ventures, Demium Capital and First Drop. | More from EU Startups News

🧼 Waste water treatment firm Indra raised a $4MM Series A round led by Mela Ventures and Emerald Technology Ventures, plus Sustainability Ventures and The Climate Angels. | More from TICE

More OceanTech News

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

🐠 Where Has the Most Venture Capital Been Invested in Aquaculture? | An analysis of the $808 million invested in the aquaculture industry by venture funds in the last 12 months. | More from The Fish Site

🛥 British Owner Prototypes New Wind Tech | GT Green Technologies, in collaboration with Carisbrooke Shipping and the University of Bristol, is ready to install one of its AirWings on a ship in the UK following significant funding from the government. | More from Splash 247

More Ocean Sustainability News

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

🌊 Clean Hydrogen Is Driving the Next Gulf Coast Energy Boom | The scraggly grasses and standing water at the Spindletop oil field, near Beaumont in east Texas, don’t immediately suggest the site of a world-changing energy breakthrough . . . | More from Canary Media

🚢 Why Nautical Investors Are Pouring Capital Into Better, Lower-Carbon Ships And Boats | With fuel-guzzling cargo ships traversing the world’s oceans estimated to emit more CO₂ into the atmosphere each year than all the airlines in the world, startups looking to address the issue have raised quite a bit of capital. | More from Crunchbase News

OceanTech Jobs

Last week I featured MBA-focused roles. Well this week I decided to go deep on the software! Check out some of these developer/software gigs in OceanTech:

🔐 Maritime cyber security company Cydome is looking for a Senior Software Engineer.

✈️ Electric sea glider company Regent is looking for a Senior Software Engineer.

🇫🇷 French wind powered shipping company Ayro is looking for a Front End Software Engineering Intern.

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