Bound4Blue (Spain; 2023) closed a $44M Series B in 2025, the largest raise by an SOA company. Their autonomous eSAIL® suction sails are deployed on 7 vessels for clients including Maersk and Odfjell, delivering verified emission cuts of up to 40% per voyage, with projected annual CO₂ savings of 400K+ tons by 2027.

Light For Nature, a community-based

organization led by Cameroon hub leader and 2026 Ocean Leader fellow Anthony Duxell has received SOA grant support since 2021 to plant over 13,000 mangroves across 11 hectares (ha) in southwestern Cameroon, which will sequester an estimated 1,300t CO₂ annually when mature.

PierSight (India; 2024) is building the world's first maritime-specialized satellite constellation. 75% of industrial fishing vessels are hidden from public monitoring systems, and oil spills go undetected for hours. Their all-weather SAR satellites reduce observation gaps to as little as 30 minutes, enabling near real-time detection of illegal fishing, oil spills, and "dark" ships, with affordable access built for coastal nations and enforcement agencies in the Global South.

SOA Peru, led by Regional Representative for Hispanoamerica, Daniel Caceres, led nearly 10 years of work to help bring about the formal protection of the Tropical Sea of Peru through the creation of the Mar de Grau MPA in 2024. In 2026, Daniel received grant funding to represent SOA and the youth voice at the convening of the International Seabed Authority in Jamaica—the regulating body that grants mining permits for the sea floor—for the ninth time.

Associação TransforMAR (recognized by UNESCO as a UN Ocean Decade program and supported by SOA since 2021) fosters ocean literacy and stewardship to students from underprivileged backgrounds in Brazil. From 2023-2024 they removed nearly 900kg of invasive sun coral, trained 50 people in invasive coral removal, and collected 250kg of waste.

Carbon Ethics is an Indonesian social enterprise supported by SOA since 2020 for their work to restore mangrove and seagrass ecosystems, and to provide relevant training to community groups and farmers. In 2024, they planted 97,163 mangroves and 2,000 seagrass plants—sequestering an estimated 5,692t of CO₂ over their lifetime.

rePurpose Global (2019) is transforming waste into opportunity by recovering over 40,000t of low-value plastics from underserved areas—engaging over 2,500 waste workers monthly. In 2025 they reached the milestone of recovering 100M lbs of plastic waste from 11 countries, delivering waste management services to over 1M people, and enabling companies like PepsiCo to reduce their footprint through curated removal projects.

Marulho combats "ghost fishing" by removing abandoned nets from nearshore reefs and turning them into valuable products. Local artisans clean and transform collected waste into handcrafted products like sunglasses created via innovative injection molding techniques. In 2024 they turned 2,600kg into 18,341 products, providing over $40,000 in revenue for local fishermen.

West Coast Kelp is a startup B-corp specializing in kelp farming and seed provision, working alongside the Toquaht and Tlaoquiaht First Nations to restore kelp forests and advance sustainable livelihoods. They manage an indigenous-owned kelp farm, supply five kelp farms (15 ha) with seed, and operate six kelp restoration sites across four ha.

SOA invested in Ace-Aquatec in 2025. Their technologies are making aquaculture safer for wild ecosystems in 32 countries. Their acoustic predator deterrents keep seals and cetaceans from harm, and FaunaGuard, which shields porpoises and turtles from noise pollution during offshore wind construction. To date, they've helped humanely processed 481 million fish.