Helping companies solve their plastic challenges

AION guides their customers to shift their plastic waste challenges into valuable solutions. AION’s team of experts achieve this by conducting detailed analyses on their customers plastic product value chain and provide a roadmap towards reducing their virgin plastic use, incorporating recycled plastic, and avoiding plastic waste generation.

Founders

  • Aker BioMarine

Founders

  • Aker BioMarine
Dive Deeper

AION is a norway-based company whose purpose is to industrially scale a circular plastic economy.

AION have successfully developed a fully circular product offering with digital traceability provided through their proprietary software platform, AION Loop, for a range of customers such as McDonalds, HAVI, Sodexo, KAOS and Mester Grønn.

The products that have a tailored, traceable and circular value chain within these companies include trays, transportation pallets, shopping baskets, take away boxes, fishing nets and rope.

 

Circular Economy

There are 10 principles of a circular economy that AION are committed to:

  1. Take leadership for a Circular Economy
  2. Transition existing business models to circular alternatives
  3. Develop product and service portfolio fr circular models
  4. Convert regenerative processes, production and operations
  5. Share resources
  6. Treat own assets to maximize life, resource utilisation and recycling
  7. Increase circular procurements
  8. Work torwards business conditions that foster circularity
  9. Collaborate up, down and across value chain to maximize circularity
  10. Prioritize technology development and data-driven circular economy

Our investments

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MITO

MITO
Solving a critical block in the European Clam industry

Tilabras

Tilabras
The natural way of Tilapia farming

Syaqua

Syaqua
Revolutionising shrimp genetics and alternative feeds

“This investment will enable Ocean 14 Capital to deliver the innovation needed to meet our climate and sustainability goals. The sustainable blue economy is now a key focus for us and this is a rallying cry for start-up and scale-up marine innovators globally to come forward and help avert the crisis in our oceans and return them to a healthy thriving state.”

Jean Castellini Minister of Finance and Economy of Monaco

“There has never been a more important time to invest in the oceans as a critical way to protect our planet and combat climate change. I am excited to back Ocean 14 Capital and their vision to make a significant positive impact in the blue economy.”

Niklas Zennström

“Builders Vision Fund is excited to be part of Ocean Capital Fund I’s first close. Builders is committed to developing the ecosystem of businesses focused on ocean health and sustainability. We believe the team at Ocean14 Capital have the drive and commitment to lead this impact-focused growth fund for oceans to meaningful market investments that can improve the health of our oceans.”

Peter Bryant Senior Program Officer, Builders Initiative

“Impact investments are an important part of Chr. Augustinus Fabrikker’s investment strategy and with the investment in Ocean 14 Capital Fund I we will total ten impact investments. Our interest in Ocean 14 Capital stems from the importance we see in ensuring sustainable business practices in the ocean to foster future prosperity for this vital part of our ecosystem alongside the unique capabilities we have identified within the team. For this reason, we are delighted to become a cornerstone investor in this exciting venture.”

Claus Gregersen Chief Executive Officer, Chr. Augustinus Fabrikker

“In line with SDG14, our key objective through the Flourishing Ocean’s initiative is to return our ocean to a healthy thriving state. To facilitate this, we are committed to ending overfishing; ending the dumping of plastic, heat and CO2 in our ocean; supporting the sustainable use of ocean resources; conserving key habitats; and facilitating world class research. This is why we are supporting a new venture where the Ocean 14 Capital Fund will invest in projects aligned to our objectives.”

Dr. Tony Worby Chief Executive Officer, Minderoo Foundation’s Flourishing Ocean