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.
Sakowin
Gérard GATT, Founder and President of Sakowin
Gérard has a double degree in computer science and business administration from the Université Côte d'Azur and in functional economics and sustainable business model development from SKEMA Business School.
Cumulating more than 35 years of professional experience, including 10 years in the USA, as Product Manager and International Marketing Director of CITRIX, thus contributing to the development of software products known today as cloud computing and to internationalization with more than 1,300 people recruited and the listing of CITRIX on the NASDAQ stock exchange. With a solid experience in the world of start-ups and interested in the entrepreneurial world, Gérard co-founded Sophia Business Angels Club and notably brings his expertise in strategy and business development within several consulting firms.
We are developing a CO2-free, on-demand, on-site solution to produce low-cost sustainable hydrogen from biomethane or natural gas.
We offer a new reactor technology to produce hydrogen and solid carbon from biomethane or natural gas. Using low energy plasma, our process is not only economical in electricity but also low-CAPEX and easily scalable thanks to its modular design.
This technological brick will be marketed through OEMs for various markets. Compactness and high energy efficiency make this solution suitable to all industrial sectors interested in competitive CO2-free hydrogen, e.g. decarbonization of industrial processes, land, sea & air transport sectors, production of green electricity, heating of buildings, or the production of hydrogen for the chemical industry. Installed directly on the consumption site, at the end of a gas line, it allows to use hydrogen on demand, without the need for storing and transporting H2, and it can be installed on existing gas infrastructures.
Our current development stage allows Partner to co-develop with us end-use product to target different industries into a 2-3 years co-development program. These co-development programs can position partners as pioneer into the On-Site On-demand hydrogen production. So we are looking to join a cooperation project that will demonstrate (pilot project) the technical, economical and environmental of a complete ecosystem integrating our technological brick. Projects can be around industry (decarbonation of heavy CO2 emitters industries), but also mobility and solid carbone usage.
Sakowin is accelerating the energy transition by offering a solution for the future: the next generation of sustainable hydrogen production without CO2 emissions at a competitive cost.
In order to produce sustainable decarbonized hydrogen, Sakowin manufactures innovative, compact and modular equipment that can be installed at the end of existing gas infrastructure lines. The plasmalysis reactor is optimized for the production of sustainable hydrogen at low cost thanks to high energy efficiency and the use of biomethane or natural gas as feedstock. This solution allows on-site and on-demand hydrogen production, eliminating the costly transport and storage of hydrogen.
This process, called plasmalysis, requires 5 times less energy than electrolysis, the process for producing green hydrogen commonly used on today's market.