Ocean Impact Organisation backs scalable, high-impact blue economy ventures with a focus on the Asia-Pacific. Since 2022, we’ve invested in 16 startups across four core “Ocean Solution Areas,” targeting companies positioned to address critical ocean challenges.
Ocean Pollution
Climate
Habitat &
Biodiversity
Food Security
Our Portfolio
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Aquacultr
Port Stephens, Australia
Solution Area/s:
Food Security
Scalable land-based seafood production. Aquacultr addresses the impact of the global demand for seafood on oceans and waterways by enabling scalable and sustainable seafood production with its land-based Smart Aquatic Farms. -
AQUIT
Viña del Mar | Chile
Solution Area/s:
Food Security
Creating a disruptive and cost-effective
technology that replaces antibiotics in
aquaculture, enhances fish immunity, and improves survival rates. -
Azul Bio
New York, USA
Solution Area/s:
Habitat & Biodiversity
Probiotics for the ocean. Azul Bio reduces the impacts of climate change and pollution on marine ecosystems by creating microbial-based treatments and probiotics that restore ocean productivity and breakdown contaminants at scale. -
Blue Carbon
Brisbane | Australia
Solution Area/s:
Habitat & Biodiversity | Food Security
Multi-use, renewably-powered tech pumping cold, nutrient-rich deep waters for customers across marine industries, governments, and tech giants. -
Clean Earth Rovers
Cincinnati, USA
Solution Area/s:
Ocean Pollution
IoT monitoring and cleanup solutions. Clean Earth Rovers is a marine robotics and water quality data company tackling pollutants in coastal waterways by providing scalable, low-cost IoT monitoring and cleanup solutions. -
ecoSPEARS
Orlando | USA
Solution Area/s:
Ocean Pollution
Eliminating ‘forever chemicals’. ecoSPEARS develops and deploys groundbreaking technologies to extract and eliminate ‘forever chemicals’ (PCBs, PFAS, and other persistent organic pollutants (POPs)) from the environment. -
Hullbot
Sydney, Australia
Solution Area/s:
Climate | Habitat & Biodiversity
Robots for healthy oceans. This Sydney-based startup addresses the massive global issue of biofouling on vessels with its autonomous, in-water robot which inspects, maps, and cleans boat hulls. -
Mayani
Manila, Philippines
Solution Area/s:
Food Security
Mayani is an agri-fisheries platform building a sustainable pathway to market for the Philippines' 10 million smallholder farmers and fishers. The agri-fisheries marketplace directly sources agri-fisheries products from smallholder fishers and distributes them downstream to the market in a sustainable and digital value chain. -
Nuvoe
Sydney, Australia
Solution Area/s:
Ocean Pollution | Habitat & BiodiversityNuvoe is building a range of products to deliver personalised, crafted mineral water from any source in the world, all while trying to eliminate single-use plastic bottles.
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Ocean Intelligence
Nelson, New Zealand
Solution Area/s:
Food Security | Climate
Reliable and effective data combining knowledgeable insights, decades of hindcast data, and live farm-specific forecasts. -
Pinpoint Earth
Nelson | New Zealand
Solution Area/s:
Food Security
Asset tracking technologies and analytics to secure the sustainability of the global fishery ecosystem. -
RiverRecycle
Helsinki, Finland:
Solution Area/s:
Ocean Pollution | Habitat & BiodiversityRiverRecycle aims to stop ocean plastic pollution by implementing river plastic recovery, land-based collection, mechanical recycling, and chemical recycling to create RiverRecycle Boards from otherwise ‘low-value’ plastic waste.
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Saathi
Ahmedabad, India
Solution Area/s:
Ocean Pollution
Saathi manufactures 100% compostable and biodegradable sanitary pads from banana and bamboo fibre. Addressing plastic waste, ethical sourcing and supply chains, increasing farmers' incomes, employing women, and providing access to sanitary pads and menstrual hygiene education. -
Shark Stop
Byron Bay, Australia
Solution Area/s:
Habitat & Biodiversity
Shark bite resistant wetsuits. Shark Stop is the only scientifically-proven shark bite resistant wetsuit on the market. The precision polymer fibre technology can reduce the depth of a great white shark bite, preventing the catastrophic blood loss and loss of limbs that cause death in many shark attacks.
