Last week, Oslo Business Region kicked off a collaborative initiative as part of the movement for sustainable ocean business, which seeks to mobilise the ocean and tech communities to join forces, building the world´s leading capital and ecosystem for sustainability-oriented ocean tech entrepreneurs.
The ambitious initiative is based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, recognising business as the driver of change, and Oslo´s position as a leading maritime capital with the fastest growing startup community across the Nordics.
Nor-Shipping and Director Per Martin Tanggaard supports the Ocean Entrepreneur Capital initiative and cooperate actively with Oslo Business Region and the new Director of Sustainability, Ocean Industries & Communication – Birgit M. Liodden.
Other initiative partners include Nordic Impact´s Katapult Ocean – an impact investment fund and accelerator program targeting sustainable solutions across the ocean industries.
Another is EntrepreneurShipOne who is equipping its fleet with technology, sensors and developing an open ocean data platform aiming to accelerate the work with quantifying the ocean for the betterment of human kind – a zero emission pay it forward platform for the Nordic startup community. Ocean Industry Forum Oslofjord, Circular Norway and the environmental NGO Bellona, as well as a broad range of key maritime companies, are other partners.
A key focus across the new projects coming out of Oslo, is sustainable business and ocean tech, with a specific focus on gender diversity to fuel competitiveness and innovation.
Emphasizing on gender diversity, seven out of twelve speakers at the kick-off were women representing commercial and technical roles. At the entrepreneurs´ deck talk, 75% of the entrepreneurs on stage were female.