Our CEO, Alissa Peterson, sat down with Matt Marino, a new investor in the SeaAhead Ventures Launch Fund and Angel group, to hear more about his journey and interest in investing in ocean startups… 

BlueSwell Cohort IV’s Demo Day

Rhode Island designated Ocean Tech Hub and expands Grow Blue Initiative in 2024.

As SeaAhead continues to expand, our emphasis is increasingly directed toward cultivating global partnerships, recognizing their indispensable role in addressing major environmental issues. 

Recently, SeaAhead’s Investment Principal, Luke Sawitsky, traveled to Norway for Floating Wind Days 2023, a conference held by Norwegian Offshore Wind, to build connections and learn about renewable energy advances in Europe. We caught up with Sawitsky to hear more about his recent trip.

Halfway through the Gulf Blue Navigator’s inaugural run, program manager Hailey Bathurst reflects on the potential and challenges of the Gulf Coast.

Interest in impact investing has resulted in innovative ways of using donated capital to generate real impact. For example, donors are investing in for-profit green technology companies, equity funds, and ocean sustainability ventures that align with their environmental values.

On November 14, SeaAhead, MassCEC, and Orsted hosted a gathering of key stakeholders to address an important question: can offshore wind be an innovation anchor for the new Blue Economy?

Measuring impact, especially in the young sector of ocean innovation, poses a great challenge. Unlike pure climatetech, the bluetech startup and investment community lacks a single metric that can encapsulate and clearly communicate its progress and potential. We require an easy way to track and report impact so that we can draw a wider audience to scale the ocean venture ecosystem.

We founded SeaAhead in 2018 to connect bluetech startups to funding and support infrastructure. Our team drew on their experience pioneering venture-based innovation in cleantech, biotech, and agtech, and we’ve since built a thriving community of investors, industry leaders, and stakeholders to equip innovators with the tools they need to succeed. 

At the UN Ocean Conference, the most exciting conversations were happening at the side events. Here, attendees got into the how – how are we going to make the changes we all see as necessary – with a focus on startups and the financial players that support them.

BlueSwell - an initiative of SeaAhead and the Boston Aquarium and an incubator — formed to support the creation and growth of startups with scalable solutions that enhance ocean health, sustainable ocean industry, and global resilience.