What is the BlueInvest Project Pipeline?

The BlueInvest Project Pipeline is a database and showcase of projects, scale-ups and SMEs who are driving innovation and sustainability in the Blue Economy.

The projects featured are innovative, scalable and sustainable business ventures from traditional and emerging sectors of the maritime economy.

The aim is to facilitate connections between projects and investors, helping innovative ventures gain visibility and access to funding opportunities.

 

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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

What is the BlueInvest Project Pipeline?

The BlueInvest Project Pipeline is a database and showcase of projects, scale-ups and SMEs who are driving innovation and sustainability in the Blue Economy.

The projects featured are innovative, scalable and sustainable business ventures from traditional and emerging sectors of the maritime economy.

The aim is to facilitate connections between projects and investors, helping innovative ventures gain visibility and access to funding opportunities.

 

Want to be featured? 

Login to the BlueInvest community & Submit your project

 

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

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BlueBurn

As a platform, we cater to two sets of customers: algae biomass buyers and algae producers/suppliers. Both face substantial uncertainty, risks, and information gaps, impeding innovation and scalability. Buyers encounter challenges in finding reliable sources that meet their demands efficiently. Algae, a low-carbon resource, aligns with the Paris Agreement goals. On the flip side, suppliers grapple with market access issues. They struggle to produce products that fit the market and encounter unsold stock, insufficient information for strategic decisions, financial shortages, and survival struggles. The disconnection between buyers and suppliers impedes innovation, survival, and scale-up efforts.
Project TRL: TRL 5 - Component validation in relevant environment
Main sector: Blue biotechnology

Bluelands

At Bluelands, we are addressing three major global challenges simultaneously: rapid urban growth leading to housing and space shortages, increased flood risk, and limitations on land reclamation.
Project TRL: TRL 7 - System prototype demonstration in a relevant environment
Main sector: Coastal and environmental protection and regeneration

BLUEMATER SA

Bluemater provide sustainable and affordable water treatment solutions to deliver safe water resources to the people and protect the environment. Bluemater’s portfolio offers solutions to various issues linked to the water and air pollution. We offer water, wastewater and gas treatment technologies for local governments, private and public companies and also to the industries. All Bluemater’s solutions are based on sustainable biological treatments and are tailor made for each customer need. Affordability is in the core of our R&D activity, therefore both investment and operational expenditures are taken into consideration.
Project TRL: TRL 9 - Actual system proven through successful mission operations
Main sector: Ocean pollution & water management

BlueNav

BlueNav specializes in transforming traditional combustion engine boats into hybrid electric vessels within the marine electromobility sector.
Project TRL: TRL 8 - Actual system completed through test and demonstration
Main sector: Coastal and marine tourism

BluEnergy Revolution

BluEnergy Revolution (BER) offers Engineering, Consulting and Training services in the field of traditional and innovative energy systems, bringing research excellence in these fields and in particular all the knowledge in the nautical sector. The product that will be launched in the marine sector from its spinoff company H2Boat (H2B) is the Energy Pack, a system of storage of energy produced from renewable sources for sailing boats. The Energy Pack is a system that uses hydrogen technology to autonomous leisure boats; especially sailing boats; from the point of view of the electrical needs on board. The system consists of three parts: a fuel cell, able to produce electricity from hydrogen; an accumulation with metal hydrides, able to store large quantities of hydrogen safely at low temperatures and low pressures; an electrolyzer, able to produce hydrogen from water using excess energy produced from renewable sources.
Project TRL: TRL 7 - System prototype demonstration in a relevant environment
Main sector: Blue renewable energy

BlueNewables

Offshore floating solar technology : PV-bos
Project TRL: TRL 7 - System prototype demonstration in a relevant environment
Main sector: Blue renewable energy

Bluespring

Consultancy services to organisations developing ocean energy projects in any form, consultancy in the field of certification, project management of funded R&D projects,and project development of ocean energy projects.
Project TRL: TRL 7 - System prototype demonstration in a relevant environment
Main sector: Blue renewable energy

Bluetweet

itinerant analysis of marine waters
Project TRL: TRL 7 - System prototype demonstration in a relevant environment
Main sector: Blue tech and ocean observation

BlueWise Marine

BlueWise Marine specialises in providing asset, project, marketing and stakeholder management consultancy and advice for marine and offshore renewable energy projects and initiatives. We work with government, industry and academic clients operating within Ireland’s blue economy to deliver their projects in a sustainable and socially inclusive manner. Our expertise in building and maintaining community relationships and our extensive industry network, knowledge and experience ensures the effective and efficient delivery client projects.
Project TRL: TRL 7 - System prototype demonstration in a relevant environment
Main sector: Blue renewable energy

Blueye Robotics - Providing easy access to the ocean

This is our first time participating in the Blueinvest project. And we are a small ROV company from Trondheim, Norway designing, developing, testing and manufacturing Blueye ROVs. We have currently 3 models in the market and planning on expanding our product range.
Project TRL: TRL 9 - Actual system proven through successful mission operations
Main sector: Blue tech and ocean observation

BOUM Boat™ Next Generation

A New Circular Yacht Economy for sustainable yachting / New brand of sustainable cruising catamarans / Designed for boaters with reduced mobility
Project TRL: TRL 6 - System/subsystem model or prototype demonstration in a relevant environment
Main sector: Shipbuilding & Refit

bound4blue

Suction sails to reduce the fuel consumption and emissions of merchant ships.
Project TRL: TRL 8 - Actual system completed through test and demonstration
Main sector: Shipbuilding & Refit

