Women's Catalytic Climate Fellowships are awarded to a venture and venture team, and not limited to one entrepreneur. Eligibility includes ventures with at least 50% of executive decision-making team and equity held by women
Fellowship is a hybrid program with physical bases in the UK (European Marine Science Park), USA (Boston, Miami, Houston), Caribbean ( Jamaica, St. Lucia); with potential for additional sites in Europe and Africa as relevant for the Fellowship venture.
Climate Innovation
A) Blue Economy - Marine BioTech solutions for Chronic Human Health conditions
B) Seaweed Value Chain
C) Built Environment: materials, health infrastructure, health impact
D) Leveraging Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, to deliver Climate impact on health.
Fellowship part-time over 8 months starting AUGUST 2024 including:
~ 4-week Global R&D Innovation "Exchange Program" at 1-3 of Fellowship global sites
~ Direct Venture Building, Scaling, and Program Resources
~ Impact and Financial Milestones
~ Fellowship valued at $50k including capital and Exchange Program stipend
We're thrilled to welcome our first Entrepreneur in Residence
Dr. Civc "Vic" Innocent to the BLUE Incubator Program
Dr. C Innocent’s career is the development of innovations across the deep-tech, sustainability & De-Fi sectors, and so she draws upon her experience as an investor, a serial-entrepreneur/founder, and as a former researcher to support startups and small businesses through venture capital. She is CoFounder of Estate Protocol, a Partner in Build Ventures Africa, is the FinTech Investment Chair & on the Board of Directors for Erez Capital (a Boston-based VC firm, recent Yahoo! Finance news) and is the General Partner for Frankenbuild Ventures – a VC firm focused on founders building hardtech in extreme environments for sustainability. Here, she brings unique insight in evaluating both the viability of technologies as well as market readiness for innovative technologies, and so she is excited to serve as a part-time Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) at the BLUE Incubator at BLUE Innovation Labs.
BLUE Incubator and the BLUE Excelerator are proud to be named Connectors since 2022 in the DOE American Made Challenges Network US Department of Energy American Made Challenges.
American Made Network Map - NREL - US Department Of Energy
Blue Innovation Labs is a women owned public benefit corporation fueling and incubating startups since 2017. We now have a bold vision to grow "BLUE" into a brick and mortar facility, creating a waterfront ocean technology innovation and startup incubation hub directly on Boston Harbor. BLUE on Boston Harbor will also provide programming in STEM experiential learning, student internships, apprenticeships and workforce training.
The location is in the dynamic and diverse Climate Justice and Gateway City of Chelsea, Massachusetts. Chelsea is a BLUE collaborator alongside our sister nonprofit 501c3 Blue Institute, Inc. We welcome other likeminded stakeholders from industry, academia, ngo's and government agencies - join us!
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We are building BLUE; the first and only BlueTech and ClimateTech waterfront open-innovation center on the US Eastern seaboard. We are a women owned public benefit corporation committed to developing a regional blue cluster, growing the Massachusetts Blue Economy ecosystem, and creating businesses and blue jobs.
After a nearly decade-long effort on the part of numerous professionals: naval officers, oceanographers, researchers, investors, educators, BlueTech entrepreneurs and climate change fighters, BLUE is now materializing into a best-in-class innovation ecosystem right on the waters of Boston Harbor.
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Blue Innovation Labs
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Market Dynamics
Undersea Emerging Tech
•Senior Vice President,
Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc.,
•DTRA A&AS Operations Division
•President, Ursinus College
•Academic, Inventor, Entrepreneur
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•New and Emerging Critical Technologies
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