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About the Community Vote
The OCC 2026 Community Vote gives our global community a voice in celebrating the finalist startups that inspire them most. Vote for up to 3 favorites and help spotlight the ideas that resonate with the Ocean Community.
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This vote does not directly determine the final winners. Awarded teams are selected through an expert-led assessment process.
Schrödinger Technologie develops the RienLIGHT Water Box, a solar-powered purification system for households, hospitals, schools, and disaster-affected communities. Their solution combines filtration, solar energy, and modular design to provide affordable safe water while reducing bottled-water dependence, plastic waste, and off-grid vulnerability.
Pack Away is developing seaweed-based, home-compostable packaging that replaces single-use plastics without relying on fossil materials or arable land. Their approach combines renewable marine biomass with scalable production, helping brands reduce packaging waste while preventing plastic leakage into the ocean.
AquaCircle is building modular systems that transform aquaculture and coastal organic waste into valuable bio-based outputs. Their approach supports circular resource use in coastal industries, reducing pollution risks while creating new revenue streams from materials that would otherwise be discarded.
Recycllux is building an AI-enabled operating system for marine recovery, connecting satellite detection, local cleanup coordination, and blockchain-based verification. Their platform helps companies and coastal communities fund, track, and prove plastic recovery, bringing transparency to marine cleanup and plastic credit markets.
Green Brine Technologies converts high-salinity desalination brine into useful industrial resources, including chloro-alkali products and recovered minerals. Their model reduces harmful ocean discharge while creating local supply chains for clean water, mining, and industrial sectors in Namibia.
NEREIA is developing non-toxic antifouling technology that keeps ship hulls smoother, reducing drag, fuel use, emissions, and maintenance needs. Their dual-mode surface system combines biofilm prevention with underwater activation, supporting cleaner maritime operations without relying on harmful chemical coatings.
Climatenza develops solar heat technology that helps industrial sites replace fossil-powered process heat with cleaner, lower-cost thermal energy. Their solution supports factories in reducing emissions while keeping climate action commercially practical for sectors that depend on hot water, steam, and reliable industrial heat at scale.
Sundew Bio develops Biokos, a biological treatment targeting aquatic pests and fish diseases such as Ich. By offering effective disease control with a benign environmental profile, they help aquaculture producers protect fish health, reduce losses, and limit reliance on harsher chemical treatments in blue food systems.
Ocean Eye turns marine wildlife sightings into transparent micro-payments that fund conservation and coastal communities. By connecting tourists, operators, and local projects, their platform creates a practical finance loop where marine experiences directly support biodiversity recovery, ecosystem monitoring, and long-term ocean protection.
ClimaFund builds first-mile data infrastructure for blue carbon projects, combining satellite-based MRV with community-facing traceability tools. Their model helps coastal communities verify conservation work, access climate finance, and turn mangrove stewardship into sustainable long-term income through trusted data, transparency, and market access.
Ozeaon is building a digital platform that connects education, collaboration, open calls, project visibility, partnerships, and funding pathways for regenerative innovation. By linking fragmented ocean and climate ecosystems, they help innovators, researchers, funders, and communities move ideas toward practical impact.
Algrid uses AI forecasting and offshore interception to manage sargassum blooms before they reach coastlines. By identifying optimal convergence points and turning collected sargassum into usable biomass, they help protect marine ecosystems, reduce tourism losses, and transform a growing ocean crisis into circular economic value.
PhyCo Technologies turns seaweed and upcycled organic waste into bio-based, earth-digestible biopolymers for films, coatings, and pellets. Their process offers a regenerative alternative to petroleum plastics, helping agri-food producers reduce plastic waste while creating scalable materials from ocean-based resources.
DiveScout helps divers and ocean users choose safer sites by translating complex weather and water conditions into a simple traffic-light system. Their platform combines dive site data, live ocean conditions, visibility reports, and local knowledge, making ocean recreation safer, easier, and better connected.
Windtracx develops autonomous kite propulsion for cargo ships, using high-altitude wind to reduce fuel consumption and emissions. Their drone-sail system combines kite efficiency with active control, offering shipowners a retrofit solution that saves costs while supporting compliance with cleaner shipping regulations.
Sea Technology International is developing the Sea Tech Floating Terminal, a fully automated floating container port for offshore transshipment. Their modular infrastructure expands port capacity without major land expansion or dredging, supporting more resilient maritime logistics, cleaner operations, and future green-fuel networks.
Conceptosplasticos are transforming hard-to-recycle plastic waste into durable construction materials,
Conceptosplasticos addresses both urban waste challenges and ocean-bound plastic leakage.
Their model combines circular design with social inclusion, creating affordable housing
while diverting significant volumes of plastic from the environment.
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