The startBlue program is made possible thanks to a grant from the U.S. Conferences, pitch competitions, and industry association memberships offer teams valuable visibility and connections. Workshops focus on skill development such as grant writing and pitching. Each startup in the first cohort receives Scripps science and Rady entrepreneurship curricula, one-on-one mentorship, and facilitated access to potential partners, customers, and sources of investment. Teams, which participate at no cost, are in the midst of developing new businesses around a science and engineering solution to an ocean challenge.
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Sepiabiotics, integrating next-generation robotics, artificial intelligence, and computer vision to solve ocean data challenges Mantaz, using 3D printing and other novel technologies to restore coral reefs Kai Pono Solutions, transforming the stormwater industry with a unique stormwater filtration device that is low impact, cost-effective, easily maintained, and IOT-enabled
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Startups included in the first startBlue cohort include:Īlgeon Materials, leveraging ocean-derived materials to create bio-innovative plastic alternativesĪnchoral, reinventing 2,000-year-old anchor technology to be less destructive, more intelligent, and easier to useĬalWave Power Technologies, Inc., unlocking the vast and steady carbon-free power from ocean waves and bringing superior power and monitoring technology to market with a global reachĭaybreak Seaweed Company, bringing seaweed into the everyday kitchen by providing nutrient-dense, umami-packed, and nourishing kitchen staplesįishSense, using imaging advancements to improve underwater biomass measurements and monitor fish population growth and health “This is a truly collaborative effort, leveraging Rady School’s expertise in launching startups and supporting the business community, Scripps Oceanography’s proven leadership and expertise in blue technology, and leaders in San Diego’s bustling blue economy.” “I am thrilled by the breadth and diversity of ideas represented by this cohort of startups, and excited to see how they will charge up the blue economy in San Diego and beyond,” said Gwen Nero, director of Corporate Affiliates, Business Development, Industry Outreach, and Innovation at UC San Diego’s Scripps Oceanography.
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The program supports science and engineering startups in the rapidly growing and highly vital blue tech sector, devising new solutions that can be integrated into science, industry, investment and government networks. 9, beginning at noon, the university will host an informational webinar on the blue economy and startBlue. With the announcement of the first cohort of startups in its startBlue Accelerator program, UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management and Scripps Institution of Oceanography are leaning into their role as a major source of innovation focused on the world’s oceans.