Seaworthy Collective Opens Applications for Opportunities for Sea Change
Seaworthy Collective (SC), a new Miami based start-up is empowering a community of current and aspiring ocean entrepreneurs (known as sea change makers) to innovate for regenerative ocean impact, officially launches their Opportunities for Sea Change initiative.
Opportunities for Sea Change is open to aspiring entrepreneurs looking to co-create start-ups through our venture studio while giving other ocean start-ups the opportunity to enter our pitch competition and be considered for our partner incubator and accelerator programs later in the year.
The Venture Studio facilitates the creation of start-ups from the ground up, building the initial team of co-founders, providing strategic direction, and attracting capital for the start-up to reach product-market fit. SC aims to co-create one start-up per Opportunity for Sea Change, seeking three co-founders per start-up.
The pitch competition offers a platform for existing ocean start-ups across the Opportunities for Sea Change target areas to get into the pipeline for our partner ocean impact-focused incubator and accelerator programs, alongside the co-created start-ups from the Venture Studio.
SC’s target areas to build a regenerative blue economy turns away from destructive practices and embraces radical innovations:
- Carbon Dioxide & Greenhouse Gas Removal, Sequestration, & Decarbonization: mariculture, ocean biofuels, & decarbonizing marine transportation
- Regenerative Ocean Food Sources: aquaculture, mariculture, & plant-based seafood alternatives
- Seawater as a Resource: ocean energy, desalination, & hydrogen fuel extraction from seawater
- Ocean Data, Technology, & Emerging Innovations: marine protected area monitoring/enforcement, ocean exploration technology/unmanned platforms, eco-friendly resource extraction technology, and big data solutions for improving human-ocean interaction
- Coastal Resilience: mangrove afforestation, reef regeneration, infrastructure for mitigating/adapting to sea level rise, and protections from hurricanes and storm surge
- Plastics & Pollution Detection, Removal, & Alternatives: water quality monitoring, systems for runoff/wastewater mismanagement, pollution removal, and marine plastics upstream & downstream
Applications for the Opportunities for Sea Change programs are now open. Aspiring sea change-makers can apply here. SC has solidified its vision for empowering a community of current & aspiring entrepreneurs to innovate for regenerative ocean impact. Read that here. To learn more about Seaworthy Collective, visit www.seaworthycollective.com. Seaworthy also announced its first event of 2021, click here.
About
Seaworthy Collective was created in 2020 in Miami, Florida, to empower a community of current & aspiring ocean entrepreneurs, known as Sea Change Makers, to innovate for regenerative ocean impact. Seaworthy co-creates & crowdsources start-ups to develop collective ocean innovation pipelines at scale, partnering with local incubators & accelerators to tailor their programs to serve them. Seaworthy builds these pipelines through its venture studio & pitch competition programs, democratizing & diversifying opportunities for interdisciplinary ocean innovation & entrepreneurship. Seaworthy leverages a global network of mentors & strategic collaborators, as well as South Florida’s ecosystem of maritime business & research, catalyzing systemic change by empowering entrepreneurs to overcome industry siloes & drive the development of a regenerative blue economy that solves & not just mitigates, the ocean’s greatest problems.
This piece was prepared online by Panuruji Kenta, Publisher, SEVENSEAS Media