Extreme Tech Challenge Marine Tech Startup Innovation Challenge Startup Finalists
We are pleased to announce our Marine Tech Startup Innovation Challenge Top 16 Finalists! These exceptional tech for good startups will take to the stage in Bergen, Norway at the Sustainable Ocean Solutions Summit on April 18, in collaboration with Katapult Ocean, Innovation Norway, FARVATN and NCE Seafood Innovation.
FISHERIES & AQUACULTURE 🐠
🇮🇹 Ittinsect – Feed for theOcean – Ittinsect is the biotech startup that developed the sustainable alternative to aquaculture feed. Ittinsect produces high performance feeds through the biotechnological treatment of novel raw ingredients.
🇬🇧 SafetyNet Technologies – SafetyNet Technologies’ primary goal is to design and build devices that increase the selectivity of commercial fishing practices.
🇩🇰 Sundew – Sundew develop, manufacture and sell biotechnological products for treating or managing aquatic pests, parasites, diseases and invasive species.
🇸🇬 Vertical Oceans – Vertical Oceans is the world’s first fully-autonomous, modular, stacked aquaculture system: we grow shrimps inside grow-out units, the iHABs (Intelligent Habitats), which require zero human intervention during grow-out.
SHIPPING & MARINE TRANSPORTATION 🚢
🇨🇭 AELER Technologies – AELER Technologies has created the world’s most advanced shipping container to meet TODAY’S business and environmental needs.
🇳🇴 Keelspot – Keelspot will establish a digital marketplace for the coastal shipping market in real time. Users of the solution will get real-time access to available capacity and planned routes, and can directly order and make an agreement on cargo freight.
🇳🇱 Vertoro – Vertoro converts biogenic residues like sawdust and bagasse into crude oil.
OFFSHORE ENERGY ⚡
🇳🇱 12 TO ZERO Technology – 12 TO ZERO is developing the world’s 1st hydrogen specific wind turbine foundation; Hyfloat. As HyFloat houses hydrogen production and storage, it is the basis for a distributed deep-sea hydrogen production system.
🇮🇪 Gazelle Wind Power – Gazelle Wind Power Limited was incorporated in December 2020 to accelerate the transition to renewable energies by introducing the next generation of advanced offshore wind platforms.
🇮🇳 TwinGrid Labs – TwinGrid is developing Digital twin technology to digitalize Power Distribution Utilities.
MARINE BIORESOURCES 🌊
🇪🇸 Fregata Space – Fregata Space offers solutions that combine Earth observation technologies (satellite images) and Machine Learning technology.
🇨🇭 Rrreefs – Rrreefs regenerates degraded coral reefs with eco-engineered, modular reef systems that enable corals to settle and grow, creating resilient and self-sufficient marine ecosystems.
🇺🇸 Spira Inc. – Spira’s innovation is in a CRISPR gene editing technique to create a novel, high-value, biobased, stable blue pigment.
NEW FRONTIERS 🔱
🇳🇴 Clean Sea Solutions – Clean Sea Solutions’ goal is effective comprehensive solutions to clean up plastic waste in areas close to land, to prevent and reduce the amount of plastic waste that ends up in the open sea.
🇺🇸 Impossible Metals Inc. – Builds underwater robotic vehicles to collect battery metals from the seabed without destroying the marine ecosystem.
🇳🇴 Syrenna – Syrenna’s patent pending WaterDrones collect real-time data from the ocean surface, water column, and seabed, and are more cost-effective and easy to use than existing solutions.
The Judges
FISHERIES & AQUACULTURE
Angela Tay, Senior Investment Associate at AgFunder
Anthony Bellafiore, Investment Manager at Katapult Ocean
Fredrik Harloff, Chief Innovation Officer at GC Rieber
Ingrid Maurstad, Investment Manager, Katapult Ocean
Markus Böhm, Investment Manager at Planet Ocean Fund
Peter Bryant, Program Director Oceans at Builders Vision
SHIPPING & MARINE TRANSPORTATION
Alexander Bergo, Director at Innovation Norway
Anders Vartdal, Ventures Analyst at Wilhelmsen Group
Angela Tay, Senior Investment Associate at AgFunder
Dennis Liu, Managing Director at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Simon Lancaster, Partner at Omni Venture Labs
Svein Ove Langeland, Investment Director at Momentum Partners
OFFSHORE ENERGY
Adam De Sola Pool, Partner at Blue Angels Investment Group
Oliver Risse, Investment Partner at HHLA Next
MARINE BIORESOURCES
Anthony Bellafiore, Investment Manager at Katapult Ocean
Peter Bryant, Program Director Oceans at Builders Vision
Ronald Tardiff, Acting Lead, Ocean Innovation at World Economic Forum
Sabrina Paseman, Partner at Omni Venture Labs
NEW FRONTIERS
Dennis Liu, Managing Director at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Elisabeth Øvstebø, Investment Director/Co-Founder at Link Capital
Simon Lancaster, Partner at Omni Venture Labs