Cleantech entrepreneur sees an ocean of opportunity

MaRS
October 4, 2018
By Barry Chong

Victoria, BC-based Julie Angus understands the ocean better than most people — its beauty, power and environmental importance. In 2006, Angus was the first woman to row across the Atlantic Ocean with a co-adventurer on a 156-day odyssey from Portugal to Costa Rica.

“Being on the open ocean in all of its states is an astonishing thing to witness,” Julie tells us. “We need to protect it if we want to protect ourselves.”

Open Ocean Robotics, Julie’s startup, designs and sells autonomous boats that harvest energy and collect data in real time. That means insight on everything from the frequency of tsunamis and earthquakes, to the state of manatees off the Gulf of Mexico… READ MORE HERE.