SeaTrac is one of the first cohort members of the Gulf Blue Navigator program. The company is renowned for its cutting-edge solar-powered uncrewed surface vehicles that are designed for autonomous observation, data collection, and reconnaissance. In an interview with Alessandra Bianchi, Communications Director at SeaTrac, we discuss the company's business operations, the enormous potential of the Gulf Coast, and the region's welcoming Southern hospitality.

The New England Aquarium and SeaAhead, Inc. are seeking applicants for their BlueSwell incubator program, which supports the creation and growth of startups that have the potential to significantly impact the blue economy while using the ocean’s resources in a sustainable and responsible way.

Halfway through the Gulf Blue Navigator’s inaugural run, program manager Hailey Bathurst reflects on the potential and challenges of the Gulf Coast.

Miles Keeney-Ritchie and Satchel Douglas co-founded Aloft Systems with the desire to help shipping vessels save fuel by tapping into a free, limitless resource: wind.

A former SeaAhead mentor, Sara Remsen is now stepping into the founder seat as a member of Cohort III. Over the summer of 2022, Sara founded Fathom Carbon. Fathom is a science-first platform that monitors and verifies ocean-based carbon credits to reduce risk and uncertainty for carbon credit buyers.

On November 14, SeaAhead, MassCEC, and Orsted hosted a gathering of key stakeholders to address an important question: can offshore wind be an innovation anchor for the new Blue Economy?

Measuring impact, especially in the young sector of ocean innovation, poses a great challenge. Unlike pure climatetech, the bluetech startup and investment community lacks a single metric that can encapsulate and clearly communicate its progress and potential. We require an easy way to track and report impact so that we can draw a wider audience to scale the ocean venture ecosystem.

The University of Southern Mississippi Research Foundation and SeaAhead, with the support of partners including Jackson State University, has selected the first cohort of bluetech startup companies for the Gulf Blue Navigator. This six-month program provides scaling startups, with innovations relevant to the ocean, with market access to the Gulf of Mexico region, proximity to federal agencies, technical facilities, and expertise.

For the first interview with BlueSwell’s Cohort III, we caught up with Kevin Rosa, founder of Current Lab. Current Lab creates high detail forecasts using the ocean’s currents, temperature, and other data points to improve the efficiency and safety of maritime operations. Current Lab’s system is mostly used by professional sailing teams, but Kevin is exploring how to make this valuable data available to more stakeholders.

SeaAhead, Inc. and the New England Aquarium have selected a third cohort of startup companies for BlueSwell, an innovative incubator program in the Northeast dedicated to supporting early-stage entrepreneurship in bluetech. 

Oceanic leaders celebrated positive progress in Gulfport for the one-year anniversary of the Coast’s Gulf Blue Initiative. University of Southern Mississippi’s Vice President of Research Kelly Lucas said Gulf Blue jumps on the opportunity to expand the oceanic economy.

We founded SeaAhead in 2018 to connect bluetech startups to funding and support infrastructure. Our team drew on their experience pioneering venture-based innovation in cleantech, biotech, and agtech, and we’ve since built a thriving community of investors, industry leaders, and stakeholders to equip innovators with the tools they need to succeed. 

At the UN Ocean Conference, the most exciting conversations were happening at the side events. Here, attendees got into the how – how are we going to make the changes we all see as necessary – with a focus on startups and the financial players that support them.

BlueSwell - an initiative of SeaAhead and the Boston Aquarium and an incubator — formed to support the creation and growth of startups with scalable solutions that enhance ocean health, sustainable ocean industry, and global resilience.

While the blue economy is nothing new to the Gulf Coast, a new wave of innovation is heading for its shores. Here are 3 things bluetech entrepreneurs should know about the Magnolia State.

BlueSwell has chosen a second cohort of startups supporting ocean health, tackling areas including plastics remediation, water sensor technology and sea urchin aquaculture.

Partnership between SeaAhead and New England Aquarium focuses on early-stage entrepreneurship 

A scientist, adventurer, boat designer, and entrepreneur, Julie Angus cofounded Open Ocean Robotics to help protect our oceans and offer solutions to some of our greatest maritime challenges.

CoLoadX was founded in 2015 in Queens, NY by logistics and software professionals Fauad Shariff and Petere Miner. Using digital logistics software, CoLoadX has created a container shipping marketplace to more efficiently procure and more effectively track the movement of e-commerce products.