Take your Blue-Tech Startup to the Next Level!

Is your company a blue tech startup looking for technical assistance and expertise to help take your innovations to market? The Gulf Blue Navigator can help! In addition to funding, startups selected for the cohort will also get access to the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) resources and expertise. These include a fully equip prototype fabrication shop, electronics lab, test tank, workshop areas with cranes and forklifts, and access to various research vessels - see:?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS9wWZJQ0VU

To see a partial list of available equipment visit: https://www.usm.edu/ocean-enterprise/prototype-fab-shop.php

Cohort members can also get assistance with at-sea testing and evaluation. USM has wired the Gulf of Mexico with its Coastal CUBEnet, a relocatable environmental and oceanographic tool critical for testing and performance evaluation of uncrewed maritime systems - see: https://www.usm.edu/ocean-enterprise/test-evaluation.php

Cohort members can also get access to USM's Mississippi Polymer Institute (MPI) and its polymer materials prototyping expertise and capabilities - visit: https://www.thepolymerinstitute.com/

Managing the Gulf Blue Navigator program is NVision Solutions Inc., a local minority owned small business and government support contractor. NVision operates the Unmanned Coast Program, supported in part by an SBA Regional Innovation Clusters (RIC) contract - see: https://www.unmannedcoast.com/. NVision offers additional technical expertise and resources for cohort members. Visit https://www.nvisionsolutions.com/services for more about NVision.

To apply to the Gulf Blue Navigator's next cohort go to: https://lnkd.in/g_Bv6fMR

Applications closing soon.