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.
Sundew
Significant track record in bringing fermentation based products to market, including for example Nootkatone, a natural product which has been approved by the US EPA for repelling ticks. Also have previously built several life science companies from foundation to exit (trade sale or IPO). Previous companies include Pfizer, Dako Cytomation, Pharmacia, Carlsberg. Previous ventures include Evolva, BIAcore, Biotage, Topotarget
Existing products for controlling aquatic pests tend to rely on old-fashioned chemistries, and are both lacking in effectiveness and environmentally damaging. Often there is no solution at all.
Using modern biology we provide effective, affordable solutions that are also environmentally benign, in that they are specific to the target pest or disease, and do not persist in the environment, degrading to harmless components
Its effective, affordable and environmentally benign. Unlike existing products it neither harms the fish that its protecting, nor the human operators