Ocean Tech Investors

Ocean Link is a private equity firm with a focus on China’s travel and leisure sectors. Ocean Link currently manages a USD fund and an RMB Fund. With teams in Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong, Ocean Link invests across the value chain and sub-verticals of the travel and leisure sectors, including online & offline travel services, hotels and resorts, destination services and entertainment, sector-related technology and business solutions providers.

OceanHub Africa is an Accelerator specializing in water utilities, ocean minded incubation and startups. The firm prefers to invest potential non-dilutive funding of up to $10,000. OceanHub Africa was founded in 2019 and is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

We are a new kind of venture capital firm: a team of early-stage investors and mentors focused on giving startups the hands-on support they need to succeed.We lead pre-seed and seed deals.We focus on startups in New York City, and not just because we all grew up here. We think New York is an incredible place to build a tech company, and one of the many reasons we’re headquartered here is so that we can sit face-to-face with founders. No matter where we go in the future, we’ll always bring the ethos and spirit of New York to every company we support.

When we invest in founders, we are committing to a long-term partnership. We will work hard with you when the journey get tough, and we will be the first ones to celebrate your successes. As a result, we value the quality of the team just as much as the product and market opportunity. In founding teams, we look for people that share our values:

OceanSound Partners is a New York-based private equity firm that invests in technology and technology-enabled services companies serving government and enterprise end-markets, focusing on middle-market businesses to drive transformational growth.

Oceania Capital Partners Limited (OCP) is an investment company that provides its shareholders with investment exposure to, and returns from, investments in operating businesses. OCP pursues private equity style transactions and public market opportunities using private equity experience and disciplines.

Ocean Avenue Capital Partners is an independent private equity firm based in Santa Monica, California, focused on inefficient markets, small-cap, and complex situations including buyouts, growth capital, and turnarounds in the US and Canada.

OpenOcean is an early-stage venture capital firm operating across Europe with offices in London, Helsinki, and Amsterdam. With an entrepreneurial background from building several category-defining software businesses, the firm engages with founders to build global and scalable companies delivering data-intensive and delicious software solutions. OpenOcean typically leads or co-leads European €5M Series A funding rounds. Since inception, the firm has raised three funds totaling €150M.

Established in 2003, MidOcean Partners is a premier New York-based alternative asset manager that specializes in middle market private equity and alternative credit investments. Since inception, the focus of MidOcean Private Equity has been on high-quality middle market companies with attractive strategic, operational and financial growth opportunities in the consumer and business services sectors. Established in 2009, MidOcean Credit currently manages over $7.5 billion across a series of alternative credit strategies, collateralized loan obligations (“CLOs”), and customized separately managed accounts as of December 31, 2020.

BlueOcean Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in start-up, first stage, and early stage investments. It primarily invests in high technology companies with a focus on medical device, diagnostics companies, ICT, medtech, environment, and engineering sectors and secondary focus on life sciences, digital health and nanotechnologies. The firm primarily invests in companies based in Switzerland and Europe with a secondary focus on neighboring countries around Switzerland. It typically makes first round investment between Swiss Francs 300,000 ($276,572) and Swiss Francs 600,000 ($553,143) with total investment up to Swiss Francs 1.5 million ($1.38 million) per company. The firm will invest in companies with pre-money (first round) value between Swiss Francs 3 million ($3.09million) and Swiss Francs 10 million ($10.31 million). It will act as a co- investor or syndicator for higher amounts. The firm invests for a period upto eight years, which can be extended to ten years. The firm seeks a board seat in its portfolio companies. BlueOcean Ventures was founded in 2008 and is based at Geneva, Switzerland with an additional office in Zurich, Switzerland.

BlueOcean Ventures is an early-stage investment firm specializing in medical device and life science companies, providing capital and coaching through a network of industry experts.

OpenOcean is a pan-European early-stage venture capital firm investing in technical teams across AI-native software, automation, and foundational technology, with roots in data software.

Bold Ocean Ventures connects capital and science to grow the Blue Economy and address the impacts of climate change. A partnership between experienced venture capital investors and the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, they invest in emerging ocean, seafood, and climate opportunities using science and emerging technologies.

We invest in and helps European and Israeli startups expand to the US market. We see our strength as finding and helping companies that can be in a position to raise Series A by mainly US investors in the 12-24 months range.

Emerald Ocean Capital is a private equity firm focused on navigating emerging markets through investment in professional, clean, legitimate portfolio companies for the traditional investor. Founded in August 2013, Emerald Ocean Capital will invest in the professional and legal cannabis industry. The Fund will invest in companies that consolidate leading products and services in the emerging cannabis industry, as well as technology and life science sectors. Our vision is to vertically invest in the ancillary industries and cement our leadership in consolidating a nascent industry in preparation for a new era. The Emerald Ocean Capital team has over 10 years’ combined experience successfully investing in the legal ancillary sector of the cannabis industry. We will bring professionalism, structure, and expertise lacking in today’s market.

