Water Management and Microalgae Protein

Hello Ocean Friends,

I hope you’re having a good week. This issue features a bunch of cool stories, but I want to highlight one in particular though. The Investable Oceans team is fantastic, and this piece they put together with ARPA-E is spot on. It touches on Blue Economy investing and how the venture ecosystem is evolving around our vertical. Crossover investing is the way forward.

Enjoy your week.

-Will

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OceanTech Fundings

The main event. Startup investment announcements in OceanTech.

🚰 Automated water management software company StormHarvester raised £8.4M in Series A led by YFM Equity Partners, with Emerald Technology Ventures. | More from FinSMEs

🌱 Microalgae protein firm Arborea raised €5M led by Indico Capital Partners with Banco Português de Fomento (BPF). | More from World Bio Market Insights

More OceanTech News

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

🪙 Impact-Focused VC Fund Natural Ventures Opens Office in the Hague; Announces First Close of Its €97M Inaugural Fund | On Tuesday, The Hague officially welcomed Natural Ventures, an impact-focused venture capital fund dedicated to tackling global food and water security challenges. | More from Silicon Canals

🇬🇧 From Start-up to Scale-Up: How Can UK Climate Tech Firms Attract Investment? | OakNorth Bank CEO Rishi Khosla and experts from the climate tech ecosystem offer their views on how to unlock more investment in the UK's community of fast-growing green businesses. | More from Business Green

More Ocean Sustainability News

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

🌊 Why Shared Governance Could Save Our Oceans | In the summer of 1968, Garrett Hardin published his seminal paper, “The Tragedy of the Commons”, offering a sobering analysis of how shared resources face depletion when individuals act solely in their self-interest, leading to overconsumption, underinvestment, and eventual resource exhaustion. More than 50 years later, Hardin’s insights remain strikingly relevant, resonating through today’s environmental crises, including climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss. | More from Maritime Executive

🚣 Belfast Plans Major Investments to Attract Offshore Wind Industry | Belfast Harbor is pursuing ambitions of becoming the leading port for cruise tourism and supporting the growing offshore wind industry across the United Kingdom after a five-year growth plan that will entail massive investments in key infrastructures. | More from Maritime Executive

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