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.
Catchwise
We are 5 software engineers who has met in different parts of the Norwegian IT ecosystem in the last 6 years of working for Norways top tech companies like Schibsted, McKinsey, Otovo and Oda. Our CEO has a dual background in Entrepreneurship and software, and a long family history in fishery. Of the 4 rest, 2 are in-depth on data and AI, 1 is a full-stack wizard and the last one has a dual tech and commercial strategy background.
Fish is hard to find. Commercial boats spend 5-18 thousand liters of diesel daily, and spend 90% of their time sailing in the wrong direction and not fishing. They rely on manual, individual and ineffective methods to make the large choice of where to go. And there are 60-70 thousand boats in the EU struggling with this...
We are bringing data science to the fishermen, helping them save fuel and time at sea, which then again saves CO2, the ocean floor and reduces fish poaching.