Ocean Motion Technologies is now an official partner of the United Nations' Ocean Decade

The UN has proclaimed 2021—2030 as the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. A core objective of the Ocean Decade is to support all UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the Agenda 2030 and create a new foundation across the science-policy interface to strengthen ocean management.

Please visit U.N. sites for the Ocean Decade and SDGs for more detail.

Ocean Motion Technologies at Blackstone LaunchPad powered by Techstars

Ocean Motion Tech joined over 200 entrepreneurs from more than 20 university campuses across the United States and Ireland at the #BXLaunchPadTS event in Manhattan, New York City.

Ocean Motion Technologies Receives Clean Energy Grant from the California Energy Commission 

CalSEED Concept Award will propel Ocean Motion to the next stage and advance our roadmap from prototype to commercialization. Ocean wave energy is grossly under-utilized and under-developed. This is especially the case where solar and wind energy are abundant along the California coast. We want the benefits of wave energy to be widely shared. 

Chamber of Commerce Features Ocean Motion Technologies (f.k.a. Hydrokinetic Energy & Storage)

San Diego is positioning itself as a blue tech innovation center, and Ocean Motion is helping it. The Chamber of Commerce featured Ocean Motion, along with other blue tech startups, in a recent article in its magazine Free Enterprise.

Ocean Motion won the Triton Innovation Challenge 

Every year, innovators from the Jacobs School of Engineering, Rady School of Management, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego compete in the Triton Innovation Challenge. The competition brings together three communities from UC San Diego in a challenge centered around supporting startups that showcase the intersection between innovation, sustainability, and entrepreneurship.

Ocean Motion awarded the Great Blue Challenge Grant from the Eastman Foundation

Eastman Foundation invites innovators to participate in The Great Blue Challenge. The Challenge is designed to spark innovation, and to find unique, creative and potentially transformative projects that will expedite ocean research. 

BlueTech Trade Group Receives Support

Mayor Kelvin Faulconer, Councilmember Barbara Bry and Councilmember Chris Cate attended the grand opening of the Maritime Alliance BlueTech Incubator program at the offices of Dentons. We were proud to meet these leaders and to receive the encouragement of the City of San Diego.

City of San Diego gives grant to Ocean Motion's Incubator

The City of San Diego granted $50,000 to BlueTech, which incubates Hydrokinetic Energy (Ocean Motion). We'd like to thank the City for its support of innovation in our industry. Innovation requires leadership in both the public and private sectors. We welcome the City's engagement.

Ocean Motion Shimmers at Scripps Event 

Read about our engagement with the latest in blue tech. ​UC San Diego's Institute for the Global Entrepreneur recognized Ocean Motion for continued growth and dedication to the development of forward-thinking technologies.