2022-23 COHORT
Tacoma Maritime Innovation Incubator
Below are the Tacoma Maritime Innovation Incubator companies currently bettering our community, our waterways, and our future.
Air Mobility
Homeostasis
A CO2 removal and utilization (CDRU) startup aiming to pull CO2 from the atmosphere and generate raw materials for industrial applications. Our pipeline couples mineralization with electrochemistry to capture and break CO2 down into elemental carbon and O2. Our products are graphite, carbon black, pure O2, pure CO2, and CO2 removal credits.
Innov8social
Creates and empowers new problem solvers and social entrepreneurs through content and programs. We do this through books and media content, and through a hackathon-style event series called Impactathons®. We are excited to share these models and learnings with the greater Tacoma Area.
WhyGrene
Accelerates the sustainable energy transition by helping utilities connect better with their customers 1 to go green. Our Virtual Power Plants enable utilities to buy & sell power with their customers’ who have solar, wind, batteries, EVs & smart thermostats to balance the supply and demand of energy. Users make money as Virtual Power Plants that provide valuable grid services that help utilities provide reliable & affordable clean energy.
Terrestrious
CrowdSourcing ideas and resources to fight and end environmental problems like climate change through social media. Second Wave Community Member.
What it means to be a Tacoma Maritime Innovation Incubator company:
Every company that enters TMII benefits our community and our waterways in some fashion. We are proud to have a diverse group of founders that approach this goal very differently from each other, but they all share a common goal: helping our community via a creative take on how we use water. These companies are on the cutting edge of the Maritime Industry and are doing things no one has ever done before in ways no one has ever tried. Through a stringent selection process, TMII encourages only the very best in Maritime to locate themselves in the South Sound, interact with community and municipal leaders to impact policy pushes, and to be an example for the next generation of companies.
Blue Finance
Access to Capital, Public and Private Financing
Washington Maritime Blue is working to direct capital towards maritime innovation and entrepreneurs.
We act as a resource and pipeline to projects, start-ups, and investments that lead towards our vision for a sustainable, innovative and growing blue economy in Washington State.