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 have a common goal: zero CO2 emissions by 2050.
And there is still a long way to go: 36 billion tonnes of CO2 were emitted in 2021.
To succeed in the energy transition, it is also necessary to take into account its very strong economic constraints. Science teaches us that a molecule of CH4 requires less energy to dissociate than a molecule of H2O. Gas therefore seems to be a safer way to obtain economically competitive hydrogen.
As biomethane develops, natural gas can be a useful intermediate solution to produce hydrogen... But not just any hydrogen...
Sustainable hydrogen without CO2, abundant, at a competitive cost... This is precisely the challenge we have set ourselves at Sakowin!
Our solution implements a mature and proven technology, microwave plasma, in the oxygen-free decomposition of methane into gaseous hydrogen AND solid carbon. Our goal is to achieve energy efficiency comparable to that of steam reforming, but without any CO2 emissions. This solution offers the potential of CO2-free hydrogen at the cost of gray hydrogen.
Our solution is compact, modular and stackable for on-site and on-demand hydrogen production. It does not require transport or storage. It can be installed on an existing gas infrastructure.
It requires 5 times less energy than an electrolyser and recovers two elements industrially:
- Hydrogen, whose market is estimated at more than 2,500 billion dollars by 2050.
- And carbon, estimated at more than 23 billion dollars by 2026. The carbon market will evolve significantly with new uses, because if nature no longer recycles carbon through the CO2 cycle, humanity will innovate to recycle carbon in its solid form.
Our solution implements a mature and proven technology, microwave plasma, in the decomposition of methane into gaseous hydrogen AND solid carbon.
Our solution is compact, modular and stackable for on-site and on-demand hydrogen production. No need for transport or storage. It can be installed on an existing gas infrastructure.
It uses 5 times less energy than an electrolyser.