Cohort 2 2024

In the Gulf Blue Navigator’s second year, we welcomed six teams of bluetech visionaries to Gulfport, Mississippi. Leading us into the future with big ideas that promote ocean health and innovation in the new blue economy, these startups embarked on a six-month journey.

Mythos AI

Developing advanced automation and self-driving for vessels to increase the resiliency of our waterways and solve the workforce shortage. (HQ: Florida)

Levanta Tech

Developing a versatile drone that can float on the ocean, collect data, and fly swiftly on demand. (HQ: Missouri)

BlueiQ

Creating dual-use passive acoustic sensing to protect biodiversity, reduce effects of anthropogenic noise on marine life, and enhance ocean safety and security. (HQ: Massachusetts)

Seasats

Developing high endurance, modular construction, and portability combine with a user-driven UI and easy payload integrations to create a uniquely powerful uncrewed surface vessel package. (HQ: California)

V2 Forensics

Developing innovations to access, extract, decrypt and parse data logs with high detail. The results are a single platform to reduce complexity and time when investigating uncrewed vessel activity as well as advance cybersecurity. (HQ: Mississippi)

Oscilla Power

Developing an advanced wave energy converter that can power an uncrewed vessel and unlock the tremendous renewable energy potential of the world’s oceans. (HQ: Washington)