Brineworks

Developing seawater electrolysis for sustainable carbon removal and renewable-powered e-feedstock production.
Project TRL: TRL 6 - System/subsystem model or prototype demonstration in a relevant environment
Main sector: Ocean pollution & water management

Bromalgae

The Bromalgae project is summarized as a disruptive and innovative technology, rarely seen in the industry. Bromalgae has developed liquid trees, which contain living microalgae inside. These microorganisms have a carbon assimilation capacity 25 times greater than terrestrial trees. Microalgae are responsible for 75% of global CO2 fixation. They are found in both freshwater (reservoirs, lakes, rivers) and saltwater. Ecologically, they are classified as phytoplankton and are responsible for oxygenating the atmosphere, providing 50% of the oxygen we breathe. The GarbiAir system is installed in urban areas with the highest emissions, such as zones with heavy vehicular traffic. A blower captures the surrounding air, which passes through pre-filters to remove suspended particles and harmful microorganisms that could affect the microalgae. The photobioreactor is fed with the CO2 and NOx from this air, which enters the system through bubbling, aiding in the system's agitation process, along with other essential nutrients in the medium and light. This process enables photosynthesis. Using sensors, the concentrations of CO2 and NOx are continuously monitored. Two sensors are placed at the photobioreactor's entrance and exit to observe the difference in concentration. Depending on the weather conditions, the light intensity can be adjusted to optimize the photosynthetic process and prevent oxidative stress in the microalgal cells. First GarbiAir pilot plant in Barakaldo (Bizkaia) In June 2023, we inaugurated our first liquid microalgae vegetation system, GarbiAir, in Barakaldo. This first pilot plant will help us continue improving its design and allow us to further research the capture of CO2 and NO2 by the microalgae. Second GarbiAir pilot plant in Bayonne (France) In September 2022, a collaboration began with the municipality of Bayonne (France) and the Communauté d’Agglomération Pays Basque to test our innovative solution for capturing automobile emissions in real conditions. The installation of GarbiAir in Bayonne will allow us to validate the scientific principles of our system under different climatic conditions. This initial experiment will last between five and six months. It is funded by the Basque Government through its economic development agency SPRI and by the Communauté d’Agglomération Pays Basque. The core of the technology used by Bromalgae is the amplification of the photosynthesis process. Bromalgae forces the microalgae, which act as "cell factories," to absorb atmospheric CO2 24 hours a day. This is achieved by providing a 24:0 light-dark photoperiod. The Bromalgae team has named this technology continuous photosynthesis. Moreover, Bromalgae has its own design of photobioreactors, developed by its own Engineering Department. They are designed to handle volumes ranging from 100 Liters to 3,000 Liters. Harvesting and drying is also carried out on-site through biomass centrifugation and drying. Once the processing is complete, the biomass is ready to be packaged and shipped. -The photobioreactor of 100L capacity is made of food-grade stainless steel in a cylindrical shape. It features an internal LED lighting system and a bubbling agitation system using a 12 Nm3/h rubber diffuser. -The photobioreactor 300 L capacity is made of PVC-glass in a cone shape in order to increase the volumetric area. It has an internal LED lighting system and a bubbling agitation system using a 12 Nm3/h rubber diffuser. -The photobioreactor of 3,000 L capacity is made of food-grade polyethylene in a cylindrical shape. It includes an internal LED lighting system and a bubbling agitation system with nine independent rubber diffusers, each with a 12 Nm3/h flow rate.
Project TRL: TRL 9 - Actual system proven through successful mission operations
Main sector: Blue biotechnology

BUGGYPOWER SL

Production of premium quality marine microalgae
Project TRL: TRL 8 - Actual system completed through test and demonstration
Main sector: Blue biotechnology

Building the future of food

We aim to build the food of the future
Project TRL: TRL 6 - System/subsystem model or prototype demonstration in a relevant environment
Main sector: Blue biotechnology

BuyCo

BuyCo is a collaborative SaaS platform enabling shippers to simplify, optimise & better control the planning, execution & tracking of their maritime container shipments.
Project TRL: TRL 9 - Actual system proven through successful mission operations
Main sector: Shipping & ports

Calidris Bio

Sustainable produced bacterial proteins for aquaculture feed.
Project TRL: TRL 5 - Component validation in relevant environment
Main sector: Blue biotechnology

CalWave

CalWave's vision is to unlock the power of ocean waves to secure a clean energy future. Our mission is to provide reliable and cost effective ocean wave technologies for sustainable energy access. Our proprietary wave energy converter technology achieves high performance while surviving storms and extreme conditions by operating fully submerged at all times.
Project TRL: TRL 7 - System prototype demonstration in a relevant environment
Main sector: Blue renewable energy

Candela Technology AB

Candela is developing electric hydrofoiling ferries. The first prototype was put in water last autumn. Ferry number two is planned to operate in the public transport system of Stockholm during Q3 this year. To scale up faster Candela is exploring possibilities to set up a shipping ownership and charter ferries for demo and feasibility studies to reduce experienced technology and financial risks for European mobility operators.
Project TRL: TRL 6 - System/subsystem model or prototype demonstration in a relevant environment
Main sector: Shipbuilding & Refit