Katapult Ocean

Pick the route that is open to you

• Pitching for investment: use the form on the contact page. It is the only intake the site publishes, and it is open year-round.
• The Katapult Ocean Accelerator: you cannot apply to it directly. It is for companies the firm has already invested in.
• The Ocean Growth Track: Africa-focused, with a first cohort already chosen by the team. Not a route for founders outside Africa.
• The Asia Ocean Fund: no application route is published. Use the general pitch form and mention Asia Pacific.

How the pitch form works

• Allow about ten minutes.
• You give the basics about your venture and team, answer a few questions on traction and impact, and upload your pitch deck.
• The investment team reviews every submission. If there is a fit, they contact you to schedule a first conversation. No reply window is stated.

What reviewers say they want to understand

• Your venture, your team and your vision for the ocean economy.
• Your traction so far.
• Your impact, with the measurement and ESG side handled seriously. About a third of the accelerator curriculum is on impact strategy, measurement and ESG.

Check fit before you apply

• Stage: Seed to Series B.
• Domains: transportation, circularity, ocean data, food and water, energy.
• The firm is a global investor and does not name India. Say clearly where your company is registered and operates, and why your solution matters for the ocean.

Katapult Ocean is an impact venture fund manager and accelerator for ocean companies, based in Oslo, Norway, with hubs in Singapore and Cape Town. It invests from Seed to Series B in any region, in companies building what it calls a regenerative ocean economy. Alongside its direct investing it runs an accelerator for companies it has already backed, an Asia Pacific fund with OCTAVE Capital, and an Africa initiative called the Ocean Growth Track.

What Katapult Ocean invests in

The firm describes its criteria in four parts: stage, ticket, region and domain. The stage is Seed to Series B and the region is global. Its domains are transportation, circularity, ocean data, food and water, and energy. It says it looks for scalable ocean ventures with measurable impact, and that it wants to understand the venture, the team and its vision for the ocean economy.

Its portfolio page says it has screened over 6,400 startups and invested in 90 companies. Its releases give different totals at different dates: a September 2025 release said it had backed over 80 ocean-tech startups across 25+ countries since 2018, and an October 2025 release said over 90 companies across 25+ countries. The most likely reason is growth over time, but the pages do not reconcile the two. These are the firm's own counts, not audited figures.

How the programmes work

Katapult Ocean does not run one open application. There are four routes, and they work differently.

The first is a direct pitch. Any founder can fill in the form on the contact page. It takes about ten minutes and covers the basics, traction and impact, and a pitch deck upload. The investment team reviews every submission and gets in touch to schedule a first conversation if there is a fit. There is no deadline.

The second is the Katapult Ocean Accelerator. It is a three-month programme for companies the firm has already invested in. Its about page says it invests first, then companies join the programme, so you do not apply to the accelerator separately. Its cohort announcement, however, describes the programme as offering direct investment, and the two descriptions are not reconciled on the site. The programme includes tailored workshops, leadership development and access to a network of mentors, customers and investors. Roughly a third of the curriculum covers impact strategy, measurement and ESG. The latest cohort announced is the eighth, of 13 companies, on 2 October 2025. The site shows no later cohort.

The third is the Asia Ocean Fund, which Katapult Ocean and OCTAVE Capital announced in September 2025 and co-manage on a 50/50 basis. It backs companies in maritime decarbonisation, ocean renewable energy, green shipping infrastructure, ocean biodiversity and restoration, circular resources, and sustainable aquaculture and marine biotechnology across Asia Pacific. The fund includes an accelerator programme and a Technical Assistance Facility. The announcement said the first accelerator was set to launch in the first half of 2026, and the site does not say whether it has started or is taking applications. The two pages that give a fund size disagree with each other, so no figure is quoted here.

The fourth is the Ocean Growth Track, launched in October 2026 for African blue-economy ventures. It is covered below.

Who can apply

The direct pitch is open to founders of ocean ventures at Seed to Series B, from any region. The firm states the region as global.

The site does not mention India anywhere, and it has no India-specific route. The Asia Ocean Fund covers Asia Pacific, a region that includes India, but India is not named in its sectors or its announcement. The Ocean Growth Track is for Africa. An Indian ocean company would therefore use the general pitch form, and should read the stage and domain criteria above before doing so.

Ocean Growth Track

The Ocean Growth Track is an initiative to build a more visible, investable pipeline of ocean ventures across Africa. The first cohort has 10 companies from six countries, working in aquaculture, fisheries, marine biotechnology, circular materials, health access and climate-resilient agriculture. Over two cohorts the initiative will support 20 companies. The Katapult Ocean Africa team chose the first cohort from a pipeline in which it had mapped more than 650 ventures. No application route is published.

Who runs it

The office address listed on every page of its site is Universitetsgata 2, 0164 Oslo, Norway. Its hubs in Singapore and Cape Town are listed without street addresses. The only role inbox on the site is hello@katapult.vc. The firm says it is recognised as a Top Innovative Fund by the World Economic Forum and Uplink, and that its accelerator is nominated by the Global Startup Awards. These are its own statements, and they are not listed as credentials here.

Careers and events

Katapult Ocean posts roles on its site. In April 2026 it advertised a Co-Managing Director role for the Asia Ocean Fund, to lead the team overseeing investments, the accelerator programme and the Technical Assistance Facility. Its articles page carries cohort announcements and partnership news.