Research &
Einblicke

We Are the Ocean

Two days at the A'Pelago Initiative in Turku, and why Hamburg needs something like it. Four years of building the same kind of ecosystem for maritime leisure, only smaller.

21. Aug. 20266 min read

LandscapeInteraktiv

Leisure Marine Operator Landscape 2026

1,080 operators mapped, 130 scored on market power and innovation. 55 percent show external innovation of exactly zero: the bottleneck in this industry is adoption, not supply.

14. Aug. 2026Interactive

AcceleratorInteraktiv

Our app store is live. Agents wrote almost all of it.

Three products for the water, built by the same agent stack that runs the rest of our company. What is in the store, the system behind it, and the module that writes the code: which we are publishing today.

10. Aug. 2026Interactive

The Harbour Father and Son Read Differently

One generation reads the marina as an asset: concrete, land, a concession. The other reads it as data: 300 customer relationships, 280 of which nobody actually knows. When capital shows up, only one of those readings sets the price.

22. Juli 20264 min read

LandscapeInteraktiv

Blue Economy Investor Landscape 2026

We scored more than 2,500 investors in the Blue Economy. Here are the top 100, who actually write the cheques. Fewer than ten of them look like a typical European venture fund.

10. Juli 2026Interactive

Everyone Read the D-Marin Deal Wrong

InfraVia just paid over €1 billion for a marina network, a 15x EBITDA multiple that reads like infrastructure, not niche real estate. The detail everyone skipped: what they actually bought was the software layer.

9. Juli 20264 min read

Accelerator Graduates Raise $1.8M More on Average. Most Founders Never Apply.

Accelerator alumni raise more, survive longer, and close faster than founders who go it alone. But flagship programmes focus on AI, fintech and biotech, leaving founders in categories like maritime leisure without a program built for them.

30. Juni 20263 min read

The Industry That Selected Against Its Own Software

Three deals. Ninety days. A pattern that reveals why maritime leisure software has been stuck for a decade, and why the recent wave of private equity consolidation is about to change that.

27. Juni 20265 min read

Accelerator

Yachting Ventures and Ocean One Ventures Launch Summer Fundraising Bootcamp for Marine Startups

Five-week accelerator combining fundraising support, investor access and a showcase opportunity at the Genoa Boat Show. Applications close 17 July.

23. Juni 20263 min read

FundInteraktiv

Fund OS: How Two People Launch and Run an Agentic VC Fund

Two investors. Zero engineers. We turned our entire fund operation into an AI operating system: 42 skills, 18 workflows, installed in minutes. The why, the what, the how.

17. Juni 20264 min read

IndustryInteraktiv

Yachts: The Most Sustainable, Tax-Efficient Asset Class for Founders and Investors

Why a sailing yacht might be one of the smartest and greenest things to do with capital after an exit, and what several months of research, one Bavaria Voyager 45, and a deliberately honest financial model taught me about it.

10. Juni 202612 min read

Fund

The Fundraising Narrative for Emerging Managers Is Wrong

The story told about emerging managers has been consistently grim. The data from the first half of 2026 contradicts it, and signals where the real opportunity lies.

6. Juni 20265 min read

LandscapeInteraktiv

Leisure Marine Startup Landscape 2026

There are 200+ software companies building for the leisure marine industry right now. Most venture investors have never heard of a single one.

28. Mai 2026Interactive

Fund

Build Once, Sell Twice: Why the Smartest Maritime Tech Companies Serve Both Sides of the Water

The maritime tech companies worth backing aren't single-market businesses. They build for the physics of the ocean and sell into commercial shipping, passenger ferries, leisure yachts, and navies: same technology stack, completely different buyers.

18. Mai 20265 min read

$5.65 Billion Says Maritime Leisure Is Not a Niche

In February 2025, Blackstone acquired Safe Harbor Marinas for $5.65 billion: classifying it not as real estate, but as infrastructure. The smart money has already arrived in Maritime Leisure. It's just not arriving through the door that most VCs are watching.

9. Mai 20264 min read

Why Maritime Leisure Is Booming, And Why Most Investors Haven't Noticed Yet

€11 billion in private capital is allocated to the blue economy. Only 3% of those investors are looking at Maritime Leisure. That is not scepticism; that is structural blindness towards a multi-billion-euro market with no institutional competition.

16. März 20265 min read

The Next Wave of Blue Growth: What the EU's 2026 BlueInvest Report Means for Investors and Startups

159 active blue economy investors. €11 billion in AUM. 67% expecting IRR above 20%. The EU's BlueInvest Investor Report 2026 is both a market snapshot and a rallying cry, and its findings map directly onto where Ocean One Ventures invests.

10. März 20268 min read