Ocean Solutions Accelerator’s 3rd wave deals with a new set of water challenges
The Sustainable Ocean Alliance and its Ocean Solutions Accelerator take on the problems facing our world’s waters, and the current mate of business in the latter show a fresh slate of concerns to address and resources to make use of. From reef rehabilitation to a “Fitbit for fishing boats,” they’re trying to repair things up in the […] “Startups in the sector are still having a hard time to find appropriate funding throughout the early phases of operations,” the accelerator’s co-founder Craig Dudenhoffer informed TechCrunch in an email. The SOA team selected nine business for this wave, just three of which are U.S.-based. “This year, in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw our biggest and most varied applicant pool to date,” said Dudenhoffer in the release announcing the business. The business will get the tender caring care lavished on all the brand-new accelerator’s participants, but potentially also a bit of harsh truth as they find out the problems of being an ethics-focused business with long-lasting objectives in a capitalist system that demands almost immediate returns. …
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