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**[FREE eBOOKs] Have You Downloaded Marine Insight's 12 FREE Maritime eBooks?        Click Here To Download Now You are here: Home › Shipping News › Wilhelmsen And HHLA Anchors S$30M Fund For Innovations Tackling Maritime Value Chain Challenges Wilhelmsen And HHLA Anchors S$30M Fund For Innovations Tackling Maritime Value Chain Challenges February 25, 2021 TwitterFacebookLinkedInPinterestBuffer Motion Ventures, the consortium-driven investment fund powered by Rainmaking, has launched. The fund has a S$30M target and has completed its first close – with Wilhelmsen and HHLA as anc...

Wilhelmsen, HHLA invest in maritime-focused startups February 25, 2021, by Naida Hakirevic Motion Ventures, a consortium-driven investment fund powered by Rainmaking, was launched on 25 February 2021, attracting investments from Norway’s maritime industry group Wilhelmsen and Germany’s port and terminal operator Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA). The fund has a S$30 million (about $22.7 million) target and has completed its first close – with Wilhelmsen and HHLA as anchor investors – to accelerate startups solving maritime value chai...

Defra unveils £10m fund for nature-based climate solutions The Government has unveiled a new £10m fund to support nature-based projects that combat the climate crisis, in the same week that Oxford University launched a new venture studio designed to uncover similar solutions. The fund will support key legislative frameworks, including the 25 Year Environment Plan Delivered by the Environment Agency on behalf of Defra, the new £10m fund offers grants of up to £100,000 to projects that will create and restore natural habitats while assisting with key government frameworks. The Natural Envir...

The fund has been seeded with a $25 million special purpose investment vehicle. The world’s first venture capital fund to use conservation technologies from Oxford University was announced Tuesday by venture capital firm Global Accelerated Ventures (GAV) and Oxford University Innovation (OUI), the research commercialization arm of the school.  The Oxford GAV Conservation Venture Studio (OXGAV) has funding from a $25 million special purpose investment vehicle (SPV). The founders say the SPV structure will help OXGAV support and bring prototypes to market much more quickly than traditional v...

By DAVE KIFFER - With future ferry service up in the air and the price of both barge shipping and air travel on the rise, you could certainly forgive Ketchikan residents for wistfully wondering how life would be different in Southern Southeast if a road connected Ketchikan to the rest of the continent. To be sure, even if there was a road it would be at least a 1,500-mile trip to drive from Ketchikan to Seattle but that's the not the point. You could do it, even if it took several days. It was during the expansion of the canned salmon industry in the 1920s and early 1930s, that the federal g...