We are a venture building company focused on co-creating new ventures in the area of fintech and e-commerce. We work hand-in-hand with the best founders and provide them with our business and technological support, know-how, global network and capital to start and scale innovative and disruptive businesses in Europe.

Fifth Ocean Capital Management is a private equity firm specializing in recapitalization, growth equity, buyouts, industry consolidation investments. The firm also specializes in ownership transition, management-led buyout, buy and build, corporate carve-out. The firm seeks to invest in services, consumer, consumer product, niche manufacturing, logistics, packaging and ingredients sector. The firm prefer to invest in companies headquartered in North America region. The firm seeks to invest in companies with revenue up to $100 million and maintain an EBITDA of at least $3 million and no minimum requirements for add-on investment. Fifth Ocean Capital Management is based in Boca Raton, Florida.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the United States government agency responsible for the nation's civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. Established in 1958, NASA's mission is to drive advancements in space exploration, scientific discovery, and aeronautics research. The agency has been instrumental in numerous significant achievements, including the Apollo moon landings, the development of the Space Shuttle program, and the operation of the International Space Station. NASA's investment philosophy centers on fostering innovation and collaboration to achieve its objectives. The agency's areas of focus encompass space exploration, scientific research, and aeronautics development. Key differentiators include its extensive experience in space missions, a diverse portfolio of research initiatives, and a commitment to international partnerships. NASA's geographic focus is global, with collaborations and missions spanning the entire Earth and beyond. The agency maintains a presence on various social media platforms, including Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook, to engage with the public and share updates on its activities. Recent news about NASA includes the development of the Orpheus underwater autonomous vehicle in collaboration with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to explore deep ocean environments. Additionally, NASA continues to study the deep ocean to understand global climate changes, including research on oceanic carbon cycles and interactions among marine microorganisms at depths between 650 and 3,300 feet. The agency has a history of successful missions, including the launch of the Seasat satellite in 1978 to observe Earth's oceans, and the development of the Orpheus underwater autonomous vehicle in 2021.

We invest in early stage B2B, deep-tech focused teams, who want to drive digital transformation (with AI/ Data) and climate action (with special focus on the ocean), with potential for scalable distribution and global footprint with a preference for teams with a presence in Southern Europe.

We work to make impact investing mainstream and mobilize capital and businesses to deliver positive impact. We accelerate and invest in Ocean and African companies solving the world’s greatest challenges. Katapult VC is a investment company with two investment strategies focusing on impact driven climate ventures. In total, Katapult has made 169 investments in impact ventures globally.Our two investment teams and themes are:🌊 Katapult Ocean, the world’s most active ocean impact venture fund investing globally and recognized as a Top Investor by World Economic Forum, Uplink and Top50 Climate investors. Katapult Ocean is a founding member of the 1000 ocean startups coalition.🌍 Katapult Africa, the pan-African investment fund based in Kigali and Nairobi invests food, ag and climate ventures.In 2021, Katapult launched the Katapult Foundation with the goal to build a larger network of impact investors.Katapult also hosts the annual Katapult Future Fest in Oslo, bringing together founders, investors and some of the most prominent people and organizations within impact investment

Mo Angels is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, early stage and startups. The firm is sector agnostic. It focusses on innovative companies that tackle a meaningful user or customer problem. It typically invests in Indian Ocean Islands, Mauritius and Africa. The firm invest between $0.02 million and $0.2 million in equity transaction. Mo Angels is based in Mauritius.

Zillionize is a seed-stage venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage investments in startups poised to shape the future. With a portfolio of over 100 rapidly growing companies, Zillionize emphasizes a swift, data-driven investment approach, enabling founders to secure funding without unnecessary delays. The firm is self-funded and comprises experienced operators who are deeply immersed in enterprise software and other technological sectors. Their commitment to identifying and supporting visionary founders has led to significant investments in companies like H3X, Albedo, Reality Defender, DigitalOcean, and Go1.

IA Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm specializing in seed-stage and early-stage investments in data-intensive businesses. Founded in 2010, the firm focuses on sectors such as advertising technology, financial technology, and digital media, investing in companies that leverage data to gain competitive advantages. Notable portfolio companies include Datadog, The Trade Desk, TransferWise, Flatiron Health, Komodo Health, DataRobot, DigitalOcean, and Recorded Future. The firm typically invests between $0.25 million and $0.75 million per transaction.

SparkLabs Inc. is a venture capital and startup accelerator. The firm specializes in seed, series A and early-stage. The firm specializing in Technologies, internet, online gaming, mobile, enterprise software, ecommerce, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, digital media, gaming, financial tech, and healthcare sectors. The firm typically invests in seed or early-stage companies. The firm invests in US, China, Japan, South Korea, Europe, Oceania and etc. The firm offers 16 weeks accelerator program twice a year and specializes in Internet, online gaming, mobile, e-commerce, digital media, healthcare, IoT to hardware. The program seeks to invest $0.1million in capital in exchange for up to six percent in equity. The firm usually chooses 8 to 12 companies for each batch. SparkLabs was founded in 2012 and is based in Seoul, South Korea. It operates as a subsidiary of SparkLabs Group.