Our Programs

Seeking current and aspiring BlueTech startup founders

Applications now open!

The Coastal Innovation Studio Prep Program is Seaworthy Collective's newest program, built for anyone curious about solving the challenges facing Tampa Bay and its coastal communities but hasn't taken the leap yet. We're looking for future entrepreneurs, also known as aspiring founders, who care about our coast and want to understand the coastal economy, explore their potential as founders, and turn ideas into solutions that could become a real startup.

This eight-week program is designed specifically for the Tampa Bay region — Pinellas, Hillsborough, and Pasco counties — and its coastal challenges.

With support from JPMorganChase, everything we do centers on one mission: coastal innovation. That means building solutions that help our coast — its people, economy, and environment — prepare for and bounce back from real local pressures like stronger storms and flooding, rising seas and eroding shorelines, and threats to water quality and marine habitats. Along the way, you'll try out multiple ideas and finish by shaping one into a "mini" pitch, AKA a Minimum Viable Pitch (MVPitch).

The program puts you — your growth, needs, and goals — at the center. Weekly group sessions, alternating between virtual and in-person around Tampa Bay, are where you'll collaborate, brainstorm, and support one another. Through mentorship and a supportive community, Seaworthy helps you grow both your ideas and yourself.

Seaworthy supports a cohort of aspiring founders from across Tampa Bay. Top graduates may earn a direct pathway to bring their ideas to life in a future cohort of Seaworthy's flagship Studio & Incubator program.

Applications for this program are now open!

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Co-Create the Future of Ocean Innovation

The Continuum Ocean Enterprise Studio and Incubator supports US-based startups developing ocean data technologies and services, in alignment with the priorities of the NOAA Ocean Enterprise Initiative. This is a result of Seaworthy’s expanded role in its $14 million NOAA partnership, The Continuum, a coordinated network of ocean enterprise accelerators that fast-tracks startups getting to market by making support for BlueTech solutions more scalable, efficient, and interconnected.

This 3-month program activates our community to contribute to and grow scalable companies and impact. The Studio and Incubator program is intentionally designed around Seaworthy founders via our unique approach; embracing human-centered design, we place the needs, experiences, and aspirations of entrepreneurs at the core. Through empathy, understanding, and experience, we individually tailor our support for each founder to address their unique challenges. In this way, we help support and develop founders as people, as much as their solutions.

We build cohorts of two types of participants:

Current founders growing their existing early-stage startups
Aspiring founders co-creating a new startup with Seaworthy.

We aim to support 5 to 7 existing early-stage startups and co-create 1 new startup for each cohort. NOAA supported scholarships (a $25,000 value) enable NO COST or equity requirements for each participant.

Check back in the spring for updates on this program!

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The Continuum Ocean Enterprise Studio Prep Program is Seaworthy Collective’s newest program intentionally designed for anyone curious about getting involved in ocean innovation, but haven’t taken the leap yet. We’re looking for potential future entrepreneurs, also known as aspiring founders, who are looking to gain an understanding of the ocean economy, explore their potential for entrepreneurship, and discover how they can turn ocean data into ideas that could become a real startup.

This transformative 2-month program exclusively supports US-based college students and working
professionals, providing foundational knowledge of ocean innovation and entrepreneurship, in alignment
with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Ocean Enterprise Accelerators program. Participants experiment with multiple concepts for potential Ocean Enterprise solutions, and complete the program by formalizing one of their ideas into a “mini” pitch, AKA Minimum Viable Pitch (MVPitch).

Embracing human-centered design, the Studio Prep Program places the needs, growth, and aspirations of budding entrepreneurs at its core. Building with fellow community members in weekly group sessions are a core part of our work together; enabling aspiring founders to collaborate, brainstorm, and support one another. Through empathy, understanding, and structured mentorship, Seaworthy provides support to help participants grow both their concepts as well as themselves as people.

Seaworthy aims to support 10 to 15 aspiring founders for each cohort. All graduates earn the chance to showcase their preliminary concepts at Ocean Exchange in Fort Lauderdale. Top graduates may earn a direct pathway to bring their ideas to life, getting to co-create their startup in The Continuum Ocean Enterprise Studio & Incubator.

Applications for this program are now closed - check back next year for updates!

The Shoreline

Seaworthy Collective's new community & network platform, The Shoreline, leverages ecosystem mapping, regenerative frameworks, and AI, to enable more entrepreneurs to access support. Our platform provides automations for matchmaking network connections, tailored industry insights, and relevant resources and curricula, while still delivering 1 on 1 support (by humans) on a less intensive basis. Ultimately, The Shoreline will scale up access to our ecosystem so that no worthy entrepreneur is left without the support they need to keep going – after all, our blue planet is counting on them!

Learn more about The Shoreline