Sustainable Ocean Alliance (SOA) and Ocean Solutions Accelerator have taken a step towards a community-driven approach to support ocean-focused startups.
Startup accelerators are interesting places, but the model of packaging a good idea up and firing it at VCs from a demo day cannon is getting diminishing returns. The Sustainable Ocean Alliance and its own accelerator seem to see this and luckily have grown a community large enough to justify shifting to a new, less rigid model, which it is launching today. The SOA is an advocacy and investment organization aimed at increasing visibility of both ocean issues and the companies being formed to address them.
Bad climate news seems like a daily occurrence, but the founder and CEO of Sustainable Ocean Alliance writes that entrepreneurs and innovators are also working constantly to save our planet, including many here in Florida.