Where it started Five years ago, I left Hubspot after a brutal accident that almost took me out. Shortly thereafter, I decided that I wanted to continue to expand the legacy of where I spent my time-and the ocean as a...
Brian Halligan
Here at Propeller, maritime shipping is one of the core investable sectors within our broader ocean thesis. There are changes happening in the sector that are unprecedented in both dollars spent and speed of deployment....
Steven Fox
It is difficult to miss the proliferation of companies building new autonomous surface and underwater vessels (ASVs and AUVs), and associated robotics. This cohort of startups raised approximately $3Bn over the last...
Rodrigo Prudencio
The dog days of summer have new meaning. The heatwaves we're living through aren't weather anymore — they're a signal. And the signal correlates, directly and unforgivingly, with global warming, which correlates,...
Steven Fox
When I was 13, my dad gave me Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor (nerd alert in the Fox household). Ostensibly this is one of Warren Buffet’s favorite books and was to be the undergirding for sound financial...
Steven Fox
In part one of this series, I explored how we're rethinking sources of ocean energy — from thermal gradients to nuclear SMRs to currents. But understanding energy in the ocean means looking at both sides of the...
Steven Fox
When most people think of energy from the ocean, four primary sources typically come to mind: offshore wind, offshore oil and gas, wave, and tidal power. And for good reason — these are the legacy sectors that have...
Steven Fox
Reducing “launch costs” for ocean tech will unlock the blue economy, the same way the private space sector led to a boom in orbital observation and communications.
In the last 60 years, natural disasters, driven by climate change, are punishing coastlines at a far greater rate than inland disasters (see graph). Furthermore, the extremes of these events will worsen and may likely...
Steven Fox
As a scientist I’ve spent decades studying how the air and sea communicate with each other. From a whisper to a roar, their sounds roll and ruffle across the blue expanse. Fruits of their joint labor like tropical...
Dr. Julie Pullen
