What is the BlueInvest Project Pipeline?
See our showcase of innovative projects and entrepreneurs who are shaping the Blue Economy.
Projects consist of innovative, scalable and sustainable business ventures from traditional and emerging sectors of the maritime economy.
The graphs below provide an overview of the country distribution, sector, and TRL of projects currently listed in the BlueInvest Project Pipeline.
Selection Criteria:
Your company is EU-based or from an eligible sea basin region (Georgia, Turkey, Ukraine, Moldova, Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Lebanon, Syria, Libya, Mauritania, United Kingdom, or Norway)
Your project TRL is 4 or higher
Your project sector is in one of the 10 blue economy sectors identified for this initiative
Your solution has a clear sustainable impact on the blue economy
Your project is looking for investment
Project Country
Country in which the project is being developed and / or implemented.
Project Sector
Main blue economy sector the project relates to.
Project TRL
Current technology readiness level of the project.
Xplore Blue is crowdsourcing the Sea! For the sustainability, regeneration and wellbeing of the sea and marine life.
Every boat becomes an Xplorer boat!
Everybody becomes a Blue ocean Xplorer!
Hybrid ? phygital format based on boats and a combination of
A) Special equipment kits
B) A digital geo location social platform
Leveraging citizen science and content.
Charter boats in Greece and all over the world become Ocean exploration boats through special equipment kits (packs) and the dedicated Xplore.Blue digital platform.
Engaging their customers in unique marine experiences where they explore and discover the sea in new meaningful ways. Earning badges and becoming Blue Xplorers while contributing to marine life protection, regeneration and data / content collection.
Xplore Blue
Yannis Sotirakos is the main founder (currently there are ongoing discussions with other selected potential co-founders as well).
Yannis has studied civil engineering in Athens and has a MSC (DEA) from Paris 4 Sorbonne University.
Yannis has built a range of successful businesses and projects in Greece and 10 more countries in the last 25 years and in the industries of Tourism, Technology, Education, Content production, events and more.
From the very beginning with the foundation of his first company EY ZHN (meaning wellbeing in ancient greek) he focused on the Environment and the relationship between Tourism, Sustainability, Regeneration and Environment.
Xplore.Blue is his new venture revolutionizing the Marine charter industry by offering scalable experiences leading to Marine and Sea life protection.
More information on Yannis bio can be found on Linkedin in the following link.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yannis-sotirakos-0372445/
Xplore Blue offering is based on a combination of physical and digital offering.
a) A kit of special equipment (sensors and more) which is used by owners and clients of chartered boats to measure, record and act on key issues related with the protection of Marine life
b) A digital platform
This combination facilitates the growth because it is easy and with a low cost barrier.
Furthermore we are planning to build strategic partnerships (with large chartered boat owners or agents) that will also support our growth in the early stages.
Providing a new experiential offering to the Marine chartering industry, while at the same time significantly contributing in Marine life protection (directly through data, measurements, actions and more and indirectly through partner organizations such as Universities, Marine protection institutes and more)