Blue Economy Showcase

Climate Week NYC ‘25

At the Carbon Newbie Summit, we're putting the spotlight on the ocean's most brilliant innovators: 𝗕𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆 start-ups! We're selecting four game-changing companies to share their solution in a 2-minute showcase to our audience of leaders, investors, and speakers.

But wait... what is the 𝘽𝙡𝙪𝙚 𝙀𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙮? 🤔
Think of it as a powerful partnership with our oceans. It’s about:
📈 Driving economic growth & creating jobs.
🐠 Using ocean resources sustainably (from fisheries to renewable energy).
💙 Protecting the health and biodiversity of our marine ecosystems for future generations.

Featured Start-ups

Check out the start-ups that will be presenting at the Carbon Newbie Summit during Climate Week NYC:

  • TômTex

    Plastic | Materials Science
    📍New York, United States

    TômTex is an award-winning material science company creating innovative, eco-friendly textiles from nature biopolymer, not fossil fuels. Our cutting-edge platform challenges traditional oil-based methods, ushering in a new era of sustainable, green chemistry for the material industry.

  • Ocean Bottle

    Plastic | Reduction and Recycling
    📍UK

    At Ocean Bottle, we’re committed to a simple yet impactful idea: every bottle we sell directly contributes to removing plastic from our waterways. When someone buys an Ocean Bottle, we fund the collection of 25lbs of plastic, equivalent to 1000 plastic bottles in weight, and prevent this from entering the ocean.

    We do this by working with plastic collection partners based in communities worst affected by the ocean plastic crisis, including Indonesia, the Philippines, India, Kenya, Brazil, and Egypt. 

    We invest in collection points and enable collectors to exchange plastic for money and get access to social resources such as healthcare, education and financial security. To date, we’ve collected over 22,626,892 kgs of ocean-bound plastic, stopping it from reaching the ocean.

  • Flux Marine

    Maritime Decarbonization
    📍United States

    Flux Marine is transforming the $100B global marine market with a clean-sheet approach to electric propulsion, eliminating the inefficiencies and pain points of traditional combustion engines. Unlike other solutions that require new boat designs, their versatile outboard powertrain system electrifies small to mid-sized vessels across multiple segments — recreational powerboats, fishing vessels, aquaculture, law enforcement, government and commercial fleets. Flux Marine’s propulsion-first approach enables partnership with thousands of boat companies and the potential for millions of boats to go electric.

  • KIDEMIS AG

    Aquaculture
    📍 Switzerland

    KIDEMIS has developed a proprietary process for upcycling agrifood sidestreams into a Composite Mycelium (MyCo) ingredient suitable for use in the pet food and aquafeed industries.

Blue Economy Start-Ups

Present at Climate Week NYC