March was a great month for the blue economy, with two events organised by the BlueInvest Initiative, one of them in collaboration with EBI.

BlueInvest Day took place on 9 March, bringing together founders, investors and stakeholders to discuss scaling up finance for a sustainable blue economy #MadeInEurope. EBI, attended as the European stakeholder representing and connecting boating companies and EU institutions.

As main counterpart for the European Commission in the recreational boating industry, EBI was delighted to see such a positive take in of its latest activities from the BlueInvest Initiative and the recognition of the efforts and progress the nautical sector is doing on innovation and sustainability. Some fantastic companies from the sector were nominated, many of which participated in the blue innovation dock earlier this year including nlcomp, BlueNav or this year´s blue innovation dock winner, Seares.

Two weeks later, EBI organised together with BlueInvest the second BlueInvest e-pitching session, focused on the recreational boating sector. This event featured 5 innovative companies from the sector: 13 Mari (Bulgaria), Boatsandgo (Italy), Sylents (Germany), Toqua (Belgium) and Vision Anchor (Slovenia).

The participants had the opportunity to pitch their companies and ideas to several investors who in turn could get a better understanding of the participants and with them, of the progresses the nautical industry is doing on innovation and sustainability.

The recording of the session is available here.
You can learn more about the BlueInvest initiative here.