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.
GUATIZAMAR, SL
Mr. Antonio Fernández has a Degree in Business Administration and Management from the University of Vigo (Spain) with two specialties: 1) Marketing; 2) Management and Administration studied at the University of Padua (Italy). He also has a Master in Business and Administration (MBA) from ESIC Business & Marketing School (Madrid, Spain).
He speaks 4 languages and has more than 15 years of experience in managing seafood exporting companies, with a prominent presence in Asian markets, especially in China, Japan and South Korea.
Joining his deep knowledge of Asian markets and his beliefs in suistanable activities not as a future, as a must for the present times the project of Guatizamar was born.
- Usage of a new resource for European aquaculture with pricy value in markets.
- Sustainable ecologic aquaculture with no negative impact in enviroment.
- Wild stocks in real danger due massive illegal cacthes, so we help species to survive and help to the health of oceans.
- Activity compatible with other species so can reduce impact of others aquaculture activities less friendly with enviroment.
- Can be the seed of deep biotechnology activities around sea cucumber as its potential in medicine and biopharma is known, but not deeply develop yet.
It's unique because we are the first doing this in Europe, with authorisation. The activity is suitainable itself: Sea cucumbers are critical to keep sea soils clean and healthy. We are located in a Natural Park helping with our activity with the suistainability of our enviroment.