海洋可持续发展联盟

2022年9月30日

得到它!法新社通过盖蒂图片社军团来波的可持续海洋联盟。第一批创业支持的非营利组织包括社保网技术,CalWave技术和LOLIWARE。这三个抗军团完成了自2018年选择,达妮埃拉费尔南德斯说,联盟创始人兼首席执行官。该联盟也正在改变,从一个“ecopreneur网络加速器项目。“我们不想成为一个有时限的项目了,”费尔南德斯说。鉴于全球海洋面临的问题的紧迫性,加州可持续海洋联盟(SOA)很快就会引入一个会员模型对于创业公司来说,一生支持类似于一个“滚动,管家式服务。“新一轮的应用程序将打开在第27届联合国气候变化会议在11月(又名COP27)。SOA的目标是筹集1亿美元在未来三年内,成为一个自我维持的组织,而不是继续遵循的慈善模式要求每年从基金会的资助。更多为你筹集了1500万美元。随着越来越多的基础上和初创公司看到回报,收入将增长,帮助基金更多的解决方案,费尔南德斯说。“我们有一个创业公司的股票,一旦他们进入程序。 So we are investors in these startups. If they’re successful, we’re successful.” SOA has supported 45 startups to date, and believes returns are coming soon. That first wave of cohorts—SafetyNet Technologies, CalWave Technologies and LOLIWARE— are “thriving and still having an impact,” Fernandez says. SafetyNet Technologies , for example, says its team, product portfolio and revenues have grown since graduating from SOA’s first accelerator cohort. “We've launched a wave of commercial trials all over the world with Pisces, our bycatch-reduction technology, working with the leading fish-capture stakeholders including Trident, Clearwater, Cooke Aquaculture, the UN, Tesco and Marks & Spencers,” says Dan Watson, co-founder and CEO. “We've also developed a new product, CatchCam , which is an affordable, robust camera system for fishing crews to finally see what's going on in their fishing gear” to be launched in the fourth quarter of 2022. CatchCam is described as 'a full system with everything you need to take quality videos of your ... [+] fishing gear in action.' SafetyNet Technologies For the future, SOA sees a need to continue educating governments globally about the role technology can play in solving the ocean crisis (from plastics to climate change and more). “For example, when you look at the recent (inflation reduction) act that passed in the U.S., there’s not a lot of talk around wave energy , which is actually move efficient than solar and wind energy,” Fernandez says. There’s a gap in investment and funding as startups start to scale, she adds. “Solutions are out there and talent exists. We just need the backing of governments and financial institutions to truly get these ideas out.” Fernandez worries about proposals to the UN for deep-sea mining . “A lot of corporations are claiming to have used up most of the minerals in land and now they need more,” the CEO says. “Mining the deep sea is equivalent to deploying a nuclear bomb in the ocean. “No startup company is going to be able to fix a completely annihilated ocean seafloor. So if we’re trying to restore and regenerate the environment, how can we allow this to happen in our lifetime?”