The Blue World Perspective 2021

It’s harvesting season
Harvesting became the largest sector across continents for the first time
For the first time, Harvesting became the most important sector across Europe, Americas and Asia. It is worth noting that besides energy, each continent
has its own trends and different contributions across the remaining 4 sectors
Harvesting We saw a significant reduction in the number of harvesting startups in Americas and Asia in the years preceding 2021. However, in 2021
there was a strong recovery across the three continents, making it the most relevant category of ocean-tech in volume and contribution.
Ocean Health We saw a decline in this sector across all three continents during the last year. This led it to become the sector with least number of
startups in Europe, second last in Asia, but remains the second largest in the Americas.
Energy The energy sector has had the lowest contribution across the three continents in every year. Its behavior is rather stagnant, and we see no
significant trend or increase in the number of startups we see year over year. The ocean clean energy sector is still a quite young sector when it comes to
startups, but with important development in the ocean wind industry, we expect a growth in the number of startups that we see in the years to come.
Americas
Asia
Europe
Number of startups
2018 2019 2020 2021
2018 2019 2020 2021
2018 2019 2020 2021
Energy Frontier Tech Transportation Harvesting Ocean Health
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