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WHAT IS HUB AZUL ACCELERATION PROGRAM?

Without a bridge between startups and ports, innovation runs aground.

HUB AZUL Acceleration Program is a startup acceleration program promoted by Hub Azul and imatch - amplifying innovation, designed to support the development, validation, and scaling of innovative solutions in the blue economy, sustainability, and marine technologies.

The blue economy isn’t short on ideas; it’s short on execution.
When innovation, real markets, and public policy don’t connect, value stalls and impact are delayed.

By activating the Hub Azul Network, ocean tanks, port docks, wet labs, real-time data, and supercomputing, we turn the ocean into a real-world testbed, accelerating blue technologies from TRL 5 to operational pilot.

BUILT FOR REAL IMPACT

Hub Azul H9 brings together startups, hubs, researchers, corporates, and policymakers to co-create solutions around real strategic challenges.
Pilots in real environments.

The Challenges

Precision Feeding Intelligence

Early Detection of Diseases & Mortality

RAS Energy Optimization

Waste & By-Products Valorization

End-To-End Traceability

Operational Ocean Digital Twins

Data Interoperability Across Sensors, Platforms and Satellites.

How it works

Accelerate

Focused sprints connecting startups, hubs, and mentors.

Validate

Testing in real conditions, with market, tech, ESG, and regulatory validation.

Scale

Pilots prepared for long-term integration, investment, and growth within the blue ecosystem.

From challenge to market.
From pilot to scale.

Why participate?

Add value

Hub Azul H9 is not about visibility.
It’s about traction, validation, and market access.You don’t pitch ideas. You build, test, and deploy them in real environments, alongside the stakeholders who matter.

Benefits

Participation in the program does not imply any financial compensation or guarantee of investment.

1-on-1 Mentorship

Guidance from experienced entrepreneurs and blue economy experts to strengthen your strategy and execution.

Tailored Training

Refine your business model, go-to-market approach, and operational plans.

Networking access

Connect with investors, corporates, and key players across the Hub Azul ecosystem.

Incubation Opportunities

Leverage HUB AZUL or partner infrastructures, under individually defined conditions.

TIMELINE

The Hub Azul Acceleration Program follows a phased approach, guiding startups and stakeholders from challenge definition to validated, scalable solutions. Each phase builds the previous one, ensuring alignment, focus, and measurable progress throughout the program.

From understanding real needs to testing solutions in operational environments, the program is designed to reduce risk, accelerate learning, and deliver impact where it matters most in the market.

Every phase is intentional.
Every step moves value closer to scale.

Partnerships

Built with those shaping the blue economy.

Hub Azul is developed in collaboration with leading organizations across ports, industry, research, investment, and public policy. Our partners don’t just support the program; they actively contribute to defining challenges, enabling pilots, and accelerating real-world impact.Together, we are turning shared ambition into operational innovation.This program is powered by a growing network of partners committed to building the future of the blue economy in action, not in theory.