ocean solutions accelerator
Sustainable Ocean Alliance converts its accelerator into a broader ‘Ecopreneur Network’
Startup accelerators are interesting places, but the model of packaging a good idea and firing it at VCs from a demo day cannon is getting diminishing returns. The Sustainable Ocean…
Ocean Solutions Accelerator doubles down on blue economy with new track for later-stage companies
The planet-loving folks at the Sustainable Ocean Alliance started an accelerator a couple years back focusing on very early-stage companies, but this year they’re expanding the program to accept those…
Coral Vita cultivates $2M seed to take its reef restoration mission global
Coral reefs all over the world are struggling to survive, with hundreds of millions of people and tens of billions of dollars in business that rely on them at risk…
Accelerators have become a major force in the startup world, but these teeming masses of potential have been forced, like every other industry, to adopt major changes with the pandemic.…
Ocean Solutions Accelerator’s third wave tackles a new set of aquatic challenges
The Sustainable Ocean Alliance and its Ocean Solutions Accelerator take on the problems facing our planet’s waters, and the latest cohort of companies in the latter show a fresh slate…
Loliware’s kelp-based plastic alternatives snag $6M seed round from eco-conscious investors
The last few years have seen many cities ban plastic bags, plastic straws, and other common forms of waste, giving environmentally conscious alternatives a huge boost — among them Loliware,…
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In the Accelerator over the Sea
In our oceans the scale of disasters is measured in millions, billions, and trillions, while solutions amount to single digits: individuals or institutions working to impact a chosen issue with approaches often both brilliant and quixotic. Putting such individuals in close contact with both whales and billionaires is the strange alchemy being attempted by the…
Sustainable Ocean Alliance nets $1.5 million donation from Benioffs
Healthy oceans are on the minds of Marc and Lynne Benioff, and they showed it today with a $1.5 million donation to the Sustainable Oceans Alliance, a new non-profit attempting…
Ocean Solutions Accelerator names its first wave of conservation startups
Early this year the Sustainable Oceans Alliance announced that it would be starting its own accelerator with a focus on conservation. The nonprofit has just announced the Ocean Solutions Accelerator’s…
The Ocean Solutions Accelerator will nurture companies looking to keep our planet blue
You can’t swing a cat in the Bay Area without hitting some startup accelerator or another, but it can be hard to find one with a mission. That’s the easy…
