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Connecting Ocean Startups with Industrial Opportunities
Through this collaboration, ZEBOX and Katapult Ocean aim to strengthen the link between ocean-focused startups and industrial stakeholders in maritime transport, logistics and related infrastructure.
Katapult Ocean brings a strong global pipeline of startups tackling decarbonization, efficiency, resilience and biodiversity protection, while ZEBOX provides direct access to real-world use cases, pilots and industrial decision-makers within the CMA CGM Group and its ecosystem.
This complementary approach enables startups to move faster from innovation to deployment, combining investment readiness with concrete industrial opportunities.
“Through this collaboration with Katapult Ocean, ZEBOX continues to build and strengthen connections with leading global innovation ecosystems to support the transformation of the maritime and logistics industries.
Alongside Katapult Ocean, we will be able to offer our startups privileged access to their investment fund and further support their development within the Blue Economy.
Like Katapult Ocean, we believe in a world where ocean preservation goes hand in hand with economic development.
Our startups are at the heart of these challenges, let’s support them. ”
Frédéric Guilleux, CEO of ZEBOX
"Katapult Ocean backs founders who tackle the ocean’s most pressing challenges and helps them build companies that can operate at scale. If you want to change maritime transport, you need more than good technology — you need the right partner at the table. ZEBOX is that partner for us: a strong knowledge partner and potential co‑investment ally, close to the action in global shipping, helping ocean innovation reach the parts of industry where it actually changes how things are done"
Jonas Skattum Svegaarden, CEO of Katapult Ocean
About ZEBOX
Initiated in 2018 by Rodolphe Saadé, Chairman & CEO of the CMA CGM Group, ZEBOX is an international innovation accelerator specializing in the maritime industry, logistics and media, connecting startups with industrial partners to accelerate experimentation and scale.
About Katapult Ocean
Katapult Ocean is a global ocean impact venture fund manager headquartered in Oslo, investing in and accelerating startups that restore ocean health and support sustainable ocean industries worldwide.
