Open Ocean Robotics produces energy-harvesting unmanned autonomous boats equipped with sensors and cameras to make oceanic observations and instantly relay them. We offer a safer, more efficient and affordable way of collecting data compared to conventional crewed vessels. Using solar or wind power, our boats produce no greenhouse gases, noise pollution or risk of oil spills, and can travel non-stop for a year, always on and always collecting information, transforming how we research and protect our oceans.
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We’re a MaRS Discovery District portfolio company and a finalist in the Women in Cleantech challenge, a 2.5 year program delivered by MaRS and Natural Resources Canada that includes $850,000 in support.
As a Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) company in the Ocean Stream, we’ve benefitted from their objectives-based program for massively scalable tech companies.
Foresight Cleantech Accelerator is Western Canada’s clean technology accelerator, helping companies grow and providing portfolio companies like us an ecosystem of mentorship, like-minded entrepreneurs, and industry specific guidance.
As a portfolio company in Alacrity Canada’s cleantech program, we benefit from their mission to facilitate success and economic growth in the Western Canadian technology sector by providing support, entrepreneurial mentorship, and venture capital connections.
Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) seed funding is helping us and other Canadian companies demonstrate new environmental technologies that address climate change, clean air, clean water and clean soil to become world leaders.
It is through Greentown Labs, North America’s largest climatetech accelerator, that we are able to participate in Vineyard Wind’s Offshore Wind Challenge where we are developing marine mammal monitoring technology for the offshore wind industry in Massachusetts and beyond.
Thanks to the support of NRC-IRAP, we’ve been able to enhance our innovation capacity, conduct pilot trials and advance our technology towards commercialization.
SeaAhead is a bluetech startup platform, founded in Boston. They help build companies, run an incubator, facilitate investments and are catalyzing a bluetech cluster in the Northeast.
Innovate BC supports B.C.’s innovation ecosystem, linking innovators to funding, resources and support to help companies like us in every corner of the province grow.
Natural Resources Canada created the Impact Canada Women in Cleantech Challenge to drive innovative solutions to some of the biggest issues that face Canadians and their communities, which we are a finalist in.