Australia’s nonprofit Ocean Influence Organisation (OIO) this week introduced the return of the Ocean Influence Pitchfest, a global initiative to search out, toughen and speed startups engaged on ideas to critically change ocean health.
Startups from the sector over can put collectively for the chance to construct up a A$50,000/~US$34,812/~€34,071 money prize for first situation with an additional A$50,000 to be awarded to agencies engaged on explicit ocean challenge and replace areas.
This year can even embody Highlight Awards, price A$10,000/~US$6,960/~€6,814 every, presented by Zip Water (Plastic Pollution Resolution); Dicker Data (Ocean Monitoring Resolution); Austral Fisheries (Sustainable Ocean Harvesting Resolution) and OIO’s Philanthropy Community (Ocean Local weather Resolution).
This year can even behold the addition of the inaugural Recent South Wales Ocean Innovation Award funded by the NSW Division of Planning and Environment.
OIO Co-Founder and CEO Gash Chiarelli said:
“We’re angry to be motivate with some other edition of The Ocean Influence Pitchfest. Since launching the project in 2020 we’ve considered not likely increase within the worldwide ocean influence innovation ecosystem and us as a firm. We’re consistently impressed by the unprecedented startups within the market taking matters into their very accumulate arms to resolve a pair of of Planet Ocean’s wide challenges. We are in a position to’t wait to imagine what this year’s Pitchfest unveils.”
In the past, over 400 startups from bigger than 45 worldwide locations accumulate applied to the program with tall diversity within the ocean challenges and ideas every is addressing.
The Pitchfest Winner, Runners Up and Highlight Award recipients will most certainly be introduced are residing at “INNOVOCEAN,” OIO’s recent flagship tournament to showcase modern recent ocean health technologies. The tournament will elevate situation at Sydney’s Australian Nationwide Maritime Museum on November 24th, 2022.
The tournament can even incorporate are residing pitches from startups taking part within the Ocean Influence Accelerator Program 2022. Six startups from Australia, Asia and the usa will illustrate the growth they accumulate made at some level of the 7-month program and pitch for funding to earn their modern enterprises.
The closing date for purposes is September 20th, 2022. Interested persons will most certainly be requested to total a easy on-line function sooner than being invited to post an up to three-minute pitch video.
For extra records and to put collectively, depart to ocean-influence.org.
